Python Jobs in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 26 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 752 597 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.68% 6.13% 17.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.45% 20.62% 42.05%
Number of salaries quoted 209 371 392
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,544
25th Percentile £48,869 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,509 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.03% -9.59% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,225
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 2,063 2,895 3,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 26.56% 29.74% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 2,355 1,799
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the North West.

Salary trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 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 6 May 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
Lancashire +38 376 £51,277 -26.75% 110
Manchester +8 262 £67,500 +22.73% 271
Cheshire +26 55 £55,000 +4.76% 62
Merseyside +6 39 £55,000 -31.25% 29
Cumbria -63 20 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.33%) Apache
3 9 (1.20%) SAS
4 4 (0.53%) CMS
4 4 (0.53%) Confluence
4 4 (0.53%) WordPress
5 3 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Simulink
2 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 221 (29.39%) AWS
2 212 (28.19%) Azure
3 158 (21.01%) GCP
4 20 (2.66%) GitHub
5 19 (2.53%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.13%) Serverless
7 10 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (1.20%) dbt
8 9 (1.20%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (0.93%) SaaS
11 6 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (0.80%) PaaS
12 5 (0.66%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 387 (51.46%) DNS
2 384 (51.06%) VPN
3 10 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.80%) Wireless
5 4 (0.53%) Firewall
5 4 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.53%) WAN
6 3 (0.40%) HTTP
6 3 (0.40%) Internet
6 3 (0.40%) Network Security
7 2 (0.27%) FTP
7 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 2 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.13%) BGP
8 1 (0.13%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.13%) MPLS
8 1 (0.13%) OSPF
8 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.32%) MySQL
2 21 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.66%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.39%) Power BI
4 18 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.13%) Big Data
6 14 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.73%) Tableau
8 7 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.80%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 31 (4.12%) Git
3 12 (1.60%) TeamCity
4 10 (1.33%) JIRA
5 9 (1.20%) Selenium
6 8 (1.06%) GitLab
7 6 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.80%) JMeter
7 6 (0.80%) LoadRunner
7 6 (0.80%) Postman
8 5 (0.66%) Appium
9 4 (0.53%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.40%) JUnit
10 3 (0.40%) Maven
10 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 497 (66.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 453 (60.24%) Finance
3 424 (56.38%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 28 (3.72%) Banking
6 27 (3.59%) Retail
7 16 (2.13%) Legal
8 15 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.20%) Electronics
11 8 (1.06%) Automotive
12 7 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (0.80%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.80%) Cantonese Language
13 6 (0.80%) Marketing
14 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.53%) Games
15 4 (0.53%) Wholesale Banking
16 3 (0.40%) Military
17 2 (0.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 408 (54.26%) Developer
2 381 (50.66%) Software Developer
3 183 (24.34%) Senior
4 147 (19.55%) Software Engineer
5 136 (18.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 51 (6.78%) Lead
7 26 (3.46%) Data Engineer
8 21 (2.79%) Analyst
9 15 (1.99%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (1.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.73%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (1.73%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 11 (1.46%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (1.46%) Data Scientist
13 10 (1.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (1.06%) Architect
14 8 (1.06%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (1.06%) Test Engineer
15 7 (0.93%) Senior Developer
16 6 (0.80%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (17.15%) .NET
2 126 (16.76%) Node.js
3 24 (3.19%) React
4 22 (2.93%) Kafka
5 11 (1.46%) REST
5 11 (1.46%) RESTful
5 11 (1.46%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.46%) Web Services
6 10 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.20%) ADO
7 9 (1.20%) Spring
7 9 (1.20%) XML
8 8 (1.06%) Django
8 8 (1.06%) TensorFlow
9 7 (0.93%) CSS
9 7 (0.93%) HTML
9 7 (0.93%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.80%) SOAP
11 5 (0.66%) Hibernate
11 5 (0.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 490 (65.16%) Cyberattack
2 117 (15.56%) Linux Command Line
3 113 (15.03%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (1.99%) Algorithms
5 12 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.46%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.33%) Life Science
8 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.80%) Device Driver
10 6 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.66%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.53%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.40%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 539 (71.68%) Linux
2 379 (50.40%) Android
3 21 (2.79%) Windows
4 9 (1.20%) Unix
5 6 (0.80%) CentOS
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (74.07%) Agile
2 397 (52.79%) Mathematics
3 394 (52.39%) OO
4 385 (51.20%) Line Management
5 381 (50.66%) OOP
6 379 (50.40%) Android Development
6 379 (50.40%) Design Patterns
7 175 (23.27%) Software Engineering
8 148 (19.68%) Machine Learning
9 146 (19.41%) Mentoring
10 140 (18.62%) Microservices
11 131 (17.42%) Cloud Security
12 130 (17.29%) Data Engineering
13 126 (16.76%) Scrum
14 124 (16.49%) User Experience
15 117 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 68 (9.04%) CI/CD
16 68 (9.04%) DevOps
17 65 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (6.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 557 (74.07%) Java
2 513 (68.22%) C++
3 511 (67.95%) Go
4 151 (20.08%) JavaScript
5 118 (15.69%) Rust
6 84 (11.17%) SQL
7 39 (5.19%) Bash
8 25 (3.32%) C#
9 21 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.39%) TypeScript
11 17 (2.26%) PHP
12 15 (1.99%) Bicep
13 13 (1.73%) Ruby
14 12 (1.60%) C
15 11 (1.46%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.06%) R
17 6 (0.80%) Scala
18 4 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
20 2 (0.27%) AWK
Qualifications
1 505 (67.15%) Security Cleared
2 492 (65.43%) DV Cleared
3 119 (15.82%) AWS Certification
4 117 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 111 (14.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 59 (7.85%) Degree
7 13 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.93%) PhD
10 7 (0.93%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.40%) CISSP
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CSSLP
14 1 (0.13%) CCIE
14 1 (0.13%) JNCIE
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.13%) QA
2 11 (1.46%) GDPR
3 10 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.06%) NIST
5 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 428 (56.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) KVM
2 2 (0.27%) Postfix
2 2 (0.27%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 401 (53.32%) Ansible
2 50 (6.65%) Terraform
3 48 (6.38%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.73%) Puppet
5 11 (1.46%) Grafana
5 11 (1.46%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.53%) Istio
7 4 (0.53%) SCCM
7 4 (0.53%) SCOM
7 4 (0.53%) SCOrch
8 3 (0.40%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.27%) Kibana
9 2 (0.27%) Nagios
9 2 (0.27%) Nessus
10 1 (0.13%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) cPanel
10 1 (0.13%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.13%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 34 (4.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.59%) Google
3 21 (2.79%) Oracle
4 13 (1.73%) Databricks
5 7 (0.93%) IBM
5 7 (0.93%) Ping Identity
6 5 (0.66%) Hitachi
7 4 (0.53%) SAP
8 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.40%) New Relic
8 3 (0.40%) Splunk
8 3 (0.40%) Talend
8 3 (0.40%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.27%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.27%) Informatica
9 2 (0.27%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.27%) Tenable
10 1 (0.13%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.13%) Fortinet