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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 592 1,041 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.92% 20.05% 5.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.66% 54.50% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 384 172 278
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -

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 1,759 1,910 2,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.63% 36.79% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 788 1,623
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £35,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,938 £43,750
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 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -9 440 £67,125 +3.27% 118
Lancashire -23 65 £47,500 -17.39% 44
Merseyside -6 54 £75,000 +36.36% 26
Cheshire -46 31 £67,500 +28.57% 19
Cumbria -21 1 £62,500 -16.67% 3
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 20 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.21%) Apache
3 14 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.35%) WordPress
6 7 (1.18%) Confluence
7 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (9.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Odoo
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 242 (40.88%) Azure
2 221 (37.33%) AWS
3 82 (13.85%) GCP
3 82 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 69 (11.66%) Azure AI
4 69 (11.66%) GitHub
5 52 (8.78%) Serverless
6 33 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (5.24%) Amazon S3
7 31 (5.24%) SaaS
8 29 (4.90%) dbt
9 27 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (4.39%) Snowflake
11 25 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (2.20%) Datadog
14 12 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.03%) OpenShift
15 9 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.38%) Firewall
2 15 (2.53%) Internet
3 14 (2.36%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.35%) DHCP
4 8 (1.35%) DNS
4 8 (1.35%) VPN
4 8 (1.35%) WAN
5 7 (1.18%) BGP
5 7 (1.18%) Network Security
5 7 (1.18%) SAN
6 6 (1.01%) LAN
7 5 (0.84%) OSPF
7 5 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.84%) Wireless
8 4 (0.68%) IPsec
8 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.51%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) VSAN
9 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.84%) Power BI
2 55 (9.29%) Tableau
3 43 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (5.07%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.55%) DynamoDB
5 21 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.38%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (2.70%) BigQuery
7 16 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.86%) Big Data
10 10 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.18%) MySQL
12 7 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.01%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.84%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 53 (8.95%) Git
2 26 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.70%) GitLab
3 16 (2.70%) JIRA
4 9 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.01%) Maven
6 5 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.68%) Storybook
7 4 (0.68%) Vite
8 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.17%) Mocha
10 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 215 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.39%) Finance
3 82 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.90%) Law
5 22 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.55%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.21%) Legal
7 19 (3.21%) Marketing
7 19 (3.21%) Retail
8 10 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.69%) Multimedia
9 8 (1.35%) Banking
10 7 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.01%) Electronics
11 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.01%) Police
12 5 (0.84%) Advertising
12 5 (0.84%) Games
13 4 (0.68%) Automotive
13 4 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 164 (27.70%) Senior
2 84 (14.19%) Data Engineer
3 78 (13.18%) Developer
4 77 (13.01%) Analyst
5 72 (12.16%) Software Engineer
6 58 (9.80%) Data Analyst
7 54 (9.12%) Python Engineer
8 52 (8.78%) Lead
9 47 (7.94%) Junior
10 44 (7.43%) Junior Analyst
10 44 (7.43%) Junior Data Analyst
11 40 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 27 (4.56%) Python Software Engineer
16 23 (3.89%) Senior Developer
17 21 (3.55%) Python Developer
18 19 (3.21%) Architect
18 19 (3.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (21.45%) Terraform
2 48 (8.11%) React
3 36 (6.08%) Node.js
3 36 (6.08%) Spring
3 36 (6.08%) Spring Boot
4 34 (5.74%) HTML
5 31 (5.24%) .NET
6 30 (5.07%) Kafka
7 27 (4.56%) Vue
8 26 (4.39%) CSS
9 25 (4.22%) FastAPI
10 22 (3.72%) AngularJS
10 22 (3.72%) PySpark
11 19 (3.21%) Next.js
12 14 (2.36%) React Native
12 14 (2.36%) REST
12 14 (2.36%) Ruby on Rails
13 11 (1.86%) LangChain
13 11 (1.86%) Pandas
14 8 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.36%) AI Agents
5 14 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.35%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.18%) Life Science
11 7 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.01%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.26%) Linux
2 21 (3.55%) Windows
3 14 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.69%) Unix
4 10 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.01%) CentOS
6 4 (0.68%) Solaris
7 3 (0.51%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) AIX
8 2 (0.34%) Debian
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (40.37%) AI
2 156 (26.35%) CI/CD
3 131 (22.13%) Software Engineering
4 129 (21.79%) DevOps
5 125 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 114 (19.26%) Analytics
7 111 (18.75%) Agile
8 110 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (15.88%) Business Intelligence
9 94 (15.88%) Mentoring
10 72 (12.16%) Data Pipeline
11 67 (11.32%) Containerisation
11 67 (11.32%) Observability
12 66 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (11.15%) Data Engineering
13 64 (10.81%) Machine Learning
14 63 (10.64%) Decision-Making
15 60 (10.14%) Test Automation
16 52 (8.78%) ETL
16 52 (8.78%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 236 (39.86%) SQL
2 106 (17.91%) Java
3 76 (12.84%) JavaScript
4 59 (9.97%) TypeScript
5 55 (9.29%) Bash
6 42 (7.09%) PowerShell
7 31 (5.24%) C#
8 30 (5.07%) C++
9 27 (4.56%) R
10 25 (4.22%) Go
11 15 (2.53%) C
11 15 (2.53%) Ruby
12 13 (2.20%) Bicep
12 13 (2.20%) PHP
13 11 (1.86%) Scala
14 6 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (14.70%) Azure Certification
2 78 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.61%) Degree
4 38 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 37 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.21%) Master's Degree
7 18 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 14 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.68%) MBA
14 3 (0.51%) PhD
14 3 (0.51%) RHCE
14 3 (0.51%) RHCSA
15 2 (0.34%) CCIE
15 2 (0.34%) CCNA
15 2 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.97%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.72%) QA
3 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.68%) WCAG
5 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.51%) GDPR
5 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) DICOM
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (14.53%) Docker
2 12 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (13.34%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.45%) Ansible
3 23 (3.89%) Grafana
4 20 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.03%) Puppet
6 7 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.84%) Argo
7 5 (0.84%) Istio
8 4 (0.68%) linkerd
8 4 (0.68%) Podman
9 3 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.51%) Nagios
9 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.34%) QRadar
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 113 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.08%) Databricks
3 34 (5.74%) Google
4 22 (3.72%) Splunk
5 16 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.36%) Adobe
6 14 (2.36%) VMware
7 13 (2.20%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.52%) Oracle
9 7 (1.18%) Cisco
9 7 (1.18%) New Relic
10 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.68%) NEC
12 3 (0.51%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.51%) IBM
12 3 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.51%) McAfee
12 3 (0.51%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.51%) SAP
12 3 (0.51%) ServiceNow