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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 6 32
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 577 1,049 595
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.29% 22.20% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.31% 55.36% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 386 179 414
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,000 £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 1,634 1,895 3,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.97% 40.10% 28.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 782 2,586
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,788 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,852 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £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 21 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 21 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 -7 396 £66,750 -1.11% 125
Merseyside +6 78 £44,500 -19.09% 18
Lancashire -13 74 £47,500 -7.32% 55
Cheshire -52 22 £67,500 +28.57% 27
Cumbria -21 5 £85,000 +19.30% 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 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.08%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.91%) Apache
4 10 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.39%) WordPress
6 5 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.87%) Confluence
7 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 89 (15.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 263 (45.58%) Azure
2 218 (37.78%) AWS
3 100 (17.33%) Power Platform
4 89 (15.42%) Azure AI
5 74 (12.82%) GCP
6 61 (10.57%) GitHub
7 49 (8.49%) Serverless
8 28 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.68%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.81%) SaaS
12 21 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (2.43%) dbt
15 13 (2.25%) Datadog
15 13 (2.25%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.16%) Internet
2 21 (3.64%) Firewall
3 10 (1.73%) VPN
4 7 (1.21%) DNS
4 7 (1.21%) Network Security
5 6 (1.04%) SAN
5 6 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.04%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.87%) DHCP
7 4 (0.69%) BGP
7 4 (0.69%) NGFW
7 4 (0.69%) OSPF
7 4 (0.69%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.52%) LAN
8 3 (0.52%) SNMP
8 3 (0.52%) WAN
9 2 (0.35%) HTTP
9 2 (0.35%) VRRP
9 2 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.29%) Power BI
2 89 (15.42%) Tableau
3 27 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 20 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.47%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.29%) Data Mining
9 16 (2.77%) Relational Database
10 13 (2.25%) BigQuery
10 13 (2.25%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.73%) Big Data
13 9 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 56 (9.71%) Git
2 29 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.43%) GitLab
4 12 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (1.56%) JIRA
6 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.69%) Vite
9 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.52%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Maven
10 2 (0.35%) MLflow
10 2 (0.35%) Postman
11 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 179 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 103 (17.85%) Finance
3 82 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.03%) Retail
5 25 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.81%) Law
7 19 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.60%) Multimedia
10 13 (2.25%) Marketing
11 11 (1.91%) Legal
12 9 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.21%) Banking
14 6 (1.04%) Police
15 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.69%) Advertising
16 4 (0.69%) Electronics
16 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (20.28%) Senior
2 101 (17.50%) Analyst
3 91 (15.77%) Data Analyst
4 73 (12.65%) Developer
5 71 (12.31%) Data Engineer
6 65 (11.27%) Junior
6 65 (11.27%) Junior Analyst
6 65 (11.27%) Junior Data Analyst
7 62 (10.75%) Software Engineer
8 48 (8.32%) Lead
8 48 (8.32%) Python Engineer
9 44 (7.63%) Trainee
10 38 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 32 (5.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 24 (4.16%) Python Software Engineer
13 22 (3.81%) Python Developer
14 21 (3.64%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.47%) Architect
16 18 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (2.95%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.28%) React
2 33 (5.72%) HTML
3 32 (5.55%) .NET
3 32 (5.55%) Node.js
4 29 (5.03%) CSS
5 28 (4.85%) FastAPI
5 28 (4.85%) Kafka
6 27 (4.68%) Vue
7 21 (3.64%) Pandas
8 19 (3.29%) Spring
8 19 (3.29%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.12%) Next.js
9 18 (3.12%) NumPy
9 18 (3.12%) PySpark
10 17 (2.95%) scikit-learn
11 15 (2.60%) REST
12 14 (2.43%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.43%) React Native
12 14 (2.43%) Ruby on Rails
13 12 (2.08%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.51%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.51%) Linux
2 14 (2.43%) Windows
3 9 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.52%) Android
5 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.52%) CentOS
5 3 (0.52%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) Debian
6 2 (0.35%) Solaris
6 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (43.33%) AI
2 123 (21.32%) Analytics
3 115 (19.93%) CI/CD
4 103 (17.85%) Software Engineering
5 102 (17.68%) Business Intelligence
5 102 (17.68%) DevOps
6 95 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 93 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (15.08%) Agile
9 77 (13.34%) Mentoring
10 67 (11.61%) Machine Learning
11 55 (9.53%) Data Pipeline
12 54 (9.36%) Observability
13 52 (9.01%) Containerisation
13 52 (9.01%) Event-Driven
14 49 (8.49%) Microservices
15 45 (7.80%) Data Engineering
15 45 (7.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 44 (7.63%) Decision-Making
16 44 (7.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 234 (40.55%) SQL
2 79 (13.69%) Java
3 76 (13.17%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.84%) TypeScript
5 38 (6.59%) PowerShell
6 36 (6.24%) Bash
7 25 (4.33%) R
8 24 (4.16%) C++
9 22 (3.81%) C#
10 21 (3.64%) Go
11 15 (2.60%) C
12 14 (2.43%) Ruby
13 12 (2.08%) Bicep
14 9 (1.56%) Scala
15 8 (1.39%) PHP
16 7 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
19 1 (0.17%) Groovy
19 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (20.45%) Azure Certification
2 55 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.45%) Degree
4 35 (6.07%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.72%) SC Cleared
6 30 (5.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 22 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 22 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.52%) PhD
13 2 (0.35%) CCNA
13 2 (0.35%) CCNP
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.35%) MBA
13 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
14 1 (0.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.25%) QA
3 6 (1.04%) DICOM
4 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (10.92%) Docker
2 8 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 107 (18.54%) Terraform
2 62 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.89%) Ansible
4 17 (2.95%) Grafana
5 16 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.69%) Argo
6 4 (0.69%) Istio
6 4 (0.69%) Puppet
7 3 (0.52%) linkerd
7 3 (0.52%) Nagios
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.17%) Rancher
9 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 165 (28.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.33%) Databricks
2 25 (4.33%) Google
3 13 (2.25%) HubSpot
4 11 (1.91%) Splunk
4 11 (1.91%) VMware
5 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.39%) Adobe
7 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.87%) Oracle
9 4 (0.69%) Arista
9 4 (0.69%) Aruba
9 4 (0.69%) NetScout
10 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.52%) SAP
11 2 (0.35%) Cisco
11 2 (0.35%) Mirantis
11 2 (0.35%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.35%) SaltStack