Python Jobs in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 33 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -24 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 872 944 2,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.96% 5.46% 16.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.76% 18.80% 39.76%
Number of salaries quoted 391 636 859
10th Percentile £35,802 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,425
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,625 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 2,746 5,022 7,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.06% 29.06% 42.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 4,152 3,649
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the North of England.

Salary trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +4 648 £65,000 +15.04% 475
Yorkshire +10 186 £64,500 +17.27% 234
North East +16 42 £65,000 +3.53% 100
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (2.87%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.29%) Apache
2 20 (2.29%) Confluence
3 18 (2.06%) SAS
4 10 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.80%) nginx
7 4 (0.46%) CMS
7 4 (0.46%) WordPress
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.11%) GoldMine
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
3 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 180 (20.64%) AWS
2 163 (18.69%) Azure
3 93 (10.67%) GCP
4 44 (5.05%) GitHub
5 29 (3.33%) Serverless
6 28 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 20 (2.29%) Snowflake
8 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (2.06%) dbt
10 16 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (1.61%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.61%) SaaS
12 13 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.15%) PaaS
16 9 (1.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 406 (46.56%) VPN
2 404 (46.33%) DNS
3 29 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
5 16 (1.83%) Wireless
6 15 (1.72%) Firewall
6 15 (1.72%) Network Security
6 15 (1.72%) WAN
7 12 (1.38%) LAN
8 7 (0.80%) HTTP
9 6 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (0.69%) DWDM
10 5 (0.57%) BGP
10 5 (0.57%) EIGRP
10 5 (0.57%) OSPF
11 4 (0.46%) 5G
11 4 (0.46%) Broadband
12 3 (0.34%) Internet
12 3 (0.34%) SAN
12 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.01%) NoSQL
2 34 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (3.78%) MySQL
4 27 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 26 (2.98%) Power BI
6 23 (2.64%) Tableau
7 22 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.06%) Big Data
8 18 (2.06%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.61%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.61%) Redis
11 12 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.80%) Dremio
13 7 (0.80%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (6.42%) Jenkins
2 52 (5.96%) Git
3 28 (3.21%) JIRA
4 19 (2.18%) GitLab
5 18 (2.06%) Selenium
6 15 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.80%) Postman
9 6 (0.69%) JMeter
9 6 (0.69%) JUnit
9 6 (0.69%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.69%) Maven
10 5 (0.57%) Appium
10 5 (0.57%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.46%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.46%) Eclipse RCP
11 4 (0.46%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 525 (60.21%) Finance
2 458 (52.52%) Analytical Skills
3 410 (47.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (13.19%) Social Skills
5 71 (8.14%) Banking
6 28 (3.21%) Legal
7 27 (3.10%) Retail
8 20 (2.29%) Law
9 16 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.49%) Marketing
10 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.15%) Back Office
12 9 (1.03%) Advertising
12 9 (1.03%) Electronics
13 8 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.92%) Automotive
14 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
15 6 (0.69%) Cantonese Language
15 6 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 439 (50.34%) Developer
2 394 (45.18%) Software Developer
3 118 (13.53%) Senior
4 71 (8.14%) Lead
5 59 (6.77%) Software Engineer
6 53 (6.08%) Analyst
7 51 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 36 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (2.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 24 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (2.06%) Data Scientist
12 18 (2.06%) Graduate
13 17 (1.95%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (1.95%) Support Analyst
14 16 (1.83%) 2nd Line Support
14 16 (1.83%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
15 15 (1.72%) Architect
15 15 (1.72%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.90%) .NET
2 30 (3.44%) Kafka
3 26 (2.98%) React
4 21 (2.41%) REST
5 18 (2.06%) Node.js
6 17 (1.95%) Django
7 16 (1.83%) HTML
8 15 (1.72%) TensorFlow
9 14 (1.61%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.61%) RESTful
10 13 (1.49%) CSS
10 13 (1.49%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.49%) XML
11 12 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.26%) SOAP
12 11 (1.26%) Spring
12 11 (1.26%) Web Services
13 10 (1.15%) scikit-learn
14 9 (1.03%) ADO
14 9 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 389 (44.61%) Cyberattack
2 32 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 24 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.29%) Credit Risk
6 18 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.83%) Learning Management System
8 13 (1.49%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.15%) Life Science
9 10 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.03%) Market Risk
11 8 (0.92%) Hedge funds
11 8 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.80%) Equities
12 7 (0.80%) Hackathon
12 7 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.80%) Robotics
13 6 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 490 (56.19%) Linux
2 388 (44.50%) Android
3 58 (6.65%) Windows
4 21 (2.41%) Unix
5 19 (2.18%) Mac OS X
6 17 (1.95%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.15%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.69%) CentOS
9 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.23%) AIX
11 2 (0.23%) Debian
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.23%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (58.94%) Agile
2 421 (48.28%) Mathematics
3 419 (48.05%) OO
4 398 (45.64%) OOP
5 395 (45.30%) Line Management
6 394 (45.18%) Design Patterns
7 388 (44.50%) Android Development
8 125 (14.33%) CI/CD
9 121 (13.88%) DevOps
10 110 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
10 110 (12.61%) Software Engineering
11 83 (9.52%) Analytics
12 76 (8.72%) Machine Learning
13 74 (8.49%) Artificial Intelligence
14 66 (7.57%) Computer Science
15 60 (6.88%) Containerisation
15 60 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 60 (6.88%) Mentoring
15 60 (6.88%) Test Automation
16 59 (6.77%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 507 (58.14%) Java
2 419 (48.05%) C++
3 416 (47.71%) Go
4 185 (21.22%) SQL
5 72 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.88%) C#
7 56 (6.42%) Bash
8 41 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 25 (2.87%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.52%) R
11 19 (2.18%) Bicep
11 19 (2.18%) MATLAB
11 19 (2.18%) PHP
12 16 (1.83%) C
13 14 (1.61%) Rust
13 14 (1.61%) Scala
14 13 (1.49%) Ruby
15 9 (1.03%) Perl
16 7 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 411 (47.13%) Security Cleared
2 391 (44.84%) DV Cleared
3 145 (16.63%) Degree
4 33 (3.78%) Master's Degree
5 32 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.52%) PhD
7 18 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (1.95%) CCNP
9 15 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.61%) SC Cleared
11 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.38%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.15%) MCSA
14 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.69%) CCNA
16 6 (0.69%) JNCIA
16 6 (0.69%) JNCIS
17 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.67%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.29%) QA
3 19 (2.18%) GDPR
4 11 (1.26%) NIST
5 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.92%) Basel III
6 8 (0.92%) IFRS
6 8 (0.92%) IFRS 9
7 7 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.80%) Basel II
7 7 (0.80%) Dodd-Frank
8 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 469 (53.78%) Docker
2 27 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) KVM
5 2 (0.23%) Postfix
5 2 (0.23%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 451 (51.72%) Ansible
2 95 (10.89%) Terraform
3 81 (9.29%) Kubernetes
4 20 (2.29%) Grafana
5 15 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 15 (1.72%) Puppet
6 12 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.03%) Istio
8 8 (0.92%) SCCM
9 6 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (0.69%) SCOM
10 4 (0.46%) Argo
10 4 (0.46%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.46%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) Kibana
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.23%) Nagios
12 2 (0.23%) Nessus
12 2 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.70%) Databricks
3 38 (4.36%) Google
4 37 (4.24%) Cisco
5 28 (3.21%) Oracle
6 19 (2.18%) IBM
7 15 (1.72%) VMware
8 11 (1.26%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.80%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.80%) Ping Identity
11 6 (0.69%) Arista
12 5 (0.57%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.57%) Hitachi
12 5 (0.57%) Reuters
13 4 (0.46%) SAP
13 4 (0.46%) Tenable
14 3 (0.34%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.34%) HP
14 3 (0.34%) Splunk