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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 558 1,052 546
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.98% 22.78% 5.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.23% 55.96% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 370 184 384
10th Percentile £34,875 £42,500 £36,120
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £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 1,540 1,880 2,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.73% 40.70% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 770 2,455
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,238 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,438 £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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -10 371 £66,750 -1.11% 181
Merseyside +7 82 £40,000 -27.27% 24
Lancashire -28 77 £47,500 -5.05% 48
Cheshire -61 19 £67,500 +28.57% 23
Cumbria -18 7 £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 15 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.15%) Jupyter
3 9 (1.61%) Apache
3 9 (1.61%) WordPress
4 8 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.54%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 99 (17.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 265 (47.49%) Azure
2 205 (36.74%) AWS
3 105 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 97 (17.38%) Azure AI
5 68 (12.19%) GCP
6 60 (10.75%) GitHub
7 44 (7.89%) Serverless
8 24 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.94%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.58%) SaaS
11 19 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.51%) Datadog
13 14 (2.51%) dbt
14 13 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (2.33%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.91%) Internet
2 20 (3.58%) Firewall
3 7 (1.25%) DNS
3 7 (1.25%) VPN
4 6 (1.08%) Network Security
4 6 (1.08%) SAN
4 6 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.90%) DHCP
6 4 (0.72%) NGFW
6 4 (0.72%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.54%) AMQP
7 3 (0.54%) SNMP
8 2 (0.36%) BGP
8 2 (0.36%) HTTP
8 2 (0.36%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.36%) OSPF
8 2 (0.36%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (17.92%) Tableau
2 98 (17.56%) Power BI
3 25 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (4.12%) Data Mining
5 23 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 21 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.51%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.97%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.79%) Big Data
11 9 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.08%) MySQL
14 5 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 58 (10.39%) Git
2 25 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (1.97%) GitLab
5 6 (1.08%) JIRA
6 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.36%) Maven
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) Subversion
8 2 (0.36%) Vite
9 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.18%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.18%) MLflow
9 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 175 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 96 (17.20%) Finance
3 77 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.84%) Retail
5 25 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.94%) Multimedia
7 19 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.23%) Law
9 13 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.33%) Marketing
10 10 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.61%) Legal
12 6 (1.08%) Banking
12 6 (1.08%) Police
13 5 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Advertising
14 4 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.72%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 114 (20.43%) Senior
2 109 (19.53%) Analyst
3 102 (18.28%) Data Analyst
4 73 (13.08%) Junior
4 73 (13.08%) Junior Analyst
4 73 (13.08%) Junior Data Analyst
5 67 (12.01%) Developer
6 61 (10.93%) Data Engineer
6 61 (10.93%) Software Engineer
7 55 (9.86%) Trainee
8 50 (8.96%) Lead
9 46 (8.24%) Python Engineer
10 37 (6.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 32 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (3.76%) Software Developer
12 21 (3.76%) Trainee Analyst
12 21 (3.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 20 (3.58%) Python Software Engineer
14 19 (3.41%) Python Developer
15 17 (3.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.17%) HTML
2 37 (6.63%) CSS
3 32 (5.73%) .NET
4 31 (5.56%) React
5 30 (5.38%) Node.js
6 26 (4.66%) Kafka
7 21 (3.76%) Pandas
8 19 (3.41%) FastAPI
9 18 (3.23%) NumPy
10 17 (3.05%) scikit-learn
11 16 (2.87%) PySpark
11 16 (2.87%) Vue
12 15 (2.69%) Spring
12 15 (2.69%) Spring Boot
13 13 (2.33%) Next.js
14 12 (2.15%) Hugging Face
14 12 (2.15%) Matplotlib
14 12 (2.15%) REST
14 12 (2.15%) Streamlit
15 11 (1.97%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.66%) Algorithms
2 26 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.08%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.08%) PACS
11 6 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.90%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.84%) Linux
2 14 (2.51%) Windows
3 10 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.72%) CentOS
6 3 (0.54%) Android
6 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.54%) Debian
6 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.54%) Unix
7 2 (0.36%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (43.55%) AI
2 112 (20.07%) Analytics
3 105 (18.82%) Business Intelligence
4 99 (17.74%) CI/CD
4 99 (17.74%) Software Engineering
5 94 (16.85%) DevOps
6 88 (15.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 81 (14.52%) Mentoring
8 79 (14.16%) Agile
9 77 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (11.29%) Machine Learning
11 51 (9.14%) Event-Driven
12 48 (8.60%) Containerisation
13 47 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (7.53%) Microservices
15 41 (7.35%) Decision-Making
15 41 (7.35%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (7.35%) Observability
16 39 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 39 (6.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 225 (40.32%) SQL
2 79 (14.16%) JavaScript
3 72 (12.90%) Java
4 42 (7.53%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.09%) PowerShell
6 32 (5.73%) Bash
7 27 (4.84%) R
8 22 (3.94%) C++
9 19 (3.41%) C#
10 18 (3.23%) C
10 18 (3.23%) Go
11 11 (1.97%) Bicep
11 11 (1.97%) Ruby
12 7 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.90%) PHP
14 5 (0.90%) Scala
15 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.18%) Groovy
16 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 131 (23.48%) Azure Certification
2 47 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 33 (5.91%) Degree
6 30 (5.38%) SC Cleared
7 27 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.12%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.54%) PhD
13 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ACCA
14 1 (0.18%) CFA
14 1 (0.18%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.15%) QA
3 6 (1.08%) DICOM
4 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.36%) SLA
5 1 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (9.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 97 (17.38%) Terraform
2 57 (10.22%) Kubernetes
3 32 (5.73%) Ansible
4 14 (2.51%) Grafana
5 13 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.72%) Nagios
6 4 (0.72%) Puppet
7 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.36%) Argo
7 2 (0.36%) Istio
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.36%) Podman
7 2 (0.36%) Rancher
7 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.18%) linkerd
8 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 179 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.66%) Google
3 17 (3.05%) Databricks
4 13 (2.33%) HubSpot
5 12 (2.15%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.97%) VMware
7 6 (1.08%) Adobe
8 5 (0.90%) Oracle
8 5 (0.90%) Splunk
9 4 (0.72%) Arista
9 4 (0.72%) Aruba
9 4 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.72%) NetScout
9 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.54%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.54%) SAP
11 2 (0.36%) Mirantis
11 2 (0.36%) New Relic
11 2 (0.36%) Palo Alto