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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 369 301 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.54% 7.60% 6.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.28% 25.34% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 270 201 389
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £36,120
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,490 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +14.04% -6.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 1,017 1,188 2,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.51% 30.02% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 832 843 2,236
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,160 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,813 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -11 223 £61,418 -5.51% 143
Merseyside +11 72 £40,000 -27.27% 32
Lancashire +6 43 £47,500 -9.52% 73
Cheshire -31 17 £48,979 +1.39% 46
Cumbria -13 11 £85,000 +17.24% 2
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 16 (4.34%) WordPress
2 13 (3.52%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.90%) Apache
4 7 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 91 (24.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 201 (54.47%) Azure
2 170 (46.07%) AWS
3 71 (19.24%) GitHub
3 71 (19.24%) Power Platform
4 54 (14.63%) Azure AI
5 50 (13.55%) GCP
6 21 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (4.61%) Serverless
8 13 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.25%) dbt
10 10 (2.71%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.17%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.17%) SaaS
12 7 (1.90%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 64 (17.34%) Internet
2 11 (2.98%) Firewall
3 7 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.08%) AMQP
4 4 (1.08%) DNS
4 4 (1.08%) NGFW
4 4 (1.08%) VXLAN
4 4 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.08%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.81%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) SAN
5 3 (0.81%) VPN
6 2 (0.54%) SSL
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) LTE
7 1 (0.27%) Network Security
7 1 (0.27%) SNMP
7 1 (0.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (24.66%) Tableau
2 66 (17.89%) Power BI
3 37 (10.03%) Data Mining
4 24 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.42%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.71%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.71%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.71%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.90%) MySQL
10 6 (1.63%) Big Data
10 6 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.08%) GIS
Development Applications
1 84 (22.76%) Git
2 15 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.25%) GitLab
3 12 (3.25%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.81%) Postman
5 3 (0.81%) Selenium
6 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.54%) Subversion
7 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.27%) JMeter
7 1 (0.27%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.27%) Locust
7 1 (0.27%) MLflow
7 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 94 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 72 (19.51%) Finance
3 58 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (15.18%) Multimedia
5 21 (5.69%) Retail
6 18 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.34%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.17%) Legal
9 7 (1.90%) Banking
10 6 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.36%) Marketing
11 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.08%) Advertising
12 4 (1.08%) Electronics
12 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.08%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.08%) Law
12 4 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 104 (28.18%) Trainee
2 94 (25.47%) Analyst
3 91 (24.66%) Data Analyst
4 53 (14.36%) Junior
4 53 (14.36%) Junior Analyst
4 53 (14.36%) Junior Data Analyst
5 52 (14.09%) Senior
6 51 (13.82%) Developer
7 36 (9.76%) Trainee Analyst
7 36 (9.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 34 (9.21%) Software Engineer
9 29 (7.86%) Python Engineer
10 24 (6.50%) Software Developer
11 23 (6.23%) Data Engineer
12 22 (5.96%) Trainee Developer
13 21 (5.69%) Trainee Software Developer
14 20 (5.42%) Lead
15 16 (4.34%) Administrator
15 16 (4.34%) Trainee Administrator
15 16 (4.34%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.34%) HTML
2 63 (17.07%) CSS
3 26 (7.05%) React
4 22 (5.96%) .NET
4 22 (5.96%) Node.js
5 15 (4.07%) Django
5 15 (4.07%) scikit-learn
6 13 (3.52%) Hugging Face
6 13 (3.52%) Pandas
7 12 (3.25%) Matplotlib
7 12 (3.25%) NumPy
7 12 (3.25%) Streamlit
8 11 (2.98%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.98%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.71%) Flask
9 10 (2.71%) REST
10 9 (2.44%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.44%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.17%) RESTful
12 7 (1.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.15%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.36%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.36%) PACS
7 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.08%) PKI
8 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.81%) Social Media
9 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.54%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.50%) Linux
2 7 (1.90%) Windows
3 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.36%) CentOS
5 4 (1.08%) Debian
5 4 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.08%) Unix
5 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.81%) Android
6 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.79%) AI
2 77 (20.87%) Analytics
3 70 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
4 68 (18.43%) Mentoring
5 55 (14.91%) CI/CD
6 53 (14.36%) Software Engineering
7 50 (13.55%) Agile
7 50 (13.55%) Cybersecurity
8 49 (13.28%) Data Analytics
8 49 (13.28%) Machine Learning
9 48 (13.01%) Data Analysis
10 47 (12.74%) DevOps
11 44 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (11.38%) Project Management
14 36 (9.76%) Business Analysis
15 34 (9.21%) Data Science
16 31 (8.40%) Containerisation
17 26 (7.05%) Visualisation
18 23 (6.23%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 153 (41.46%) SQL
2 89 (24.12%) JavaScript
3 44 (11.92%) Java
4 40 (10.84%) R
5 20 (5.42%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.61%) Go
7 15 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.25%) C
9 11 (2.98%) Bash
10 6 (1.63%) Bicep
10 6 (1.63%) PHP
11 5 (1.36%) ANSI SQL
11 5 (1.36%) C#
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (32.25%) Azure Certification
2 73 (19.78%) AWS Certification
3 68 (18.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 59 (15.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.05%) Degree
5 26 (7.05%) Security Cleared
6 16 (4.34%) SC Cleared
7 13 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.54%) PhD
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
12 1 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.17%) QA
3 5 (1.36%) DICOM
4 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) FINRA
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (8.94%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) KVM
4 1 (0.27%) QEMU
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (14.09%) Terraform
2 39 (10.57%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.32%) Ansible
4 6 (1.63%) Grafana
5 4 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.08%) Puppet
6 3 (0.81%) Rancher
7 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.54%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.54%) Nagios
7 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.27%) Podman
8 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 176 (47.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.42%) Google
3 8 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.90%) Oracle
5 6 (1.63%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.36%) Databricks
6 5 (1.36%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.36%) VMware
7 4 (1.08%) Arista
7 4 (1.08%) Aruba
7 4 (1.08%) NetScout
8 3 (0.81%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.81%) Splunk
9 2 (0.54%) Aderant
9 2 (0.54%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.54%) New Relic
9 2 (0.54%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) Cognos
10 1 (0.27%) McAfee