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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 259 391 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.20% 7.52% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.80% 26.12% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 206 197 244
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,713 £44,135
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 841 1,497 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.64% 28.79% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 701 851 1,171
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,750 £68,431 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 30 December 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 30 December 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
Manchester -13 158 £60,000 - 531
Merseyside +10 53 £40,000 -38.46% 134
Cheshire -24 19 £48,979 -2.04% 254
Lancashire -15 18 £60,000 -4.00% 157
Cumbria -10 8 £85,000 +41.67% 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 8 (3.09%) WordPress
2 7 (2.70%) Apache
2 7 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.70%) CMS
3 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.16%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.77%) JBoss
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (19.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.39%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 136 (52.51%) Azure
2 124 (47.88%) AWS
3 55 (21.24%) GitHub
4 44 (16.99%) Power Platform
5 35 (13.51%) GCP
6 21 (8.11%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 11 (4.25%) Serverless
9 8 (3.09%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.70%) SaaS
11 6 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.93%) dbt
13 4 (1.54%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (1.54%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.08%) Internet
2 3 (1.16%) AMQP
2 3 (1.16%) DNS
2 3 (1.16%) Firewall
2 3 (1.16%) HTTP
2 3 (1.16%) SSL
2 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.77%) DHCP
3 2 (0.77%) SAN
4 1 (0.39%) Network Security
4 1 (0.39%) SSH
4 1 (0.39%) TCAP
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (20.08%) Tableau
2 42 (16.22%) Power BI
3 24 (9.27%) Data Mining
4 18 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (6.95%) MongoDB
5 17 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (6.18%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.18%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.47%) Big Data
8 9 (3.47%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.47%) Hadoop
8 9 (3.47%) MySQL
9 8 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.70%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.32%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.93%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.54%) Looker
14 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 65 (25.10%) Git
2 19 (7.34%) GitLab
3 12 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.93%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.93%) Postman
5 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.77%) JIRA
6 2 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.77%) Selenium
6 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Ant
7 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) JMeter
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.46%) Finance
3 48 (18.53%) Multimedia
4 41 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.79%) Retail
6 14 (5.41%) Marketing
7 12 (4.63%) Banking
8 9 (3.47%) Law
8 9 (3.47%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.70%) Legal
10 6 (2.32%) Advertising
10 6 (2.32%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.16%) Electronics
13 3 (1.16%) Games
13 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (27.41%) Trainee
2 58 (22.39%) Analyst
3 54 (20.85%) Developer
4 52 (20.08%) Data Analyst
5 46 (17.76%) Senior
6 30 (11.58%) Data Engineer
7 25 (9.65%) Software Developer
8 23 (8.88%) Trainee Analyst
8 23 (8.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 21 (8.11%) Trainee Developer
9 21 (8.11%) Trainee Software Developer
10 20 (7.72%) Junior
10 20 (7.72%) Junior Analyst
10 20 (7.72%) Junior Data Analyst
10 20 (7.72%) Software Engineer
11 17 (6.56%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (6.18%) Lead
13 14 (5.41%) Python Engineer
14 11 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.46%) CSS
2 51 (19.69%) HTML
3 20 (7.72%) React
4 17 (6.56%) Node.js
5 11 (4.25%) .NET
5 11 (4.25%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.25%) Django
6 10 (3.86%) REST
7 8 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.09%) RESTful
8 7 (2.70%) Flask
8 7 (2.70%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.32%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.32%) JSON
9 6 (2.32%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.32%) Vue
10 5 (1.93%) Middleware
10 5 (1.93%) Spring
10 5 (1.93%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.54%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.47%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.32%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.16%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.42%) Linux
2 11 (4.25%) Windows
3 7 (2.70%) Debian
3 7 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.16%) CentOS
5 3 (1.16%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.71%) AI
2 56 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 54 (20.85%) Mentoring
4 49 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (17.76%) Analytics
5 46 (17.76%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (15.83%) DevOps
7 40 (15.44%) Agile
8 38 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (13.90%) Containerisation
10 35 (13.51%) Software Engineering
11 33 (12.74%) Machine Learning
12 32 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (11.58%) Data Analysis
13 30 (11.58%) Data Science
14 29 (11.20%) Data Analytics
14 29 (11.20%) Project Management
15 28 (10.81%) Data Modelling
16 23 (8.88%) Business Analysis
17 20 (7.72%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 122 (47.10%) SQL
2 72 (27.80%) JavaScript
3 33 (12.74%) R
4 31 (11.97%) Java
5 14 (5.41%) Bash
6 12 (4.63%) Go
6 12 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.86%) C#
8 9 (3.47%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.09%) C
10 7 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
10 7 (2.70%) PHP
11 5 (1.93%) Bicep
12 4 (1.54%) Scala
13 3 (1.16%) C++
13 3 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.77%) VBA
15 1 (0.39%) Groovy
15 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (28.96%) Azure Certification
2 51 (19.69%) AWS Certification
3 50 (19.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 48 (18.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 22 (8.49%) Security Cleared
6 19 (7.34%) Degree
7 16 (6.18%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.93%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.16%) PhD
12 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.39%) CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.39%) CISSP
13 1 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.54%) QA
3 3 (1.16%) GDPR
3 3 (1.16%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.16%) NIST
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) FINRA
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (15.06%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) KVM
2 3 (1.16%) QEMU
2 3 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.58%) Terraform
3 23 (8.88%) Ansible
4 10 (3.86%) Grafana
5 6 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.77%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.77%) Podman
7 2 (0.77%) Rancher
8 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.39%) Nagios
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (41.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.79%) Google
3 11 (4.25%) Oracle
4 9 (3.47%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.32%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.32%) Splunk
6 5 (1.93%) Databricks
6 5 (1.93%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.54%) VMware
8 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.77%) Aderant
9 2 (0.77%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.77%) SAP
10 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.39%) F5
10 1 (0.39%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.39%) YouTube