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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 377 296 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.58% 7.56% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.39% 25.36% 19.81%
Number of salaries quoted 273 208 384
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,675 £36,120
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +14.04% -6.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,313 £72,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 1,036 1,167 2,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.57% 29.82% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 843 857 2,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £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 £74,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 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 16 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 -12 228 £62,469 -3.89% 131
Merseyside +12 72 £40,000 -27.27% 23
Lancashire +10 45 £47,500 -9.52% 63
Cheshire -31 18 £49,490 +2.45% 36
Cumbria -13 11 £85,000 +17.24% 1
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 (4.24%) WordPress
2 13 (3.45%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.86%) Apache
4 7 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.80%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) JBoss
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 95 (25.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 205 (54.38%) Azure
2 171 (45.36%) AWS
3 73 (19.36%) Power Platform
4 71 (18.83%) GitHub
5 58 (15.38%) Azure AI
6 51 (13.53%) GCP
7 21 (5.57%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (4.51%) Serverless
9 14 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.45%) dbt
11 10 (2.65%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.39%) SaaS
13 8 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.12%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.98%) Internet
2 12 (3.18%) Firewall
3 7 (1.86%) 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 (0.80%) HTTP
5 3 (0.80%) SAN
6 2 (0.53%) Network Security
6 2 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) LTE
7 1 (0.27%) SNMP
7 1 (0.27%) TCAP
7 1 (0.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (25.20%) Tableau
2 68 (18.04%) Power BI
3 37 (9.81%) Data Mining
4 24 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.31%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.71%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.92%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.65%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.12%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.86%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.86%) MySQL
12 6 (1.59%) Big Data
12 6 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 85 (22.55%) Git
2 16 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.18%) GitLab
3 12 (3.18%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.06%) Postman
5 4 (1.06%) Selenium
6 3 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.27%) JIRA
8 1 (0.27%) JMeter
8 1 (0.27%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.27%) Locust
8 1 (0.27%) MLflow
8 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 99 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 72 (19.10%) Finance
3 58 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (14.85%) Multimedia
5 21 (5.57%) Retail
6 18 (4.77%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.12%) Legal
9 7 (1.86%) Banking
10 6 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.33%) Marketing
11 5 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.06%) Advertising
12 4 (1.06%) Electronics
12 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.06%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.06%) Law
12 4 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 104 (27.59%) Trainee
2 97 (25.73%) Analyst
3 94 (24.93%) Data Analyst
4 57 (15.12%) Junior
4 57 (15.12%) Junior Analyst
4 57 (15.12%) Junior Data Analyst
5 53 (14.06%) Senior
6 51 (13.53%) Developer
7 36 (9.55%) Trainee Analyst
7 36 (9.55%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 34 (9.02%) Software Engineer
9 29 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 24 (6.37%) Data Engineer
10 24 (6.37%) Software Developer
11 22 (5.84%) Lead
11 22 (5.84%) Trainee Developer
12 21 (5.57%) Trainee Software Developer
13 16 (4.24%) Administrator
13 16 (4.24%) Trainee Administrator
13 16 (4.24%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.98%) HTML
2 63 (16.71%) CSS
3 26 (6.90%) React
4 22 (5.84%) .NET
4 22 (5.84%) Node.js
5 15 (3.98%) Django
5 15 (3.98%) scikit-learn
6 14 (3.71%) Pandas
7 13 (3.45%) Hugging Face
8 12 (3.18%) Matplotlib
8 12 (3.18%) NumPy
8 12 (3.18%) Streamlit
9 11 (2.92%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.92%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.65%) Flask
10 10 (2.65%) PyTorch
10 10 (2.65%) REST
11 9 (2.39%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.12%) RESTful
13 7 (1.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.31%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.39%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.39%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.86%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.33%) PACS
7 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.06%) PKI
8 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.37%) Linux
2 6 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.59%) Windows
3 5 (1.33%) CentOS
4 4 (1.06%) Debian
4 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.06%) Unix
4 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.80%) Android
5 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.27%) Solaris
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (32.89%) AI
2 75 (19.89%) Analytics
3 73 (19.36%) Business Intelligence
4 69 (18.30%) Mentoring
5 57 (15.12%) CI/CD
6 53 (14.06%) Agile
6 53 (14.06%) Software Engineering
7 50 (13.26%) Cybersecurity
8 49 (13.00%) Machine Learning
9 48 (12.73%) Data Analysis
9 48 (12.73%) Data Analytics
10 47 (12.47%) DevOps
11 45 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (11.14%) Project Management
14 36 (9.55%) Business Analysis
15 32 (8.49%) Data Science
16 31 (8.22%) Containerisation
17 25 (6.63%) Visualisation
18 23 (6.10%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 157 (41.64%) SQL
2 90 (23.87%) JavaScript
3 47 (12.47%) Java
4 39 (10.34%) R
5 20 (5.31%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.51%) Go
7 15 (3.98%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.18%) C
9 11 (2.92%) Bash
10 6 (1.59%) Bicep
10 6 (1.59%) C#
10 6 (1.59%) PHP
11 5 (1.33%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (0.53%) C++
12 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 2 (0.53%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 123 (32.63%) Azure Certification
2 73 (19.36%) AWS Certification
3 68 (18.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 59 (15.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (7.16%) Degree
6 26 (6.90%) Security Cleared
7 16 (4.24%) SC Cleared
8 13 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.80%) PhD
13 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.27%) LPIC
14 1 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.12%) QA
3 5 (1.33%) DICOM
4 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) FINRA
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (8.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) KVM
4 1 (0.27%) QEMU
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (14.32%) Terraform
2 39 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.16%) Ansible
4 6 (1.59%) Grafana
5 4 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.06%) Puppet
6 3 (0.80%) 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 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.27%) Podman
8 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 181 (48.01%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.57%) Google
3 8 (2.12%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.86%) Oracle
5 6 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.59%) Databricks
6 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.33%) VMware
7 4 (1.06%) Arista
7 4 (1.06%) Aruba
7 4 (1.06%) NetScout
8 3 (0.80%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.80%) Splunk
9 2 (0.53%) Aderant
9 2 (0.53%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.53%) New Relic
9 2 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.27%) UiPath