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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 7 27
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 502 741 516
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.77% 17.08% 5.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.92% 46.81% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 312 198 368
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +14.04% -8.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 1,324 1,583 2,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.59% 36.49% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 830 2,352
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,975 £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 £74,815 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -12 319 £65,000 -3.70% 156
Merseyside +1 79 £40,000 -27.27% 19
Lancashire -17 78 £47,500 -11.63% 61
Cheshire -47 14 £52,500 -4.55% 36
Cumbria -19 10 £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 14 (2.79%) WordPress
2 13 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.59%) Jupyter
3 8 (1.59%) Apache
3 8 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.40%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 116 (23.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 268 (53.39%) Azure
2 186 (37.05%) AWS
3 109 (21.71%) Azure AI
4 105 (20.92%) Power Platform
5 67 (13.35%) GitHub
6 58 (11.55%) GCP
7 36 (7.17%) Serverless
8 20 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.99%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.99%) SaaS
12 14 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.79%) Snowflake
13 12 (2.39%) Datadog
13 12 (2.39%) dbt
14 11 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.99%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (9.96%) Internet
2 18 (3.59%) Firewall
3 8 (1.59%) DNS
4 6 (1.20%) VPN
5 5 (1.00%) DHCP
5 5 (1.00%) SAN
5 5 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.80%) AMQP
6 4 (0.80%) Network Security
6 4 (0.80%) NGFW
6 4 (0.80%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.80%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.60%) HTTP
8 2 (0.40%) SSL
9 1 (0.20%) LAN
9 1 (0.20%) SNMP
9 1 (0.20%) TCAP
9 1 (0.20%) VSAN
9 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (23.11%) Tableau
2 99 (19.72%) Power BI
3 32 (6.37%) Data Mining
4 24 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.18%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.39%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.39%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.19%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.39%) Big Data
12 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.39%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.20%) MySQL
14 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (13.94%) Git
2 20 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.39%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (2.19%) GitLab
5 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.80%) JIRA
6 4 (0.80%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
8 2 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.40%) Subversion
8 2 (0.40%) Vite
9 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
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
1 171 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.33%) Finance
3 68 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.77%) Multimedia
5 26 (5.18%) Retail
6 21 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.79%) Law
10 7 (1.39%) Banking
11 6 (1.20%) Legal
11 6 (1.20%) Police
12 5 (1.00%) Advertising
12 5 (1.00%) Marketing
12 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.80%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.80%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (24.50%) Analyst
2 118 (23.51%) Data Analyst
3 85 (16.93%) Junior
3 85 (16.93%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (16.93%) Junior Data Analyst
4 81 (16.14%) Senior
5 80 (15.94%) Trainee
6 53 (10.56%) Developer
7 49 (9.76%) Software Engineer
8 42 (8.37%) Lead
8 42 (8.37%) Python Engineer
9 40 (7.97%) Data Engineer
10 29 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (5.78%) Trainee Analyst
10 29 (5.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 19 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 17 (3.39%) Software Developer
13 15 (2.99%) Programmer
13 15 (2.99%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (2.79%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.16%) HTML
2 48 (9.56%) CSS
3 32 (6.37%) .NET
4 29 (5.78%) React
5 26 (5.18%) Node.js
6 22 (4.38%) Pandas
7 18 (3.59%) NumPy
8 17 (3.39%) Kafka
8 17 (3.39%) scikit-learn
9 13 (2.59%) Hugging Face
10 12 (2.39%) FastAPI
10 12 (2.39%) Matplotlib
10 12 (2.39%) PySpark
10 12 (2.39%) Streamlit
11 11 (2.19%) Django
11 11 (2.19%) REST
12 10 (1.99%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.99%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.79%) Spring
13 9 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 16 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.19%) Low-Code
5 11 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.20%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.20%) PACS
8 6 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.80%) Cybercrime
10 4 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.98%) Linux
2 10 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (1.99%) Windows
3 5 (1.00%) CentOS
3 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.80%) Debian
4 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.80%) Unix
5 3 (0.60%) Android
5 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.60%) Solaris
6 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (41.43%) AI
2 101 (20.12%) Business Intelligence
3 91 (18.13%) Analytics
4 78 (15.54%) DevOps
5 77 (15.34%) Software Engineering
6 73 (14.54%) CI/CD
7 71 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (13.75%) Agile
9 68 (13.55%) Mentoring
10 52 (10.36%) Machine Learning
11 51 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
13 42 (8.37%) Data Analytics
14 41 (8.17%) Data Analysis
15 40 (7.97%) Containerisation
15 40 (7.97%) Project Management
16 39 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 38 (7.57%) Data Science
18 36 (7.17%) Event-Driven
19 32 (6.37%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 202 (40.24%) SQL
2 85 (16.93%) JavaScript
3 64 (12.75%) Java
4 32 (6.37%) TypeScript
5 30 (5.98%) PowerShell
6 28 (5.58%) R
7 23 (4.58%) Bash
8 19 (3.78%) C
9 18 (3.59%) Go
10 15 (2.99%) C++
11 12 (2.39%) C#
12 11 (2.19%) Bicep
13 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
14 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
15 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (31.87%) Azure Certification
2 56 (11.16%) AWS Certification
3 51 (10.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 37 (7.37%) Security Cleared
6 30 (5.98%) Degree
7 23 (4.58%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.98%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.80%) PhD
12 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) LPIC
13 1 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.19%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) DICOM
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (8.17%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 75 (14.94%) Terraform
2 50 (9.96%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.78%) Ansible
4 9 (1.79%) Grafana
5 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.80%) Puppet
7 3 (0.60%) Podman
7 3 (0.60%) Rancher
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Nagios
8 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 204 (40.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.38%) Google
3 12 (2.39%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.19%) Databricks
5 10 (1.99%) VMware
6 7 (1.39%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.80%) Arista
8 4 (0.80%) Aruba
8 4 (0.80%) NetScout
8 4 (0.80%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.60%) Mirantis
9 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle
10 2 (0.40%) Cisco
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.40%) Splunk