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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 10 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 484 629 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.73% 15.12% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.67% 44.48% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 300 199 374
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,336
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £56,504
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.04% -9.59%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 1,285 1,414 2,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.55% 33.98% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 835 2,372
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £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 £74,072 £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 27 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 27 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 -10 303 £65,000 -3.70% 157
Merseyside +3 80 £40,000 -27.27% 21
Lancashire -18 75 £47,500 -9.52% 64
Cheshire -56 14 £52,500 -4.55% 32
Cumbria -17 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 14 (2.89%) WordPress
2 13 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.69%) Jupyter
3 7 (1.45%) Apache
3 7 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.83%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) JBoss
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) nginx
5 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
Applications
1 117 (24.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 267 (55.17%) Azure
2 180 (37.19%) AWS
3 110 (22.73%) Azure AI
4 103 (21.28%) Power Platform
5 65 (13.43%) GitHub
6 55 (11.36%) GCP
7 33 (6.82%) Serverless
8 19 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.10%) SaaS
12 14 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.48%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.27%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.27%) dbt
16 10 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.07%) Datadog
16 10 (2.07%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.95%) Internet
2 16 (3.31%) Firewall
3 8 (1.65%) DNS
4 5 (1.03%) DHCP
4 5 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.03%) VPN
5 4 (0.83%) AMQP
5 4 (0.83%) NGFW
5 4 (0.83%) SAN
5 4 (0.83%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.83%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.62%) HTTP
6 3 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.41%) SSL
8 1 (0.21%) LAN
8 1 (0.21%) LTE
8 1 (0.21%) SNMP
8 1 (0.21%) TCAP
8 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (24.17%) Tableau
2 98 (20.25%) Power BI
3 33 (6.82%) Data Mining
4 23 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.34%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.69%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.27%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.07%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.45%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.24%) Big Data
12 6 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 72 (14.88%) Git
2 18 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (1.45%) GitLab
5 6 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.83%) JIRA
6 4 (0.83%) Selenium
7 3 (0.62%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.21%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) MLflow
9 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 168 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.15%) Finance
3 67 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.68%) Multimedia
5 27 (5.58%) Retail
6 21 (4.34%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.07%) Law
10 9 (1.86%) Legal
11 7 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.45%) Banking
12 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.24%) Police
13 4 (0.83%) Advertising
13 4 (0.83%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.83%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.83%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.62%) Electronics
14 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (25.62%) Analyst
2 118 (24.38%) Data Analyst
3 85 (17.56%) Junior
3 85 (17.56%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (17.56%) Junior Data Analyst
4 84 (17.36%) Trainee
5 77 (15.91%) Senior
6 52 (10.74%) Developer
7 46 (9.50%) Software Engineer
8 40 (8.26%) Python Engineer
9 39 (8.06%) Data Engineer
10 38 (7.85%) Lead
11 30 (6.20%) Trainee Analyst
11 30 (6.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 26 (5.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 16 (3.31%) Trainee Developer
16 15 (3.10%) Programmer
16 15 (3.10%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.95%) HTML
2 50 (10.33%) CSS
3 32 (6.61%) .NET
4 27 (5.58%) React
5 22 (4.55%) Node.js
6 21 (4.34%) Pandas
7 17 (3.51%) NumPy
7 17 (3.51%) scikit-learn
8 13 (2.69%) Hugging Face
8 13 (2.69%) Kafka
9 12 (2.48%) Matplotlib
9 12 (2.48%) Streamlit
10 11 (2.27%) Django
11 10 (2.07%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.07%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.07%) PySpark
11 10 (2.07%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.86%) Flask
12 9 (1.86%) REST
13 7 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.37%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 11 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.24%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.24%) PACS
8 6 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (0.83%) Cybercrime
9 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.83%) PKI
10 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.96%) Linux
2 10 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.86%) Windows
4 5 (1.03%) CentOS
4 5 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.83%) Debian
5 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.83%) Unix
6 3 (0.62%) Android
6 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.62%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (40.50%) AI
2 100 (20.66%) Business Intelligence
3 86 (17.77%) Analytics
4 69 (14.26%) DevOps
5 68 (14.05%) Software Engineering
6 66 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 65 (13.43%) Agile
8 64 (13.22%) CI/CD
9 63 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
11 49 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (9.92%) Machine Learning
13 42 (8.68%) Data Analytics
14 41 (8.47%) Data Analysis
14 41 (8.47%) Project Management
15 37 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 37 (7.64%) Containerisation
15 37 (7.64%) Data Science
16 30 (6.20%) Business Analysis
16 30 (6.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 200 (41.32%) SQL
2 85 (17.56%) JavaScript
3 58 (11.98%) Java
4 29 (5.99%) PowerShell
4 29 (5.99%) R
5 27 (5.58%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.13%) Bash
7 18 (3.72%) Go
8 16 (3.31%) C
9 12 (2.48%) C#
10 11 (2.27%) C++
11 10 (2.07%) Bicep
12 4 (0.83%) PHP
12 4 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
13 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.41%) Scala
15 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (33.88%) Azure Certification
2 59 (12.19%) AWS Certification
3 54 (11.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 46 (9.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (6.40%) Security Cleared
6 29 (5.99%) Degree
7 20 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 17 (3.51%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.83%) PhD
11 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) LPIC
12 1 (0.21%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.07%) QA
3 6 (1.24%) DICOM
4 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.21%) FINRA
4 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (8.06%) Docker
2 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 69 (14.26%) Terraform
2 47 (9.71%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.99%) Ansible
4 8 (1.65%) Grafana
4 8 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.83%) Puppet
6 3 (0.62%) Podman
6 3 (0.62%) Rancher
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 208 (42.98%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.34%) Google
3 12 (2.48%) Red Hat
4 10 (2.07%) Databricks
5 9 (1.86%) VMware
6 5 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.03%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.83%) Arista
7 4 (0.83%) Aruba
7 4 (0.83%) NetScout
7 4 (0.83%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.62%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.62%) Mirantis
8 3 (0.62%) Oracle
9 2 (0.41%) Aderant
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco
9 2 (0.41%) New Relic
9 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.41%) Splunk