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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 245 421 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.42% 7.02% 9.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.24% 24.17% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 191 212 282
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £46,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,250 £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 838 1,742 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.11% 29.03% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 692 987 1,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
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 £80,000 £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 7 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 7 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 -12 152 £60,000 - 221
Merseyside +10 46 £40,000 -42.86% 61
Cheshire -16 24 £49,490 -1.02% 90
Lancashire -14 16 £60,000 -6.50% 114
Cumbria -16 4 £69,000 +20.00% 5
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 (3.27%) CMS
1 8 (3.27%) WordPress
2 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.04%) Apache
3 5 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.63%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.63%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (16.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.41%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 125 (51.02%) Azure
2 114 (46.53%) AWS
3 47 (19.18%) GitHub
4 39 (15.92%) Power Platform
5 34 (13.88%) GCP
6 17 (6.94%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.71%) Snowflake
8 13 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.49%) Serverless
10 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.86%) SaaS
11 6 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.45%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.04%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.04%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.04%) Route 53
12 5 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.33%) Internet
2 5 (2.04%) DNS
2 5 (2.04%) Firewall
3 3 (1.22%) HTTP
3 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.82%) AMQP
4 2 (0.82%) DHCP
4 2 (0.82%) Network Security
4 2 (0.82%) SAN
4 2 (0.82%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) TCAP
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.37%) Tableau
2 38 (15.51%) Power BI
3 20 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (7.76%) Data Mining
5 17 (6.94%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.53%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.71%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.67%) MySQL
10 8 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (3.27%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.86%) Big Data
12 6 (2.45%) Data Vault
12 6 (2.45%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.63%) Looker
14 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
15 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 54 (22.04%) Git
2 20 (8.16%) GitLab
3 14 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.45%) CircleCI
4 6 (2.45%) JIRA
5 5 (2.04%) Postman
6 3 (1.22%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.22%) MLflow
7 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.82%) Maven
7 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.41%) Ant
8 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) CANoe
8 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.82%) Finance
3 39 (15.92%) Multimedia
4 31 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.53%) Retail
6 15 (6.12%) Marketing
7 13 (5.31%) Banking
8 9 (3.67%) Law
9 7 (2.86%) Legal
9 7 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.45%) Advertising
10 6 (2.45%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.63%) Electronics
11 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Games
12 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (22.86%) Trainee
2 50 (20.41%) Analyst
3 48 (19.59%) Developer
4 46 (18.78%) Senior
5 44 (17.96%) Data Analyst
6 31 (12.65%) Data Engineer
7 21 (8.57%) Software Developer
8 18 (7.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (6.94%) Trainee Analyst
9 17 (6.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 17 (6.94%) Trainee Developer
9 17 (6.94%) Trainee Software Developer
10 16 (6.53%) Junior
10 16 (6.53%) Junior Analyst
10 16 (6.53%) Junior Data Analyst
11 15 (6.12%) Lead
12 14 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (5.31%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.49%) Python Engineer
15 10 (4.08%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (17.55%) CSS
2 41 (16.73%) HTML
3 18 (7.35%) React
4 14 (5.71%) Node.js
5 11 (4.49%) Django
6 10 (4.08%) .NET
6 10 (4.08%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.67%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.27%) REST
9 7 (2.86%) RESTful
9 7 (2.86%) scikit-learn
10 6 (2.45%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.45%) Middleware
10 6 (2.45%) PySpark
10 6 (2.45%) Vue
11 5 (2.04%) JSON
11 5 (2.04%) Pandas
12 4 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.27%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.04%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.22%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.80%) Linux
2 12 (4.90%) Windows
3 7 (2.86%) Debian
3 7 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.04%) Unix
6 4 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.82%) CentOS
8 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.35%) CI/CD
2 60 (24.49%) AI
3 46 (18.78%) Analytics
3 46 (18.78%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (18.78%) DevOps
3 46 (18.78%) Mentoring
4 42 (17.14%) Containerisation
5 40 (16.33%) Machine Learning
6 39 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (15.51%) Agile
7 38 (15.51%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (15.10%) Data Science
9 30 (12.24%) Data Modelling
10 29 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (11.84%) Software Engineering
11 25 (10.20%) Data Analysis
12 24 (9.80%) Data Analytics
13 21 (8.57%) Project Management
14 20 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (8.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 120 (48.98%) SQL
2 60 (24.49%) JavaScript
3 31 (12.65%) R
4 25 (10.20%) Java
5 20 (8.16%) Bash
6 14 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.31%) C#
8 7 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
8 7 (2.86%) Go
8 7 (2.86%) PHP
8 7 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.63%) C
10 4 (1.63%) C++
11 3 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.82%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (26.53%) Azure Certification
2 44 (17.96%) AWS Certification
3 41 (16.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (15.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 21 (8.57%) Security Cleared
6 19 (7.76%) Degree
7 16 (6.53%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.86%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.22%) PhD
12 2 (0.82%) CISSP
12 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.82%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.41%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.45%) NIST
3 5 (2.04%) GDPR
3 5 (2.04%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.04%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.41%) FINRA
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (19.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) KVM
2 3 (1.22%) QEMU
2 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) HDFS
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (15.92%) Kubernetes
2 30 (12.24%) Terraform
3 21 (8.57%) Ansible
4 12 (4.90%) Grafana
5 8 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Puppet
7 2 (0.82%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.82%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.82%) Podman
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.41%) Nessus
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Rancher
Vendors
1 91 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.12%) Google
3 11 (4.49%) Oracle
4 9 (3.67%) HubSpot
5 7 (2.86%) Databricks
5 7 (2.86%) Splunk
6 5 (2.04%) SaltStack
6 5 (2.04%) VMware
7 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.82%) Aderant
9 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.82%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.82%) SAP
10 1 (0.41%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.41%) Pega
10 1 (0.41%) Tenable
10 1 (0.41%) YouTube
10 1 (0.41%) Zscaler