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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 561 1,054 530
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.05% 23.01% 5.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.24% 56.15% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 374 185 375
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £35,448
25th Percentile £43,965 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year - +15.03% -13.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,548 1,877 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.94% 40.98% 29.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 767 2,418
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £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 £75,250 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £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 30 May 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 May 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 -10 372 £66,750 -1.11% 142
Merseyside +6 84 £40,000 -23.81% 23
Lancashire -28 76 £47,500 -5.05% 49
Cheshire -63 20 £67,500 +28.57% 17
Cumbria -19 7 £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 15 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.32%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.96%) WordPress
4 9 (1.60%) Apache
4 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 100 (17.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 270 (48.13%) Azure
2 206 (36.72%) AWS
3 105 (18.72%) Power Platform
4 97 (17.29%) Azure AI
5 68 (12.12%) GCP
6 64 (11.41%) GitHub
7 44 (7.84%) Serverless
8 24 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.57%) SaaS
11 19 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.50%) Datadog
13 14 (2.50%) dbt
14 13 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (2.32%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.60%) Internet
2 20 (3.57%) Firewall
3 7 (1.25%) DNS
3 7 (1.25%) VPN
4 6 (1.07%) Network Security
4 6 (1.07%) SAN
4 6 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.89%) DHCP
6 4 (0.71%) NGFW
6 4 (0.71%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.53%) AMQP
7 3 (0.53%) SNMP
8 2 (0.36%) BGP
8 2 (0.36%) HTTP
8 2 (0.36%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.36%) OSPF
8 2 (0.36%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (18.00%) Tableau
2 97 (17.29%) Power BI
3 26 (4.63%) Data Mining
4 25 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.74%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.74%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.67%) NoSQL
9 14 (2.50%) BigQuery
10 13 (2.32%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.96%) DynamoDB
12 10 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.78%) Big Data
13 9 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.07%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.07%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 62 (11.05%) Git
2 25 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (1.96%) GitLab
5 6 (1.07%) JIRA
6 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.53%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.36%) Maven
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) Subversion
8 2 (0.36%) Vite
9 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.18%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.18%) MLflow
9 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 175 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 98 (17.47%) Finance
3 79 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.63%) Multimedia
4 26 (4.63%) Retail
5 25 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.21%) Law
8 13 (2.32%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.32%) Marketing
9 10 (1.78%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.60%) Legal
11 6 (1.07%) Police
12 5 (0.89%) Banking
12 5 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.71%) Advertising
13 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.71%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 114 (20.32%) Senior
2 110 (19.61%) Analyst
3 104 (18.54%) Data Analyst
4 73 (13.01%) Junior
4 73 (13.01%) Junior Analyst
4 73 (13.01%) Junior Data Analyst
5 66 (11.76%) Developer
6 61 (10.87%) Data Engineer
6 61 (10.87%) Trainee
7 60 (10.70%) Software Engineer
8 51 (9.09%) Lead
9 45 (8.02%) Python Engineer
10 37 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 32 (5.70%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (4.10%) Trainee Analyst
12 23 (4.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 21 (3.74%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.39%) Python Software Engineer
15 18 (3.21%) Python Developer
16 17 (3.03%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.84%) HTML
2 41 (7.31%) CSS
3 32 (5.70%) .NET
4 30 (5.35%) Node.js
5 29 (5.17%) React
6 26 (4.63%) Kafka
7 22 (3.92%) Pandas
8 18 (3.21%) NumPy
9 17 (3.03%) FastAPI
9 17 (3.03%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.85%) PySpark
11 15 (2.67%) Spring
11 15 (2.67%) Spring Boot
12 14 (2.50%) Vue
13 13 (2.32%) REST
14 12 (2.14%) Hugging Face
14 12 (2.14%) Matplotlib
14 12 (2.14%) Next.js
14 12 (2.14%) Streamlit
15 10 (1.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.63%) Algorithms
2 26 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.78%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.07%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.07%) PACS
10 6 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.89%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.81%) Linux
2 14 (2.50%) Windows
3 10 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.71%) CentOS
6 3 (0.53%) Android
6 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.53%) Debian
6 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.53%) Unix
7 2 (0.36%) Solaris
8 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (43.32%) AI
2 116 (20.68%) Analytics
3 104 (18.54%) Business Intelligence
4 98 (17.47%) CI/CD
5 97 (17.29%) Software Engineering
6 94 (16.76%) DevOps
7 87 (15.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 82 (14.62%) Mentoring
9 79 (14.08%) Agile
10 76 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
11 65 (11.59%) Machine Learning
12 51 (9.09%) Event-Driven
13 48 (8.56%) Containerisation
13 48 (8.56%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (7.49%) Microservices
15 41 (7.31%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (7.13%) Data Analytics
16 40 (7.13%) Decision-Making
16 40 (7.13%) Observability
16 40 (7.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 226 (40.29%) SQL
2 83 (14.80%) JavaScript
3 72 (12.83%) Java
4 40 (7.13%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 32 (5.70%) Bash
7 30 (5.35%) R
8 21 (3.74%) C++
9 18 (3.21%) C
9 18 (3.21%) C#
10 17 (3.03%) Go
11 11 (1.96%) Bicep
12 10 (1.78%) Ruby
13 7 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.89%) PHP
15 5 (0.89%) Scala
16 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.18%) Groovy
17 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 135 (24.06%) Azure Certification
2 47 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.66%) AWS Certification
4 38 (6.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 33 (5.88%) Degree
6 31 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (5.35%) SC Cleared
8 23 (4.10%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) PhD
12 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.18%) LPIC
13 1 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.14%) QA
3 6 (1.07%) DICOM
4 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.36%) SLA
5 1 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (8.91%) Docker
2 8 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 95 (16.93%) Terraform
2 57 (10.16%) Kubernetes
3 31 (5.53%) Ansible
4 14 (2.50%) Grafana
5 13 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.71%) Nagios
6 4 (0.71%) Puppet
7 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.36%) Argo
7 2 (0.36%) Istio
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.36%) Podman
7 2 (0.36%) Rancher
7 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.18%) linkerd
8 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 185 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.63%) Google
3 17 (3.03%) Databricks
4 13 (2.32%) HubSpot
5 12 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.96%) VMware
7 5 (0.89%) Adobe
7 5 (0.89%) Oracle
8 4 (0.71%) Arista
8 4 (0.71%) Aruba
8 4 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.71%) NetScout
8 4 (0.71%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.71%) Splunk
9 3 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.53%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.53%) SAP
10 2 (0.36%) Cisco
10 2 (0.36%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.36%) Salesforce