Python Jobs in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 648 602 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.56% 6.19% 17.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.45% 20.68% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 218 376 384
10th Percentile £35,802 £35,560 £39,544
25th Percentile £48,306 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,504 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -9.59% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £85,000 £95,175
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 1,881 2,911 3,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.83% 29.95% 40.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 2,371 1,779
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,825 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the North West.

Salary trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Lancashire +40 330 £51,277 -26.75% 105
Manchester +1 208 £67,500 +22.73% 374
Cheshire +30 43 £55,000 - 61
Merseyside +4 39 £55,000 -31.25% 30
Cumbria -55 28 £35,802 -34.91% 2
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.54%) Apache
3 9 (1.39%) SAS
4 4 (0.62%) CMS
4 4 (0.62%) Confluence
4 4 (0.62%) WordPress
5 3 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Simulink
2 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 109 (16.82%) AWS
2 101 (15.59%) Azure
3 47 (7.25%) GCP
4 20 (3.09%) GitHub
5 19 (2.93%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.47%) Serverless
7 10 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (1.39%) dbt
8 9 (1.39%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.08%) SaaS
11 6 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (0.93%) PaaS
12 5 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 386 (59.57%) DNS
2 384 (59.26%) VPN
3 10 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.93%) Wireless
5 4 (0.62%) Firewall
6 3 (0.46%) HTTP
6 3 (0.46%) Internet
6 3 (0.46%) Network Security
6 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.46%) WAN
7 2 (0.31%) FTP
7 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.31%) SSH
7 2 (0.31%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) BGP
8 1 (0.15%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.15%) MPLS
8 1 (0.15%) OSPF
8 1 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.86%) MySQL
2 21 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.93%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.78%) Power BI
4 18 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.47%) Big Data
6 14 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.01%) Tableau
8 7 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 31 (4.78%) Git
3 12 (1.85%) TeamCity
4 10 (1.54%) JIRA
5 9 (1.39%) Selenium
6 8 (1.23%) GitLab
7 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.93%) JMeter
7 6 (0.93%) LoadRunner
7 6 (0.93%) Postman
8 5 (0.77%) Appium
9 4 (0.62%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.62%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.46%) JUnit
10 3 (0.46%) Maven
10 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.31%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 453 (69.91%) Finance
2 424 (65.43%) Analytical Skills
3 386 (59.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (9.26%) Social Skills
5 28 (4.32%) Banking
6 27 (4.17%) Retail
7 16 (2.47%) Legal
7 16 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.39%) Electronics
10 8 (1.23%) Automotive
11 7 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.93%) Cantonese Language
12 6 (0.93%) Marketing
13 5 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.62%) Games
14 4 (0.62%) Wholesale Banking
15 3 (0.46%) Military
16 2 (0.31%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 408 (62.96%) Developer
2 381 (58.80%) Software Developer
3 70 (10.80%) Senior
4 51 (7.87%) Lead
5 36 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 27 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 25 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (3.09%) Analyst
9 15 (2.31%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.01%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 12 (1.85%) Data Scientist
13 11 (1.70%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (1.54%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (1.23%) Test Engineer
16 7 (1.08%) Architect
16 7 (1.08%) Azure Data Engineer
16 7 (1.08%) Senior Analyst
16 7 (1.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.70%) React
2 22 (3.40%) Kafka
3 18 (2.78%) .NET
4 15 (2.31%) Node.js
5 11 (1.70%) REST
5 11 (1.70%) RESTful
5 11 (1.70%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.70%) Web Services
6 10 (1.54%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.39%) ADO
7 9 (1.39%) Spring
7 9 (1.39%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.39%) XML
8 8 (1.23%) Django
8 8 (1.23%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.08%) CSS
9 7 (1.08%) HTML
10 6 (0.93%) SOAP
11 5 (0.77%) Keras
11 5 (0.77%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 379 (58.49%) Cyberattack
2 15 (2.31%) Algorithms
3 12 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 10 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 10 (1.54%) Life Science
5 8 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 6 (0.93%) Device Driver
6 6 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 5 (0.77%) Mobile App
7 5 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.62%) Learning Management System
9 3 (0.46%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.31%) IoT
10 2 (0.31%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 428 (66.05%) Linux
2 379 (58.49%) Android
3 21 (3.24%) Windows
4 9 (1.39%) Unix
5 6 (0.93%) CentOS
6 2 (0.31%) AIX
6 2 (0.31%) Debian
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (68.67%) Agile
2 399 (61.57%) Mathematics
3 395 (60.96%) OO
4 385 (59.41%) Line Management
5 381 (58.80%) OOP
6 379 (58.49%) Android Development
6 379 (58.49%) Design Patterns
7 68 (10.49%) DevOps
8 67 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 65 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (10.03%) Software Engineering
10 47 (7.25%) Analytics
11 40 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence
12 37 (5.71%) Machine Learning
13 35 (5.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (5.40%) Roadmaps
14 34 (5.25%) Mentoring
15 31 (4.78%) Test Automation
16 30 (4.63%) ETL
17 29 (4.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 445 (68.67%) Java
2 402 (62.04%) C++
3 400 (61.73%) Go
4 84 (12.96%) SQL
5 40 (6.17%) JavaScript
6 39 (6.02%) Bash
7 24 (3.70%) C#
8 21 (3.24%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.93%) MATLAB
10 18 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 17 (2.62%) PHP
12 15 (2.31%) Bicep
13 13 (2.01%) Ruby
14 12 (1.85%) C
15 9 (1.39%) R
16 7 (1.08%) Rust
17 6 (0.93%) Scala
18 4 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 394 (60.80%) Security Cleared
2 381 (58.80%) DV Cleared
3 69 (10.65%) Degree
4 13 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.23%) PhD
7 7 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.08%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.46%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.31%) CSSLP
12 2 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.15%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.47%) QA
2 10 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.54%) GDPR
3 7 (1.08%) NIST
4 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 428 (66.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.31%) KVM
2 2 (0.31%) Postfix
2 2 (0.31%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 400 (61.73%) Ansible
2 50 (7.72%) Terraform
3 48 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.01%) Puppet
5 11 (1.70%) Grafana
5 11 (1.70%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.62%) Istio
7 4 (0.62%) SCCM
7 4 (0.62%) SCOM
7 4 (0.62%) SCOrch
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.31%) Kibana
9 2 (0.31%) Nagios
9 2 (0.31%) Nessus
10 1 (0.15%) Argo
10 1 (0.15%) cPanel
10 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.15%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 35 (5.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.01%) Google
3 21 (3.24%) Oracle
4 13 (2.01%) Databricks
5 7 (1.08%) IBM
5 7 (1.08%) Ping Identity
6 5 (0.77%) Hitachi
7 4 (0.62%) SAP
8 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.46%) New Relic
8 3 (0.46%) Splunk
8 3 (0.46%) Talend
9 2 (0.31%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.31%) Informatica
9 2 (0.31%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.31%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.31%) Tenable
9 2 (0.31%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.15%) Fortinet