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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 372 294 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.51% 7.53% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.05% 25.41% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 268 207 384
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,650 £36,120
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +14.04% -6.83%
75th Percentile £78,421 £80,625 £72,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 1,032 1,157 2,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.50% 29.65% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 839 849 2,247
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,777 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -10 227 £62,647 -3.62% 136
Merseyside +14 69 £40,000 -27.27% 28
Lancashire +9 45 £47,500 -9.52% 71
Cheshire -30 18 £49,490 +2.45% 38
Cumbria -12 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 16 (4.30%) WordPress
2 13 (3.49%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.88%) Apache
4 7 (1.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 93 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 202 (54.30%) Azure
2 168 (45.16%) AWS
3 73 (19.62%) Power Platform
4 67 (18.01%) GitHub
5 58 (15.59%) Azure AI
6 52 (13.98%) GCP
7 21 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (4.57%) Serverless
9 14 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.49%) dbt
11 10 (2.69%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.42%) SaaS
13 8 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.15%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.88%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 60 (16.13%) Internet
2 12 (3.23%) Firewall
3 7 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.08%) AMQP
4 4 (1.08%) DNS
4 4 (1.08%) NGFW
4 4 (1.08%) VPN
4 4 (1.08%) VXLAN
4 4 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.08%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.81%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) SAN
6 2 (0.54%) Network Security
6 2 (0.54%) SSL
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) LTE
7 1 (0.27%) SNMP
7 1 (0.27%) TCAP
7 1 (0.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (25.00%) Tableau
2 68 (18.28%) Power BI
3 35 (9.41%) Data Mining
4 24 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.38%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (2.69%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.15%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.88%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.88%) MySQL
13 6 (1.61%) Big Data
13 6 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.08%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 81 (21.77%) Git
2 16 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.23%) GitLab
3 12 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.08%) Postman
5 4 (1.08%) Selenium
6 3 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.54%) JIRA
7 2 (0.54%) Subversion
8 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.27%) JMeter
8 1 (0.27%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.27%) Locust
8 1 (0.27%) MLflow
8 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 99 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 72 (19.35%) Finance
3 57 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (13.98%) Multimedia
5 21 (5.65%) Retail
6 18 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.15%) Legal
9 7 (1.88%) Banking
10 6 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.34%) Marketing
11 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.08%) Advertising
12 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.08%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.08%) Law
12 4 (1.08%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.81%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 98 (26.34%) Trainee
2 95 (25.54%) Analyst
3 92 (24.73%) Data Analyst
4 57 (15.32%) Junior
4 57 (15.32%) Junior Analyst
4 57 (15.32%) Junior Data Analyst
5 52 (13.98%) Senior
6 49 (13.17%) Developer
7 34 (9.14%) Software Engineer
7 34 (9.14%) Trainee Analyst
7 34 (9.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 29 (7.80%) Python Engineer
9 24 (6.45%) Data Engineer
10 23 (6.18%) Lead
11 22 (5.91%) Software Developer
12 20 (5.38%) Trainee Developer
13 19 (5.11%) Trainee Software Developer
14 16 (4.30%) Administrator
14 16 (4.30%) Trainee Administrator
14 16 (4.30%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.13%) HTML
2 59 (15.86%) CSS
3 26 (6.99%) React
4 24 (6.45%) .NET
5 22 (5.91%) Node.js
6 15 (4.03%) Django
6 15 (4.03%) scikit-learn
7 14 (3.76%) Pandas
8 13 (3.49%) Hugging Face
9 12 (3.23%) Matplotlib
9 12 (3.23%) NumPy
9 12 (3.23%) Streamlit
10 11 (2.96%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.96%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.69%) Flask
11 10 (2.69%) PyTorch
11 10 (2.69%) REST
12 9 (2.42%) TensorFlow
13 8 (2.15%) RESTful
14 7 (1.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.11%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.34%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.34%) PACS
6 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.08%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.08%) PKI
7 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.54%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.45%) Linux
2 6 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.61%) Windows
3 5 (1.34%) CentOS
4 4 (1.08%) Debian
4 4 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.08%) Unix
4 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.81%) Android
5 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.27%) Solaris
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (33.33%) AI
2 73 (19.62%) Analytics
2 73 (19.62%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (17.20%) Mentoring
4 57 (15.32%) CI/CD
5 54 (14.52%) Agile
6 53 (14.25%) Software Engineering
7 49 (13.17%) Machine Learning
8 47 (12.63%) DevOps
9 46 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (12.37%) Data Analytics
10 45 (12.10%) Data Analysis
10 45 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (10.75%) Project Management
13 34 (9.14%) Business Analysis
14 32 (8.60%) Data Science
15 31 (8.33%) Containerisation
16 25 (6.72%) Visualisation
17 24 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 156 (41.94%) SQL
2 86 (23.12%) JavaScript
3 48 (12.90%) Java
4 37 (9.95%) R
5 20 (5.38%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.57%) Go
7 15 (4.03%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.23%) C
9 11 (2.96%) Bash
10 7 (1.88%) C#
11 6 (1.61%) Bicep
11 6 (1.61%) PHP
12 5 (1.34%) ANSI SQL
13 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.54%) Scala
13 2 (0.54%) VBA
14 1 (0.27%) Groovy
14 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (31.99%) Azure Certification
2 69 (18.55%) AWS Certification
3 64 (17.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 55 (14.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (6.99%) Degree
6 25 (6.72%) Security Cleared
7 15 (4.03%) SC Cleared
8 13 (3.49%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.34%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.54%) PhD
14 1 (0.27%) LPIC
14 1 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.15%) QA
3 5 (1.34%) DICOM
4 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) FINRA
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (8.87%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) KVM
4 1 (0.27%) QEMU
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (14.52%) Terraform
2 39 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.26%) Ansible
4 6 (1.61%) Grafana
5 4 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.08%) Puppet
6 3 (0.81%) Rancher
7 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.54%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.54%) Nagios
7 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.27%) Podman
8 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 176 (47.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.65%) Google
3 8 (2.15%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.88%) Oracle
5 6 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.61%) Databricks
6 5 (1.34%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.34%) VMware
7 4 (1.08%) Arista
7 4 (1.08%) Aruba
7 4 (1.08%) NetScout
8 3 (0.81%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.81%) Splunk
9 2 (0.54%) Aderant
9 2 (0.54%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.54%) New Relic
9 2 (0.54%) SAP
10 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto