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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 416 265 542
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.71% 7.33% 6.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.21% 24.84% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 284 203 375
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,850 £36,120
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,625 £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 £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 1,118 1,067 2,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.65% 29.52% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 893 846 2,295
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £34,850
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 £88,750 £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 April 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 April 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 -8 251 £65,000 -3.70% 144
Merseyside +20 75 £40,000 -27.27% 23
Lancashire +13 57 £47,500 -9.52% 61
Cheshire -31 20 £52,500 +1.64% 25
Cumbria -19 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 (3.85%) WordPress
2 13 (3.13%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.96%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 2 (0.48%) JBoss
7 2 (0.48%) nginx
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 104 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 234 (56.25%) Azure
2 179 (43.03%) AWS
3 85 (20.43%) Power Platform
4 78 (18.75%) Azure AI
5 68 (16.35%) GitHub
6 57 (13.70%) GCP
7 22 (5.29%) Serverless
8 20 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.13%) dbt
11 10 (2.40%) SaaS
12 9 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.92%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (1.68%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.42%) Internet
2 13 (3.13%) Firewall
3 7 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.20%) DNS
5 4 (0.96%) AMQP
5 4 (0.96%) NGFW
5 4 (0.96%) VPN
5 4 (0.96%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.96%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.72%) HTTP
6 3 (0.72%) SAN
7 2 (0.48%) DHCP
7 2 (0.48%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) LTE
8 1 (0.24%) SNMP
8 1 (0.24%) TCAP
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (25.48%) Tableau
2 80 (19.23%) Power BI
3 37 (8.89%) Data Mining
4 25 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (5.05%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.40%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.92%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.68%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.68%) MySQL
12 6 (1.44%) Big Data
12 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.20%) GIS
14 4 (0.96%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 82 (19.71%) Git
2 17 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (2.16%) GitLab
5 6 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.96%) JIRA
6 4 (0.96%) Selenium
7 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.72%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.24%) Locust
9 1 (0.24%) MLflow
9 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 126 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.99%) Finance
3 64 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.50%) Multimedia
5 22 (5.29%) Retail
6 20 (4.81%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.92%) Banking
9 8 (1.92%) Legal
10 6 (1.44%) Marketing
10 6 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.20%) Law
11 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.96%) Electronics
12 4 (0.96%) Italian Language
12 4 (0.96%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.72%) French Language
13 3 (0.72%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 107 (25.72%) Analyst
2 103 (24.76%) Data Analyst
3 98 (23.56%) Trainee
4 69 (16.59%) Junior
4 69 (16.59%) Junior Analyst
4 69 (16.59%) Junior Data Analyst
5 61 (14.66%) Senior
6 51 (12.26%) Developer
7 39 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 34 (8.17%) Trainee Analyst
8 34 (8.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 30 (7.21%) Python Engineer
10 28 (6.73%) Lead
11 24 (5.77%) Data Engineer
12 23 (5.53%) Software Developer
13 20 (4.81%) Trainee Developer
14 19 (4.57%) Trainee Software Developer
15 16 (3.85%) Administrator
15 16 (3.85%) Trainee Administrator
15 16 (3.85%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.90%) HTML
2 60 (14.42%) CSS
3 30 (7.21%) .NET
4 28 (6.73%) React
5 24 (5.77%) Node.js
6 17 (4.09%) scikit-learn
7 16 (3.85%) Django
7 16 (3.85%) Pandas
8 14 (3.37%) NumPy
9 13 (3.13%) Hugging Face
10 12 (2.88%) FastAPI
10 12 (2.88%) Matplotlib
10 12 (2.88%) PyTorch
10 12 (2.88%) Streamlit
11 10 (2.40%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.40%) Flask
11 10 (2.40%) REST
12 9 (2.16%) TensorFlow
13 8 (1.92%) RESTful
14 7 (1.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.05%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.16%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.44%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.44%) PACS
7 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.96%) PKI
9 2 (0.48%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.48%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.68%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) CentOS
3 5 (1.20%) Unix
3 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.96%) Debian
4 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.72%) Android
5 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (36.06%) AI
2 84 (20.19%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (18.99%) Analytics
4 67 (16.11%) Mentoring
5 60 (14.42%) CI/CD
6 59 (14.18%) Agile
7 58 (13.94%) Software Engineering
8 56 (13.46%) DevOps
9 50 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (12.02%) Machine Learning
10 47 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (11.06%) Data Analytics
11 46 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (10.82%) Data Analysis
13 41 (9.86%) Project Management
14 34 (8.17%) Business Analysis
15 33 (7.93%) Data Science
16 32 (7.69%) Containerisation
17 26 (6.25%) Computer Science
17 26 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 172 (41.35%) SQL
2 90 (21.63%) JavaScript
3 51 (12.26%) Java
4 36 (8.65%) R
5 23 (5.53%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.33%) Go
6 18 (4.33%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.37%) C
8 12 (2.88%) Bash
9 11 (2.64%) C#
10 7 (1.68%) Bicep
11 6 (1.44%) C++
11 6 (1.44%) PHP
12 3 (0.72%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.48%) Scala
13 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.48%) VBA
14 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (33.65%) Azure Certification
2 69 (16.59%) AWS Certification
3 64 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 56 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (6.97%) Degree
6 28 (6.73%) Security Cleared
7 17 (4.09%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.37%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.96%) PhD
11 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.24%) LPIC
13 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.64%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.40%) QA
3 6 (1.44%) DICOM
4 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.24%) FINRA
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.41%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) KVM
5 1 (0.24%) QEMU
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (13.94%) Terraform
2 42 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.73%) Ansible
4 5 (1.20%) Grafana
5 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.96%) Puppet
6 3 (0.72%) Rancher
7 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.48%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.48%) Nagios
7 2 (0.48%) Podman
7 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Istio
8 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 194 (46.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.05%) Google
3 9 (2.16%) Red Hat
4 8 (1.92%) Databricks
5 7 (1.68%) VMware
6 6 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.20%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.96%) Arista
8 4 (0.96%) Aruba
8 4 (0.96%) NetScout
8 4 (0.96%) Oracle
9 3 (0.72%) Splunk
10 2 (0.48%) Aderant
10 2 (0.48%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.48%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.48%) Mirantis
10 2 (0.48%) New Relic
10 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.48%) SAP