Python Jobs in the North West

Python
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 606 1,269 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.86% 16.73% 10.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.13% 42.46% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 378 394 483
10th Percentile £35,784 £39,680 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,648 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,688 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +9.85%

All Programming Languages
North West

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,011 2,989 3,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.10% 39.42% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,421 1,741 2,567
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 29 May 2024.

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 29 May 2024. 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 -16 426 £55,000 -15.38% 129
Merseyside -11 87 £80,000 +10.34% 14
Cheshire -29 54 £52,500 -4.55% 22
Lancashire -49 29 £70,000 +47.37% 16
Cumbria -7 10 £55,000 - 3
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 71 (11.72%) ArcGIS
2 57 (9.41%) GeoServer
3 32 (5.28%) Apache
4 25 (4.13%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.81%) Confluence
6 11 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.82%) SAS
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) SPSS
3 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 259 (42.74%) Azure
2 219 (36.14%) AWS
3 88 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
4 87 (14.36%) GCP
4 87 (14.36%) Serverless
5 59 (9.74%) Power Platform
6 42 (6.93%) Azure Functions
7 41 (6.77%) Azure API Management
7 41 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 41 (6.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (6.77%) IBM Cloud
8 31 (5.12%) SaaS
9 30 (4.95%) Amazon S3
10 29 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (4.46%) Snowflake
12 22 (3.63%) GitHub
13 18 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.81%) dbt
15 15 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.95%) Firewall
2 11 (1.82%) AMQP
3 10 (1.65%) Internet
3 10 (1.65%) IPsec
3 10 (1.65%) MQTT
3 10 (1.65%) SNMP
3 10 (1.65%) VPN
4 8 (1.32%) DNS
4 8 (1.32%) LAN
4 8 (1.32%) WAN
4 8 (1.32%) Wireless
5 7 (1.16%) HTTP
6 6 (0.99%) Network Security
7 5 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.83%) WLAN
8 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.17%) DHCP
8 1 (0.17%) LTE
8 1 (0.17%) SMTP
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (15.18%) SQL Server
3 72 (11.88%) GIS
4 71 (11.72%) Relational Database
5 70 (11.55%) NoSQL
6 66 (10.89%) MongoDB
7 57 (9.41%) QGIS
8 52 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (8.09%) Power BI
10 41 (6.77%) DB2
11 37 (6.11%) MySQL
12 32 (5.28%) Big Data
13 28 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (4.29%) Data Lake
15 24 (3.96%) Tableau
16 22 (3.63%) Data Vault
17 20 (3.30%) Delta Lake
18 17 (2.81%) BigQuery
19 15 (2.48%) Hadoop
19 15 (2.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (9.24%) JIRA
2 51 (8.42%) Git
3 35 (5.78%) GitLab
4 19 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.66%) Postman
6 4 (0.66%) Selenium
7 3 (0.50%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.50%) GDB
7 3 (0.50%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.50%) Subversion
7 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 107 (17.66%) Social Skills
2 96 (15.84%) Finance
3 60 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.96%) Law
6 24 (3.96%) Retail
7 15 (2.48%) Banking
8 11 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.82%) Automotive
9 10 (1.65%) Legal
10 8 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.32%) Marketing
11 7 (1.16%) Games
12 6 (0.99%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Military
15 3 (0.50%) Advertising
16 2 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 161 (26.57%) Software Engineer
2 159 (26.24%) Senior
3 115 (18.98%) Developer
4 110 (18.15%) Data Engineer
5 55 (9.08%) Senior Software Engineer
6 46 (7.59%) Lead
7 44 (7.26%) Azure Developer
7 44 (7.26%) Full Stack Developer
8 41 (6.77%) Analyst
9 29 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (4.29%) Software Developer
11 20 (3.30%) Data Scientist
11 20 (3.30%) Technical Leader
12 19 (3.14%) Python Engineer
13 18 (2.97%) Consultant
13 18 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.48%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (23.76%) React
2 127 (20.96%) .NET
3 120 (19.80%) CSS
4 104 (17.16%) Node.js
5 79 (13.04%) HTML
6 72 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 65 (10.73%) PostGIS
8 64 (10.56%) .NET Core
9 61 (10.07%) Leaflet
9 61 (10.07%) OpenLayers
10 58 (9.57%) REST
11 52 (8.58%) ASP.NET
12 50 (8.25%) Vue
13 46 (7.59%) Web Services
14 44 (7.26%) jQuery
15 41 (6.77%) ASP.NET Core
15 41 (6.77%) Backbone.js
15 41 (6.77%) Ember.js
15 41 (6.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 30 (4.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 51 (8.42%) Algorithms
3 48 (7.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (6.77%) Blockchain
5 38 (6.27%) Public Cloud
6 35 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (5.12%) Reinsurance
8 27 (4.46%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.48%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
11 14 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.98%) IoT
13 10 (1.65%) Device Driver
13 10 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.32%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.32%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.16%) NHS
15 7 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 178 (29.37%) Linux
2 98 (16.17%) Windows
3 45 (7.43%) Android
4 44 (7.26%) Apple iOS
5 21 (3.47%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.64%) Unix
6 16 (2.64%) Windows Server
7 14 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.98%) CentOS
9 11 (1.82%) Debian
10 10 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.33%) FreeBSD
13 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.33%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (40.43%) Agile
2 216 (35.64%) Software Engineering
3 200 (33.00%) DevOps
4 109 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (17.66%) Web Development
6 101 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 96 (15.84%) ETL
8 90 (14.85%) Actionable Insight
9 87 (14.36%) Full Stack Development
10 86 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 85 (14.03%) Mentoring
12 77 (12.71%) Analytics
13 64 (10.56%) Data Modelling
14 63 (10.40%) OO
15 62 (10.23%) Open Source
16 61 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
16 61 (10.07%) Data Science
17 60 (9.90%) Machine Learning
17 60 (9.90%) Visualisation
18 59 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 242 (39.93%) SQL
2 200 (33.00%) JavaScript
3 183 (30.20%) Java
4 134 (22.11%) C#
5 52 (8.58%) PowerShell
6 41 (6.77%) C
7 39 (6.44%) Bash
8 34 (5.61%) Go
9 29 (4.79%) C++
10 22 (3.63%) Rust
11 21 (3.47%) R
12 20 (3.30%) Ruby
13 19 (3.14%) Perl
14 12 (1.98%) Scala
15 10 (1.65%) COBOL
15 10 (1.65%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 10 (1.65%) TypeScript
16 9 (1.49%) Embedded C
16 9 (1.49%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 88 (14.52%) Degree
3 85 (14.03%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.99%) ACCA
8 6 (0.99%) CCNP
8 6 (0.99%) CISA
8 6 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.83%) CCNA
9 5 (0.83%) CCNA CyberOps
9 5 (0.83%) CREST Certified
9 5 (0.83%) PhD
10 4 (0.66%) MBA
10 4 (0.66%) OSCP
11 3 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.50%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.14%) QA
3 9 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.16%) GDPR
5 6 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
6 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.66%) SLA
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (9.24%) Docker
2 18 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.82%) Firmware
5 4 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 68 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 57 (9.41%) Terraform
3 46 (7.59%) Ansible
4 15 (2.48%) Puppet
5 13 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.65%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.50%) Grafana
9 3 (0.50%) Nessus
9 3 (0.50%) Nmap
9 3 (0.50%) Podman
10 2 (0.33%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.17%) Icinga
11 1 (0.17%) Packer
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 65 (10.73%) ESRI
1 65 (10.73%) Red Hat
2 58 (9.57%) Oracle
3 45 (7.43%) IBM
4 38 (6.27%) Databricks
5 35 (5.78%) Informatica
6 29 (4.79%) Google
7 27 (4.46%) Microsoft
8 18 (2.97%) VMware
9 12 (1.98%) F5
10 11 (1.82%) SaltStack
10 11 (1.82%) YouTube
11 10 (1.65%) CA
11 10 (1.65%) Micro Focus
11 10 (1.65%) NetApp
11 10 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.65%) SolidFire
12 9 (1.49%) Facebook
12 9 (1.49%) SAP
13 8 (1.32%) Teradata