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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 6 29
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 607 1,039 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.13% 20.12% 5.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.57% 54.11% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 395 169 288
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £89,125
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 1,756 1,920 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.83% 37.19% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,363 798 1,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,802
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% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,125 £72,500 £69,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,900 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%

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 11 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 11 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 -8 442 £66,750 +2.69% 208
Lancashire -21 69 £47,500 -17.39% 47
Merseyside +1 65 £55,000 - 28
Cheshire -38 29 £67,500 +28.57% 60
Cumbria -18 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 19 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.80%) Apache
3 14 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.32%) WordPress
6 7 (1.15%) Confluence
6 7 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.49%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.49%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (12.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.48%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Odoo
2 1 (0.16%) Primavera
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (41.35%) Azure
2 228 (37.56%) AWS
3 90 (14.83%) Power Platform
4 83 (13.67%) GCP
5 77 (12.69%) Azure AI
6 67 (11.04%) GitHub
7 52 (8.57%) Serverless
8 33 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (5.27%) Amazon S3
10 28 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (4.28%) dbt
12 25 (4.12%) SaaS
12 25 (4.12%) Snowflake
13 24 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.14%) Datadog
16 12 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.81%) OpenShift
18 9 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.29%) Firewall
2 15 (2.47%) Internet
2 15 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.48%) DNS
4 8 (1.32%) DHCP
4 8 (1.32%) VPN
5 7 (1.15%) SAN
5 7 (1.15%) WAN
6 6 (0.99%) BGP
6 6 (0.99%) Network Security
7 5 (0.82%) LAN
8 4 (0.66%) IPsec
8 4 (0.66%) OSPF
8 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.66%) Wireless
9 3 (0.49%) SNMP
9 3 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.49%) VSAN
10 2 (0.33%) HTTP
10 2 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (13.84%) Power BI
2 70 (11.53%) Tableau
3 41 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.46%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (2.64%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.98%) Data Mining
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 (8.73%) Git
2 27 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.64%) JIRA
4 15 (2.47%) GitLab
5 10 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 10 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (0.99%) Maven
7 5 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.66%) Storybook
8 4 (0.66%) Vite
9 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.33%) Selenium
11 1 (0.16%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 216 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 111 (18.29%) Finance
3 86 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (4.94%) Law
5 26 (4.28%) Retail
6 22 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 18 (2.97%) Marketing
9 16 (2.64%) Legal
10 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.65%) Multimedia
12 9 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.15%) Banking
14 6 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.99%) Electronics
14 6 (0.99%) Police
15 5 (0.82%) Advertising
15 5 (0.82%) Games
15 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (26.19%) Senior
2 88 (14.50%) Analyst
3 83 (13.67%) Data Engineer
4 76 (12.52%) Developer
5 72 (11.86%) Data Analyst
6 70 (11.53%) Software Engineer
7 54 (8.90%) Junior
7 54 (8.90%) Python Engineer
8 52 (8.57%) Junior Analyst
8 52 (8.57%) Junior Data Analyst
9 51 (8.40%) Lead
10 38 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (6.26%) Senior Data Engineer
11 29 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
12 28 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (4.45%) Trainee
14 22 (3.62%) Senior Developer
15 20 (3.29%) Architect
15 20 (3.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.91%) React
2 35 (5.77%) Node.js
3 34 (5.60%) HTML
4 33 (5.44%) Spring
4 33 (5.44%) Spring Boot
5 31 (5.11%) .NET
6 30 (4.94%) Kafka
7 28 (4.61%) Vue
8 27 (4.45%) FastAPI
9 26 (4.28%) CSS
10 22 (3.62%) AngularJS
10 22 (3.62%) PySpark
11 18 (2.97%) Next.js
12 17 (2.80%) Pandas
13 14 (2.31%) React Native
13 14 (2.31%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.14%) NumPy
14 13 (2.14%) REST
14 13 (2.14%) scikit-learn
15 12 (1.98%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.97%) Algorithms
5 16 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (0.99%) Life Science
12 6 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.92%) Linux
2 21 (3.46%) Windows
3 13 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.65%) Unix
4 10 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.99%) CentOS
6 4 (0.66%) Solaris
7 3 (0.49%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) Debian
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (42.01%) AI
2 155 (25.54%) CI/CD
3 129 (21.25%) Software Engineering
4 126 (20.76%) DevOps
5 120 (19.77%) Analytics
5 120 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (17.79%) Agile
7 106 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (16.64%) Business Intelligence
9 90 (14.83%) Mentoring
10 71 (11.70%) Machine Learning
11 68 (11.20%) Containerisation
11 68 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
12 66 (10.87%) Observability
13 64 (10.54%) Data Engineering
14 62 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (10.21%) Decision-Making
15 59 (9.72%) Test Automation
16 50 (8.24%) ETL
16 50 (8.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 246 (40.53%) SQL
2 102 (16.80%) Java
3 74 (12.19%) JavaScript
4 55 (9.06%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.73%) Bash
6 43 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 30 (4.94%) C#
8 29 (4.78%) C++
9 26 (4.28%) Go
9 26 (4.28%) R
10 15 (2.47%) Ruby
11 14 (2.31%) C
12 13 (2.14%) Bicep
13 12 (1.98%) PHP
14 11 (1.81%) Scala
15 7 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.99%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
19 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 96 (15.82%) Azure Certification
2 75 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.40%) Degree
4 38 (6.26%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 22 (3.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 18 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
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
14 2 (0.33%) RHCE
14 2 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.29%) QA
3 9 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.66%) WCAG
5 3 (0.49%) GDPR
5 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.33%) DICOM
6 2 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) IFRS
7 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (13.51%) Docker
2 12 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.65%) 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
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (20.10%) Terraform
2 76 (12.52%) Kubernetes
3 46 (7.58%) Ansible
4 24 (3.95%) Grafana
5 21 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.81%) Puppet
7 7 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.82%) Argo
8 5 (0.82%) Istio
9 4 (0.66%) linkerd
10 3 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.49%) Nagios
10 3 (0.49%) Podman
10 3 (0.49%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.33%) QRadar
11 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.77%) Databricks
3 33 (5.44%) Google
4 21 (3.46%) Splunk
5 15 (2.47%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.31%) Adobe
6 14 (2.31%) VMware
7 13 (2.14%) HubSpot
8 8 (1.32%) Oracle
9 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.82%) New Relic
11 4 (0.66%) Cisco
11 4 (0.66%) NEC
12 3 (0.49%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.49%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.49%) McAfee
12 3 (0.49%) SAP
12 3 (0.49%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.33%) Mirantis
13 2 (0.33%) Zscaler