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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 342 354 460
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.56% 7.88% 6.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.04% 27.23% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 258 193 345
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,850 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,306 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,756 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 949 1,300 2,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 28.95% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 788 783 1,992
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -10 204 £61,418 -5.51% 136
Merseyside +10 75 £40,000 -27.27% 23
Lancashire -9 32 £48,445 -17.54% 66
Cheshire -31 16 £55,000 +13.86% 40
Cumbria -6 11 £85,000 +17.24% 1
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 13 (3.80%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.34%) Apache
3 8 (2.34%) WordPress
4 7 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.75%) CMS
6 4 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.88%) JBoss
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.58%) nginx
9 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.29%) SAS
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 81 (23.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 177 (51.75%) Azure
2 160 (46.78%) AWS
3 64 (18.71%) GitHub
4 61 (17.84%) Power Platform
5 48 (14.04%) GCP
6 42 (12.28%) Azure AI
7 21 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.80%) Serverless
9 13 (3.80%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.92%) dbt
11 9 (2.63%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.05%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.05%) SaaS
14 6 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (16.67%) Internet
2 12 (3.51%) Firewall
3 7 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.75%) DNS
5 5 (1.46%) HTTP
6 4 (1.17%) AMQP
6 4 (1.17%) NGFW
6 4 (1.17%) SSL
6 4 (1.17%) VPN
6 4 (1.17%) VXLAN
6 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.17%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.88%) DHCP
7 3 (0.88%) SAN
8 2 (0.58%) Network Security
9 1 (0.29%) LAN
9 1 (0.29%) SNMP
9 1 (0.29%) SSH
9 1 (0.29%) TCAP
9 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (23.68%) Tableau
2 57 (16.67%) Power BI
3 36 (10.53%) Data Mining
4 23 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (6.14%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.51%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.92%) Hadoop
9 10 (2.92%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.63%) Big Data
11 8 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.05%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.75%) MySQL
13 6 (1.75%) Neo4j
13 6 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.46%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 77 (22.51%) Git
2 15 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.09%) GitLab
4 12 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.75%) Postman
6 3 (0.88%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.88%) Selenium
7 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.58%) JIRA
7 2 (0.58%) Maven
7 2 (0.58%) Subversion
8 1 (0.29%) Ant
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 74 (21.64%) Finance
3 58 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.62%) Multimedia
5 20 (5.85%) Retail
6 16 (4.68%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.92%) Marketing
9 9 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.34%) Legal
11 7 (2.05%) Banking
12 6 (1.75%) Law
13 5 (1.46%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.17%) Advertising
14 4 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.17%) Italian Language
14 4 (1.17%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.88%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 97 (28.36%) Trainee
2 84 (24.56%) Analyst
3 81 (23.68%) Data Analyst
4 51 (14.91%) Developer
5 46 (13.45%) Senior
6 41 (11.99%) Junior
6 41 (11.99%) Junior Analyst
6 41 (11.99%) Junior Data Analyst
7 35 (10.23%) Trainee Analyst
7 35 (10.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 30 (8.77%) Software Engineer
9 25 (7.31%) Software Developer
10 23 (6.73%) Data Engineer
11 22 (6.43%) Python Engineer
11 22 (6.43%) Trainee Developer
11 22 (6.43%) Trainee Software Developer
12 20 (5.85%) Lead
13 12 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
13 12 (3.51%) Programmer
13 12 (3.51%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.67%) CSS
1 57 (16.67%) HTML
2 25 (7.31%) React
3 19 (5.56%) .NET
4 18 (5.26%) Node.js
5 15 (4.39%) scikit-learn
6 14 (4.09%) Django
7 13 (3.80%) Hugging Face
7 13 (3.80%) Pandas
8 12 (3.51%) AngularJS
8 12 (3.51%) Matplotlib
8 12 (3.51%) NumPy
8 12 (3.51%) Streamlit
9 10 (2.92%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.92%) Flask
9 10 (2.92%) REST
10 9 (2.63%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.63%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.34%) RESTful
12 7 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.97%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.46%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.46%) PACS
8 4 (1.17%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.17%) PKI
9 3 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.48%) Linux
2 8 (2.34%) Windows
3 7 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.75%) Debian
4 6 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.46%) CentOS
6 4 (1.17%) Unix
6 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.88%) Android
7 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.29%) Solaris
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.29%) AI
2 70 (20.47%) Analytics
3 67 (19.59%) Mentoring
4 60 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
5 56 (16.37%) CI/CD
6 51 (14.91%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (14.62%) Software Engineering
8 48 (14.04%) Data Analysis
8 48 (14.04%) Data Analytics
8 48 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (13.16%) DevOps
9 45 (13.16%) Machine Learning
10 44 (12.87%) Agile
11 43 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (11.99%) Project Management
13 35 (10.23%) Business Analysis
13 35 (10.23%) Containerisation
14 34 (9.94%) Data Science
15 29 (8.48%) Visualisation
16 24 (7.02%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 141 (41.23%) SQL
2 83 (24.27%) JavaScript
3 38 (11.11%) Java
4 34 (9.94%) R
5 19 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.97%) Go
7 16 (4.68%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.80%) Bash
9 12 (3.51%) C
10 6 (1.75%) Bicep
10 6 (1.75%) PHP
11 5 (1.46%) ANSI SQL
11 5 (1.46%) C#
12 3 (0.88%) Scala
13 2 (0.58%) C++
13 2 (0.58%) Groovy
13 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 101 (29.53%) Azure Certification
2 67 (19.59%) AWS Certification
3 62 (18.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 53 (15.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (8.19%) Degree
5 28 (8.19%) Security Cleared
6 19 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.75%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.46%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.88%) PhD
13 1 (0.29%) CCSP
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) CISSP
13 1 (0.29%) HNC
13 1 (0.29%) HND
13 1 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.75%) QA
3 5 (1.46%) DICOM
4 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.29%) FINRA
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (10.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) KVM
3 3 (0.88%) QEMU
3 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (15.20%) Terraform
2 42 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 31 (9.06%) Ansible
4 9 (2.63%) Grafana
5 6 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.46%) Puppet
7 3 (0.88%) Rancher
8 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.58%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.58%) Nagios
8 2 (0.58%) Podman
8 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 158 (46.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.14%) Google
3 9 (2.63%) HubSpot
3 9 (2.63%) Oracle
4 8 (2.34%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.05%) SaltStack
6 6 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.46%) Databricks
7 5 (1.46%) Splunk
7 5 (1.46%) VMware
8 4 (1.17%) Arista
8 4 (1.17%) Aruba
8 4 (1.17%) NetScout
9 2 (0.58%) Aderant
9 2 (0.58%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.58%) New Relic
9 2 (0.58%) SAP
10 1 (0.29%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.29%) UiPath