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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 5 25
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 544 1,026 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.22% 19.57% 5.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.73% 57.29% 21.78%
Number of salaries quoted 350 163 207
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -

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 1,770 1,791 1,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.74% 34.16% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 685 1,142
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,326 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £78,725
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -11 432 £67,500 +12.50% 430
Lancashire -43 42 £64,653 +12.44% 38
Merseyside -27 36 £73,750 +34.09% 28
Cheshire -46 27 £71,250 +35.71% 52
Cumbria -3 2 £62,500 -8.09% 5
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 23 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.04%) Apache
3 18 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.29%) Confluence
6 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.55%) IIS
8 3 (0.55%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.18%) Odoo
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (36.76%) AWS
2 185 (34.01%) Azure
3 73 (13.42%) GitHub
4 70 (12.87%) GCP
5 53 (9.74%) Power Platform
6 45 (8.27%) Serverless
7 35 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (5.70%) Amazon S3
8 31 (5.70%) SaaS
9 30 (5.51%) Snowflake
10 28 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (4.96%) dbt
12 25 (4.60%) Azure AI
13 19 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (2.57%) OpenShift
15 12 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.23%) Firewall
2 19 (3.49%) DNS
3 14 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.21%) VPN
5 11 (2.02%) Network Security
6 10 (1.84%) WAN
7 8 (1.47%) DHCP
8 7 (1.29%) BGP
8 7 (1.29%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.29%) Wireless
9 6 (1.10%) LAN
10 5 (0.92%) BIG-IP
10 5 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (0.92%) OSPF
10 5 (0.92%) SAN
11 4 (0.74%) Internet
11 4 (0.74%) IPsec
11 4 (0.74%) SNMP
11 4 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.82%) Power BI
2 42 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (3.31%) DynamoDB
6 18 (3.31%) Tableau
7 17 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.57%) Relational Database
10 13 (2.39%) Big Data
10 13 (2.39%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.29%) Power Query
13 7 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.10%) MySQL
14 6 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (8.46%) Git
2 34 (6.25%) GitLab
3 29 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 21 (3.86%) JIRA
5 9 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.10%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.10%) Maven
7 5 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.74%) Storybook
8 4 (0.74%) Vite
9 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.18%) Postman
11 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 170 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.46%) Finance
3 76 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (4.96%) Law
6 23 (4.23%) Legal
7 20 (3.68%) Marketing
8 18 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.13%) Retail
10 14 (2.57%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.65%) Banking
11 9 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.10%) Local Government
14 5 (0.92%) Games
15 4 (0.74%) Advertising
15 4 (0.74%) Automotive
15 4 (0.74%) Publishing
16 3 (0.55%) Electronics
16 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (31.07%) Senior
2 87 (15.99%) Developer
3 78 (14.34%) Data Engineer
4 72 (13.24%) Software Engineer
5 47 (8.64%) Python Engineer
6 45 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 42 (7.72%) Analyst
8 38 (6.99%) Lead
9 37 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
10 32 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (5.33%) Python Software Engineer
12 27 (4.96%) Python Developer
13 26 (4.78%) Senior Developer
14 25 (4.60%) Software Developer
15 24 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 24 (4.41%) Data Analyst
16 17 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (3.13%) Consultant
16 17 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (2.94%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (25.18%) Terraform
2 55 (10.11%) React
3 40 (7.35%) Spring
3 40 (7.35%) Spring Boot
4 34 (6.25%) Node.js
5 28 (5.15%) Vue
6 27 (4.96%) FastAPI
7 26 (4.78%) Kafka
8 25 (4.60%) AngularJS
9 23 (4.23%) REST
10 22 (4.04%) .NET
10 22 (4.04%) PySpark
11 19 (3.49%) HTML
11 19 (3.49%) Next.js
12 17 (3.13%) CSS
13 14 (2.57%) React Native
13 14 (2.57%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.39%) LangChain
15 9 (1.65%) Flask
16 7 (1.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.05%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 32 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.47%) Life Science
12 7 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.10%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.11%) Linux
2 28 (5.15%) Windows
3 17 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.65%) Unix
5 8 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.29%) CentOS
7 5 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.55%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.55%) Debian
8 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.37%) AIX
9 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.37%) Solaris
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (40.26%) AI
2 181 (33.27%) CI/CD
3 145 (26.65%) Software Engineering
4 137 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 130 (23.90%) DevOps
6 126 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (20.96%) Analytics
8 112 (20.59%) Agile
9 88 (16.18%) Mentoring
10 75 (13.79%) Observability
11 73 (13.42%) Containerisation
12 72 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 71 (13.05%) Data Pipeline
14 65 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
15 64 (11.76%) Test Automation
16 63 (11.58%) Decision-Making
16 63 (11.58%) Machine Learning
17 62 (11.40%) Data Engineering
18 59 (10.85%) Platform Engineering
19 53 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 203 (37.32%) SQL
2 116 (21.32%) Java
3 73 (13.42%) JavaScript
4 71 (13.05%) TypeScript
5 69 (12.68%) Bash
6 46 (8.46%) PowerShell
7 33 (6.07%) Go
8 27 (4.96%) C#
9 22 (4.04%) C++
10 21 (3.86%) R
11 15 (2.76%) Ruby
12 13 (2.39%) C
12 13 (2.39%) Scala
13 12 (2.21%) Bicep
13 12 (2.21%) PHP
14 11 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.47%) Rust
16 7 (1.29%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.29%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.92%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 94 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.58%) Degree
3 47 (8.64%) DV Cleared
4 45 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 35 (6.43%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.49%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.74%) CCNA
12 4 (0.74%) MBA
12 4 (0.74%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.55%) PhD
13 3 (0.55%) RHCE
13 3 (0.55%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.37%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.13%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.31%) QA
3 12 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.74%) SLA
4 4 (0.74%) WCAG
5 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.55%) GDPR
5 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (17.65%) Docker
2 12 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.37%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 91 (16.73%) Kubernetes
2 59 (10.85%) Ansible
3 23 (4.23%) Grafana
4 20 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.76%) Puppet
6 7 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.10%) Argo
8 5 (0.92%) Podman
9 4 (0.74%) Istio
9 4 (0.74%) linkerd
10 3 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.55%) Nagios
10 3 (0.55%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.37%) QRadar
11 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 72 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.99%) Databricks
3 34 (6.25%) Google
4 24 (4.41%) Splunk
5 18 (3.31%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.57%) Adobe
7 13 (2.39%) Oracle
7 13 (2.39%) VMware
8 10 (1.84%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.47%) Cisco
9 8 (1.47%) New Relic
9 8 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.29%) F5
11 6 (1.10%) Mistral
12 5 (0.92%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.92%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.74%) NEC
14 3 (0.55%) SaltStack
14 3 (0.55%) SAP
14 3 (0.55%) ServiceNow