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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 6 32
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 577 1,056 583
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.34% 22.43% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.11% 55.73% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 387 184 404
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,159
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

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 1,598 1,895 3,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.80% 40.26% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 780 2,546
10th Percentile £36,570 £32,750 £34,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.04%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £80,000
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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -7 397 £66,750 -1.11% 139
Merseyside +8 79 £40,000 -27.27% 20
Lancashire -14 73 £47,500 - 54
Cheshire -49 21 £67,500 +28.57% 25
Cumbria -24 5 £85,000 +21.43% 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 14 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.25%) Apache
3 12 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.08%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.39%) WordPress
5 5 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.69%) Confluence
6 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) JBoss
7 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 89 (15.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 268 (46.45%) Azure
2 221 (38.30%) AWS
3 100 (17.33%) Power Platform
4 89 (15.42%) Azure AI
5 74 (12.82%) GCP
6 64 (11.09%) GitHub
7 49 (8.49%) Serverless
8 28 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (4.51%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.64%) SaaS
12 18 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (2.43%) Datadog
14 14 (2.43%) dbt
15 13 (2.25%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.85%) Internet
2 20 (3.47%) Firewall
3 9 (1.56%) VPN
4 7 (1.21%) DNS
5 6 (1.04%) Network Security
5 6 (1.04%) SAN
5 6 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.04%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.87%) DHCP
7 4 (0.69%) BGP
7 4 (0.69%) NGFW
7 4 (0.69%) OSPF
7 4 (0.69%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.52%) AMQP
8 3 (0.52%) LAN
8 3 (0.52%) SNMP
8 3 (0.52%) WAN
9 2 (0.35%) HSRP
9 2 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.12%) Power BI
2 91 (15.77%) Tableau
3 26 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (3.64%) Data Mining
7 20 (3.47%) Data Lake
7 20 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.47%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.95%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.25%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.08%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.91%) Big Data
12 10 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.04%) MySQL
15 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (10.40%) Git
2 29 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.43%) GitLab
4 12 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.39%) JIRA
6 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.69%) Vite
8 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.52%) Selenium
9 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.35%) Maven
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
9 2 (0.35%) Postman
9 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.35%) Subversion
10 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 176 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 102 (17.68%) Finance
3 79 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.68%) Retail
5 25 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.81%) Law
7 19 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.29%) Multimedia
8 17 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.25%) Marketing
10 10 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.73%) Legal
11 6 (1.04%) Banking
11 6 (1.04%) Police
12 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.69%) Advertising
13 4 (0.69%) Electronics
13 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.69%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (20.10%) Senior
2 102 (17.68%) Analyst
3 92 (15.94%) Data Analyst
4 75 (13.00%) Developer
5 69 (11.96%) Data Engineer
6 65 (11.27%) Junior
6 65 (11.27%) Junior Analyst
6 65 (11.27%) Junior Data Analyst
6 65 (11.27%) Software Engineer
7 50 (8.67%) Lead
7 50 (8.67%) Trainee
8 47 (8.15%) Python Engineer
9 38 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 32 (5.55%) Senior Data Engineer
11 22 (3.81%) Python Developer
11 22 (3.81%) Python Software Engineer
11 22 (3.81%) Software Developer
12 19 (3.29%) Architect
12 19 (3.29%) Trainee Analyst
12 19 (3.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.11%) React
2 38 (6.59%) HTML
3 34 (5.89%) CSS
4 33 (5.72%) Node.js
5 32 (5.55%) .NET
6 27 (4.68%) Kafka
7 26 (4.51%) FastAPI
8 24 (4.16%) Vue
9 21 (3.64%) Pandas
10 18 (3.12%) NumPy
10 18 (3.12%) Spring
10 18 (3.12%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.95%) PySpark
11 17 (2.95%) scikit-learn
12 16 (2.77%) Next.js
12 16 (2.77%) REST
13 14 (2.43%) AngularJS
14 13 (2.25%) Flask
15 12 (2.08%) Matplotlib
15 12 (2.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.51%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.16%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.56%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (1.04%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.68%) Linux
2 14 (2.43%) Windows
3 10 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.69%) CentOS
6 3 (0.52%) Android
6 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.52%) Debian
6 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.52%) Unix
7 2 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (43.15%) AI
2 120 (20.80%) Analytics
3 114 (19.76%) CI/CD
4 106 (18.37%) Software Engineering
5 103 (17.85%) DevOps
6 101 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
7 95 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 88 (15.25%) Agile
8 88 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (13.69%) Mentoring
10 66 (11.44%) Machine Learning
11 54 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (9.19%) Containerisation
12 53 (9.19%) Event-Driven
12 53 (9.19%) Observability
13 49 (8.49%) Microservices
14 46 (7.97%) Full-Stack Development
15 44 (7.63%) Data Engineering
15 44 (7.63%) Decision-Making
16 43 (7.45%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 230 (39.86%) SQL
2 82 (14.21%) JavaScript
3 79 (13.69%) Java
4 50 (8.67%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.41%) PowerShell
6 36 (6.24%) Bash
7 25 (4.33%) R
8 23 (3.99%) C++
9 21 (3.64%) C#
10 20 (3.47%) Go
11 16 (2.77%) C
12 12 (2.08%) Bicep
12 12 (2.08%) Ruby
13 10 (1.73%) Scala
14 7 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.21%) PHP
15 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
17 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (20.97%) Azure Certification
2 55 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 40 (6.93%) Degree
4 38 (6.59%) AWS Certification
5 34 (5.89%) SC Cleared
6 33 (5.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 25 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.16%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.52%) PhD
14 2 (0.35%) CCNA
14 2 (0.35%) CCNP
14 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.17%) ACCA
15 1 (0.17%) CFA
15 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.25%) QA
3 6 (1.04%) DICOM
4 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (10.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 105 (18.20%) Terraform
2 63 (10.92%) Kubernetes
3 33 (5.72%) Ansible
4 17 (2.95%) Grafana
5 16 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.87%) Puppet
7 4 (0.69%) Argo
7 4 (0.69%) Istio
7 4 (0.69%) Nagios
8 3 (0.52%) linkerd
9 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.35%) Podman
9 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.17%) QRadar
10 1 (0.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 169 (29.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.51%) Google
3 24 (4.16%) Databricks
4 13 (2.25%) HubSpot
5 12 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.91%) VMware
7 9 (1.56%) Splunk
8 7 (1.21%) Adobe
9 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.87%) Oracle
11 4 (0.69%) Arista
11 4 (0.69%) Aruba
11 4 (0.69%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.69%) NetScout
12 3 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.52%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.52%) SAP
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco
13 2 (0.35%) New Relic
13 2 (0.35%) Salesforce