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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Python 264 385 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.19% 7.62% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.52% 26.77% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 211 192 243
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,713 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,056
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 865 1,438 1,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.72% 28.48% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 725 817 1,292
10th Percentile £31,100 £33,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -12 161 £60,000 - 137
Merseyside +6 54 £40,000 -36.00% 37
Cheshire -23 19 £48,979 -2.04% 60
Lancashire -13 17 £60,000 +2.13% 72
Cumbria -5 10 £85,000 +30.77% 4
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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (3.03%) WordPress
2 7 (2.65%) Apache
2 7 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.27%) CMS
4 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.76%) JBoss
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (19.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 137 (51.89%) Azure
2 128 (48.48%) AWS
3 59 (22.35%) GitHub
4 45 (17.05%) Power Platform
5 38 (14.39%) GCP
6 21 (7.95%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.30%) Snowflake
8 13 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.17%) Serverless
10 9 (3.41%) SaaS
11 8 (3.03%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.89%) dbt
15 4 (1.52%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.52%) Slack
15 4 (1.52%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 56 (21.21%) Internet
2 4 (1.52%) Firewall
3 3 (1.14%) AMQP
3 3 (1.14%) DNS
3 3 (1.14%) HTTP
3 3 (1.14%) SSL
3 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.76%) DHCP
4 2 (0.76%) SAN
4 2 (0.76%) VPN
5 1 (0.38%) Network Security
5 1 (0.38%) SSH
5 1 (0.38%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.94%) Tableau
2 42 (15.91%) Power BI
3 24 (9.09%) Data Mining
4 20 (7.58%) MongoDB
5 18 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 15 (5.68%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.79%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.41%) Big Data
9 9 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.41%) Hadoop
10 8 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (3.03%) MySQL
11 7 (2.65%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.27%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.89%) Neo4j
14 4 (1.52%) Looker
14 4 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 68 (25.76%) Git
2 18 (6.82%) GitLab
3 13 (4.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.89%) Postman
5 4 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.76%) JIRA
7 2 (0.76%) Maven
7 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
7 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) Ant
8 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
8 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (20.08%) Finance
1 53 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.94%) Multimedia
3 41 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.30%) Marketing
4 14 (5.30%) Retail
5 12 (4.55%) Banking
6 9 (3.41%) Law
6 9 (3.41%) Legal
6 9 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Advertising
9 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.14%) Electronics
10 3 (1.14%) Games
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (27.65%) Trainee
2 56 (21.21%) Analyst
2 56 (21.21%) Developer
3 50 (18.94%) Data Analyst
4 46 (17.42%) Senior
5 29 (10.98%) Data Engineer
6 26 (9.85%) Software Developer
7 23 (8.71%) Trainee Analyst
7 23 (8.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 22 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 22 (8.33%) Trainee Developer
8 22 (8.33%) Trainee Software Developer
9 20 (7.58%) Junior
9 20 (7.58%) Junior Analyst
9 20 (7.58%) Junior Data Analyst
10 17 (6.44%) Lead
10 17 (6.44%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.17%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.83%) CSS
2 53 (20.08%) HTML
3 20 (7.58%) React
4 17 (6.44%) Node.js
5 13 (4.92%) .NET
6 11 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.17%) Django
7 10 (3.79%) REST
8 9 (3.41%) Flask
9 8 (3.03%) RESTful
10 7 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.65%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.65%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.27%) FastAPI
11 6 (2.27%) JSON
11 6 (2.27%) Vue
12 5 (1.89%) Middleware
12 5 (1.89%) Spring
12 5 (1.89%) Spring Boot
13 4 (1.52%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.41%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.65%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.76%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.23%) Linux
2 10 (3.79%) Windows
3 6 (2.27%) Debian
3 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.14%) CentOS
6 3 (1.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.11%) AI
2 56 (21.21%) Mentoring
3 54 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 48 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (17.80%) Analytics
5 47 (17.80%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (15.53%) DevOps
7 40 (15.15%) Agile
8 38 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (14.39%) Software Engineering
9 35 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (12.88%) Containerisation
11 31 (11.74%) Machine Learning
12 30 (11.36%) Data Analysis
13 29 (10.98%) Data Analytics
13 29 (10.98%) Data Science
13 29 (10.98%) Project Management
14 27 (10.23%) Data Modelling
15 23 (8.71%) Business Analysis
16 20 (7.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 119 (45.08%) SQL
2 73 (27.65%) JavaScript
3 34 (12.88%) R
4 29 (10.98%) Java
5 16 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.92%) Bash
6 13 (4.92%) Go
7 10 (3.79%) C
8 9 (3.41%) C#
8 9 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.65%) ANSI SQL
9 7 (2.65%) PHP
10 5 (1.89%) Bicep
11 4 (1.52%) Scala
12 3 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.76%) C++
13 2 (0.76%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.76%) VBA
14 1 (0.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (28.79%) Azure Certification
2 52 (19.70%) AWS Certification
2 52 (19.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 50 (18.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 22 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 19 (7.20%) Degree
6 16 (6.06%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.41%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.14%) PhD
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.38%) CCSP
12 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.38%) CISSP
12 1 (0.38%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.52%) QA
3 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) GDPR
3 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) FINRA
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.14%) KVM
2 3 (1.14%) QEMU
2 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.50%) Terraform
3 24 (9.09%) Ansible
4 9 (3.41%) Grafana
5 5 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.52%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.76%) Podman
7 2 (0.76%) Rancher
8 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.38%) Nagios
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.06%) Google
3 11 (4.17%) Oracle
4 9 (3.41%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.27%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.89%) Databricks
6 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.89%) Splunk
7 4 (1.52%) VMware
8 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.76%) Aderant
9 2 (0.76%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.76%) SAP
10 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.38%) F5
10 1 (0.38%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.38%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.38%) YouTube