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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 379 288 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.53% 7.52% 6.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.37% 25.51% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 271 204 382
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,120
25th Percentile £35,000 £49,717 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £56,754
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +14.53% -7.23%
75th Percentile £77,906 £81,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 1,042 1,129 2,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.47% 29.47% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 844 843 2,242
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,200 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £74,625 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -11 234 £62,573 -3.73% 140
Merseyside +16 67 £38,750 -29.55% 27
Lancashire +12 46 £47,500 -9.52% 61
Cheshire -28 19 £50,000 +3.51% 32
Cumbria -17 10 £85,000 +17.24% 2
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 (4.22%) WordPress
2 13 (3.43%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.85%) Apache
4 7 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.06%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 92 (24.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 205 (54.09%) Azure
2 171 (45.12%) AWS
3 74 (19.53%) Power Platform
4 67 (17.68%) GitHub
5 58 (15.30%) Azure AI
6 51 (13.46%) GCP
7 21 (5.54%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (5.01%) Serverless
9 14 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.43%) dbt
11 9 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.37%) SaaS
11 9 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.11%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (15.83%) Internet
2 12 (3.17%) Firewall
3 7 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.06%) AMQP
4 4 (1.06%) DNS
4 4 (1.06%) NGFW
4 4 (1.06%) VPN
4 4 (1.06%) VXLAN
4 4 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.06%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.79%) HTTP
5 3 (0.79%) SAN
6 2 (0.53%) Network Security
6 2 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) LTE
7 1 (0.26%) SNMP
7 1 (0.26%) TCAP
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (24.54%) Tableau
2 69 (18.21%) Power BI
3 36 (9.50%) Data Mining
4 24 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.28%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.43%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.37%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.85%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.85%) MySQL
12 6 (1.58%) Big Data
12 6 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.58%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.32%) GIS
14 4 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (1.06%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 82 (21.64%) Git
2 17 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.17%) GitLab
3 12 (3.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (1.58%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.06%) Selenium
6 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.79%) Postman
7 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.53%) JIRA
7 2 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.26%) Locust
8 1 (0.26%) MLflow
8 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
General
1 102 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.79%) Finance
3 60 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (13.72%) Multimedia
5 21 (5.54%) Retail
6 20 (5.28%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.96%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.11%) Banking
8 8 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.11%) Legal
9 6 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.32%) Marketing
10 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.06%) Advertising
11 4 (1.06%) Electronics
11 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.06%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.06%) Law
11 4 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 98 (25.86%) Trainee
2 94 (24.80%) Analyst
3 91 (24.01%) Data Analyst
4 57 (15.04%) Junior
4 57 (15.04%) Junior Analyst
4 57 (15.04%) Junior Data Analyst
5 52 (13.72%) Senior
6 50 (13.19%) Developer
7 38 (10.03%) Software Engineer
8 34 (8.97%) Trainee Analyst
8 34 (8.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 29 (7.65%) Python Engineer
10 24 (6.33%) Data Engineer
10 24 (6.33%) Lead
11 23 (6.07%) Software Developer
12 20 (5.28%) Trainee Developer
13 19 (5.01%) Trainee Software Developer
14 16 (4.22%) Administrator
14 16 (4.22%) Trainee Administrator
14 16 (4.22%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.09%) HTML
2 60 (15.83%) CSS
3 27 (7.12%) .NET
4 26 (6.86%) React
5 24 (6.33%) Node.js
6 16 (4.22%) scikit-learn
7 15 (3.96%) Django
7 15 (3.96%) Pandas
8 13 (3.43%) Hugging Face
8 13 (3.43%) NumPy
9 12 (3.17%) Matplotlib
9 12 (3.17%) Streamlit
10 11 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.90%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.64%) Flask
11 10 (2.64%) PyTorch
11 10 (2.64%) REST
12 9 (2.37%) TensorFlow
13 8 (2.11%) RESTful
14 7 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.01%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.37%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.32%) PACS
7 4 (1.06%) PKI
8 2 (0.53%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.53%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.60%) Linux
2 7 (1.85%) Windows
3 6 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.32%) CentOS
5 4 (1.06%) Debian
5 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.06%) Unix
5 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.79%) Android
6 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (32.98%) AI
2 75 (19.79%) Analytics
3 74 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
4 67 (17.68%) Mentoring
5 59 (15.57%) Agile
6 58 (15.30%) CI/CD
7 57 (15.04%) Software Engineering
8 50 (13.19%) Machine Learning
9 49 (12.93%) DevOps
10 46 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
10 46 (12.14%) Data Analytics
11 45 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (11.61%) Data Analysis
12 44 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (10.82%) Project Management
14 34 (8.97%) Business Analysis
14 34 (8.97%) Data Science
15 31 (8.18%) Containerisation
16 26 (6.86%) Visualisation
17 24 (6.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 158 (41.69%) SQL
2 88 (23.22%) JavaScript
3 51 (13.46%) Java
4 37 (9.76%) R
5 20 (5.28%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.49%) Go
7 15 (3.96%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.69%) C
9 11 (2.90%) Bash
10 9 (2.37%) C#
11 7 (1.85%) PHP
12 6 (1.58%) Bicep
13 5 (1.32%) ANSI SQL
13 5 (1.32%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.53%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (31.40%) Azure Certification
2 69 (18.21%) AWS Certification
3 64 (16.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 55 (14.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (7.12%) Degree
6 26 (6.86%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.96%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.69%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.32%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.53%) PhD
13 1 (0.26%) LPIC
13 1 (0.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.37%) QA
3 5 (1.32%) DICOM
4 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.26%) FINRA
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (8.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) KVM
4 1 (0.26%) QEMU
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (14.51%) Terraform
2 39 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.12%) Ansible
4 6 (1.58%) Grafana
5 4 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.06%) Puppet
6 3 (0.79%) Rancher
7 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.53%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.53%) Nagios
7 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.26%) Podman
8 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 177 (46.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.28%) Google
3 8 (2.11%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.85%) Databricks
4 7 (1.85%) Oracle
5 6 (1.58%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.32%) VMware
7 4 (1.06%) Arista
7 4 (1.06%) Aruba
7 4 (1.06%) NetScout
8 3 (0.79%) Splunk
9 2 (0.53%) Aderant
9 2 (0.53%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.53%) New Relic
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.26%) McAfee
10 1 (0.26%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.26%) UiPath