Python Jobs in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 26 11
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,056 647 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.56% 5.78% 13.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.73% 20.19% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 177 404 420
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +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 2,260 3,205 2,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.02% 28.65% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 2,482 1,670
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,525 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the North West.

Salary trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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
Lancashire +55 554 £51,250 -28.07% 190
Manchester +12 338 £67,500 +17.39% 495
Cheshire +28 114 £52,500 -4.55% 50
Merseyside +2 40 £52,500 -38.24% 64
Cumbria -68 9 £72,500 +31.82% 30
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (1.04%) Apache Spark
1 11 (1.04%) SAS
2 6 (0.57%) Apache
3 4 (0.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.28%) Confluence
4 3 (0.28%) WordPress
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.095%) IIS
6 1 (0.095%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.095%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.095%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.095%) Magento
1 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 286 (27.08%) AWS
2 274 (25.95%) Azure
3 220 (20.83%) GCP
4 25 (2.37%) Power Platform
5 21 (1.99%) Serverless
6 17 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (1.33%) GitHub
8 12 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (0.66%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (0.57%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (0.57%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.57%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.47%) dbt
13 5 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 634 (60.04%) VPN
2 389 (36.84%) DNS
3 250 (23.67%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.76%) Broadband
6 6 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.57%) WAN
7 4 (0.38%) Firewall
7 4 (0.38%) Internet
8 2 (0.19%) Network Security
8 2 (0.19%) Wireless
9 1 (0.095%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.095%) HTTP
9 1 (0.095%) SSH
9 1 (0.095%) SSL
9 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.46%) NoSQL
2 24 (2.27%) Power BI
3 22 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.80%) MySQL
5 16 (1.52%) Big Data
6 14 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.23%) Tableau
8 10 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.57%) GIS
11 6 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.57%) Redis
12 5 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.47%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (2.37%) Jenkins
2 23 (2.18%) Git
3 11 (1.04%) JIRA
4 10 (0.95%) GitLab
5 7 (0.66%) Selenium
6 6 (0.57%) JMeter
6 6 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.47%) Postman
7 5 (0.47%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.38%) Appium
8 4 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.38%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.28%) JUnit
9 3 (0.28%) Maven
9 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 812 (76.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 667 (63.16%) Analytical Skills
3 449 (42.52%) Finance
4 66 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 26 (2.46%) Retail
6 20 (1.89%) Banking
7 14 (1.33%) Legal
7 14 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 10 (0.95%) Marketing
8 10 (0.95%) Telecoms
9 8 (0.76%) Electronics
10 6 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (0.57%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.47%) Cantonese Language
11 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.38%) Automotive
13 3 (0.28%) Advertising
13 3 (0.28%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.19%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 415 (39.30%) Developer
2 380 (35.98%) Software Developer
3 252 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 249 (23.58%) Senior
5 200 (18.94%) Software Engineer
6 190 (17.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 42 (3.98%) Lead
8 26 (2.46%) Data Engineer
9 18 (1.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.61%) Analyst
11 16 (1.52%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (1.42%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (1.23%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (1.23%) Data Scientist
13 13 (1.23%) Senior Developer
14 11 (1.04%) Architect
15 10 (0.95%) AWS DevOps
15 10 (0.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (0.95%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.85%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (24.53%) Elastic Stack
2 189 (17.90%) .NET
3 188 (17.80%) Node.js
4 22 (2.08%) React
5 17 (1.61%) Kafka
6 13 (1.23%) TensorFlow
7 11 (1.04%) REST
7 11 (1.04%) scikit-learn
8 10 (0.95%) HTML
8 10 (0.95%) Spring Boot
8 10 (0.95%) Web Services
9 9 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.85%) PyTorch
9 9 (0.85%) RESTful
9 9 (0.85%) Spring
10 7 (0.66%) Django
10 7 (0.66%) Pandas
11 6 (0.57%) CSS
11 6 (0.57%) Keras
12 5 (0.47%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 802 (75.95%) Cyberattack
2 178 (16.86%) Linux Command Line
3 176 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 10 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 9 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 7 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.38%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.28%) Life Science
12 3 (0.28%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.19%) Device Driver
13 2 (0.19%) Industry 4.0
13 2 (0.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 845 (80.02%) Linux
2 629 (59.56%) Android
3 269 (25.47%) Windows
4 12 (1.14%) Unix
5 5 (0.47%) Debian
5 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.38%) CentOS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (61.27%) Mathematics
2 631 (59.75%) Line Management
3 625 (59.19%) Agile
4 389 (36.84%) OO
5 383 (36.27%) OOP
6 380 (35.98%) Design Patterns
7 379 (35.89%) Android Development
8 330 (31.25%) DevOps
9 305 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (24.72%) Platform Engineering
11 255 (24.15%) Task Automation
12 252 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 251 (23.77%) Risk Management
14 250 (23.67%) Storage Management
15 230 (21.78%) Software Engineering
16 212 (20.08%) Machine Learning
17 209 (19.79%) Mentoring
18 200 (18.94%) Microservices
19 196 (18.56%) Data Engineering
20 188 (17.80%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 625 (59.19%) Java
2 569 (53.88%) Go
3 567 (53.69%) C++
4 285 (26.99%) Bash
5 269 (25.47%) PowerShell
6 223 (21.12%) JavaScript
7 180 (17.05%) Rust
8 94 (8.90%) SQL
9 31 (2.94%) C#
10 28 (2.65%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.70%) R
12 17 (1.61%) PHP
13 11 (1.04%) Ruby
14 9 (0.85%) Bicep
15 8 (0.76%) C
16 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.38%) Dart
17 4 (0.38%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.38%) Scala
18 3 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 567 (53.69%) Security Cleared
2 556 (52.65%) DV Cleared
3 186 (17.61%) AWS Certification
4 181 (17.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (16.29%) AWS Certified Developer
6 48 (4.55%) Degree
7 17 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.85%) SC Cleared
11 8 (0.76%) PhD
12 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.19%) CISSP
13 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.095%) CCSP
14 1 (0.095%) CEH
14 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.095%) GCIA
14 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.61%) QA
2 15 (1.42%) GDPR
3 12 (1.14%) NIST
4 10 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.19%) SLA
9 1 (0.095%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.095%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 690 (65.34%) Docker
2 251 (23.77%) Hyper-V
3 250 (23.67%) VMware NSX
3 250 (23.67%) vSphere
4 1 (0.095%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.095%) Firmware
4 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 655 (62.03%) Ansible
2 301 (28.50%) Terraform
3 52 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.14%) Grafana
4 12 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.76%) Puppet
6 6 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.38%) Argo
8 3 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.28%) Istio
8 3 (0.28%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.28%) SCCM
8 3 (0.28%) SCOM
8 3 (0.28%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.095%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.095%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.095%) Nessus
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.095%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 257 (24.34%) Splunk
2 250 (23.67%) 3PAR
2 250 (23.67%) Cisco
2 250 (23.67%) Juniper
3 32 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 31 (2.94%) Google
5 19 (1.80%) Oracle
6 8 (0.76%) Databricks
7 7 (0.66%) Ping Identity
8 6 (0.57%) Zscaler
9 5 (0.47%) SAP
10 4 (0.38%) Talend
11 3 (0.28%) IBM
11 3 (0.28%) Informatica
12 2 (0.19%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.19%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.19%) New Relic
12 2 (0.19%) PagerDuty
13 1 (0.095%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.095%) Rapid7