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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 422 260 543
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.74% 7.23% 6.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.38% 24.55% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 288 204 376
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,150 £36,120
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £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 £82,813 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £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 1,129 1,059 2,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.68% 29.43% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 902 845 2,297
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £34,750
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 2 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 2 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 -10 257 £65,000 -3.70% 144
Merseyside +20 75 £40,000 -27.27% 23
Lancashire +14 57 £47,500 -9.52% 61
Cheshire -32 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 (3.79%) WordPress
2 13 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 11 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.66%) Apache
4 7 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.95%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.47%) Confluence
7 2 (0.47%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 104 (24.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 237 (56.16%) Azure
2 184 (43.60%) AWS
3 85 (20.14%) Power Platform
4 78 (18.48%) Azure AI
5 69 (16.35%) GitHub
6 58 (13.74%) GCP
7 23 (5.45%) Serverless
8 20 (4.74%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.08%) dbt
11 10 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.37%) SaaS
12 9 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.66%) Datadog
14 7 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.22%) Internet
2 13 (3.08%) Firewall
3 7 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.18%) DNS
5 4 (0.95%) AMQP
5 4 (0.95%) NGFW
5 4 (0.95%) VPN
5 4 (0.95%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.95%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.71%) HTTP
6 3 (0.71%) SAN
7 2 (0.47%) DHCP
7 2 (0.47%) Network Security
7 2 (0.47%) 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 (25.12%) Tableau
2 80 (18.96%) Power BI
3 37 (8.77%) Data Mining
4 25 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.98%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.61%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.66%) MySQL
9 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.42%) Big Data
10 6 (1.42%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 81 (19.19%) Git
2 18 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (2.13%) GitLab
5 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.95%) JIRA
6 4 (0.95%) Selenium
7 3 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.71%) Postman
8 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.47%) 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
1 130 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.19%) Finance
3 64 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.32%) Multimedia
5 24 (5.69%) Retail
6 20 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.90%) Banking
9 8 (1.90%) Legal
10 7 (1.66%) Law
11 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.18%) Marketing
12 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.95%) Electronics
13 4 (0.95%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.95%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.71%) Advertising
14 3 (0.71%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 107 (25.36%) Analyst
2 103 (24.41%) Data Analyst
3 98 (23.22%) Trainee
4 69 (16.35%) Junior
4 69 (16.35%) Junior Analyst
4 69 (16.35%) Junior Data Analyst
5 62 (14.69%) Senior
6 51 (12.09%) Developer
7 39 (9.24%) Software Engineer
8 34 (8.06%) Trainee Analyst
8 34 (8.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 30 (7.11%) Lead
9 30 (7.11%) Python Engineer
10 26 (6.16%) Data Engineer
11 22 (5.21%) Software Developer
12 20 (4.74%) Trainee Developer
13 19 (4.50%) Trainee Software Developer
14 16 (3.79%) Administrator
14 16 (3.79%) Trainee Administrator
14 16 (3.79%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (14.69%) HTML
2 60 (14.22%) CSS
3 29 (6.87%) .NET
4 28 (6.64%) React
5 24 (5.69%) Node.js
6 17 (4.03%) Pandas
6 17 (4.03%) scikit-learn
7 16 (3.79%) Django
8 14 (3.32%) NumPy
9 13 (3.08%) Hugging Face
10 12 (2.84%) FastAPI
10 12 (2.84%) Matplotlib
10 12 (2.84%) PyTorch
10 12 (2.84%) Streamlit
11 10 (2.37%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.37%) Flask
12 9 (2.13%) PySpark
12 9 (2.13%) REST
12 9 (2.13%) TensorFlow
13 8 (1.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.90%) Low-Code
4 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.42%) PACS
7 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.95%) PKI
9 3 (0.71%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.47%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.92%) Linux
2 7 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.66%) Windows
3 5 (1.18%) CentOS
3 5 (1.18%) Unix
3 5 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.95%) Debian
4 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.71%) Android
5 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.47%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (36.02%) AI
2 84 (19.91%) Business Intelligence
3 81 (19.19%) Analytics
4 68 (16.11%) Mentoring
5 61 (14.45%) Agile
6 60 (14.22%) CI/CD
7 58 (13.74%) Software Engineering
8 57 (13.51%) DevOps
9 54 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (11.85%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (11.85%) Machine Learning
11 46 (10.90%) Data Analytics
11 46 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (10.66%) Data Analysis
13 41 (9.72%) Project Management
14 34 (8.06%) Business Analysis
14 34 (8.06%) Containerisation
14 34 (8.06%) Data Science
15 26 (6.16%) Computer Science
15 26 (6.16%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 173 (41.00%) SQL
2 90 (21.33%) JavaScript
3 52 (12.32%) Java
4 36 (8.53%) R
5 24 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.98%) PowerShell
7 18 (4.27%) Go
8 14 (3.32%) C
9 13 (3.08%) Bash
10 11 (2.61%) C#
11 7 (1.66%) Bicep
12 6 (1.42%) C++
13 5 (1.18%) PHP
14 3 (0.71%) ANSI SQL
14 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.47%) Scala
15 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) VBA
16 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (33.18%) Azure Certification
2 69 (16.35%) AWS Certification
3 64 (15.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 56 (13.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (7.11%) Security Cleared
6 29 (6.87%) Degree
7 19 (4.50%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.32%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.95%) PhD
11 4 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.24%) LPIC
13 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.37%) QA
3 6 (1.42%) DICOM
4 2 (0.47%) 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 37 (8.77%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.71%) 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 62 (14.69%) Terraform
2 44 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.64%) Ansible
4 6 (1.42%) Grafana
5 5 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.95%) Puppet
7 3 (0.71%) Rancher
8 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.47%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.47%) Nagios
8 2 (0.47%) Podman
8 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.24%) Istio
9 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 196 (46.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.98%) Google
3 9 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 8 (1.90%) Databricks
5 7 (1.66%) VMware
6 6 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.18%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.95%) Arista
8 4 (0.95%) Aruba
8 4 (0.95%) NetScout
8 4 (0.95%) Oracle
9 3 (0.71%) Splunk
10 2 (0.47%) Aderant
10 2 (0.47%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.47%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.47%) Mirantis
10 2 (0.47%) New Relic
10 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.47%) SAP