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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 289 381 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.22% 7.78% 7.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.62% 27.12% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 221 192 327
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,105 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,066 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,875 £84,056
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 886 1,405 2,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.94% 28.69% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 732 800 1,813
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,802 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -18 175 £61,418 -3.66% 127
Merseyside +11 58 £40,000 -27.27% 26
Lancashire -11 23 £48,445 -22.49% 66
Cheshire -27 19 £48,979 +1.39% 26
Cumbria -3 11 £85,000 +21.43% 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 8 (2.77%) Apache
1 8 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.77%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.77%) WordPress
2 6 (2.08%) CMS
3 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (21.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 151 (52.25%) Azure
2 138 (47.75%) AWS
3 61 (21.11%) GitHub
4 50 (17.30%) Power Platform
5 42 (14.53%) GCP
6 29 (10.03%) Azure AI
7 14 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.15%) Serverless
8 12 (4.15%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.46%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.42%) SaaS
13 5 (1.73%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.73%) dbt
13 5 (1.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.38%) Datadog
14 4 (1.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 57 (19.72%) Internet
2 9 (3.11%) Firewall
3 4 (1.38%) AMQP
3 4 (1.38%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) NGFW
3 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.38%) VXLAN
3 4 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.38%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.04%) DHCP
4 3 (1.04%) HTTP
4 3 (1.04%) SAN
4 3 (1.04%) SSL
4 3 (1.04%) VPN
5 2 (0.69%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) SSH
6 1 (0.35%) TCAP
6 1 (0.35%) VSAN
6 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.42%) Tableau
2 47 (16.26%) Power BI
3 27 (9.34%) Data Mining
4 21 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 21 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.46%) Big Data
8 10 (3.46%) BigQuery
8 10 (3.46%) Hadoop
9 9 (3.11%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.42%) MySQL
12 6 (2.08%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.73%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (1.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (26.30%) Git
2 17 (5.88%) GitLab
3 15 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.08%) Postman
5 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.04%) Selenium
7 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.69%) JIRA
7 2 (0.69%) Maven
7 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.35%) Ant
8 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
8 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.38%) Finance
3 50 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (17.30%) Multimedia
4 14 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.81%) Banking
6 10 (3.46%) Marketing
7 9 (3.11%) Retail
8 8 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.77%) Legal
9 7 (2.42%) Law
10 5 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.38%) Advertising
11 4 (1.38%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.04%) Electronics
12 3 (1.04%) Games
12 3 (1.04%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (26.64%) Trainee
2 64 (22.15%) Analyst
3 59 (20.42%) Data Analyst
4 56 (19.38%) Developer
5 37 (12.80%) Senior
6 28 (9.69%) Junior
6 28 (9.69%) Junior Analyst
6 28 (9.69%) Junior Data Analyst
7 26 (9.00%) Software Engineer
7 26 (9.00%) Trainee Analyst
7 26 (9.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 25 (8.65%) Software Developer
9 22 (7.61%) Trainee Developer
9 22 (7.61%) Trainee Software Developer
10 19 (6.57%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.57%) Python Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) Lead
12 10 (3.46%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.46%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.77%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.07%) CSS
2 56 (19.38%) HTML
3 25 (8.65%) React
4 19 (6.57%) Node.js
5 17 (5.88%) .NET
6 13 (4.50%) Django
7 12 (4.15%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.15%) REST
8 10 (3.46%) Flask
9 9 (3.11%) FastAPI
10 8 (2.77%) RESTful
11 7 (2.42%) JSON
11 7 (2.42%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.42%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (2.08%) Spring
12 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.08%) Vue
13 5 (1.73%) Celery
13 5 (1.73%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.46%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.77%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.77%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.42%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.38%) PKI
8 3 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.69%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.38%) Linux
2 11 (3.81%) Windows
3 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.08%) Debian
4 6 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.73%) CentOS
5 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.04%) Android
6 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.04%) Unix
7 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.35%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (27.34%) AI
2 62 (21.45%) Mentoring
3 55 (19.03%) Analytics
4 52 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 51 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 51 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (15.22%) Software Engineering
7 43 (14.88%) DevOps
8 42 (14.53%) Agile
9 41 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (13.49%) Data Analysis
11 38 (13.15%) Data Analytics
12 37 (12.80%) Machine Learning
13 33 (11.42%) Containerisation
13 33 (11.42%) Data Science
14 32 (11.07%) Project Management
15 26 (9.00%) Business Analysis
16 20 (6.92%) Open Source
17 19 (6.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 120 (41.52%) SQL
2 81 (28.03%) JavaScript
3 34 (11.76%) R
4 33 (11.42%) Java
5 19 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.19%) Go
7 13 (4.50%) Bash
7 13 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.15%) C
9 7 (2.42%) PHP
10 6 (2.08%) ANSI SQL
10 6 (2.08%) Bicep
10 6 (2.08%) C#
11 4 (1.38%) Scala
12 2 (0.69%) C++
12 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.69%) Groovy
12 2 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.69%) VBA
13 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 85 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 53 (18.34%) AWS Certification
2 53 (18.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (17.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (9.34%) Security Cleared
5 25 (8.65%) Degree
6 18 (6.23%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.15%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.73%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.04%) PhD
10 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CCSP
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) CISSP
11 1 (0.35%) HNC
11 1 (0.35%) HND
11 1 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.73%) QA
3 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.69%) DICOM
4 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.35%) FINRA
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (11.76%) Docker
2 4 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) KVM
3 3 (1.04%) QEMU
3 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (15.22%) Kubernetes
1 44 (15.22%) Terraform
2 30 (10.38%) Ansible
3 8 (2.77%) Grafana
4 5 (1.73%) Puppet
5 4 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.04%) Rancher
7 2 (0.69%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.69%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.35%) Nagios
8 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (42.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.23%) Google
3 10 (3.46%) Oracle
4 9 (3.11%) HubSpot
5 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.42%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.73%) VMware
8 4 (1.38%) Arista
8 4 (1.38%) Aruba
8 4 (1.38%) NetScout
8 4 (1.38%) Splunk
9 3 (1.04%) Databricks
10 2 (0.69%) Aderant
10 2 (0.69%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.69%) SAP
11 1 (0.35%) Adobe
11 1 (0.35%) Cognos
11 1 (0.35%) McAfee