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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 401 273 545
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.65% 7.56% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.41% 25.25% 20.16%
Number of salaries quoted 278 204 381
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,575 £36,120
25th Percentile £35,000 £49,717 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,735 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% +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 1,072 1,081 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.44% 29.95% 31.83%
Number of salaries quoted 862 845 2,297
10th Percentile £33,825 £34,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -11 244 £64,000 -1.54% 144
Merseyside +19 72 £40,000 -27.27% 23
Lancashire +17 52 £47,500 -9.52% 61
Cheshire -28 20 £52,500 +8.68% 25
Cumbria -20 10 £85,000 +17.24% 4
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 16 (3.99%) WordPress
2 13 (3.24%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.75%) Apache
4 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.00%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 100 (24.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.99%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 222 (55.36%) Azure
2 177 (44.14%) AWS
3 82 (20.45%) Power Platform
4 70 (17.46%) Azure AI
5 67 (16.71%) GitHub
6 54 (13.47%) GCP
7 22 (5.49%) Serverless
8 20 (4.99%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.24%) dbt
11 10 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.49%) SaaS
12 8 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.00%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.00%) Snowflake
13 7 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.96%) Internet
2 12 (2.99%) Firewall
3 7 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.00%) AMQP
4 4 (1.00%) DNS
4 4 (1.00%) NGFW
4 4 (1.00%) VPN
4 4 (1.00%) VXLAN
4 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.00%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.75%) HTTP
5 3 (0.75%) SAN
6 2 (0.50%) Network Security
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) SNMP
7 1 (0.25%) TCAP
7 1 (0.25%) VSAN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (25.44%) Tableau
2 77 (19.20%) Power BI
3 37 (9.23%) Data Mining
4 24 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.99%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.24%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.75%) MySQL
11 6 (1.50%) Big Data
11 6 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (1.25%) GIS
13 4 (1.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 82 (20.45%) Git
2 17 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (2.74%) GitLab
5 6 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.00%) Selenium
7 3 (0.75%) JIRA
7 3 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.75%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.50%) Subversion
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) JMeter
9 1 (0.25%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.25%) Locust
9 1 (0.25%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 117 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.70%) Finance
3 64 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.97%) Multimedia
5 21 (5.24%) Retail
6 20 (4.99%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.00%) Banking
8 8 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.00%) Legal
9 6 (1.50%) Marketing
9 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.00%) Electronics
11 4 (1.00%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.00%) Law
11 4 (1.00%) Spanish Language
12 3 (0.75%) French Language
12 3 (0.75%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 103 (25.69%) Analyst
2 99 (24.69%) Data Analyst
3 98 (24.44%) Trainee
4 65 (16.21%) Junior
4 65 (16.21%) Junior Analyst
4 65 (16.21%) Junior Data Analyst
5 55 (13.72%) Senior
6 51 (12.72%) Developer
7 39 (9.73%) Software Engineer
8 34 (8.48%) Trainee Analyst
8 34 (8.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 29 (7.23%) Python Engineer
10 28 (6.98%) Lead
11 23 (5.74%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.74%) Software Developer
12 20 (4.99%) Trainee Developer
13 19 (4.74%) Trainee Software Developer
14 16 (3.99%) Administrator
14 16 (3.99%) Trainee Administrator
14 16 (3.99%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.21%) HTML
2 60 (14.96%) CSS
3 30 (7.48%) .NET
4 27 (6.73%) React
5 25 (6.23%) Node.js
6 17 (4.24%) scikit-learn
7 16 (3.99%) Pandas
8 15 (3.74%) Django
9 14 (3.49%) NumPy
10 13 (3.24%) Hugging Face
11 12 (2.99%) Matplotlib
11 12 (2.99%) Streamlit
12 11 (2.74%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.74%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.74%) PyTorch
13 10 (2.49%) Flask
13 10 (2.49%) REST
14 9 (2.24%) TensorFlow
15 8 (2.00%) RESTful
16 7 (1.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.99%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.50%) PACS
7 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.00%) PKI
9 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.50%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.50%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.48%) Linux
2 7 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.75%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) CentOS
3 5 (1.25%) Unix
4 4 (1.00%) Debian
4 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.75%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (34.66%) AI
2 82 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (19.20%) Analytics
4 68 (16.96%) Mentoring
5 59 (14.71%) Agile
5 59 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 58 (14.46%) Software Engineering
7 52 (12.97%) DevOps
8 50 (12.47%) Machine Learning
9 47 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 46 (11.47%) Cybersecurity
10 46 (11.47%) Data Analytics
10 46 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (11.22%) Data Analysis
12 40 (9.98%) Project Management
13 34 (8.48%) Business Analysis
14 33 (8.23%) Data Science
15 32 (7.98%) Containerisation
16 26 (6.48%) Visualisation
16 26 (6.48%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 168 (41.90%) SQL
2 89 (22.19%) JavaScript
3 52 (12.97%) Java
4 36 (8.98%) R
5 22 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.24%) Go
7 16 (3.99%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.49%) C
9 12 (2.99%) Bash
10 10 (2.49%) C#
11 7 (1.75%) PHP
12 6 (1.50%) Bicep
13 5 (1.25%) C++
14 4 (1.00%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.50%) Scala
16 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.50%) VBA
17 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 131 (32.67%) Azure Certification
2 69 (17.21%) AWS Certification
3 64 (15.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 55 (13.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (6.98%) Degree
6 27 (6.73%) Security Cleared
7 16 (3.99%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.49%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.25%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.75%) PhD
13 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.25%) LPIC
14 1 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.74%) Data Quality
1 11 (2.74%) QA
2 6 (1.50%) DICOM
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.25%) FINRA
4 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) KVM
5 1 (0.25%) QEMU
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (14.21%) Terraform
2 40 (9.98%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.98%) Ansible
4 6 (1.50%) Grafana
5 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.00%) Puppet
6 3 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.50%) Nagios
7 2 (0.50%) Podman
7 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 188 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.24%) Google
3 9 (2.24%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.75%) Databricks
5 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.50%) Oracle
5 6 (1.50%) VMware
6 5 (1.25%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.00%) Arista
7 4 (1.00%) Aruba
7 4 (1.00%) NetScout
8 3 (0.75%) Splunk
9 2 (0.50%) Aderant
9 2 (0.50%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.50%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.50%) Mirantis
9 2 (0.50%) New Relic
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.50%) SAP
10 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics