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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 586 1,046 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.28% 21.07% 5.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.32% 54.62% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 387 175 401
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,375 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,659 1,915 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.93% 38.57% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 800 2,479
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,238 £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% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -8 408 £66,750 -1.11% 168
Merseyside +6 75 £45,000 -14.29% 23
Lancashire -14 75 £47,500 -7.32% 44
Cheshire -44 24 £67,500 +28.57% 28
Cumbria -23 2 £85,000 +17.24% 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 (2.39%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.22%) Apache
2 13 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.05%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.37%) WordPress
5 6 (1.02%) Confluence
5 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 87 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.39%) 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
1 273 (46.59%) Azure
2 221 (37.71%) AWS
3 102 (17.41%) Power Platform
4 90 (15.36%) Azure AI
5 77 (13.14%) GCP
6 61 (10.41%) GitHub
7 51 (8.70%) Serverless
8 30 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (4.78%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (3.92%) SaaS
12 19 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (2.56%) dbt
15 13 (2.22%) Datadog
16 12 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.05%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.10%) Firewall
2 18 (3.07%) Internet
3 10 (1.71%) VPN
4 8 (1.37%) DNS
4 8 (1.37%) SAN
4 8 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.19%) Network Security
6 6 (1.02%) DHCP
6 6 (1.02%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.85%) BGP
7 5 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.68%) NGFW
8 4 (0.68%) OSPF
8 4 (0.68%) VXLAN
8 4 (0.68%) WAN
9 3 (0.51%) IPsec
9 3 (0.51%) LAN
9 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.51%) SNMP
9 3 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.04%) Power BI
2 87 (14.85%) Tableau
3 29 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (4.61%) SQL Server
5 20 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.90%) Data Mining
6 17 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.39%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.88%) Big Data
11 10 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.19%) MySQL
13 7 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (8.87%) Git
2 29 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.39%) GitLab
4 12 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
5 11 (1.88%) JIRA
6 7 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.68%) Vite
9 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.51%) 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
1 187 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.75%) Finance
3 81 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.46%) Retail
5 27 (4.61%) Law
6 26 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.22%) Marketing
10 12 (2.05%) Multimedia
11 10 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.71%) Legal
12 6 (1.02%) Banking
12 6 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.02%) Police
13 5 (0.85%) Electronics
13 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.68%) Advertising
14 4 (0.68%) Games
14 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (21.67%) Senior
2 99 (16.89%) Analyst
3 89 (15.19%) Data Analyst
4 73 (12.46%) Data Engineer
5 69 (11.77%) Developer
6 65 (11.09%) Junior
6 65 (11.09%) Junior Analyst
6 65 (11.09%) Junior Data Analyst
7 63 (10.75%) Software Engineer
8 51 (8.70%) Lead
9 47 (8.02%) Python Engineer
10 39 (6.66%) Trainee
11 38 (6.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (4.10%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (3.41%) Architect
14 20 (3.41%) Python Developer
15 19 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
15 19 (3.24%) Software Developer
16 18 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.68%) React
2 34 (5.80%) Node.js
3 33 (5.63%) .NET
4 30 (5.12%) HTML
5 29 (4.95%) Kafka
6 28 (4.78%) FastAPI
6 28 (4.78%) Vue
7 26 (4.44%) CSS
8 24 (4.10%) Spring
8 24 (4.10%) Spring Boot
9 22 (3.75%) Pandas
10 18 (3.07%) AngularJS
10 18 (3.07%) Next.js
10 18 (3.07%) NumPy
10 18 (3.07%) PySpark
10 18 (3.07%) scikit-learn
11 16 (2.73%) REST
12 14 (2.39%) React Native
12 14 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
13 12 (2.05%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 26 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.39%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.37%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.19%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.02%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.61%) Linux
2 14 (2.39%) Windows
3 10 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.85%) CentOS
6 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.68%) Unix
7 3 (0.51%) Android
7 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.51%) Debian
7 3 (0.51%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (43.86%) AI
2 130 (22.18%) CI/CD
3 127 (21.67%) Analytics
4 110 (18.77%) DevOps
5 108 (18.43%) Software Engineering
6 103 (17.58%) Business Intelligence
7 101 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 98 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (16.04%) Agile
10 83 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 75 (12.80%) Machine Learning
12 60 (10.24%) Data Pipeline
13 57 (9.73%) Containerisation
14 56 (9.56%) Observability
15 54 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (8.87%) Event-Driven
16 52 (8.87%) Microservices
16 52 (8.87%) Test Automation
17 50 (8.53%) Decision-Making
18 49 (8.36%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (40.44%) SQL
2 87 (14.85%) Java
3 77 (13.14%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 41 (7.00%) PowerShell
6 38 (6.48%) Bash
7 25 (4.27%) C++
8 24 (4.10%) C#
8 24 (4.10%) R
9 19 (3.24%) Go
10 14 (2.39%) Bicep
10 14 (2.39%) Ruby
11 13 (2.22%) C
12 10 (1.71%) Scala
13 8 (1.37%) PHP
14 7 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.02%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 115 (19.62%) Azure Certification
2 61 (10.41%) Security Cleared
3 46 (7.85%) Degree
4 34 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 26 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
12 7 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.51%) MBA
13 3 (0.51%) PhD
14 2 (0.34%) CCNA
14 2 (0.34%) CCNP
14 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
15 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.07%) QA
3 6 (1.02%) 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 69 (11.77%) Docker
2 11 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 115 (19.62%) Terraform
2 63 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.48%) Ansible
4 18 (3.07%) Grafana
5 17 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.02%) Puppet
7 4 (0.68%) Argo
7 4 (0.68%) Istio
8 3 (0.51%) linkerd
8 3 (0.51%) Nagios
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.34%) Podman
9 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.17%) QRadar
10 1 (0.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 160 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.95%) Databricks
3 25 (4.27%) Google
4 14 (2.39%) VMware
5 13 (2.22%) HubSpot
5 13 (2.22%) Splunk
6 12 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.54%) Adobe
8 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.85%) Oracle
10 4 (0.68%) Arista
10 4 (0.68%) Aruba
10 4 (0.68%) NetScout
11 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.51%) Cisco
11 3 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.51%) SAP
12 2 (0.34%) Mirantis
12 2 (0.34%) Palo Alto