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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 259 398 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.26% 7.49% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.94% 25.50% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 204 200 250
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,303 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -2.42%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,358 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 837 1,561 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.76% 29.38% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 697 875 1,087
10th Percentile £30,900 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 December 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 21 December 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
Manchester -12 162 £60,000 - 99
Merseyside +6 51 £40,000 -40.74% 22
Cheshire -19 19 £48,979 -2.04% 23
Lancashire -18 18 £60,000 -4.00% 64
Cumbria -9 6 £77,500 +29.17% 8
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 8 (3.09%) Apache Spark
1 8 (3.09%) WordPress
2 7 (2.70%) Apache
2 7 (2.70%) CMS
3 6 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (18.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.39%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 136 (52.51%) Azure
2 125 (48.26%) AWS
3 53 (20.46%) GitHub
4 44 (16.99%) Power Platform
5 36 (13.90%) GCP
6 21 (8.11%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.02%) Snowflake
9 12 (4.63%) Serverless
10 8 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.70%) SaaS
12 6 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.93%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.54%) Slack
14 4 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.54%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.15%) Internet
2 4 (1.54%) DNS
3 3 (1.16%) AMQP
3 3 (1.16%) Firewall
3 3 (1.16%) HTTP
3 3 (1.16%) SSL
3 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.77%) DHCP
4 2 (0.77%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) SSH
5 1 (0.39%) TCAP
5 1 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (20.08%) Tableau
2 42 (16.22%) Power BI
3 22 (8.49%) Data Mining
4 18 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.18%) MongoDB
6 16 (6.18%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.47%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.47%) MySQL
10 8 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (3.09%) Big Data
10 8 (3.09%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.32%) Data Vault
11 6 (2.32%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.93%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.93%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.54%) Looker
14 3 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 60 (23.17%) Git
2 19 (7.34%) GitLab
3 12 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.93%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.93%) Postman
5 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.16%) JIRA
5 3 (1.16%) MLflow
6 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.77%) Selenium
6 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Ant
7 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
7 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.31%) Finance
3 45 (17.37%) Multimedia
4 37 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.18%) Retail
6 15 (5.79%) Marketing
7 11 (4.25%) Banking
8 9 (3.47%) Law
8 9 (3.47%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.70%) Legal
10 6 (2.32%) Advertising
10 6 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.93%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.16%) Electronics
13 3 (1.16%) Games
13 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (25.48%) Trainee
2 58 (22.39%) Analyst
3 52 (20.08%) Data Analyst
3 52 (20.08%) Developer
4 47 (18.15%) Senior
5 31 (11.97%) Data Engineer
6 23 (8.88%) Software Developer
7 21 (8.11%) Trainee Analyst
7 21 (8.11%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 20 (7.72%) Junior
8 20 (7.72%) Junior Analyst
8 20 (7.72%) Junior Data Analyst
9 19 (7.34%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.34%) Trainee Developer
9 19 (7.34%) Trainee Software Developer
10 18 (6.95%) Lead
10 18 (6.95%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (5.02%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.31%) CSS
2 48 (18.53%) HTML
3 21 (8.11%) React
4 17 (6.56%) Node.js
5 12 (4.63%) .NET
6 11 (4.25%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.25%) Django
7 10 (3.86%) PyTorch
7 10 (3.86%) REST
8 9 (3.47%) TensorFlow
9 8 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.09%) RESTful
10 6 (2.32%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.32%) Flask
10 6 (2.32%) JSON
10 6 (2.32%) PySpark
10 6 (2.32%) Vue
11 5 (1.93%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.93%) Spring
11 5 (1.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.09%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.32%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.16%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.04%) Linux
2 11 (4.25%) Windows
3 7 (2.70%) Debian
3 7 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.93%) Unix
4 5 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.16%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.10%) AI
2 60 (23.17%) CI/CD
3 53 (20.46%) Mentoring
4 50 (19.31%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (17.37%) Analytics
6 43 (16.60%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (16.22%) Agile
8 41 (15.83%) DevOps
9 40 (15.44%) Containerisation
10 36 (13.90%) Machine Learning
10 36 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (13.13%) Data Science
12 33 (12.74%) Software Engineering
13 30 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (10.81%) Data Analysis
15 27 (10.42%) Data Analytics
15 27 (10.42%) Data Modelling
16 26 (10.04%) Project Management
17 21 (8.11%) Business Analysis
18 20 (7.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (47.88%) SQL
2 70 (27.03%) JavaScript
3 32 (12.36%) R
4 30 (11.58%) Java
5 15 (5.79%) Bash
6 11 (4.25%) C#
7 10 (3.86%) Go
7 10 (3.86%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
8 7 (2.70%) PHP
9 6 (2.32%) C
10 5 (1.93%) Bicep
11 3 (1.16%) C++
11 3 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.16%) Scala
12 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.77%) VBA
13 1 (0.39%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (28.19%) Azure Certification
2 49 (18.92%) AWS Certification
3 47 (18.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (17.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (8.88%) Security Cleared
6 18 (6.95%) Degree
7 17 (6.56%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.93%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.16%) PhD
13 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.39%) CCSP
14 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.39%) CISSP
14 1 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.93%) QA
3 4 (1.54%) GDPR
3 4 (1.54%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.54%) NIST
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) FINRA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (16.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) KVM
2 3 (1.16%) QEMU
2 3 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.97%) Terraform
3 22 (8.49%) Ansible
4 10 (3.86%) Grafana
5 6 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.77%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.77%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.77%) Podman
7 2 (0.77%) Rancher
8 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.39%) Nagios
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (39.38%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.79%) Google
3 10 (3.86%) Oracle
4 9 (3.47%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.32%) Databricks
5 6 (2.32%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.32%) Splunk
6 5 (1.93%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.54%) VMware
8 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.77%) Aderant
9 2 (0.77%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.77%) SAP
10 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.39%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.39%) YouTube
10 1 (0.39%) Zscaler