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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 6 31
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 522 1,050 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.98% 22.62% 5.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.58% 55.26% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 330 190 377
10th Percentile £33,625 £42,425 £35,672
25th Percentile £39,702 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,823 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,427 1,900 2,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.61% 40.94% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 809 2,377
10th Percentile £35,125 £33,750 £34,900
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 16 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 16 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 -11 332 £65,500 -2.96% 177
Lancashire -25 83 £47,500 -5.09% 76
Merseyside +4 80 £40,000 -20.00% 32
Cheshire -63 16 £52,500 +1.64% 32
Cumbria -21 8 £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 (2.68%) WordPress
2 13 (2.49%) Jupyter
3 12 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.34%) Apache
4 7 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.38%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 113 (21.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 271 (51.92%) Azure
2 187 (35.82%) AWS
3 109 (20.88%) Azure AI
3 109 (20.88%) Power Platform
4 64 (12.26%) GitHub
5 59 (11.30%) GCP
6 35 (6.70%) Serverless
7 20 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 18 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.87%) SaaS
12 13 (2.49%) Datadog
12 13 (2.49%) Snowflake
13 12 (2.30%) dbt
14 11 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.72%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.24%) Internet
2 18 (3.45%) Firewall
3 7 (1.34%) DNS
4 6 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.15%) VPN
5 5 (0.96%) DHCP
5 5 (0.96%) SAN
6 4 (0.77%) Network Security
6 4 (0.77%) NGFW
6 4 (0.77%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.77%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.57%) AMQP
7 3 (0.57%) SNMP
8 2 (0.38%) BGP
8 2 (0.38%) HTTP
8 2 (0.38%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.38%) OSPF
8 2 (0.38%) SSL
8 2 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (21.84%) Tableau
2 102 (19.54%) Power BI
3 28 (5.36%) Data Mining
4 24 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.02%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.07%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.07%) SQL Server
7 15 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.49%) BigQuery
10 11 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.15%) Big Data
14 6 (1.15%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.15%) MySQL
14 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (12.26%) Git
2 19 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (1.92%) GitLab
5 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.77%) JIRA
7 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) Maven
8 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Subversion
8 2 (0.38%) Vite
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.19%) MLflow
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 176 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.67%) Finance
3 69 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.13%) Multimedia
5 25 (4.79%) Retail
6 23 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.68%) Law
9 13 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.92%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.72%) Marketing
12 6 (1.15%) Legal
12 6 (1.15%) Police
13 5 (0.96%) Banking
14 4 (0.77%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.77%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.77%) Spanish Language
14 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (22.99%) Analyst
2 114 (21.84%) Data Analyst
3 89 (17.05%) Senior
4 85 (16.28%) Junior
4 85 (16.28%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (16.28%) Junior Data Analyst
5 69 (13.22%) Trainee
6 58 (11.11%) Developer
7 52 (9.96%) Software Engineer
8 48 (9.20%) Data Engineer
9 45 (8.62%) Lead
10 42 (8.05%) Python Engineer
11 31 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (4.79%) Trainee Analyst
12 25 (4.79%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 17 (3.26%) Software Developer
14 16 (3.07%) Architect
14 16 (3.07%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.07%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.00%) HTML
2 44 (8.43%) CSS
3 31 (5.94%) .NET
4 27 (5.17%) Node.js
4 27 (5.17%) React
5 22 (4.21%) Kafka
5 22 (4.21%) Pandas
6 18 (3.45%) NumPy
7 16 (3.07%) scikit-learn
8 15 (2.87%) PySpark
9 12 (2.30%) FastAPI
9 12 (2.30%) Hugging Face
9 12 (2.30%) Matplotlib
9 12 (2.30%) Spring
9 12 (2.30%) Spring Boot
9 12 (2.30%) Streamlit
10 11 (2.11%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.11%) Django
11 10 (1.92%) REST
12 9 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 21 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.11%) Low-Code
5 11 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.34%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.15%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.15%) PACS
8 6 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (0.96%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.77%) Cybercrime
10 4 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.98%) Linux
2 12 (2.30%) Windows
3 11 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.77%) CentOS
5 4 (0.77%) Unix
6 3 (0.57%) Android
6 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.57%) Debian
6 3 (0.57%) Solaris
6 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (42.34%) AI
2 104 (19.92%) Business Intelligence
3 100 (19.16%) Analytics
4 83 (15.90%) Software Engineering
5 81 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 81 (15.52%) DevOps
6 74 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (13.79%) Agile
8 69 (13.22%) Mentoring
9 61 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (10.54%) Machine Learning
11 44 (8.43%) Event-Driven
12 43 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (7.85%) Containerisation
14 40 (7.66%) Data Analytics
15 38 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 37 (7.09%) Data Analysis
17 35 (6.70%) Project Management
18 34 (6.51%) Data Pipeline
18 34 (6.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 210 (40.23%) SQL
2 82 (15.71%) JavaScript
3 69 (13.22%) Java
4 35 (6.70%) TypeScript
5 30 (5.75%) PowerShell
6 29 (5.56%) R
7 28 (5.36%) Bash
8 19 (3.64%) C
8 19 (3.64%) C++
9 17 (3.26%) Go
10 10 (1.92%) Bicep
10 10 (1.92%) C#
11 6 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.77%) Ruby
13 3 (0.57%) PHP
13 3 (0.57%) Scala
14 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.19%) Groovy
15 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 151 (28.93%) Azure Certification
2 49 (9.39%) AWS Certification
3 44 (8.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 39 (7.47%) Security Cleared
5 35 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (6.13%) Degree
7 26 (4.98%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.83%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.77%) PhD
12 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) LPIC
13 1 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.11%) QA
3 6 (1.15%) DICOM
4 2 (0.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (7.85%) Docker
2 7 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 79 (15.13%) Terraform
2 49 (9.39%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.17%) Ansible
4 10 (1.92%) Grafana
5 9 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.77%) Nagios
7 3 (0.57%) Podman
7 3 (0.57%) Puppet
7 3 (0.57%) Rancher
8 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.19%) Istio
9 1 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 197 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.02%) Google
3 13 (2.49%) Databricks
3 13 (2.49%) Red Hat
4 10 (1.92%) VMware
5 9 (1.72%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.77%) Arista
6 4 (0.77%) Aruba
6 4 (0.77%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.77%) NetScout
6 4 (0.77%) Oracle
7 3 (0.57%) Adobe
7 3 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (0.57%) Mirantis
7 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.57%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco
8 2 (0.38%) New Relic
8 2 (0.38%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.38%) Splunk