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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 10 29
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 491 629 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.78% 15.12% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.00% 44.48% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 306 199 373
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,224
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.03% -9.59%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 1,292 1,414 2,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.58% 33.98% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,006 835 2,368
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,072 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -10 308 £65,000 -3.70% 169
Merseyside +3 80 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Lancashire -16 77 £47,500 -9.52% 68
Cheshire -53 14 £52,500 -4.55% 34
Cumbria -17 10 £85,000 +17.24% 5
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 14 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (2.85%) WordPress
2 13 (2.65%) Jupyter
3 7 (1.43%) Apache
3 7 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) JBoss
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) nginx
5 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 117 (23.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 268 (54.58%) Azure
2 183 (37.27%) AWS
3 110 (22.40%) Azure AI
4 103 (20.98%) Power Platform
5 65 (13.24%) GitHub
6 56 (11.41%) GCP
7 33 (6.72%) Serverless
8 19 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.05%) SaaS
12 14 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.44%) dbt
14 12 (2.44%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.24%) Amazon S3
16 10 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.04%) Datadog
16 10 (2.04%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.79%) Internet
2 16 (3.26%) Firewall
3 8 (1.63%) DNS
4 5 (1.02%) DHCP
4 5 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.02%) VPN
5 4 (0.81%) AMQP
5 4 (0.81%) NGFW
5 4 (0.81%) SAN
5 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.81%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) Network Security
7 2 (0.41%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) SNMP
8 1 (0.20%) TCAP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (23.83%) Tableau
2 98 (19.96%) Power BI
3 33 (6.72%) Data Mining
4 23 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.28%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.46%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.04%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.43%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.22%) Big Data
13 6 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 73 (14.87%) Git
2 18 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.63%) GitLab
5 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.81%) JIRA
6 4 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 169 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.52%) Finance
3 67 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.55%) Multimedia
5 27 (5.50%) Retail
6 21 (4.28%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.04%) Law
10 9 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.83%) Legal
11 7 (1.43%) Banking
12 6 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.22%) Police
13 4 (0.81%) Advertising
13 4 (0.81%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.81%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.81%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.61%) Electronics
14 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (25.25%) Analyst
2 118 (24.03%) Data Analyst
3 85 (17.31%) Junior
3 85 (17.31%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (17.31%) Junior Data Analyst
4 84 (17.11%) Trainee
5 79 (16.09%) Senior
6 52 (10.59%) Developer
7 49 (9.98%) Software Engineer
8 42 (8.55%) Python Engineer
9 40 (8.15%) Data Engineer
9 40 (8.15%) Lead
10 30 (6.11%) Trainee Analyst
10 30 (6.11%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 26 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 20 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Software Developer
14 16 (3.26%) Trainee Developer
15 15 (3.05%) Programmer
15 15 (3.05%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.79%) HTML
2 50 (10.18%) CSS
3 32 (6.52%) .NET
4 29 (5.91%) React
5 22 (4.48%) Node.js
6 21 (4.28%) Pandas
7 17 (3.46%) NumPy
7 17 (3.46%) scikit-learn
8 13 (2.65%) Hugging Face
8 13 (2.65%) Kafka
9 12 (2.44%) Matplotlib
9 12 (2.44%) Streamlit
10 11 (2.24%) Django
11 10 (2.04%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.04%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.04%) PySpark
11 10 (2.04%) PyTorch
11 10 (2.04%) REST
12 9 (1.83%) Flask
12 9 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.30%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.24%) Low-Code
4 11 (2.24%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.22%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.22%) PACS
8 6 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (0.81%) Cybercrime
9 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) PKI
10 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.89%) Linux
2 10 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.83%) Windows
4 5 (1.02%) CentOS
4 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.81%) Debian
5 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.81%) Unix
6 3 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.61%) Solaris
7 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (40.12%) AI
2 100 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
3 86 (17.52%) Analytics
4 73 (14.87%) Software Engineering
5 71 (14.46%) DevOps
6 67 (13.65%) Agile
6 67 (13.65%) Mentoring
7 66 (13.44%) CI/CD
8 63 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 51 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (9.78%) Machine Learning
12 42 (8.55%) Data Analytics
13 41 (8.35%) Data Analysis
13 41 (8.35%) Project Management
14 39 (7.94%) Containerisation
15 37 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 37 (7.54%) Data Science
16 30 (6.11%) Business Analysis
16 30 (6.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 201 (40.94%) SQL
2 86 (17.52%) JavaScript
3 62 (12.63%) Java
4 29 (5.91%) PowerShell
4 29 (5.91%) R
5 28 (5.70%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.07%) Bash
7 19 (3.87%) C
8 18 (3.67%) Go
9 12 (2.44%) C#
9 12 (2.44%) C++
10 10 (2.04%) Bicep
11 4 (0.81%) PHP
11 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.41%) Scala
14 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (33.40%) Azure Certification
2 59 (12.02%) AWS Certification
3 54 (11.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 46 (9.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (6.72%) Security Cleared
6 29 (5.91%) Degree
7 21 (4.28%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.87%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.81%) PhD
12 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) LPIC
13 1 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.67%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.24%) QA
3 6 (1.22%) DICOM
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) FINRA
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (8.35%) Docker
2 9 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 70 (14.26%) Terraform
2 48 (9.78%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.91%) Ansible
4 8 (1.63%) Grafana
4 8 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.81%) Puppet
6 3 (0.61%) Podman
6 3 (0.61%) Rancher
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 208 (42.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.28%) Google
3 12 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 10 (2.04%) Databricks
5 9 (1.83%) VMware
6 5 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.02%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.81%) Arista
7 4 (0.81%) Aruba
7 4 (0.81%) NetScout
7 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.61%) Mirantis
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle
9 2 (0.41%) Aderant
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco
9 2 (0.41%) New Relic
9 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.41%) Splunk