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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 6 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 564 1,018 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.35% 19.47% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.21% 56.71% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 363 155 211
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -2.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% -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 1,807 1,795 2,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.94% 34.33% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,390 685 1,203
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £42,500 £43,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.08%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £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 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 2 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 2 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 -9 444 £67,500 +12.50% 483
Lancashire -38 46 £64,653 +12.44% 64
Merseyside -16 40 £75,000 +25.00% 35
Cheshire -46 27 £67,500 +28.57% 50
Cumbria -5 2 £62,500 -8.09% 7
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 24 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.72%) Apache
3 17 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.24%) Confluence
6 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.53%) IIS
8 3 (0.53%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.18%) Odoo
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 211 (37.41%) AWS
2 204 (36.17%) Azure
3 75 (13.30%) GitHub
4 74 (13.12%) GCP
5 57 (10.11%) Power Platform
6 50 (8.87%) Serverless
7 38 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (5.85%) Azure AI
8 33 (5.85%) SaaS
9 32 (5.67%) Amazon S3
10 31 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (5.50%) Snowflake
11 30 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (4.79%) dbt
14 21 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.30%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.13%) Datadog
17 10 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.08%) Firewall
2 18 (3.19%) DNS
3 14 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.95%) VPN
5 10 (1.77%) DHCP
5 10 (1.77%) WAN
6 9 (1.60%) Network Security
7 7 (1.24%) BGP
7 7 (1.24%) SAN
7 7 (1.24%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.24%) Wireless
8 6 (1.06%) LAN
9 5 (0.89%) OSPF
10 4 (0.71%) Internet
10 4 (0.71%) IPsec
10 4 (0.71%) SNMP
10 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.53%) VLAN
11 3 (0.53%) VSAN
11 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.22%) Power BI
2 43 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (5.32%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.90%) Tableau
6 21 (3.72%) DynamoDB
7 20 (3.55%) Data Lake
8 19 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (3.37%) NoSQL
9 18 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.84%) Relational Database
11 14 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.30%) Big Data
13 12 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (1.06%) MySQL
16 6 (1.06%) Power Query
16 6 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (8.16%) Git
2 33 (5.85%) GitLab
3 29 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.37%) JIRA
5 9 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.06%) Maven
7 5 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.71%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.71%) Storybook
8 4 (0.71%) Vite
9 3 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.18%) Mocha
11 1 (0.18%) Selenium
11 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 182 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.49%) Finance
3 80 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.32%) Law
5 27 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (4.26%) Legal
7 20 (3.55%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.55%) Retail
8 18 (3.19%) Marketing
9 14 (2.48%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.06%) Banking
12 6 (1.06%) Local Government
13 5 (0.89%) Games
13 5 (0.89%) Police
14 4 (0.71%) Advertising
14 4 (0.71%) Automotive
14 4 (0.71%) Electronics
14 4 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 170 (30.14%) Senior
2 86 (15.25%) Developer
3 84 (14.89%) Data Engineer
4 73 (12.94%) Software Engineer
5 52 (9.22%) Python Engineer
6 47 (8.33%) Analyst
7 45 (7.98%) Lead
8 44 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 40 (7.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 32 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
12 28 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 28 (4.96%) Data Analyst
13 25 (4.43%) Software Developer
14 24 (4.26%) Senior Developer
15 23 (4.08%) Python Developer
16 19 (3.37%) Junior
17 18 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
18 17 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
19 16 (2.84%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (25.35%) Terraform
2 56 (9.93%) React
3 40 (7.09%) Spring
3 40 (7.09%) Spring Boot
4 36 (6.38%) Node.js
5 29 (5.14%) Kafka
5 29 (5.14%) Vue
6 28 (4.96%) FastAPI
7 25 (4.43%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.26%) .NET
8 24 (4.26%) PySpark
9 21 (3.72%) REST
10 20 (3.55%) HTML
11 19 (3.37%) Next.js
12 15 (2.66%) CSS
13 14 (2.48%) React Native
13 14 (2.48%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.30%) LangChain
15 10 (1.77%) Flask
16 9 (1.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.65%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 36 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.42%) Life Science
12 7 (1.24%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.06%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.40%) Linux
2 28 (4.96%) Windows
3 18 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.77%) Unix
4 10 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.24%) CentOS
6 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.53%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.53%) Debian
7 3 (0.53%) Solaris
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.35%) AIX
8 2 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (39.72%) AI
2 184 (32.62%) CI/CD
3 146 (25.89%) Software Engineering
4 144 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 139 (24.65%) DevOps
6 131 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (20.57%) Analytics
8 114 (20.21%) Agile
9 92 (16.31%) Mentoring
10 79 (14.01%) Observability
11 76 (13.48%) Containerisation
12 74 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (13.12%) Data Pipeline
13 69 (12.23%) Business Intelligence
14 66 (11.70%) Data Engineering
15 65 (11.52%) Decision-Making
16 64 (11.35%) Test Automation
17 60 (10.64%) Machine Learning
18 58 (10.28%) Platform Engineering
19 55 (9.75%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 215 (38.12%) SQL
2 112 (19.86%) Java
3 72 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 71 (12.59%) Bash
5 68 (12.06%) TypeScript
6 54 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 30 (5.32%) Go
8 28 (4.96%) C#
9 25 (4.43%) C++
10 21 (3.72%) R
11 15 (2.66%) Bicep
11 15 (2.66%) Ruby
12 14 (2.48%) C
13 12 (2.13%) PHP
13 12 (2.13%) Scala
14 10 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (1.24%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.06%) Rust
17 3 (0.53%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 96 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 61 (10.82%) Degree
3 49 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 46 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 42 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.01%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.71%) CCNA
12 4 (0.71%) MBA
13 3 (0.53%) RHCE
13 3 (0.53%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.35%) CCIE
14 2 (0.35%) CCNP
14 2 (0.35%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.23%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.37%) QA
3 12 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.71%) SLA
4 4 (0.71%) WCAG
5 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.53%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (17.91%) Docker
2 13 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.35%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) KVM
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 60 (10.64%) Ansible
3 26 (4.61%) Grafana
4 23 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.48%) Puppet
6 7 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.06%) Argo
7 6 (1.06%) Podman
8 4 (0.71%) Istio
8 4 (0.71%) linkerd
9 3 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.53%) Nagios
9 3 (0.53%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.35%) QRadar
10 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.91%) Databricks
3 33 (5.85%) Google
4 24 (4.26%) Splunk
5 19 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.66%) VMware
7 14 (2.48%) Adobe
8 13 (2.30%) Oracle
9 12 (2.13%) HubSpot
10 8 (1.42%) Cisco
10 8 (1.42%) New Relic
10 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.06%) Mistral
12 5 (0.89%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.89%) F5
13 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.71%) NEC
14 3 (0.53%) IBM
14 3 (0.53%) McAfee
14 3 (0.53%) SAP