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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 6 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 602 1,051 478
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.26% 20.42% 5.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.23% 54.37% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 394 179 318
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £90,000 £89,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 1,709 1,933 2,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.92% 37.56% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 816 1,880
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -7 428 £66,750 +2.69% 137
Merseyside 0 73 £46,588 -15.29% 25
Lancashire -18 71 £47,500 -17.39% 38
Cheshire -46 28 £67,500 +28.57% 33
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 15 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.33%) Apache
2 14 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.99%) Jupyter
4 9 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.33%) WordPress
6 7 (1.16%) Confluence
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.66%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) JBoss
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.33%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 261 (43.36%) Azure
2 228 (37.87%) AWS
3 100 (16.61%) Power Platform
4 86 (14.29%) Azure AI
5 79 (13.12%) GCP
6 59 (9.80%) GitHub
7 52 (8.64%) Serverless
8 32 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.82%) SaaS
13 22 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (3.49%) dbt
15 20 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.66%) Snowflake
17 15 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
18 14 (2.33%) Datadog
19 12 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 9 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.32%) Firewall
2 15 (2.49%) Internet
3 14 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.66%) DNS
5 8 (1.33%) DHCP
5 8 (1.33%) VPN
6 7 (1.16%) SAN
6 7 (1.16%) WAN
7 6 (1.00%) BGP
7 6 (1.00%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) LAN
9 4 (0.66%) IPsec
9 4 (0.66%) OSPF
9 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.66%) Wireless
10 3 (0.50%) HTTP
10 3 (0.50%) SNMP
10 3 (0.50%) VSAN
11 2 (0.33%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (15.45%) Power BI
2 83 (13.79%) Tableau
3 37 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (4.82%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.32%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.66%) Data Mining
8 16 (2.66%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 14 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.83%) Big Data
12 9 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.00%) MySQL
14 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (8.31%) Git
2 27 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.49%) JIRA
4 14 (2.33%) GitLab
4 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 10 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.00%) Maven
7 5 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.66%) Storybook
8 4 (0.66%) Vite
9 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.33%) Selenium
10 2 (0.33%) Subversion
11 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 205 (34.05%) Social Skills
2 114 (18.94%) Finance
3 84 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (4.65%) Law
4 28 (4.65%) Retail
5 23 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.82%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.33%) Marketing
9 13 (2.16%) Legal
10 10 (1.66%) Multimedia
11 9 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.16%) Banking
13 6 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.00%) Electronics
13 6 (1.00%) Police
14 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.66%) Advertising
15 4 (0.66%) Games
15 4 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (23.92%) Senior
2 96 (15.95%) Analyst
3 85 (14.12%) Data Analyst
4 80 (13.29%) Data Engineer
5 74 (12.29%) Developer
6 66 (10.96%) Software Engineer
7 62 (10.30%) Junior
8 61 (10.13%) Junior Analyst
8 61 (10.13%) Junior Data Analyst
9 53 (8.80%) Lead
10 49 (8.14%) Python Engineer
11 38 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 36 (5.98%) Senior Data Engineer
12 36 (5.98%) Trainee
13 30 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (4.49%) Python Software Engineer
15 24 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (3.32%) Architect
16 20 (3.32%) Python Developer
16 20 (3.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.48%) React
2 38 (6.31%) Node.js
3 33 (5.48%) HTML
3 33 (5.48%) Spring
3 33 (5.48%) Spring Boot
4 30 (4.98%) .NET
4 30 (4.98%) Kafka
5 28 (4.65%) Vue
6 27 (4.49%) FastAPI
7 26 (4.32%) CSS
8 22 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 22 (3.65%) Pandas
9 21 (3.49%) PySpark
10 18 (2.99%) Next.js
10 18 (2.99%) NumPy
10 18 (2.99%) scikit-learn
11 14 (2.33%) React Native
11 14 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
12 13 (2.16%) REST
13 12 (1.99%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.82%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.33%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.00%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.98%) Linux
2 18 (2.99%) Windows
3 11 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.16%) Unix
6 6 (1.00%) CentOS
7 3 (0.50%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.50%) Solaris
7 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) Debian
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (43.19%) AI
2 150 (24.92%) CI/CD
3 123 (20.43%) DevOps
4 118 (19.60%) Analytics
4 118 (19.60%) Software Engineering
5 111 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 105 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
7 100 (16.61%) Agile
8 96 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 71 (11.79%) Machine Learning
11 68 (11.30%) Containerisation
12 65 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
13 62 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (10.30%) Observability
14 57 (9.47%) Data Engineering
14 57 (9.47%) Decision-Making
14 57 (9.47%) Test Automation
15 51 (8.47%) Microservices
16 50 (8.31%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 245 (40.70%) SQL
2 100 (16.61%) Java
3 74 (12.29%) JavaScript
4 52 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 47 (7.81%) Bash
6 43 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 27 (4.49%) C++
8 26 (4.32%) C#
9 25 (4.15%) Go
10 24 (3.99%) R
11 14 (2.33%) Ruby
12 13 (2.16%) Bicep
13 12 (1.99%) C
14 10 (1.66%) PHP
14 10 (1.66%) Scala
15 7 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (17.61%) Azure Certification
2 69 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.14%) Degree
4 35 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.15%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.66%) MBA
14 3 (0.50%) PhD
15 2 (0.33%) CCIE
15 2 (0.33%) CCNA
15 2 (0.33%) CCNP
16 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.16%) QA
3 8 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.66%) DICOM
4 4 (0.66%) WCAG
5 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) GDPR
6 2 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (13.12%) Docker
2 11 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 118 (19.60%) Terraform
2 71 (11.79%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.14%) Ansible
4 25 (4.15%) Grafana
5 22 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.16%) Puppet
7 5 (0.83%) Istio
7 5 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.66%) Argo
8 4 (0.66%) linkerd
8 4 (0.66%) Nagios
9 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.33%) Podman
10 2 (0.33%) QRadar
10 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 150 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.15%) Databricks
3 28 (4.65%) Google
4 21 (3.49%) Splunk
5 14 (2.33%) Adobe
5 14 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.16%) HubSpot
6 13 (2.16%) VMware
7 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.83%) Oracle
9 4 (0.66%) Cisco
9 4 (0.66%) New Relic
10 3 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.50%) McAfee
10 3 (0.50%) SAP
10 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.33%) Mirantis
11 2 (0.33%) NEC
11 2 (0.33%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.33%) Zscaler