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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 516 874 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.04% 19.36% 5.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.10% 50.49% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 324 199 374
10th Percentile £30,575 £42,500 £35,336
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,959 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -4.42%

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 1,391 1,731 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.57% 38.35% 29.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 831 2,372
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £35,000
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 £82,500
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 12 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 12 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 -8 327 £65,000 -3.70% 169
Lancashire -23 83 £47,500 -11.63% 76
Merseyside +2 79 £40,000 -27.27% 21
Cheshire -48 16 £52,500 -4.55% 33
Cumbria -16 8 £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 (2.71%) WordPress
2 13 (2.52%) Jupyter
3 12 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.36%) Apache
4 7 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.39%) Confluence
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
7 2 (0.39%) nginx
7 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 113 (21.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 270 (52.33%) Azure
2 188 (36.43%) AWS
3 109 (21.12%) Azure AI
3 109 (21.12%) Power Platform
4 63 (12.21%) GitHub
5 59 (11.43%) GCP
6 35 (6.78%) Serverless
7 20 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (3.49%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.91%) SaaS
12 14 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.52%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.33%) Datadog
14 12 (2.33%) dbt
15 11 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.74%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.53%) Internet
2 19 (3.68%) Firewall
3 8 (1.55%) DNS
4 6 (1.16%) VPN
5 5 (0.97%) DHCP
5 5 (0.97%) SAN
5 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.78%) Network Security
6 4 (0.78%) NGFW
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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.29%) Tableau
2 102 (19.77%) Power BI
3 29 (5.62%) Data Mining
4 24 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.29%) SQL Server
7 15 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.91%) NoSQL
8 13 (2.52%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.13%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.16%) Big Data
13 6 (1.16%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (12.60%) Git
2 20 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (2.13%) GitLab
5 6 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.78%) JIRA
6 4 (0.78%) Selenium
7 3 (0.58%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) Subversion
8 2 (0.39%) Vite
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.19%) MLflow
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 174 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.25%) Finance
3 68 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.40%) Multimedia
5 25 (4.84%) Retail
6 22 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.52%) Law
8 13 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.36%) Marketing
11 6 (1.16%) Banking
11 6 (1.16%) Police
12 5 (0.97%) Advertising
12 5 (0.97%) Legal
12 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.78%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.78%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (23.45%) Analyst
2 115 (22.29%) Data Analyst
3 87 (16.86%) Senior
4 85 (16.47%) Junior
4 85 (16.47%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (16.47%) Junior Data Analyst
5 71 (13.76%) Trainee
6 58 (11.24%) Developer
7 52 (10.08%) Software Engineer
8 45 (8.72%) Data Engineer
9 44 (8.53%) Lead
10 42 (8.14%) Python Engineer
11 30 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 26 (5.04%) Trainee Analyst
12 26 (5.04%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 23 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (3.10%) Python Software Engineer
14 16 (3.10%) Software Developer
15 15 (2.91%) Architect
15 15 (2.91%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.11%) HTML
2 44 (8.53%) CSS
3 31 (6.01%) .NET
4 28 (5.43%) React
5 26 (5.04%) Node.js
6 22 (4.26%) Pandas
7 21 (4.07%) Kafka
8 18 (3.49%) NumPy
9 16 (3.10%) scikit-learn
10 14 (2.71%) PySpark
11 12 (2.33%) FastAPI
11 12 (2.33%) Hugging Face
11 12 (2.33%) Matplotlib
11 12 (2.33%) Streamlit
12 11 (2.13%) Django
12 11 (2.13%) Spring
12 11 (2.13%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.94%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.94%) REST
14 8 (1.55%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.04%) Algorithms
3 18 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 11 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.16%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.16%) Cyberattack
6 6 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.16%) PACS
6 6 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.78%) Cybercrime
8 4 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.04%) Linux
2 12 (2.33%) Windows
3 11 (2.13%) 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 (41.86%) AI
2 104 (20.16%) Business Intelligence
3 96 (18.60%) Analytics
4 82 (15.89%) Software Engineering
5 80 (15.50%) DevOps
6 78 (15.12%) CI/CD
7 73 (14.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 71 (13.76%) Agile
9 70 (13.57%) Mentoring
10 58 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (10.08%) Machine Learning
12 44 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (7.95%) Containerisation
13 41 (7.95%) Data Analytics
13 41 (7.95%) Event-Driven
14 38 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 38 (7.36%) Data Analysis
15 37 (7.17%) Project Management
16 35 (6.78%) Data Science
17 34 (6.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 208 (40.31%) SQL
2 82 (15.89%) JavaScript
3 69 (13.37%) Java
4 34 (6.59%) TypeScript
5 30 (5.81%) PowerShell
6 29 (5.62%) R
7 26 (5.04%) Bash
8 19 (3.68%) C
8 19 (3.68%) Go
9 18 (3.49%) C++
10 10 (1.94%) Bicep
10 10 (1.94%) C#
11 6 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.78%) PHP
12 4 (0.78%) Ruby
13 3 (0.58%) Scala
14 2 (0.39%) ANSI SQL
14 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 152 (29.46%) Azure Certification
2 50 (9.69%) AWS Certification
3 45 (8.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 39 (7.56%) Security Cleared
5 36 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (6.20%) Degree
7 25 (4.84%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.88%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.55%) 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 25 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.33%) QA
3 6 (1.16%) DICOM
4 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.19%) GDPR
4 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (7.95%) Docker
2 7 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 78 (15.12%) Terraform
2 49 (9.50%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.43%) Ansible
4 9 (1.74%) Grafana
5 8 (1.55%) 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
1 199 (38.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.07%) Google
3 13 (2.52%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.33%) Databricks
5 10 (1.94%) VMware
6 8 (1.55%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.78%) Arista
8 4 (0.78%) Aruba
8 4 (0.78%) NetScout
8 4 (0.78%) Oracle
9 3 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.58%) Mirantis
9 3 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.58%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.39%) Adobe
10 2 (0.39%) Cisco
10 2 (0.39%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.39%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.39%) SAP