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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 30
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 591 1,045 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.83% 20.05% 5.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.52% 54.88% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 385 176 247
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,625 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 1,763 1,904 2,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.42% 36.53% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 783 1,518
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £43,750
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 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,150 £79,720
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -9 440 £67,500 +3.85% 222
Lancashire -25 64 £47,500 -17.39% 56
Merseyside -8 53 £75,000 +30.43% 28
Cheshire -42 32 £67,500 +28.57% 35
Cumbria -13 1 £62,500 -16.67% 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 22 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.21%) Apache
3 15 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.35%) WordPress
6 7 (1.18%) Confluence
7 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Odoo
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 242 (40.95%) Azure
2 221 (37.39%) AWS
3 81 (13.71%) GCP
4 80 (13.54%) Power Platform
5 71 (12.01%) GitHub
6 65 (11.00%) Azure AI
7 52 (8.80%) Serverless
8 34 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (5.58%) SaaS
10 30 (5.08%) Amazon S3
11 29 (4.91%) dbt
12 28 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.57%) Snowflake
14 20 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.20%) Datadog
16 12 (2.03%) OpenShift
17 10 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.38%) Firewall
2 15 (2.54%) Internet
3 14 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.52%) DNS
4 9 (1.52%) VPN
5 8 (1.35%) DHCP
5 8 (1.35%) WAN
6 7 (1.18%) BGP
6 7 (1.18%) Network Security
6 7 (1.18%) SAN
7 6 (1.02%) LAN
8 5 (0.85%) OSPF
8 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.85%) Wireless
9 4 (0.68%) IPsec
9 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.51%) VLAN
10 3 (0.51%) VSAN
10 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.52%) Power BI
2 51 (8.63%) Tableau
3 44 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.55%) DynamoDB
6 20 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (2.71%) BigQuery
8 15 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.03%) Big Data
11 10 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.18%) MySQL
13 7 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.02%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 51 (8.63%) Git
2 27 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.05%) GitLab
4 16 (2.71%) JIRA
5 9 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.02%) Maven
7 5 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.68%) Storybook
8 4 (0.68%) Vite
9 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.17%) Mocha
11 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 215 (36.38%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.58%) Finance
3 81 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.91%) Law
5 23 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.55%) Legal
8 19 (3.21%) Marketing
9 18 (3.05%) Retail
10 10 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.69%) Multimedia
11 7 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.02%) Banking
12 6 (1.02%) Electronics
12 6 (1.02%) Local Government
12 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.02%) Police
13 5 (0.85%) Advertising
13 5 (0.85%) Games
14 4 (0.68%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 164 (27.75%) Senior
2 83 (14.04%) Data Engineer
3 78 (13.20%) Developer
4 73 (12.35%) Analyst
4 73 (12.35%) Software Engineer
5 54 (9.14%) Data Analyst
6 53 (8.97%) Lead
7 52 (8.80%) Python Engineer
8 43 (7.28%) Junior
9 41 (6.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 40 (6.77%) Junior Analyst
10 40 (6.77%) Junior Data Analyst
11 37 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 22 (3.72%) Senior Developer
16 21 (3.55%) Python Developer
17 20 (3.38%) Architect
17 20 (3.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (22.00%) Terraform
2 47 (7.95%) React
3 36 (6.09%) Node.js
3 36 (6.09%) Spring
3 36 (6.09%) Spring Boot
4 34 (5.75%) HTML
5 31 (5.25%) .NET
6 30 (5.08%) Kafka
7 27 (4.57%) Vue
8 26 (4.40%) CSS
9 24 (4.06%) FastAPI
9 24 (4.06%) PySpark
10 22 (3.72%) AngularJS
11 19 (3.21%) Next.js
12 14 (2.37%) React Native
12 14 (2.37%) REST
12 14 (2.37%) Ruby on Rails
13 11 (1.86%) LangChain
13 11 (1.86%) Pandas
14 8 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.37%) AI Agents
5 14 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.35%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.35%) Life Science
10 8 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.02%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.45%) Linux
2 22 (3.72%) Windows
3 14 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.69%) Unix
4 10 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.02%) CentOS
6 4 (0.68%) Solaris
7 3 (0.51%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) AIX
8 2 (0.34%) Debian
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (39.93%) AI
2 157 (26.57%) CI/CD
3 135 (22.84%) Software Engineering
4 127 (21.49%) DevOps
4 127 (21.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 113 (19.12%) Analytics
6 112 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (18.44%) Agile
8 95 (16.07%) Mentoring
9 92 (15.57%) Business Intelligence
10 72 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
11 68 (11.51%) Containerisation
11 68 (11.51%) Observability
12 66 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (11.17%) Data Engineering
13 64 (10.83%) Decision-Making
14 62 (10.49%) Machine Learning
15 61 (10.32%) Test Automation
16 53 (8.97%) ETL
16 53 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 234 (39.59%) SQL
2 109 (18.44%) Java
3 77 (13.03%) JavaScript
4 59 (9.98%) TypeScript
5 58 (9.81%) Bash
6 44 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 31 (5.25%) C#
8 30 (5.08%) C++
9 29 (4.91%) R
10 25 (4.23%) Go
11 15 (2.54%) C
11 15 (2.54%) Ruby
12 14 (2.37%) Bicep
13 13 (2.20%) PHP
14 12 (2.03%) Scala
15 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (1.02%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
18 2 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (14.04%) Azure Certification
2 79 (13.37%) Security Cleared
3 53 (8.97%) Degree
4 38 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 37 (6.26%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.21%) Master's Degree
7 18 (3.05%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 15 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.68%) MBA
13 3 (0.51%) PhD
13 3 (0.51%) RHCE
13 3 (0.51%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.34%) CCIE
14 2 (0.34%) CCNA
14 2 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.72%) QA
3 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.68%) WCAG
5 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.51%) GDPR
5 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) DICOM
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (14.72%) Docker
2 12 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.46%) Ansible
3 23 (3.89%) Grafana
4 20 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.03%) Puppet
6 7 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.85%) Argo
7 5 (0.85%) Istio
8 4 (0.68%) linkerd
8 4 (0.68%) Podman
9 3 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.51%) Nagios
9 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.34%) QRadar
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 112 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.26%) Databricks
3 34 (5.75%) Google
4 22 (3.72%) Splunk
5 16 (2.71%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.37%) Adobe
6 14 (2.37%) VMware
7 13 (2.20%) HubSpot
8 10 (1.69%) Oracle
9 7 (1.18%) Cisco
9 7 (1.18%) New Relic
10 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.68%) Mistral
11 4 (0.68%) NEC
12 3 (0.51%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.51%) IBM
12 3 (0.51%) McAfee
12 3 (0.51%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.51%) SAP
12 3 (0.51%) ServiceNow