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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 6 32
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 571 1,058 575
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.34% 22.54% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.14% 55.74% 18.58%
Number of salaries quoted 384 187 399
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,120
25th Percentile £44,938 £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 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,500 £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 1,580 1,898 3,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.77% 40.43% 28.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 781 2,512
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,750 £34,750
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 12 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 12 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 -8 390 £66,125 -2.04% 159
Merseyside +8 79 £40,000 -27.27% 19
Lancashire -14 72 £47,500 - 53
Cheshire -46 21 £67,500 +28.57% 23
Cumbria -24 7 £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 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.10%) Apache
2 12 (2.10%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.40%) WordPress
5 5 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.70%) Confluence
6 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) JBoss
7 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 90 (15.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 266 (46.58%) Azure
2 218 (38.18%) AWS
3 100 (17.51%) Power Platform
4 89 (15.59%) Azure AI
5 72 (12.61%) GCP
6 63 (11.03%) GitHub
7 48 (8.41%) Serverless
8 27 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (4.38%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.68%) SaaS
12 19 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (2.45%) Datadog
15 14 (2.45%) dbt
16 13 (2.28%) Snowflake
17 11 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.43%) Internet
2 20 (3.50%) Firewall
3 8 (1.40%) VPN
4 7 (1.23%) DNS
5 6 (1.05%) Network Security
5 6 (1.05%) SAN
5 6 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.88%) DHCP
6 5 (0.88%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.70%) NGFW
7 4 (0.70%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.53%) AMQP
8 3 (0.53%) BGP
8 3 (0.53%) OSPF
8 3 (0.53%) SNMP
9 2 (0.35%) HTTP
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 2 (0.35%) SSL
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.29%) Power BI
2 91 (15.94%) Tableau
3 26 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.38%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.03%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.68%) Data Mining
7 20 (3.50%) Data Lake
8 19 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 15 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 13 (2.28%) BigQuery
10 13 (2.28%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.93%) Big Data
12 10 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.23%) MySQL
14 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 60 (10.51%) Git
2 27 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.28%) GitLab
4 12 (2.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.40%) JIRA
6 7 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.70%) Vite
8 3 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.53%) Selenium
9 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.35%) Maven
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
9 2 (0.35%) Postman
9 2 (0.35%) Subversion
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.18%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 174 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 102 (17.86%) Finance
3 80 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.73%) Retail
5 26 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.68%) Law
7 20 (3.50%) Multimedia
8 19 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.28%) Marketing
11 10 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.75%) Legal
12 6 (1.05%) Banking
12 6 (1.05%) Police
13 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.70%) Advertising
14 4 (0.70%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.70%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 114 (19.96%) Senior
2 101 (17.69%) Analyst
3 92 (16.11%) Data Analyst
4 71 (12.43%) Developer
5 68 (11.91%) Data Engineer
6 65 (11.38%) Junior
6 65 (11.38%) Junior Analyst
6 65 (11.38%) Junior Data Analyst
6 65 (11.38%) Software Engineer
7 51 (8.93%) Lead
7 51 (8.93%) Trainee
8 46 (8.06%) Python Engineer
9 38 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 32 (5.60%) Senior Data Engineer
11 21 (3.68%) Python Developer
11 21 (3.68%) Python Software Engineer
11 21 (3.68%) Software Developer
12 19 (3.33%) Architect
12 19 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
12 19 (3.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.83%) HTML
2 37 (6.48%) React
3 35 (6.13%) CSS
4 34 (5.95%) .NET
4 34 (5.95%) Node.js
5 27 (4.73%) Kafka
6 23 (4.03%) FastAPI
7 21 (3.68%) Pandas
8 20 (3.50%) Vue
9 18 (3.15%) NumPy
9 18 (3.15%) Spring
9 18 (3.15%) Spring Boot
10 17 (2.98%) PySpark
10 17 (2.98%) scikit-learn
11 15 (2.63%) Next.js
11 15 (2.63%) REST
12 13 (2.28%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.10%) Hugging Face
13 12 (2.10%) Matplotlib
13 12 (2.10%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.58%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.05%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.05%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.05%) PACS
11 6 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (0.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.90%) Linux
2 14 (2.45%) Windows
3 10 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.70%) 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 (0.35%) 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
1 245 (42.91%) AI
2 118 (20.67%) Analytics
3 108 (18.91%) CI/CD
4 105 (18.39%) Software Engineering
5 101 (17.69%) Business Intelligence
6 99 (17.34%) DevOps
7 93 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 87 (15.24%) Agile
9 84 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (14.19%) Mentoring
11 65 (11.38%) Machine Learning
12 53 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
13 52 (9.11%) Event-Driven
14 50 (8.76%) Containerisation
15 48 (8.41%) Microservices
16 47 (8.23%) Observability
17 45 (7.88%) Full-Stack Development
18 44 (7.71%) Decision-Making
19 43 (7.53%) Data Engineering
20 42 (7.36%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 229 (40.11%) SQL
2 82 (14.36%) JavaScript
3 79 (13.84%) Java
4 47 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 35 (6.13%) PowerShell
6 32 (5.60%) Bash
7 26 (4.55%) R
8 22 (3.85%) C++
9 21 (3.68%) C#
9 21 (3.68%) Go
10 18 (3.15%) C
11 11 (1.93%) Bicep
11 11 (1.93%) Ruby
12 9 (1.58%) Scala
13 7 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.23%) PHP
14 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 121 (21.19%) Azure Certification
2 52 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 38 (6.65%) Degree
5 34 (5.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 33 (5.78%) SC Cleared
7 25 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.03%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.53%) PhD
14 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.18%) ACCA
15 1 (0.18%) CCNA
15 1 (0.18%) CCNP
15 1 (0.18%) CFA
15 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.18%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.28%) QA
3 6 (1.05%) DICOM
4 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS
5 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (9.46%) Docker
2 8 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (17.86%) Terraform
2 60 (10.51%) Kubernetes
3 33 (5.78%) Ansible
4 14 (2.45%) Grafana
5 13 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.70%) Nagios
6 4 (0.70%) Puppet
7 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.35%) Argo
7 2 (0.35%) Istio
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.35%) Podman
7 2 (0.35%) Rancher
7 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.18%) linkerd
8 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.18%) QRadar
8 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 169 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.38%) Google
3 23 (4.03%) Databricks
4 13 (2.28%) HubSpot
5 12 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.93%) VMware
7 8 (1.40%) Splunk
8 7 (1.23%) Adobe
9 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.88%) Oracle
11 4 (0.70%) Arista
11 4 (0.70%) Aruba
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.70%) NetScout
12 3 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.53%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.53%) SAP
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco
13 2 (0.35%) New Relic
13 2 (0.35%) Salesforce