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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 6 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 608 1,047 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.23% 20.22% 5.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.06% 54.02% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 400 177 294
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,734 1,938 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.91% 37.43% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 819 1,698
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -1.38%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -6 436 £66,750 +2.69% 167
Lancashire -19 71 £47,500 -17.39% 34
Merseyside +1 70 £55,000 - 27
Cheshire -45 28 £67,500 +28.57% 39
Cumbria -19 1 £62,500 -16.67% 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 18 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.30%) Apache
2 14 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.64%) Jupyter
4 9 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.32%) WordPress
6 7 (1.15%) Confluence
7 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.49%) nginx
10 2 (0.33%) IIS
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.97%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Odoo
2 1 (0.16%) Primavera
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 259 (42.60%) Azure
2 231 (37.99%) AWS
3 97 (15.95%) Power Platform
4 83 (13.65%) GCP
5 82 (13.49%) Azure AI
6 62 (10.20%) GitHub
7 52 (8.55%) Serverless
8 32 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (5.10%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (4.11%) dbt
12 24 (3.95%) SaaS
13 23 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.45%) Snowflake
15 13 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (2.14%) Datadog
16 12 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.29%) Firewall
2 15 (2.47%) Internet
3 14 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.64%) DNS
5 8 (1.32%) DHCP
5 8 (1.32%) VPN
6 7 (1.15%) SAN
6 7 (1.15%) WAN
7 6 (0.99%) BGP
7 6 (0.99%) Network Security
8 5 (0.82%) LAN
9 4 (0.66%) IPsec
9 4 (0.66%) OSPF
9 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.66%) Wireless
10 3 (0.49%) HTTP
10 3 (0.49%) SNMP
10 3 (0.49%) VSAN
11 2 (0.33%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (14.80%) Power BI
2 77 (12.66%) Tableau
3 40 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 17 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (2.30%) Data Mining
10 14 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.81%) Big Data
12 9 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.99%) MySQL
14 6 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (8.72%) Git
2 28 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.47%) JIRA
4 14 (2.30%) GitLab
5 13 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 10 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.99%) Maven
8 5 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.66%) Storybook
9 4 (0.66%) Vite
10 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.33%) MLflow
11 2 (0.33%) Selenium
12 1 (0.16%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 212 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 112 (18.42%) Finance
3 87 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.77%) Law
5 28 (4.61%) Retail
6 22 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.62%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.63%) Marketing
8 15 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.30%) Legal
10 10 (1.64%) Multimedia
11 9 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.15%) Banking
13 6 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.99%) Electronics
13 6 (0.99%) Police
14 5 (0.82%) Advertising
14 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (25.00%) Senior
2 93 (15.30%) Analyst
3 84 (13.82%) Data Engineer
4 79 (12.99%) Data Analyst
5 74 (12.17%) Developer
6 68 (11.18%) Software Engineer
7 59 (9.70%) Junior
8 57 (9.38%) Junior Analyst
8 57 (9.38%) Junior Data Analyst
9 52 (8.55%) Lead
10 51 (8.39%) Python Engineer
11 38 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 38 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
12 32 (5.26%) Trainee
13 30 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
15 26 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.45%) Senior Developer
17 20 (3.29%) Architect
17 20 (3.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.24%) React
2 37 (6.09%) Node.js
3 33 (5.43%) HTML
3 33 (5.43%) Spring
3 33 (5.43%) Spring Boot
4 30 (4.93%) .NET
4 30 (4.93%) Kafka
5 28 (4.61%) Vue
6 27 (4.44%) FastAPI
7 25 (4.11%) CSS
8 22 (3.62%) AngularJS
8 22 (3.62%) PySpark
9 20 (3.29%) Pandas
10 18 (2.96%) Next.js
11 16 (2.63%) NumPy
11 16 (2.63%) scikit-learn
12 14 (2.30%) React Native
12 14 (2.30%) Ruby on Rails
13 13 (2.14%) REST
14 12 (1.97%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.32%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (0.99%) Cyberattack
12 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.92%) Linux
2 18 (2.96%) Windows
3 11 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.32%) Unix
6 6 (0.99%) CentOS
7 4 (0.66%) Solaris
8 3 (0.49%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.33%) Debian
9 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (42.60%) AI
2 154 (25.33%) CI/CD
3 124 (20.39%) DevOps
4 123 (20.23%) Software Engineering
5 120 (19.74%) Analytics
6 113 (18.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 106 (17.43%) Agile
8 104 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
9 103 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (14.31%) Mentoring
11 73 (12.01%) Machine Learning
12 68 (11.18%) Containerisation
13 66 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
14 65 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (10.36%) Observability
16 62 (10.20%) Data Engineering
16 62 (10.20%) Decision-Making
17 58 (9.54%) Test Automation
18 51 (8.39%) Microservices
19 50 (8.22%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 249 (40.95%) SQL
2 101 (16.61%) Java
3 74 (12.17%) JavaScript
4 53 (8.72%) TypeScript
5 49 (8.06%) Bash
6 42 (6.91%) PowerShell
7 27 (4.44%) C#
7 27 (4.44%) C++
8 26 (4.28%) Go
9 25 (4.11%) R
10 14 (2.30%) Ruby
11 13 (2.14%) Bicep
12 12 (1.97%) C
13 11 (1.81%) PHP
13 11 (1.81%) Scala
14 7 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.99%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (16.61%) Azure Certification
2 70 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 50 (8.22%) Degree
4 36 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.43%) DV Cleared
6 29 (4.77%) AWS Certification
7 25 (4.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.47%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.66%) MBA
13 3 (0.49%) PhD
14 2 (0.33%) CCIE
14 2 (0.33%) CCNA
14 2 (0.33%) CCNP
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.88%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.29%) QA
3 9 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.66%) WCAG
5 3 (0.49%) DICOM
5 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) GDPR
6 2 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.16%) IFRS
7 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (13.49%) Docker
2 11 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 121 (19.90%) Terraform
2 72 (11.84%) Kubernetes
3 44 (7.24%) Ansible
4 25 (4.11%) Grafana
5 22 (3.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.32%) Puppet
7 6 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.82%) Istio
9 4 (0.66%) Argo
9 4 (0.66%) linkerd
10 3 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.49%) Nagios
10 3 (0.49%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.33%) Podman
11 2 (0.33%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.43%) Databricks
3 32 (5.26%) Google
4 20 (3.29%) Splunk
5 14 (2.30%) Adobe
6 13 (2.14%) HubSpot
6 13 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.14%) VMware
7 7 (1.15%) Oracle
8 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.66%) Cisco
10 3 (0.49%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.49%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.49%) McAfee
10 3 (0.49%) NEC
10 3 (0.49%) New Relic
10 3 (0.49%) SAP
10 3 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.33%) Mirantis
11 2 (0.33%) Zscaler