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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 9 27
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 496 682 516
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.75% 16.13% 5.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.89% 46.21% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 308 200 368
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,334 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +14.04% -8.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,750
England median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 1,309 1,476 2,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.53% 34.90% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 834 2,351
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,165 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -13 314 £65,000 -3.70% 175
Merseyside +3 79 £40,000 -27.27% 20
Lancashire -20 77 £47,500 -11.63% 58
Cheshire -47 14 £52,500 -4.55% 39
Cumbria -17 10 £85,000 +17.24% 2
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 (2.82%) WordPress
2 13 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.62%) Jupyter
3 8 (1.61%) Apache
3 8 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.40%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 116 (23.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 266 (53.63%) Azure
2 183 (36.90%) AWS
3 109 (21.98%) Azure AI
4 104 (20.97%) Power Platform
5 65 (13.10%) GitHub
6 56 (11.29%) GCP
7 36 (7.26%) Serverless
8 20 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.02%) SaaS
12 14 (2.82%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.42%) Datadog
14 12 (2.42%) dbt
14 12 (2.42%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.02%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.08%) Internet
2 18 (3.63%) Firewall
3 8 (1.61%) DNS
4 6 (1.21%) VPN
5 5 (1.01%) DHCP
5 5 (1.01%) SAN
5 5 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.81%) AMQP
6 4 (0.81%) Network Security
6 4 (0.81%) NGFW
6 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.81%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.60%) HTTP
8 2 (0.40%) SSL
9 1 (0.20%) LAN
9 1 (0.20%) LTE
9 1 (0.20%) SNMP
9 1 (0.20%) TCAP
9 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (23.39%) Tableau
2 98 (19.76%) Power BI
3 32 (6.45%) Data Mining
4 23 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.03%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.42%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.41%) Big Data
12 7 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.41%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.21%) MySQL
13 6 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 70 (14.11%) Git
2 20 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.42%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (2.22%) GitLab
5 6 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.81%) JIRA
6 4 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
8 2 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.40%) Subversion
8 2 (0.40%) Vite
9 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 168 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.54%) Finance
3 66 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.86%) Multimedia
5 26 (5.24%) Retail
6 21 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.02%) Law
10 9 (1.81%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.41%) Banking
11 7 (1.41%) Legal
12 6 (1.21%) Police
13 5 (1.01%) Advertising
13 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.81%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.81%) Marketing
14 4 (0.81%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (24.80%) Analyst
2 117 (23.59%) Data Analyst
3 85 (17.14%) Junior
3 85 (17.14%) Junior Analyst
3 85 (17.14%) Junior Data Analyst
4 80 (16.13%) Senior
4 80 (16.13%) Trainee
5 52 (10.48%) Developer
6 48 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 42 (8.47%) Python Engineer
8 41 (8.27%) Lead
9 40 (8.06%) Data Engineer
10 29 (5.85%) Trainee Analyst
10 29 (5.85%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 28 (5.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 19 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (3.23%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.02%) Programmer
14 15 (3.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 14 (2.82%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.08%) HTML
2 47 (9.48%) CSS
3 32 (6.45%) .NET
4 29 (5.85%) React
5 25 (5.04%) Node.js
6 22 (4.44%) Pandas
7 18 (3.63%) NumPy
8 17 (3.43%) scikit-learn
9 16 (3.23%) Kafka
10 13 (2.62%) Hugging Face
11 12 (2.42%) Matplotlib
11 12 (2.42%) Streamlit
12 11 (2.22%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.22%) PySpark
12 11 (2.22%) REST
13 10 (2.02%) Django
13 10 (2.02%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.81%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.81%) Spring
14 9 (1.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.24%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.22%) Low-Code
5 11 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.21%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.21%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.21%) PACS
8 6 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (0.81%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.81%) Cybercrime
9 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.84%) Linux
2 10 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.81%) Windows
4 5 (1.01%) CentOS
4 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.81%) Debian
5 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.81%) Unix
6 3 (0.60%) Android
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.60%) Solaris
7 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (41.13%) AI
2 100 (20.16%) Business Intelligence
3 89 (17.94%) Analytics
4 75 (15.12%) Software Engineering
5 74 (14.92%) DevOps
6 70 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 69 (13.91%) CI/CD
8 68 (13.71%) Agile
8 68 (13.71%) Mentoring
9 51 (10.28%) Machine Learning
10 50 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (8.47%) Data Analytics
13 41 (8.27%) Data Analysis
14 40 (8.06%) Containerisation
14 40 (8.06%) Project Management
15 39 (7.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 38 (7.66%) Data Science
17 33 (6.65%) Event-Driven
18 32 (6.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 201 (40.52%) SQL
2 84 (16.94%) JavaScript
3 63 (12.70%) Java
4 30 (6.05%) PowerShell
4 30 (6.05%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.65%) R
6 22 (4.44%) Bash
7 18 (3.63%) C
7 18 (3.63%) Go
8 13 (2.62%) C#
8 13 (2.62%) C++
9 11 (2.22%) Bicep
10 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.60%) PHP
11 3 (0.60%) Scala
12 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (32.26%) Azure Certification
2 56 (11.29%) AWS Certification
3 51 (10.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (8.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (7.06%) Security Cleared
6 30 (6.05%) Degree
7 22 (4.44%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.83%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.81%) PhD
12 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) LPIC
13 1 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.22%) QA
3 6 (1.21%) DICOM
4 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (8.27%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 74 (14.92%) Terraform
2 49 (9.88%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.85%) Ansible
4 9 (1.81%) Grafana
5 8 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.81%) Puppet
7 3 (0.60%) Podman
7 3 (0.60%) Rancher
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Nagios
8 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 203 (40.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.44%) Google
3 12 (2.42%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.22%) Databricks
5 10 (2.02%) VMware
6 7 (1.41%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.81%) Arista
8 4 (0.81%) Aruba
8 4 (0.81%) NetScout
8 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.60%) Mirantis
9 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle
10 2 (0.40%) Cisco
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.40%) Splunk