Python Jobs in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 27 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,052 601 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.15% 6.09% 17.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.18% 20.55% 42.84%
Number of salaries quoted 190 379 385
10th Percentile £42,425 £35,896 £39,544
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,250
England median annual salary £74,870 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -6.67% +4.17%

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 2,381 2,924 3,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.77% 29.65% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 2,378 1,768
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,925 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,890 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the North West.

Salary trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 2025. 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
Lancashire +47 560 £50,055 -28.49% 139
Manchester +11 334 £67,500 +22.73% 526
Cheshire +36 104 £51,653 +5.95% 75
Merseyside +6 41 £50,000 -37.50% 30
Cumbria -66 13 £72,500 +31.82% 3
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 9 (0.86%) Apache
2 9 (0.86%) SAS
3 4 (0.38%) CMS
3 4 (0.38%) Confluence
3 4 (0.38%) WordPress
4 3 (0.29%) nginx
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.095%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Simulink
2 1 (0.095%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.095%) Odoo
2 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 283 (26.90%) AWS
2 275 (26.14%) Azure
3 221 (21.01%) GCP
4 22 (2.09%) Power Platform
5 20 (1.90%) Serverless
6 19 (1.81%) GitHub
7 12 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (1.05%) Snowflake
9 10 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (0.95%) dbt
10 9 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.57%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (0.57%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.57%) SaaS
13 5 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 634 (60.27%) VPN
2 388 (36.88%) DNS
3 250 (23.76%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.57%) Broadband
5 6 (0.57%) Wireless
6 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.48%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) Firewall
7 3 (0.29%) HTTP
7 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 2 (0.19%) FTP
8 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.19%) Network Security
8 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.19%) SSH
8 2 (0.19%) SSL
9 1 (0.095%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.095%) MPLS
9 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.19%) MySQL
1 23 (2.19%) NoSQL
2 21 (2.00%) Power BI
3 20 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.52%) Tableau
6 15 (1.43%) Big Data
7 14 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (2.95%) Git
1 31 (2.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (0.95%) JIRA
2 10 (0.95%) TeamCity
3 9 (0.86%) Selenium
4 8 (0.76%) GitLab
5 6 (0.57%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.57%) JMeter
5 6 (0.57%) LoadRunner
5 6 (0.57%) Postman
6 5 (0.48%) Appium
7 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.38%) Jaeger
7 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.29%) JUnit
8 3 (0.29%) Maven
8 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.19%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.19%) NeoLoad
General
1 811 (77.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 674 (64.07%) Analytical Skills
3 446 (42.40%) Finance
4 69 (6.56%) Social Skills
5 28 (2.66%) Retail
6 22 (2.09%) Banking
7 15 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.14%) Legal
8 12 (1.14%) Telecoms
9 10 (0.95%) Electronics
10 7 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
10 7 (0.67%) Marketing
11 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.57%) Automotive
11 6 (0.57%) Cantonese Language
12 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.38%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.29%) Games
14 3 (0.29%) Military
15 2 (0.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 411 (39.07%) Developer
2 381 (36.22%) Software Developer
3 251 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 249 (23.67%) Senior
5 207 (19.68%) Software Engineer
6 197 (18.73%) Senior Software Engineer
7 53 (5.04%) Lead
8 27 (2.57%) Data Engineer
9 22 (2.09%) Analyst
10 15 (1.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.33%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (1.24%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (1.14%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (1.14%) Data Scientist
14 10 (0.95%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (0.86%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (0.86%) Senior Developer
15 9 (0.86%) Team Leader
16 8 (0.76%) Architect
16 8 (0.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (24.52%) Elastic Stack
2 189 (17.97%) .NET
3 187 (17.78%) Node.js
4 25 (2.38%) React
5 22 (2.09%) Kafka
6 13 (1.24%) REST
6 13 (1.24%) Web Services
7 11 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 11 (1.05%) RESTful
7 11 (1.05%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.86%) ADO
8 9 (0.86%) Spring
8 9 (0.86%) TensorFlow
8 9 (0.86%) XML
9 8 (0.76%) Django
10 7 (0.67%) CSS
10 7 (0.67%) HTML
10 7 (0.67%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.57%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 801 (76.14%) Cyberattack
2 178 (16.92%) Linux Command Line
3 177 (16.83%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (1.24%) Algorithms
4 13 (1.24%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 9 (0.86%) Life Science
6 9 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 8 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.57%) Device Driver
8 6 (0.57%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.29%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.19%) Data Fabric
12 2 (0.19%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.19%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 853 (81.08%) Linux
2 629 (59.79%) Android
3 271 (25.76%) Windows
4 12 (1.14%) Unix
5 6 (0.57%) CentOS
6 3 (0.29%) Debian
6 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.19%) AIX
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (61.60%) Mathematics
2 634 (60.27%) Line Management
3 622 (59.13%) Agile
4 394 (37.45%) OO
5 381 (36.22%) OOP
6 379 (36.03%) Android Development
6 379 (36.03%) Design Patterns
7 318 (30.23%) DevOps
8 314 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (25.29%) Platform Engineering
10 254 (24.14%) Risk Management
11 253 (24.05%) Task Automation
12 250 (23.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 250 (23.76%) Storage Management
13 236 (22.43%) Software Engineering
14 211 (20.06%) Mentoring
15 203 (19.30%) Machine Learning
16 202 (19.20%) Microservices
17 192 (18.25%) Cloud Security
18 190 (18.06%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 620 (58.94%) Java
2 574 (54.56%) Go
3 572 (54.37%) C++
4 290 (27.57%) Bash
5 268 (25.48%) PowerShell
6 212 (20.15%) JavaScript
7 178 (16.92%) Rust
8 87 (8.27%) SQL
9 23 (2.19%) TypeScript
10 21 (2.00%) C#
11 17 (1.62%) PHP
12 13 (1.24%) Bicep
13 12 (1.14%) Ruby
14 11 (1.05%) C
15 9 (0.86%) R
16 5 (0.48%) Scala
17 4 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.29%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.29%) Perl
18 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 566 (53.80%) Security Cleared
2 553 (52.57%) DV Cleared
3 183 (17.40%) AWS Certification
4 178 (16.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (16.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 53 (5.04%) Degree
7 14 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.76%) PhD
10 7 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.67%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.19%) CISSP
13 1 (0.095%) CCIE
13 1 (0.095%) CCNP
13 1 (0.095%) CCSP
13 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.52%) QA
2 11 (1.05%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.05%) GDPR
3 7 (0.67%) NIST
4 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.19%) SLA
7 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 679 (64.54%) Docker
2 250 (23.76%) Hyper-V
2 250 (23.76%) VMware NSX
2 250 (23.76%) vSphere
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) KVM
3 2 (0.19%) Postfix
3 2 (0.19%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.095%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 655 (62.26%) Ansible
2 302 (28.71%) Terraform
3 47 (4.47%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.14%) Grafana
4 12 (1.14%) Puppet
5 10 (0.95%) Progress Chef
5 10 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.38%) Argo
6 4 (0.38%) Istio
6 4 (0.38%) SCCM
6 4 (0.38%) SCOM
6 4 (0.38%) SCOrch
7 3 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.29%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.19%) Kibana
8 2 (0.19%) Nagios
8 2 (0.19%) Nessus
9 1 (0.095%) cPanel
9 1 (0.095%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.095%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 254 (24.14%) Splunk
2 251 (23.86%) Cisco
2 251 (23.86%) Juniper
3 250 (23.76%) 3PAR
4 34 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 28 (2.66%) Google
6 21 (2.00%) Oracle
7 14 (1.33%) Databricks
8 9 (0.86%) Ping Identity
9 6 (0.57%) IBM
10 4 (0.38%) SAP
10 4 (0.38%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.29%) Hitachi
11 3 (0.29%) New Relic
11 3 (0.29%) Talend
12 2 (0.19%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.19%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.19%) Informatica
12 2 (0.19%) PagerDuty