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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	30	10	22
Rank change year-on-year	-20	+12	-8
Permanent jobs citing Python	555	713	434
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West	4.31%	14.83%	6.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category	30.76%	48.44%	22.57%
Number of salaries quoted	369	162	210
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£35,000	£42,500
25^th Percentile	£52,500	£44,000	£47,546
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£60,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+12.50%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£70,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£93,750	£85,775	£85,000
England median annual salary	£72,500	£72,500	£75,000
% change year-on-year	-	-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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	1,804	1,472	1,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West	14.00%	30.62%	27.07%
Number of salaries quoted	1,376	684	1,092
10^th Percentile	£38,750	£32,750	£35,305
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£41,250	£43,938
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,499	£57,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.69%	+4.55%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£70,000	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£81,250	£78,750
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 Salary Trend in the North West

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 18 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 18 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	-9	452	£67,500	+12.50%	356
Lancashire	-47	36	£64,653	+11.47%	28
Merseyside	-19	31	£62,000	+12.73%	25
Cheshire	-47	29	£67,500	+31.71%	39
Cumbria	-1	2	£62,500	-8.09%	4
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Python Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Python also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region with a requirement for Python.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	40.2%	223
2	SQL	37.7%	209
3	AWS	36.6%	203
4	CI/CD	34.8%	193
5	Azure	31.7%	176
6	Software Engineering	27.2%	151
7	Terraform	25.6%	142
8	Infrastructure as Code	24.9%	138
9	DevOps	24.7%	137
10	Problem-Solving	24.5%	136
11	Analytics	21.6%	120
12	Java	21.1%	117
13	Agile	20.4%	113
14	Docker	18.2%	101
15	Security Cleared	18.0%	100
16	Kubernetes	16.9%	94
17	Mentoring	16.4%	91
18	Data Pipeline	13.7%	76
19	Continuous Improvement	13.5%	75
19	JavaScript	13.5%	75
19	TypeScript	13.5%	75
22	Data Quality	13.3%	74
22	GCP	13.3%	74
22	GitHub	13.3%	74
25	Containerisation	13.2%	73
25	Machine Learning	13.2%	73
27	Microsoft	12.8%	71
27	Observability	12.8%	71
29	Data Engineering	12.6%	70
29	Decision-Making	12.6%	70

Python Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	37.7%	209
2	Java	21.1%	117
3	JavaScript	13.5%	75
3	TypeScript	13.5%	75
5	Bash	12.3%	68
6	PowerShell	8.1%	45
7	Go	6.3%	35
8	C#	5.0%	28
9	C++	4.0%	22
9	R	4.0%	22
11	Scala	2.9%	16
12	C	2.7%	15
12	Ruby	2.7%	15
14	Data Analysis Expressions	2.3%	13
15	Bicep	2.2%	12
16	PHP	2.0%	11
17	Rust	1.4%	8
17	T-SQL	1.4%	8
19	Shell Script	1.3%	7
20	ActionScript	0.9%	5