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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 583 1,050 585
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.31% 21.93% 5.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.46% 55.18% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 390 178 405
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,275 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 1,644 1,903 3,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.97% 39.75% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 788 2,489
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,875 £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 June 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 June 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 -8 403 £66,750 -1.11% 114
Merseyside +6 77 £45,000 -18.18% 19
Lancashire -14 75 £47,500 -7.32% 48
Cheshire -47 23 £67,500 +28.57% 26
Cumbria -23 3 £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 14 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.06%) Apache
3 12 (2.06%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.37%) WordPress
5 5 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.86%) Confluence
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.51%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 88 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.40%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 269 (46.14%) Azure
2 220 (37.74%) AWS
3 101 (17.32%) Power Platform
4 89 (15.27%) Azure AI
5 75 (12.86%) GCP
6 62 (10.63%) GitHub
7 49 (8.40%) Serverless
8 28 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.63%) Amazon S3
10 24 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (3.77%) SaaS
12 21 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (2.57%) dbt
15 13 (2.23%) Datadog
16 12 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.06%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.77%) Firewall
1 22 (3.77%) Internet
2 10 (1.72%) VPN
3 7 (1.20%) DNS
3 7 (1.20%) Network Security
3 7 (1.20%) SAN
3 7 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.03%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.86%) DHCP
5 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.69%) BGP
6 4 (0.69%) NGFW
6 4 (0.69%) OSPF
6 4 (0.69%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.51%) LAN
7 3 (0.51%) SNMP
7 3 (0.51%) WAN
7 3 (0.51%) Wireless
8 2 (0.34%) HTTP
8 2 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.12%) Power BI
2 88 (15.09%) Tableau
3 29 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.09%) Data Mining
7 18 (3.09%) MongoDB
8 16 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.23%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.72%) Big Data
12 9 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.20%) MySQL
13 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 56 (9.61%) Git
2 29 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.40%) GitLab
4 12 (2.06%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (1.54%) JIRA
6 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.69%) Vite
9 3 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.51%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) MLflow
10 2 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 181 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 102 (17.50%) Finance
3 81 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.49%) Retail
5 26 (4.46%) Law
5 26 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.92%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.57%) Multimedia
9 13 (2.23%) Marketing
10 11 (1.89%) Legal
11 9 (1.54%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.03%) Banking
12 6 (1.03%) Police
13 5 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.86%) Electronics
13 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.69%) Advertising
14 4 (0.69%) Games
14 4 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 122 (20.93%) Senior
2 100 (17.15%) Analyst
3 90 (15.44%) Data Analyst
4 74 (12.69%) Data Engineer
5 72 (12.35%) Developer
6 65 (11.15%) Junior
6 65 (11.15%) Junior Analyst
6 65 (11.15%) Junior Data Analyst
7 62 (10.63%) Software Engineer
8 50 (8.58%) Lead
9 47 (8.06%) Python Engineer
10 43 (7.38%) Trainee
11 38 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (4.12%) Python Software Engineer
14 21 (3.60%) Python Developer
14 21 (3.60%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.26%) Architect
15 19 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
16 18 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.20%) React
2 33 (5.66%) HTML
3 32 (5.49%) .NET
3 32 (5.49%) Node.js
4 29 (4.97%) CSS
5 28 (4.80%) FastAPI
5 28 (4.80%) Kafka
6 27 (4.63%) Vue
7 22 (3.77%) Pandas
8 21 (3.60%) Spring
8 21 (3.60%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.09%) Next.js
9 18 (3.09%) NumPy
9 18 (3.09%) PySpark
9 18 (3.09%) scikit-learn
10 15 (2.57%) REST
11 14 (2.40%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.40%) React Native
11 14 (2.40%) Ruby on Rails
12 12 (2.06%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.66%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.46%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.23%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.37%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.03%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.46%) Linux
2 14 (2.40%) Windows
3 9 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.51%) Android
5 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.51%) CentOS
5 3 (0.51%) Unix
6 2 (0.34%) Debian
6 2 (0.34%) Solaris
6 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (43.05%) AI
2 128 (21.96%) Analytics
3 125 (21.44%) CI/CD
4 106 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 105 (18.01%) DevOps
6 103 (17.67%) Business Intelligence
7 98 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 96 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (15.61%) Agile
10 83 (14.24%) Mentoring
11 72 (12.35%) Machine Learning
12 60 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (9.43%) Containerisation
13 55 (9.43%) Observability
14 51 (8.75%) Event-Driven
15 50 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (8.58%) Data Engineering
16 49 (8.40%) Decision-Making
16 49 (8.40%) Microservices
17 48 (8.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 238 (40.82%) SQL
2 80 (13.72%) Java
3 76 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 49 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 39 (6.69%) PowerShell
6 37 (6.35%) Bash
7 25 (4.29%) C++
7 25 (4.29%) R
8 23 (3.95%) C#
9 20 (3.43%) Go
10 14 (2.40%) C
10 14 (2.40%) Ruby
11 13 (2.23%) Bicep
12 9 (1.54%) Scala
13 8 (1.37%) PHP
14 7 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.03%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
17 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (20.24%) Azure Certification
2 58 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.38%) Degree
4 35 (6.00%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.66%) SC Cleared
6 30 (5.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 24 (4.12%) DV Cleared
8 22 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.51%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CCNA
13 2 (0.34%) CCNP
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.34%) MBA
13 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.17%) ACCA
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.92%) QA
3 6 (1.03%) DICOM
4 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 67 (11.49%) Docker
2 9 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 112 (19.21%) Terraform
2 61 (10.46%) Kubernetes
3 35 (6.00%) Ansible
4 18 (3.09%) Grafana
5 17 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.69%) Argo
6 4 (0.69%) Istio
6 4 (0.69%) Puppet
7 3 (0.51%) linkerd
7 3 (0.51%) Nagios
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.34%) Podman
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.17%) QRadar
9 1 (0.17%) Rancher
9 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 164 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.80%) Databricks
3 25 (4.29%) Google
4 13 (2.23%) HubSpot
5 12 (2.06%) VMware
6 11 (1.89%) Splunk
7 10 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.37%) Adobe
9 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.86%) Oracle
11 4 (0.69%) Arista
11 4 (0.69%) Aruba
11 4 (0.69%) NetScout
12 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.51%) SAP
13 2 (0.34%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco
13 2 (0.34%) Mirantis
13 2 (0.34%) SaltStack