Python Job Trends in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 29
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 582 1,043 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.76% 20.11% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.22% 55.24% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 381 174 247
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,752 1,888 2,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.32% 36.41% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 769 1,507
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Python job vacancy trend in the North West

Python
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Manchester -8 433 £67,500 +3.85% 335
Lancashire -27 63 £47,500 -17.39% 60
Merseyside -6 52 £75,000 +25.00% 32
Cheshire -44 32 £67,500 +28.57% 49
Cumbria -15 1 £62,500 -16.67% 4
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 21 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.26%) Apache
3 15 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.37%) WordPress
6 7 (1.20%) Confluence
7 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Odoo
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (39.86%) Azure
2 217 (37.29%) AWS
3 77 (13.23%) GCP
4 75 (12.89%) Power Platform
5 71 (12.20%) GitHub
6 61 (10.48%) Azure AI
7 51 (8.76%) Serverless
8 35 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (5.84%) SaaS
10 30 (5.15%) Amazon S3
11 29 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (4.81%) dbt
12 28 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (4.64%) Snowflake
14 20 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.23%) Datadog
16 12 (2.06%) OpenShift
17 10 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.61%) Firewall
2 15 (2.58%) Internet
3 14 (2.41%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.89%) DNS
5 10 (1.72%) VPN
6 9 (1.55%) DHCP
7 8 (1.37%) WAN
8 7 (1.20%) BGP
8 7 (1.20%) Network Security
8 7 (1.20%) SAN
9 6 (1.03%) LAN
10 5 (0.86%) OSPF
10 5 (0.86%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.86%) Wireless
11 4 (0.69%) IPsec
11 4 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.52%) VLAN
12 3 (0.52%) VSAN
12 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.03%) Power BI
2 47 (8.08%) Tableau
3 44 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 20 (3.44%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (3.26%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (2.75%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.58%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.41%) Relational Database
11 12 (2.06%) Big Data
12 10 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.03%) MySQL
15 6 (1.03%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.86%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 49 (8.42%) Git
2 24 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.61%) GitLab
4 17 (2.92%) JIRA
5 9 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.03%) Maven
7 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.69%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.69%) Storybook
8 4 (0.69%) Vite
9 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.17%) Mocha
11 1 (0.17%) Postman
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 213 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.84%) Finance
3 81 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.15%) Law
5 23 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.78%) Legal
7 19 (3.26%) Marketing
7 19 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 17 (2.92%) Retail
9 10 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.72%) Multimedia
10 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.03%) Banking
11 6 (1.03%) Electronics
11 6 (1.03%) Local Government
11 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.03%) Police
12 5 (0.86%) Advertising
12 5 (0.86%) Games
13 4 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (27.49%) Senior
2 82 (14.09%) Data Engineer
3 78 (13.40%) Developer
4 69 (11.86%) Analyst
4 69 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 52 (8.93%) Lead
6 51 (8.76%) Python Engineer
7 50 (8.59%) Data Analyst
8 40 (6.87%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (6.70%) Junior
10 36 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 36 (6.19%) Junior Analyst
10 36 (6.19%) Junior Data Analyst
11 35 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 28 (4.81%) Python Software Engineer
14 21 (3.61%) Python Developer
14 21 (3.61%) Senior Developer
14 21 (3.61%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.44%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (22.51%) Terraform
2 47 (8.08%) React
3 36 (6.19%) Spring
3 36 (6.19%) Spring Boot
4 33 (5.67%) HTML
5 32 (5.50%) Node.js
6 30 (5.15%) Kafka
7 28 (4.81%) Vue
8 27 (4.64%) .NET
9 25 (4.30%) CSS
10 24 (4.12%) FastAPI
10 24 (4.12%) PySpark
11 23 (3.95%) AngularJS
12 19 (3.26%) Next.js
13 14 (2.41%) React Native
13 14 (2.41%) REST
13 14 (2.41%) Ruby on Rails
14 11 (1.89%) LangChain
14 11 (1.89%) Pandas
15 8 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.37%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.37%) Life Science
11 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.73%) Linux
2 24 (4.12%) Windows
3 14 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.72%) Unix
4 10 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.03%) CentOS
6 4 (0.69%) Solaris
7 3 (0.52%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) AIX
8 2 (0.34%) Debian
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (39.69%) AI
2 157 (26.98%) CI/CD
3 131 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (22.51%) Software Engineering
4 129 (22.16%) DevOps
5 114 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (19.24%) Analytics
7 104 (17.87%) Agile
8 92 (15.81%) Mentoring
9 88 (15.12%) Business Intelligence
10 72 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
11 69 (11.86%) Containerisation
11 69 (11.86%) Observability
12 68 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 66 (11.34%) Data Engineering
14 62 (10.65%) Test Automation
15 61 (10.48%) Decision-Making
16 60 (10.31%) Machine Learning
17 54 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
18 52 (8.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 228 (39.18%) SQL
2 105 (18.04%) Java
3 72 (12.37%) JavaScript
4 60 (10.31%) Bash
5 58 (9.97%) TypeScript
6 47 (8.08%) PowerShell
7 30 (5.15%) C#
7 30 (5.15%) C++
8 29 (4.98%) R
9 25 (4.30%) Go
10 15 (2.58%) Bicep
10 15 (2.58%) C
10 15 (2.58%) Ruby
11 13 (2.23%) PHP
12 12 (2.06%) Scala
13 7 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 81 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 79 (13.57%) Azure Certification
3 53 (9.11%) Degree
4 39 (6.70%) DV Cleared
4 39 (6.70%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (2.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.69%) MBA
12 3 (0.52%) CCNA
12 3 (0.52%) PhD
12 3 (0.52%) RHCE
12 3 (0.52%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.34%) CCIE
13 2 (0.34%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.44%) QA
3 10 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.69%) WCAG
5 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.52%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) SLA
6 1 (0.17%) DICOM
6 1 (0.17%) IFRS
6 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 89 (15.29%) Docker
2 13 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (14.09%) Kubernetes
2 51 (8.76%) Ansible
3 23 (3.95%) Grafana
4 20 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.06%) Puppet
6 7 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.86%) Argo
7 5 (0.86%) Istio
8 4 (0.69%) linkerd
8 4 (0.69%) Podman
9 3 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.52%) Nagios
9 3 (0.52%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.34%) QRadar
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.36%) Databricks
3 32 (5.50%) Google
4 22 (3.78%) Splunk
5 16 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.58%) VMware
7 14 (2.41%) Adobe
8 13 (2.23%) HubSpot
9 10 (1.72%) Oracle
10 8 (1.37%) Cisco
11 7 (1.20%) New Relic
12 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.69%) Mistral
13 4 (0.69%) NEC
14 3 (0.52%) Alteryx
14 3 (0.52%) IBM
14 3 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (0.52%) McAfee
14 3 (0.52%) SAP
14 3 (0.52%) ServiceNow