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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 10 28
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 492 629 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.75% 15.09% 5.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.05% 44.77% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 305 199 373
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,224
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,326 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +14.04% -8.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
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 1,293 1,405 2,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.49% 33.70% 30.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,006 830 2,368
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £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 £73,886 £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 1 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 1 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 -7 311 £65,000 -3.70% 158
Merseyside +2 78 £40,000 -27.27% 19
Lancashire -17 77 £47,500 -11.63% 61
Cheshire -51 14 £52,500 -4.55% 32
Cumbria -17 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 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (2.85%) WordPress
2 13 (2.64%) Jupyter
3 7 (1.42%) Apache
3 7 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.41%) JBoss
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 116 (23.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 267 (54.27%) Azure
2 183 (37.20%) AWS
3 110 (22.36%) Azure AI
4 104 (21.14%) Power Platform
5 65 (13.21%) GitHub
6 55 (11.18%) GCP
7 34 (6.91%) Serverless
8 19 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.25%) SaaS
11 14 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.44%) Datadog
13 12 (2.44%) dbt
13 12 (2.44%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.03%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.16%) Internet
2 17 (3.46%) Firewall
3 8 (1.63%) DNS
4 5 (1.02%) DHCP
4 5 (1.02%) SAN
4 5 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.02%) VPN
5 4 (0.81%) AMQP
5 4 (0.81%) NGFW
5 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.81%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) Network Security
7 2 (0.41%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) SNMP
8 1 (0.20%) TCAP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (23.58%) Tableau
2 98 (19.92%) Power BI
3 32 (6.50%) Data Mining
4 23 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.25%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.24%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.42%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.22%) Big Data
12 6 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 70 (14.23%) Git
2 20 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (2.24%) GitLab
5 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.81%) JIRA
6 4 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
8 2 (0.41%) Vite
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
1 168 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.48%) Finance
3 66 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.93%) Multimedia
5 26 (5.28%) Retail
6 21 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.03%) Law
10 9 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.42%) Banking
11 7 (1.42%) Legal
12 6 (1.22%) Police
13 5 (1.02%) Advertising
13 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.81%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.81%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.61%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (25.00%) Analyst
2 117 (23.78%) Data Analyst
3 85 (17.28%) Junior
3 85 (17.28%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (17.28%) Junior Data Analyst
4 80 (16.26%) Senior
4 80 (16.26%) Trainee
5 52 (10.57%) Developer
6 48 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 41 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 41 (8.33%) Lead
7 41 (8.33%) Python Engineer
8 29 (5.89%) Trainee Analyst
8 29 (5.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 27 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 20 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.25%) Software Developer
12 15 (3.05%) Programmer
13 14 (2.85%) Administrator
13 14 (2.85%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.16%) HTML
2 47 (9.55%) CSS
3 31 (6.30%) .NET
4 29 (5.89%) React
5 25 (5.08%) Node.js
6 22 (4.47%) Pandas
7 17 (3.46%) NumPy
7 17 (3.46%) scikit-learn
8 15 (3.05%) Kafka
9 13 (2.64%) Hugging Face
10 12 (2.44%) Matplotlib
10 12 (2.44%) Streamlit
11 11 (2.24%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.24%) PySpark
12 10 (2.03%) Django
12 10 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 10 (2.03%) REST
13 9 (1.83%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.83%) Spring
13 9 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.24%) Low-Code
5 11 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.22%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.22%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.22%) PACS
9 6 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (0.81%) Cybercrime
10 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.81%) PKI
11 3 (0.61%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.88%) Linux
2 10 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.83%) Windows
4 5 (1.02%) CentOS
4 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.81%) Debian
5 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.81%) Unix
6 3 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.61%) Solaris
7 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (40.65%) AI
2 100 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
3 87 (17.68%) Analytics
4 73 (14.84%) Software Engineering
5 72 (14.63%) DevOps
6 69 (14.02%) CI/CD
6 69 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (13.82%) Agile
8 66 (13.41%) Mentoring
9 49 (9.96%) Machine Learning
10 48 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (8.54%) Data Analytics
12 41 (8.33%) Data Analysis
13 40 (8.13%) Containerisation
13 40 (8.13%) Project Management
14 37 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 36 (7.32%) Data Science
16 32 (6.50%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (6.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 201 (40.85%) SQL
2 82 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 62 (12.60%) Java
4 30 (6.10%) PowerShell
4 30 (6.10%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.49%) R
6 22 (4.47%) Bash
7 18 (3.66%) C
7 18 (3.66%) Go
8 12 (2.44%) C#
8 12 (2.44%) C++
9 11 (2.24%) Bicep
10 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.61%) PHP
12 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.41%) Scala
13 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (32.52%) Azure Certification
2 56 (11.38%) AWS Certification
3 51 (10.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (8.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (6.91%) Security Cleared
6 30 (6.10%) Degree
7 21 (4.27%) SC Cleared
8 18 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.81%) PhD
12 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) LPIC
13 1 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.24%) QA
3 6 (1.22%) DICOM
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (8.54%) Docker
2 8 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 74 (15.04%) Terraform
2 49 (9.96%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.89%) Ansible
4 9 (1.83%) Grafana
5 8 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.81%) Puppet
7 3 (0.61%) Podman
7 3 (0.61%) Rancher
8 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.41%) Nagios
8 2 (0.41%) 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 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.27%) Google
3 12 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.24%) Databricks
5 10 (2.03%) VMware
6 6 (1.22%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.81%) Arista
8 4 (0.81%) Aruba
8 4 (0.81%) NetScout
8 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.61%) Mirantis
9 3 (0.61%) Oracle
10 2 (0.41%) Aderant
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco
10 2 (0.41%) New Relic
10 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.41%) Splunk