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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 6 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 580 1,047 584
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.27% 22.04% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.22% 55.25% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 389 177 404
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £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 1,647 1,895 3,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.97% 39.89% 28.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 782 2,552
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £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% -2.65%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,852 £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 24 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 24 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 -8 400 £66,750 -1.11% 120
Merseyside +7 78 £44,500 -19.09% 22
Lancashire -15 74 £47,500 -7.32% 49
Cheshire -52 22 £67,500 +28.57% 28
Cumbria -22 4 £85,000 +19.30% 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 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.07%) Apache
2 12 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.07%) Jupyter
3 8 (1.38%) WordPress
4 5 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.86%) Confluence
5 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 89 (15.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 266 (45.86%) Azure
2 221 (38.10%) AWS
3 100 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 89 (15.34%) Azure AI
5 75 (12.93%) GCP
6 61 (10.52%) GitHub
7 49 (8.45%) Serverless
8 28 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.66%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.79%) SaaS
12 21 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (2.41%) dbt
15 13 (2.24%) Datadog
16 12 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.07%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.97%) Internet
2 21 (3.62%) Firewall
3 10 (1.72%) VPN
4 7 (1.21%) DNS
4 7 (1.21%) Network Security
5 6 (1.03%) SAN
5 6 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.03%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.86%) DHCP
7 4 (0.69%) BGP
7 4 (0.69%) NGFW
7 4 (0.69%) OSPF
7 4 (0.69%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.52%) LAN
8 3 (0.52%) SNMP
8 3 (0.52%) WAN
9 2 (0.34%) HTTP
9 2 (0.34%) Wireless
9 2 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.21%) Power BI
2 89 (15.34%) Tableau
3 27 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.28%) Data Mining
7 19 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 16 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.24%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.24%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.72%) Big Data
12 9 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.21%) MySQL
13 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (9.83%) Git
2 29 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.41%) GitLab
4 12 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (1.55%) JIRA
6 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.69%) Vite
9 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.52%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) MLflow
10 2 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 181 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 103 (17.76%) Finance
3 82 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.17%) Retail
5 25 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.14%) Law
7 19 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.59%) Multimedia
10 13 (2.24%) Marketing
11 11 (1.90%) Legal
12 9 (1.55%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.03%) Banking
13 6 (1.03%) Police
14 5 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.69%) Advertising
15 4 (0.69%) Electronics
15 4 (0.69%) Italian Language
15 4 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 120 (20.69%) Senior
2 101 (17.41%) Analyst
3 91 (15.69%) Data Analyst
4 73 (12.59%) Developer
5 72 (12.41%) Data Engineer
6 65 (11.21%) Junior
6 65 (11.21%) Junior Analyst
6 65 (11.21%) Junior Data Analyst
7 62 (10.69%) Software Engineer
8 49 (8.45%) Lead
9 48 (8.28%) Python Engineer
10 44 (7.59%) Trainee
11 38 (6.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (4.14%) Python Software Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) Python Developer
15 21 (3.62%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.28%) Architect
17 18 (3.10%) GCP Engineer
17 18 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.24%) React
2 33 (5.69%) HTML
3 32 (5.52%) .NET
3 32 (5.52%) Node.js
4 29 (5.00%) CSS
5 28 (4.83%) FastAPI
5 28 (4.83%) Kafka
6 27 (4.66%) Vue
7 22 (3.79%) Pandas
8 19 (3.28%) Spring
8 19 (3.28%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.10%) Next.js
9 18 (3.10%) NumPy
9 18 (3.10%) PySpark
9 18 (3.10%) scikit-learn
10 15 (2.59%) REST
11 14 (2.41%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.41%) React Native
11 14 (2.41%) Ruby on Rails
12 12 (2.07%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.24%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.03%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.48%) Linux
2 14 (2.41%) Windows
3 9 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.52%) Android
5 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.52%) CentOS
5 3 (0.52%) Unix
6 2 (0.34%) Debian
6 2 (0.34%) Solaris
6 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (43.28%) AI
2 126 (21.72%) Analytics
3 119 (20.52%) CI/CD
4 105 (18.10%) Software Engineering
5 103 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
5 103 (17.76%) DevOps
6 96 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 94 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (15.34%) Agile
9 81 (13.97%) Mentoring
10 69 (11.90%) Machine Learning
11 57 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
12 55 (9.48%) Observability
13 52 (8.97%) Containerisation
13 52 (8.97%) Event-Driven
14 49 (8.45%) Microservices
15 47 (8.10%) Data Engineering
15 47 (8.10%) Decision-Making
16 46 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (7.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 236 (40.69%) SQL
2 79 (13.62%) Java
3 76 (13.10%) JavaScript
4 50 (8.62%) TypeScript
5 38 (6.55%) PowerShell
6 37 (6.38%) Bash
7 25 (4.31%) R
8 24 (4.14%) C++
9 23 (3.97%) C#
10 21 (3.62%) Go
11 14 (2.41%) C
11 14 (2.41%) Ruby
12 12 (2.07%) Bicep
13 10 (1.72%) Scala
14 8 (1.38%) PHP
15 7 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (1.03%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
18 1 (0.17%) Groovy
18 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (20.34%) Azure Certification
2 55 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.41%) Degree
4 35 (6.03%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.69%) SC Cleared
6 30 (5.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 22 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 22 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.52%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CCNA
13 2 (0.34%) CCNP
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.34%) MBA
13 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
14 1 (0.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.59%) QA
3 6 (1.03%) DICOM
4 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS
5 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 64 (11.03%) Docker
2 8 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 109 (18.79%) Terraform
2 60 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.86%) Ansible
4 18 (3.10%) Grafana
5 17 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.69%) Argo
6 4 (0.69%) Istio
6 4 (0.69%) Puppet
7 3 (0.52%) linkerd
7 3 (0.52%) Nagios
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.34%) Podman
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.17%) QRadar
9 1 (0.17%) Rancher
9 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 165 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.48%) Databricks
3 24 (4.14%) Google
4 13 (2.24%) HubSpot
5 11 (1.90%) Splunk
5 11 (1.90%) VMware
6 10 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.38%) Adobe
8 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.86%) Oracle
10 4 (0.69%) Arista
10 4 (0.69%) Aruba
10 4 (0.69%) NetScout
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.52%) SAP
12 2 (0.34%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco
12 2 (0.34%) Mirantis
12 2 (0.34%) SaltStack