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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 10 28
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 492 630 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.76% 15.06% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.99% 44.55% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 306 200 374
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,375 £35,336
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,163 £65,000 £56,504
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +15.04% -9.59%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
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 1,295 1,414 2,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.53% 33.81% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 837 2,372
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -9 309 £65,000 -3.70% 131
Merseyside +6 80 £40,000 -27.27% 19
Lancashire -17 77 £47,500 -9.52% 62
Cheshire -53 14 £52,500 -4.55% 26
Cumbria -16 10 £85,000 +17.24% 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 14 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (2.85%) WordPress
2 13 (2.64%) Jupyter
3 7 (1.42%) Apache
3 7 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.41%) JBoss
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 117 (23.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 267 (54.27%) Azure
2 183 (37.20%) AWS
3 110 (22.36%) Azure AI
4 104 (21.14%) Power Platform
5 66 (13.41%) GitHub
6 55 (11.18%) GCP
7 34 (6.91%) Serverless
8 19 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.05%) SaaS
11 14 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.44%) dbt
13 12 (2.44%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.24%) Amazon S3
14 11 (2.24%) Datadog
15 9 (1.83%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.37%) Internet
2 17 (3.46%) Firewall
3 8 (1.63%) DNS
4 5 (1.02%) DHCP
4 5 (1.02%) SAN
4 5 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.02%) VPN
5 4 (0.81%) AMQP
5 4 (0.81%) NGFW
5 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.81%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) Network Security
7 2 (0.41%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) LTE
8 1 (0.20%) SNMP
8 1 (0.20%) TCAP
8 1 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (23.78%) Tableau
2 98 (19.92%) Power BI
3 33 (6.71%) Data Mining
4 22 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.25%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.64%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.24%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.22%) Big Data
13 6 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 70 (14.23%) Git
2 20 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (2.03%) GitLab
5 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.81%) JIRA
6 4 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
8 2 (0.41%) Vite
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 169 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.68%) Finance
3 67 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.13%) Multimedia
5 26 (5.28%) Retail
6 22 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.03%) Law
10 9 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.63%) Legal
12 7 (1.42%) Banking
13 6 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.22%) Police
14 4 (0.81%) Advertising
14 4 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.81%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.81%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.61%) Electronics
15 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (25.20%) Analyst
2 118 (23.98%) Data Analyst
3 85 (17.28%) Junior
3 85 (17.28%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (17.28%) Junior Data Analyst
4 82 (16.67%) Trainee
5 80 (16.26%) Senior
6 54 (10.98%) Developer
7 48 (9.76%) Software Engineer
8 42 (8.54%) Lead
9 41 (8.33%) Python Engineer
10 40 (8.13%) Data Engineer
11 30 (6.10%) Trainee Analyst
11 30 (6.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 27 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 20 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.46%) Software Developer
15 15 (3.05%) Programmer
15 15 (3.05%) Trainee Developer
16 14 (2.85%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.37%) HTML
2 48 (9.76%) CSS
3 32 (6.50%) .NET
4 29 (5.89%) React
5 25 (5.08%) Node.js
6 22 (4.47%) Pandas
7 17 (3.46%) NumPy
7 17 (3.46%) scikit-learn
8 15 (3.05%) Kafka
9 13 (2.64%) Hugging Face
10 12 (2.44%) Matplotlib
10 12 (2.44%) Streamlit
11 11 (2.24%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.24%) PySpark
12 10 (2.03%) Django
12 10 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 10 (2.03%) REST
13 9 (1.83%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.83%) Spring
13 9 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.24%) Low-Code
5 11 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.22%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.22%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.22%) PACS
9 6 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (0.81%) Cybercrime
10 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.81%) PKI
11 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.88%) Linux
2 10 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.83%) Windows
4 5 (1.02%) CentOS
4 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.81%) Debian
5 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.81%) Unix
6 3 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.61%) Solaris
7 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (40.45%) AI
2 100 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
3 86 (17.48%) Analytics
4 73 (14.84%) Software Engineering
5 71 (14.43%) DevOps
6 68 (13.82%) Agile
7 67 (13.62%) CI/CD
7 67 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 67 (13.62%) Mentoring
8 48 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
8 48 (9.76%) Machine Learning
8 48 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (8.74%) Data Analytics
10 42 (8.54%) Data Analysis
11 41 (8.33%) Project Management
12 40 (8.13%) Containerisation
13 37 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 35 (7.11%) Data Science
15 31 (6.30%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (6.30%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 201 (40.85%) SQL
2 84 (17.07%) JavaScript
3 62 (12.60%) Java
4 30 (6.10%) TypeScript
5 29 (5.89%) PowerShell
6 27 (5.49%) R
7 20 (4.07%) Bash
8 18 (3.66%) C
8 18 (3.66%) Go
9 12 (2.44%) C#
9 12 (2.44%) C++
10 11 (2.24%) Bicep
11 4 (0.81%) PHP
11 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.41%) Scala
14 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 161 (32.72%) Azure Certification
2 57 (11.59%) AWS Certification
3 52 (10.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 44 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (6.91%) Security Cleared
6 29 (5.89%) Degree
7 21 (4.27%) SC Cleared
8 18 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.81%) PhD
12 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) LPIC
13 1 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.24%) QA
3 6 (1.22%) DICOM
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (8.33%) Docker
2 8 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (14.63%) Terraform
2 48 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.89%) Ansible
4 8 (1.63%) Grafana
4 8 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.81%) Puppet
6 3 (0.61%) Podman
6 3 (0.61%) Rancher
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 205 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.27%) Google
3 12 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 10 (2.03%) Databricks
4 10 (2.03%) VMware
5 6 (1.22%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.81%) Arista
7 4 (0.81%) Aruba
7 4 (0.81%) NetScout
7 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.61%) Mirantis
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle
9 2 (0.41%) Aderant
9 2 (0.41%) Cisco
9 2 (0.41%) New Relic
9 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.41%) Splunk