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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 547 440 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 11.21% 6.33% 10.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.52% 23.24% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 184 214 340
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,975 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,262 £47,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,813 £79,506 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £85,000 £87,419
England median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +3.45% +2.84%

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 1,257 1,893 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 25.76% 27.24% 40.80%
Number of salaries quoted 736 1,059 1,273
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,366
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £70,188 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,680 £82,747
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 November 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 November 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 +6 229 £62,500 - 450
Lancashire +34 194 £57,500 -10.40% 175
Cheshire +16 77 £51,250 +2.50% 119
Merseyside +2 43 £40,000 -42.86% 47
Cumbria -12 1 £68,000 +23.08% 6
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 7 (1.28%) CMS
1 7 (1.28%) SAS
2 5 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.73%) Apache
3 4 (0.73%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.37%) WordPress
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) JBoss
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Odoo
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 172 (31.44%) AWS
2 163 (29.80%) Azure
3 99 (18.10%) GCP
4 28 (5.12%) GitHub
4 28 (5.12%) Power Platform
5 13 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (2.19%) Serverless
7 11 (2.01%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.28%) AWS CodeBuild
9 7 (1.28%) Route 53
9 7 (1.28%) SaaS
9 7 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.10%) OpenShift
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 251 (45.89%) VPN
2 250 (45.70%) Cisco IOS
3 23 (4.20%) Internet
4 6 (1.10%) DNS
5 4 (0.73%) Firewall
6 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.55%) WAN
7 2 (0.37%) DHCP
7 2 (0.37%) HTTP
7 2 (0.37%) Network Security
7 2 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.18%) SAN
8 1 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.12%) Power BI
2 25 (4.57%) Tableau
3 21 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 19 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.11%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.01%) Data Mining
9 9 (1.65%) Big Data
10 8 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.46%) MySQL
10 8 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.28%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.10%) GIS
13 5 (0.91%) Looker
14 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.73%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (6.58%) Git
2 18 (3.29%) GitLab
3 17 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.46%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.10%) JIRA
6 5 (0.91%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.73%) MLflow
7 4 (0.73%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) Ant
9 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.18%) CANoe
9 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 315 (57.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 277 (50.64%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (8.78%) Social Skills
4 47 (8.59%) Finance
5 23 (4.20%) Retail
6 22 (4.02%) Multimedia
7 18 (3.29%) Marketing
8 13 (2.38%) Banking
9 12 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.19%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.01%) Legal
11 8 (1.46%) Law
12 7 (1.28%) Electronics
13 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.91%) Advertising
14 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.55%) Games
16 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 254 (46.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 122 (22.30%) Senior
3 77 (14.08%) Software Engineer
4 66 (12.07%) Senior Software Engineer
5 44 (8.04%) Developer
6 38 (6.95%) Data Engineer
7 32 (5.85%) Trainee
8 29 (5.30%) Analyst
9 22 (4.02%) Data Analyst
9 22 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (3.11%) Lead
11 15 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (2.74%) Python Engineer
12 14 (2.56%) Software Developer
13 13 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.01%) Architect
14 11 (2.01%) Data Scientist
15 10 (1.83%) Senior Developer
15 10 (1.83%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (47.53%) Elastic Stack
2 75 (13.71%) Node.js
3 71 (12.98%) .NET
4 28 (5.12%) HTML
5 26 (4.75%) CSS
6 15 (2.74%) React
7 10 (1.83%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.65%) Django
8 9 (1.65%) FastAPI
8 9 (1.65%) REST
9 8 (1.46%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.46%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.28%) RESTful
11 6 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.10%) Middleware
11 6 (1.10%) PySpark
11 6 (1.10%) Vue
12 5 (0.91%) JSON
12 5 (0.91%) Pandas
13 4 (0.73%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 311 (56.86%) Cyberattack
2 65 (11.88%) Linux Command Line
3 63 (11.52%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.73%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.73%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.37%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.37%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.37%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 335 (61.24%) Linux
2 263 (48.08%) Windows
3 250 (45.70%) Android
4 8 (1.46%) Debian
4 8 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.73%) Unix
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (55.94%) DevOps
2 291 (53.20%) Problem-Solving
3 260 (47.53%) Mathematics
3 260 (47.53%) Platform Engineering
4 258 (47.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 256 (46.80%) Task Automation
6 253 (46.25%) Storage Management
7 252 (46.07%) Line Management
8 251 (45.89%) Risk Management
9 108 (19.74%) Agile
10 107 (19.56%) Machine Learning
11 99 (18.10%) Mentoring
11 99 (18.10%) Software Engineering
12 84 (15.36%) Data Engineering
13 80 (14.63%) Microservices
14 73 (13.35%) User Experience
15 71 (12.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 67 (12.25%) CI/CD
16 67 (12.25%) Scrum
17 65 (11.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 270 (49.36%) Bash
2 263 (48.08%) PowerShell
3 117 (21.39%) SQL
4 114 (20.84%) JavaScript
5 96 (17.55%) Java
6 70 (12.80%) C++
7 65 (11.88%) Rust
8 64 (11.70%) Go
9 29 (5.30%) R
10 22 (4.02%) C#
11 14 (2.56%) PHP
12 13 (2.38%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.10%) C
14 5 (0.91%) Bicep
14 5 (0.91%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.91%) Ruby
15 4 (0.73%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.73%) Dart
15 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (16.64%) AWS Certification
2 80 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 69 (12.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 69 (12.61%) DV Cleared
4 61 (11.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 34 (6.22%) Azure Certification
6 29 (5.30%) Degree
7 23 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (4.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (2.38%) SC Cleared
10 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.65%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.91%) PhD
13 2 (0.37%) CISSP
13 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CISM
14 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.01%) GDPR
3 9 (1.65%) NIST
4 8 (1.46%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.73%) QA
6 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.18%) FINRA
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 302 (55.21%) Docker
2 251 (45.89%) Hyper-V
2 251 (45.89%) vSphere
3 250 (45.70%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.55%) KVM
4 3 (0.55%) QEMU
5 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 278 (50.82%) Terraform
2 271 (49.54%) Ansible
3 41 (7.50%) Kubernetes
4 14 (2.56%) Grafana
5 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.55%) Puppet
7 2 (0.37%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.18%) Nessus
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Podman
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 259 (47.35%) Splunk
2 250 (45.70%) 3PAR
2 250 (45.70%) Cisco
2 250 (45.70%) Juniper
3 56 (10.24%) Microsoft
4 18 (3.29%) Google
5 13 (2.38%) Oracle
6 9 (1.65%) HubSpot
7 8 (1.46%) Databricks
8 5 (0.91%) SAP
9 4 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.73%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.55%) VMware
10 3 (0.55%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.37%) Aderant
11 2 (0.37%) Freshdesk
11 2 (0.37%) IBM
11 2 (0.37%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.18%) Adobe
12 1 (0.18%) Cognos