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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 601 1,038 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.03% 19.88% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.15% 54.26% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 389 168 277
10th Percentile £36,700 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £88,000
England median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% - -

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 1,760 1,913 2,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.74% 36.64% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 790 1,625
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,850 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -8 441 £66,750 +2.69% 116
Lancashire -20 67 £47,500 -17.39% 40
Merseyside -3 60 £67,250 +22.27% 24
Cheshire -43 31 £67,500 +28.57% 22
Cumbria -19 1 £62,500 -16.67% 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 20 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.00%) Apache
3 14 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.33%) WordPress
6 7 (1.16%) Confluence
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.33%) IIS
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Odoo
2 1 (0.17%) Primavera
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 245 (40.77%) Azure
2 223 (37.10%) AWS
3 86 (14.31%) Power Platform
4 82 (13.64%) GCP
5 73 (12.15%) Azure AI
6 68 (11.31%) GitHub
7 52 (8.65%) Serverless
8 33 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (5.16%) Amazon S3
10 28 (4.66%) SaaS
11 27 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (4.49%) dbt
11 27 (4.49%) Snowflake
12 26 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.16%) Datadog
16 12 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.00%) OpenShift
17 9 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.33%) Firewall
2 15 (2.50%) Internet
3 14 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.33%) DHCP
4 8 (1.33%) DNS
4 8 (1.33%) VPN
4 8 (1.33%) WAN
5 7 (1.16%) BGP
5 7 (1.16%) Network Security
5 7 (1.16%) SAN
6 6 (1.00%) LAN
7 5 (0.83%) OSPF
7 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.83%) Wireless
8 4 (0.67%) IPsec
8 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.50%) VLAN
9 3 (0.50%) VSAN
9 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (13.31%) Power BI
2 63 (10.48%) Tableau
3 41 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.49%) DynamoDB
5 21 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (2.66%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.66%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.83%) Big Data
11 10 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.50%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.00%) MySQL
14 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (8.82%) Git
2 26 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.66%) GitLab
3 16 (2.66%) JIRA
4 9 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.00%) Maven
7 5 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.67%) Storybook
8 4 (0.67%) Vite
9 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.33%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 216 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 106 (17.64%) Finance
3 84 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.83%) Law
5 23 (3.83%) Retail
6 22 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.00%) Legal
8 18 (3.00%) Marketing
9 10 (1.66%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.66%) Multimedia
10 8 (1.33%) Banking
11 7 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Electronics
12 6 (1.00%) Police
13 5 (0.83%) Advertising
13 5 (0.83%) Games
14 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 163 (27.12%) Senior
2 85 (14.14%) Data Engineer
3 81 (13.48%) Analyst
4 77 (12.81%) Developer
5 71 (11.81%) Software Engineer
6 65 (10.82%) Data Analyst
7 53 (8.82%) Python Engineer
8 52 (8.65%) Lead
9 51 (8.49%) Junior
10 48 (7.99%) Junior Analyst
10 48 (7.99%) Junior Data Analyst
11 40 (6.66%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 27 (4.49%) Python Software Engineer
16 23 (3.83%) Senior Developer
17 21 (3.49%) Python Developer
17 21 (3.49%) Trainee
18 20 (3.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.99%) React
2 36 (5.99%) Spring
2 36 (5.99%) Spring Boot
3 35 (5.82%) Node.js
4 34 (5.66%) HTML
5 31 (5.16%) .NET
6 30 (4.99%) Kafka
7 27 (4.49%) Vue
8 26 (4.33%) CSS
8 26 (4.33%) FastAPI
9 22 (3.66%) AngularJS
9 22 (3.66%) PySpark
10 19 (3.16%) Next.js
11 14 (2.33%) Pandas
11 14 (2.33%) React Native
11 14 (2.33%) REST
11 14 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
12 12 (2.00%) LangChain
13 10 (1.66%) NumPy
13 10 (1.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.50%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.16%) Life Science
12 7 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.15%) Linux
2 21 (3.49%) Windows
3 14 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.66%) Unix
4 10 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.00%) CentOS
6 4 (0.67%) Solaris
7 3 (0.50%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) AIX
8 2 (0.33%) Debian
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (41.43%) AI
2 156 (25.96%) CI/CD
3 129 (21.46%) Software Engineering
4 128 (21.30%) DevOps
5 125 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (19.47%) Analytics
7 109 (18.14%) Agile
8 108 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (16.14%) Business Intelligence
10 92 (15.31%) Mentoring
11 70 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
12 69 (11.48%) Containerisation
12 69 (11.48%) Machine Learning
13 67 (11.15%) Observability
14 65 (10.82%) Data Engineering
15 64 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (10.48%) Decision-Making
17 60 (9.98%) Test Automation
18 51 (8.49%) ETL
18 51 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 240 (39.93%) SQL
2 104 (17.30%) Java
3 75 (12.48%) JavaScript
4 57 (9.48%) TypeScript
5 55 (9.15%) Bash
6 42 (6.99%) PowerShell
7 30 (4.99%) C#
7 30 (4.99%) C++
8 26 (4.33%) R
9 25 (4.16%) Go
10 15 (2.50%) C
10 15 (2.50%) Ruby
11 13 (2.16%) Bicep
12 12 (2.00%) PHP
13 11 (1.83%) Scala
14 7 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 91 (15.14%) Azure Certification
2 78 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.49%) Degree
4 38 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 37 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 19 (3.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 19 (3.16%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.67%) MBA
12 3 (0.50%) PhD
12 3 (0.50%) RHCE
12 3 (0.50%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.33%) CCIE
13 2 (0.33%) CCNA
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.49%) QA
3 10 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.67%) WCAG
5 3 (0.50%) GDPR
5 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) DICOM
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (14.14%) Docker
2 12 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (20.97%) Terraform
2 79 (13.14%) Kubernetes
3 50 (8.32%) Ansible
4 23 (3.83%) Grafana
5 20 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.00%) Puppet
7 7 (1.16%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.83%) Argo
8 5 (0.83%) Istio
9 4 (0.67%) linkerd
9 4 (0.67%) Podman
10 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.50%) Nagios
10 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.33%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.99%) Databricks
3 32 (5.32%) Google
4 22 (3.66%) Splunk
5 16 (2.66%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.33%) Adobe
6 14 (2.33%) VMware
7 13 (2.16%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.50%) Oracle
9 7 (1.16%) Cisco
10 6 (1.00%) New Relic
10 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.67%) NEC
12 3 (0.50%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.50%) IBM
12 3 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.50%) McAfee
12 3 (0.50%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.50%) SAP
12 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow