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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 277 382 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.24% 7.58% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.30% 26.96% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 217 194 270
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,910 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,482 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +11.79% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,600 £84,056
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 885 1,417 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.56% 28.12% 35.44%
Number of salaries quoted 737 818 1,455
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 20 January 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 January 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 -12 169 £60,709 -2.87% 137
Merseyside +5 55 £40,000 -27.27% 31
Lancashire -11 20 £48,445 -22.49% 65
Cheshire -23 19 £48,979 -2.04% 49
Cumbria 0 11 £85,000 +21.43% 3
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 9 (3.25%) Apache
1 9 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.89%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.89%) WordPress
3 6 (2.17%) CMS
4 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.72%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (19.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.36%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 143 (51.62%) Azure
2 132 (47.65%) AWS
3 62 (22.38%) GitHub
4 47 (16.97%) Power Platform
5 41 (14.80%) GCP
6 25 (9.03%) Azure AI
7 15 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (5.05%) Snowflake
9 13 (4.69%) Serverless
10 10 (3.61%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.53%) SaaS
13 5 (1.81%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.81%) dbt
13 5 (1.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.44%) Datadog
14 4 (1.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 57 (20.58%) Internet
2 7 (2.53%) Firewall
3 4 (1.44%) AMQP
3 4 (1.44%) DNS
3 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.08%) DHCP
4 3 (1.08%) HTTP
4 3 (1.08%) SAN
4 3 (1.08%) SSL
4 3 (1.08%) VPN
5 2 (0.72%) Network Security
5 2 (0.72%) NGFW
5 2 (0.72%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.72%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) SSH
6 1 (0.36%) TCAP
6 1 (0.36%) VSAN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.13%) Tableau
2 44 (15.88%) Power BI
3 25 (9.03%) Data Mining
4 23 (8.30%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.78%) NoSQL
7 14 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.61%) Big Data
9 10 (3.61%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.61%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.89%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.53%) MySQL
12 6 (2.17%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.81%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (1.44%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (27.08%) Git
2 19 (6.86%) GitLab
3 16 (5.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.17%) Postman
5 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.44%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.08%) Selenium
7 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.72%) JIRA
7 2 (0.72%) Maven
7 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Ant
8 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) JUnit
8 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
8 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.77%) Finance
3 50 (18.05%) Multimedia
4 44 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.33%) Banking
6 11 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.61%) Marketing
7 10 (3.61%) Retail
8 9 (3.25%) Legal
9 8 (2.89%) Law
10 7 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.17%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.81%) Advertising
12 5 (1.81%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.08%) Electronics
13 3 (1.08%) Games
13 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (26.71%) Trainee
2 58 (20.94%) Analyst
3 55 (19.86%) Developer
4 53 (19.13%) Data Analyst
5 41 (14.80%) Senior
6 25 (9.03%) Software Engineer
7 24 (8.66%) Data Engineer
7 24 (8.66%) Junior
7 24 (8.66%) Junior Analyst
7 24 (8.66%) Junior Data Analyst
7 24 (8.66%) Software Developer
7 24 (8.66%) Trainee Analyst
7 24 (8.66%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 22 (7.94%) Trainee Developer
8 22 (7.94%) Trainee Software Developer
9 20 (7.22%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.42%) Lead
11 9 (3.25%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.25%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (20.22%) CSS
2 54 (19.49%) HTML
3 22 (7.94%) React
4 18 (6.50%) Node.js
5 15 (5.42%) .NET
6 13 (4.69%) Django
6 13 (4.69%) REST
7 12 (4.33%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.61%) Flask
9 8 (2.89%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.89%) RESTful
10 7 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.53%) JSON
10 7 (2.53%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.53%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.53%) Vue
11 6 (2.17%) Spring
11 6 (2.17%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.81%) Celery
12 5 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.97%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.53%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.44%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.72%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.19%) Linux
2 11 (3.97%) Windows
3 7 (2.53%) Debian
3 7 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.81%) CentOS
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (25.63%) AI
2 58 (20.94%) Mentoring
3 52 (18.77%) CI/CD
4 50 (18.05%) Analytics
5 49 (17.69%) Business Intelligence
6 48 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (15.52%) DevOps
9 42 (15.16%) Agile
9 42 (15.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (14.44%) Software Engineering
11 36 (13.00%) Data Analysis
12 35 (12.64%) Machine Learning
13 34 (12.27%) Data Analytics
13 34 (12.27%) Data Science
14 33 (11.91%) Containerisation
15 30 (10.83%) Project Management
16 24 (8.66%) Business Analysis
17 23 (8.30%) Data Modelling
18 19 (6.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.24%) SQL
2 76 (27.44%) JavaScript
3 34 (12.27%) R
4 31 (11.19%) Java
5 17 (6.14%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.42%) Go
7 14 (5.05%) Bash
8 12 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.97%) C
10 7 (2.53%) ANSI SQL
10 7 (2.53%) C#
10 7 (2.53%) PHP
11 6 (2.17%) Bicep
12 4 (1.44%) Scala
13 2 (0.72%) C++
13 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.72%) Groovy
13 2 (0.72%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.72%) VBA
14 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (28.88%) Azure Certification
2 53 (19.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (18.41%) AWS Certification
4 50 (18.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 24 (8.66%) Security Cleared
6 22 (7.94%) Degree
7 18 (6.50%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.97%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.08%) PhD
11 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.36%) CCSP
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
12 1 (0.36%) HNC
12 1 (0.36%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.81%) QA
3 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) DICOM
4 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.36%) FINRA
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (12.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.08%) KVM
2 3 (1.08%) QEMU
2 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) HDFS
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 41 (14.80%) Terraform
3 29 (10.47%) Ansible
4 9 (3.25%) Grafana
5 5 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.81%) Puppet
6 3 (1.08%) Rancher
7 2 (0.72%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.72%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.36%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.36%) Nagios
8 1 (0.36%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (42.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.14%) Google
3 11 (3.97%) Oracle
4 9 (3.25%) HubSpot
5 7 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.53%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.81%) Splunk
7 5 (1.81%) VMware
8 4 (1.44%) Databricks
9 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.72%) Aderant
10 2 (0.72%) Arista
10 2 (0.72%) Aruba
10 2 (0.72%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.72%) NetScout
10 2 (0.72%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) Mirantis
11 1 (0.36%) UiPath
11 1 (0.36%) YouTube