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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 282 380 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.16% 7.69% 7.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.83% 27.08% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 219 193 318
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 886 1,403 2,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.08% 28.40% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 738 800 1,743
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,875 £34,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -16 173 £61,418 -1.73% 139
Merseyside +5 55 £40,000 -27.27% 40
Lancashire -16 21 £48,445 -22.49% 68
Cheshire -25 19 £48,979 -0.35% 37
Cumbria +1 11 £85,000 +21.43% 3
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 9 (3.19%) Apache
1 9 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.84%) WordPress
3 6 (2.13%) CMS
4 4 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.71%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (19.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 145 (51.42%) Azure
2 137 (48.58%) AWS
3 61 (21.63%) GitHub
4 47 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 42 (14.89%) GCP
6 25 (8.87%) Azure AI
7 14 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (4.96%) Snowflake
8 12 (4.26%) Serverless
9 10 (3.55%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.84%) SaaS
12 7 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.77%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.77%) dbt
13 5 (1.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.42%) Slack
14 4 (1.42%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 57 (20.21%) Internet
2 9 (3.19%) Firewall
3 4 (1.42%) AMQP
3 4 (1.42%) DNS
3 4 (1.42%) NGFW
3 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.42%) VXLAN
3 4 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.06%) DHCP
4 3 (1.06%) HTTP
4 3 (1.06%) SAN
4 3 (1.06%) SSL
4 3 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) SSH
6 1 (0.35%) TCAP
6 1 (0.35%) VSAN
6 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.15%) Tableau
2 44 (15.60%) Power BI
3 26 (9.22%) Data Mining
4 22 (7.80%) MongoDB
5 21 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.67%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.61%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.55%) Big Data
9 10 (3.55%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.55%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.19%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.48%) MySQL
13 6 (2.13%) Data Vault
13 6 (2.13%) Neo4j
14 5 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 76 (26.95%) Git
2 18 (6.38%) GitLab
3 15 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.13%) Postman
5 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.06%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.06%) Selenium
7 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.71%) JIRA
7 2 (0.71%) Maven
7 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.35%) Ant
8 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) JUnit
8 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
8 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.50%) Finance
3 50 (17.73%) Multimedia
4 49 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.26%) Banking
7 10 (3.55%) Marketing
8 8 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.84%) Law
8 8 (2.84%) Legal
8 8 (2.84%) Retail
9 6 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.77%) Advertising
10 5 (1.77%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.42%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.06%) French Language
12 3 (1.06%) Games
12 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.06%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (26.60%) Trainee
2 59 (20.92%) Analyst
3 57 (20.21%) Developer
4 54 (19.15%) Data Analyst
5 37 (13.12%) Senior
6 25 (8.87%) Software Developer
6 25 (8.87%) Software Engineer
6 25 (8.87%) Trainee Analyst
6 25 (8.87%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 24 (8.51%) Junior
7 24 (8.51%) Junior Analyst
7 24 (8.51%) Junior Data Analyst
8 22 (7.80%) Trainee Developer
8 22 (7.80%) Trainee Software Developer
9 20 (7.09%) Data Engineer
9 20 (7.09%) Python Engineer
10 16 (5.67%) Lead
11 10 (3.55%) Data Scientist
11 10 (3.55%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.84%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.57%) CSS
2 56 (19.86%) HTML
3 25 (8.87%) React
4 18 (6.38%) Node.js
5 16 (5.67%) .NET
6 13 (4.61%) Django
7 12 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.26%) REST
8 10 (3.55%) Flask
9 9 (3.19%) FastAPI
10 8 (2.84%) RESTful
11 7 (2.48%) JSON
11 7 (2.48%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.48%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (2.13%) Spring
12 6 (2.13%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.13%) Vue
13 5 (1.77%) Celery
13 5 (1.77%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.48%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.42%) PKI
7 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.71%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.64%) Linux
2 11 (3.90%) Windows
3 7 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.13%) Debian
4 6 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.77%) CentOS
5 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.06%) Android
6 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.06%) Unix
7 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.35%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.24%) AI
2 61 (21.63%) Mentoring
3 53 (18.79%) Analytics
4 52 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (18.09%) CI/CD
5 51 (18.09%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (15.25%) Software Engineering
8 42 (14.89%) Agile
8 42 (14.89%) DevOps
9 41 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (13.48%) Data Analysis
11 37 (13.12%) Data Analytics
11 37 (13.12%) Machine Learning
12 34 (12.06%) Data Science
13 33 (11.70%) Containerisation
14 31 (10.99%) Project Management
15 25 (8.87%) Business Analysis
16 20 (7.09%) Data Modelling
16 20 (7.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 116 (41.13%) SQL
2 80 (28.37%) JavaScript
3 34 (12.06%) R
4 32 (11.35%) Java
5 19 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.32%) Go
7 13 (4.61%) Bash
7 13 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.26%) C
9 7 (2.48%) ANSI SQL
9 7 (2.48%) PHP
10 6 (2.13%) Bicep
10 6 (2.13%) C#
11 4 (1.42%) Scala
12 2 (0.71%) C++
12 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.71%) Groovy
12 2 (0.71%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.71%) VBA
13 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 81 (28.72%) Azure Certification
2 53 (18.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (18.44%) AWS Certification
4 50 (17.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 27 (9.57%) Security Cleared
6 25 (8.87%) Degree
7 18 (6.38%) SC Cleared
8 12 (4.26%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.06%) PhD
11 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CCSP
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CISM
12 1 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.35%) HNC
12 1 (0.35%) HND
12 1 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.77%) QA
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) DICOM
4 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.35%) FINRA
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (12.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) KVM
3 3 (1.06%) QEMU
3 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (15.60%) Kubernetes
1 44 (15.60%) Terraform
2 30 (10.64%) Ansible
3 8 (2.84%) Grafana
4 5 (1.77%) Puppet
5 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Rancher
7 2 (0.71%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.71%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.35%) Nagios
8 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.38%) Google
3 11 (3.90%) Oracle
4 9 (3.19%) HubSpot
5 7 (2.48%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.48%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.77%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.77%) VMware
8 4 (1.42%) Arista
8 4 (1.42%) Aruba
8 4 (1.42%) NetScout
8 4 (1.42%) Splunk
9 3 (1.06%) Databricks
10 2 (0.71%) Aderant
10 2 (0.71%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.71%) SAP
11 1 (0.35%) Mirantis
11 1 (0.35%) UiPath
11 1 (0.35%) YouTube