Python Job Trends in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 33
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,262 1,290 902
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.06% 13.69% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.46% 47.57% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 754 364 658
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £48,452 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,005 £78,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.78% +3.93% -6.67%

All Programming Languages
North of England

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,461 2,712 5,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.61% 28.77% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 1,451 4,036
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Python job vacancy trend in the North of England

Python
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -16 588 £65,000 - 243
Yorkshire +14 453 £65,000 - 120
North East +23 221 £59,000 -5.60% 85
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (3.17%) Jupyter
3 38 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.38%) Apache
5 15 (1.19%) WordPress
6 13 (1.03%) Confluence
7 5 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.32%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.079%) JBoss
Applications
1 285 (22.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.38%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.16%) SPSS
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.079%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 674 (53.41%) Azure
2 419 (33.20%) AWS
3 337 (26.70%) Azure AI
4 307 (24.33%) Power Platform
5 138 (10.94%) GCP
6 118 (9.35%) GitHub
7 86 (6.81%) Serverless
8 65 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (4.28%) Amazon S3
11 45 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (2.93%) SaaS
15 33 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 27 (2.14%) dbt
17 25 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.83%) Firewall
2 27 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 25 (1.98%) Internet
4 22 (1.74%) DNS
5 20 (1.58%) VPN
6 14 (1.11%) HTTP
6 14 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.11%) Wireshark
7 12 (0.95%) NGFW
7 12 (0.95%) VXLAN
8 11 (0.87%) Network Security
8 11 (0.87%) VLAN
9 10 (0.79%) BGP
10 9 (0.71%) WAN
11 8 (0.63%) OSPF
11 8 (0.63%) Wireless
12 7 (0.55%) DMZ
12 7 (0.55%) LAN
12 7 (0.55%) SAN
12 7 (0.55%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (23.61%) Power BI
2 295 (23.38%) Tableau
3 78 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.77%) NoSQL
6 34 (2.69%) Data Mining
7 32 (2.54%) Big Data
8 29 (2.30%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 26 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (1.90%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (1.51%) MongoDB
14 17 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (1.35%) Relational Database
15 15 (1.19%) Spark SQL
16 11 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (6.74%) Git
2 66 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.85%) GitLab
4 29 (2.30%) JIRA
5 28 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.48%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.48%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.40%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.40%) MLflow
11 4 (0.32%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.32%) Selenium
11 4 (0.32%) Vite
12 3 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 511 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 184 (14.58%) Finance
3 162 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (4.75%) Public Sector
5 49 (3.88%) Retail
6 45 (3.57%) Law
7 37 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (2.85%) Manufacturing
9 20 (1.58%) Legal
9 20 (1.58%) Multimedia
10 18 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.27%) Marketing
12 13 (1.03%) Electronics
12 13 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.79%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.55%) Banking
15 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.55%) Local Government
16 6 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 300 (23.77%) Analyst
2 286 (22.66%) Data Analyst
3 244 (19.33%) Junior
4 241 (19.10%) Junior Analyst
4 241 (19.10%) Junior Data Analyst
5 199 (15.77%) Senior
6 157 (12.44%) Developer
7 148 (11.73%) Data Engineer
8 113 (8.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 105 (8.32%) Lead
10 91 (7.21%) Software Engineer
11 80 (6.34%) Trainee
12 75 (5.94%) Python Developer
13 69 (5.47%) Python Engineer
14 60 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
15 51 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
16 47 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
17 42 (3.33%) Software Developer
18 39 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
19 32 (2.54%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.31%) React
2 61 (4.83%) .NET
3 58 (4.60%) HTML
3 58 (4.60%) PySpark
4 51 (4.04%) CSS
5 44 (3.49%) Node.js
5 44 (3.49%) Vue
6 41 (3.25%) Pandas
7 36 (2.85%) Flask
7 36 (2.85%) scikit-learn
8 35 (2.77%) NumPy
9 33 (2.61%) Kafka
9 33 (2.61%) Spring
9 33 (2.61%) Spring Boot
10 30 (2.38%) REST
11 29 (2.30%) FastAPI
12 28 (2.22%) Hugging Face
12 28 (2.22%) Matplotlib
12 28 (2.22%) Streamlit
13 24 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.28%) Algorithms
3 52 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.30%) AI Agents
4 29 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 28 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 24 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 21 (1.66%) Hedge funds
8 20 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.35%) Life Science
11 16 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.19%) PKI
13 14 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.79%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.71%) Driving Licence
17 9 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 72 (5.71%) Linux
2 31 (2.46%) Windows
3 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.63%) Debian
7 5 (0.40%) CentOS
7 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.40%) Unix
8 3 (0.24%) Android
8 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.24%) Solaris
9 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.079%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.079%) VMS
10 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (47.94%) AI
2 315 (24.96%) Business Intelligence
3 262 (20.76%) CI/CD
4 210 (16.64%) DevOps
5 198 (15.69%) Analytics
6 194 (15.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 189 (14.98%) Software Engineering
8 185 (14.66%) Agile
9 179 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
10 152 (12.04%) Mentoring
11 136 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
12 129 (10.22%) Containerisation
13 128 (10.14%) Machine Learning
14 126 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 114 (9.03%) Data Engineering
16 109 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 109 (8.64%) Full-Stack Development
17 107 (8.48%) Test Automation
18 99 (7.84%) Data Modelling
19 96 (7.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 583 (46.20%) SQL
2 154 (12.20%) Java
3 117 (9.27%) JavaScript
4 86 (6.81%) Bash
5 72 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 71 (5.63%) C#
7 66 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 44 (3.49%) Go
9 39 (3.09%) R
10 33 (2.61%) C++
11 26 (2.06%) Bicep
12 18 (1.43%) Scala
13 17 (1.35%) Groovy
13 17 (1.35%) Ruby
14 13 (1.03%) C
15 11 (0.87%) PHP
16 9 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.40%) Perl
18 5 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 371 (29.40%) Azure Certification
2 129 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 98 (7.77%) Degree
4 78 (6.18%) SC Cleared
5 60 (4.75%) AWS Certification
6 53 (4.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 37 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 13 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.48%) CCIE
13 6 (0.48%) CCNP
14 4 (0.32%) Tableau Certification
15 3 (0.24%) HNC
15 3 (0.24%) MBA
15 3 (0.24%) PhD
16 2 (0.16%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 36 (2.85%) QA
3 18 (1.43%) GDPR
4 8 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.48%) DICOM
6 5 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.32%) PMO
8 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.16%) NIST
9 2 (0.16%) SLA
10 1 (0.079%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.079%) IFRS
10 1 (0.079%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.079%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.079%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (10.22%) Docker
2 22 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.32%) ProxySG
4 4 (0.32%) vSphere
5 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) KVM
7 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 223 (17.67%) Terraform
2 118 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 77 (6.10%) Ansible
4 37 (2.93%) Grafana
5 31 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.55%) Argo
8 7 (0.55%) Puppet
9 5 (0.40%) Istio
10 3 (0.24%) Control-M
10 3 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.24%) linkerd
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) QRadar
11 2 (0.16%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 426 (33.76%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.74%) Databricks
3 36 (2.85%) Google
4 18 (1.43%) VMware
5 16 (1.27%) Splunk
6 14 (1.11%) Cisco
7 13 (1.03%) HubSpot
7 13 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 12 (0.95%) Arista
8 12 (0.95%) Aruba
8 12 (0.95%) NetScout
8 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.71%) Adobe
10 6 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.48%) F5
10 6 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.40%) Foundry
11 5 (0.40%) Oracle
11 5 (0.40%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.32%) CheckPoint