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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 7 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 +22 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 513 795 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.96% 18.06% 5.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.69% 48.77% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 323 202 370
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.54% -8.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,250
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 1,361 1,630 2,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.17% 37.03% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 833 2,369
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,800 £34,950
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 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £81,500
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 9 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 9 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 -12 324 £65,000 -3.70% 168
Merseyside +3 80 £40,000 -27.27% 20
Lancashire -21 80 £47,500 -11.63% 70
Cheshire -47 16 £52,500 -4.55% 26
Cumbria -13 10 £85,000 +17.24% 2
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 (2.73%) WordPress
2 13 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.53%) Jupyter
3 7 (1.36%) Apache
3 7 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.39%) Confluence
5 2 (0.39%) JBoss
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) nginx
5 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 114 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 268 (52.24%) Azure
2 189 (36.84%) AWS
3 109 (21.25%) Azure AI
4 107 (20.86%) Power Platform
5 64 (12.48%) GitHub
6 58 (11.31%) GCP
7 35 (6.82%) Serverless
8 20 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.92%) SaaS
12 14 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.73%) Snowflake
13 13 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.34%) Datadog
14 12 (2.34%) dbt
15 11 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.75%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.97%) Internet
2 18 (3.51%) Firewall
3 8 (1.56%) DNS
4 6 (1.17%) VPN
5 5 (0.97%) DHCP
5 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.78%) Network Security
6 4 (0.78%) NGFW
6 4 (0.78%) SAN
6 4 (0.78%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.58%) AMQP
7 3 (0.58%) HTTP
8 2 (0.39%) SSL
9 1 (0.19%) LAN
9 1 (0.19%) LTE
9 1 (0.19%) SNMP
9 1 (0.19%) TCAP
9 1 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.42%) Tableau
2 101 (19.69%) Power BI
3 30 (5.85%) Data Mining
4 24 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.09%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.12%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.34%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.14%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (1.17%) Big Data
15 6 (1.17%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 66 (12.87%) Git
2 20 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.34%) GitLab
3 12 (2.34%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.78%) JIRA
5 4 (0.78%) Selenium
6 3 (0.58%) Postman
7 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.39%) Maven
7 2 (0.39%) Subversion
7 2 (0.39%) Vite
8 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 173 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.54%) Finance
3 69 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (6.82%) Multimedia
5 25 (4.87%) Retail
6 22 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.34%) Law
10 9 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.36%) Banking
11 7 (1.36%) Marketing
12 6 (1.17%) Legal
12 6 (1.17%) Police
13 5 (0.97%) Advertising
13 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.78%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.78%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.58%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 121 (23.59%) Analyst
2 116 (22.61%) Data Analyst
3 85 (16.57%) Junior
3 85 (16.57%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (16.57%) Junior Data Analyst
4 84 (16.37%) Senior
5 74 (14.42%) Trainee
6 57 (11.11%) Developer
7 51 (9.94%) Software Engineer
8 44 (8.58%) Lead
9 43 (8.38%) Data Engineer
9 43 (8.38%) Python Engineer
10 30 (5.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 27 (5.26%) Trainee Analyst
11 27 (5.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 22 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (3.31%) Software Developer
14 16 (3.12%) Python Software Engineer
15 15 (2.92%) Architect
15 15 (2.92%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.55%) HTML
2 46 (8.97%) CSS
3 31 (6.04%) .NET
4 28 (5.46%) React
5 26 (5.07%) Node.js
6 22 (4.29%) Pandas
7 21 (4.09%) Kafka
8 18 (3.51%) NumPy
9 17 (3.31%) scikit-learn
10 14 (2.73%) PySpark
11 13 (2.53%) Hugging Face
12 12 (2.34%) FastAPI
12 12 (2.34%) Matplotlib
12 12 (2.34%) Streamlit
13 11 (2.14%) Django
13 11 (2.14%) Spring
13 11 (2.14%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.95%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.95%) PyTorch
14 10 (1.95%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.07%) Algorithms
3 18 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.14%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.14%) Low-Code
4 11 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.17%) Cyberattack
6 6 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.17%) PACS
6 6 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.78%) PKI
8 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.87%) Linux
2 11 (2.14%) Windows
3 10 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.78%) CentOS
5 4 (0.78%) Unix
6 3 (0.58%) Android
6 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.58%) Debian
6 3 (0.58%) Solaris
6 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (42.11%) AI
2 103 (20.08%) Business Intelligence
3 94 (18.32%) Analytics
4 81 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 78 (15.20%) DevOps
6 77 (15.01%) CI/CD
7 72 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 70 (13.65%) Agile
9 69 (13.45%) Mentoring
10 56 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (10.72%) Machine Learning
12 45 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (7.99%) Containerisation
13 41 (7.99%) Data Analytics
13 41 (7.99%) Event-Driven
14 39 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 39 (7.60%) Data Analysis
15 38 (7.41%) Data Science
15 38 (7.41%) Project Management
16 33 (6.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 207 (40.35%) SQL
2 84 (16.37%) JavaScript
3 68 (13.26%) Java
4 33 (6.43%) TypeScript
5 29 (5.65%) PowerShell
6 28 (5.46%) R
7 25 (4.87%) Bash
8 19 (3.70%) C
8 19 (3.70%) Go
9 16 (3.12%) C++
10 10 (1.95%) C#
11 9 (1.75%) Bicep
12 6 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.78%) PHP
15 3 (0.58%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (0.58%) Ruby
15 3 (0.58%) Scala
16 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 154 (30.02%) Azure Certification
2 52 (10.14%) AWS Certification
3 47 (9.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 39 (7.60%) Security Cleared
5 38 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (6.24%) Degree
7 25 (4.87%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.78%) PhD
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) LPIC
13 1 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.14%) QA
3 6 (1.17%) DICOM
4 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (7.99%) Docker
2 7 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 76 (14.81%) Terraform
2 49 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.46%) Ansible
4 9 (1.75%) Grafana
5 8 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.58%) Podman
6 3 (0.58%) Puppet
6 3 (0.58%) Rancher
7 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.39%) Nagios
7 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.19%) Istio
8 1 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 200 (38.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.09%) Google
3 12 (2.34%) Databricks
3 12 (2.34%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.75%) VMware
5 8 (1.56%) HubSpot
6 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
6 5 (0.97%) Oracle
7 4 (0.78%) Arista
7 4 (0.78%) Aruba
7 4 (0.78%) NetScout
8 3 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.58%) Mirantis
8 3 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe
9 2 (0.39%) Cisco
9 2 (0.39%) New Relic
9 2 (0.39%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.39%) Splunk