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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 599 1,339 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.08% 17.12% 11.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.56% 42.39% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 377 386 498
10th Percentile £35,672 £39,544 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,648 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,400
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.53% +8.31%

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 2,913 3,159 3,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.56% 40.40% 41.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,374 1,770 2,599
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -16 424 £55,000 -15.38% 101
Merseyside -11 87 £80,000 - 11
Cheshire -32 49 £48,750 -11.36% 24
Lancashire -45 28 £70,000 +47.37% 12
Cumbria -4 10 £55,000 - 1
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 (11.85%) ArcGIS
2 57 (9.52%) GeoServer
3 32 (5.34%) Apache
4 25 (4.17%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.34%) Confluence
6 12 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (1.84%) SAS
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) SPSS
3 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 255 (42.57%) Azure
2 215 (35.89%) AWS
3 90 (15.03%) Serverless
4 86 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (13.36%) GCP
6 62 (10.35%) Power Platform
7 42 (7.01%) Azure Functions
8 41 (6.84%) Azure API Management
8 41 (6.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 41 (6.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 41 (6.84%) IBM Cloud
9 32 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 30 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (5.01%) SaaS
11 28 (4.67%) Snowflake
12 18 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (3.01%) dbt
12 18 (3.01%) GitHub
13 16 (2.67%) OpenShift
14 15 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.01%) Firewall
2 11 (1.84%) AMQP
3 10 (1.67%) Internet
3 10 (1.67%) IPsec
3 10 (1.67%) SNMP
3 10 (1.67%) VPN
4 9 (1.50%) LAN
4 9 (1.50%) MQTT
4 9 (1.50%) WAN
5 8 (1.34%) Wireless
6 7 (1.17%) DNS
6 7 (1.17%) HTTP
7 6 (1.00%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.83%) WLAN
9 2 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.17%) DMZ
10 1 (0.17%) SMTP
10 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (21.54%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (15.03%) SQL Server
3 75 (12.52%) Relational Database
4 72 (12.02%) GIS
5 69 (11.52%) MongoDB
6 66 (11.02%) NoSQL
7 57 (9.52%) QGIS
8 52 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (8.68%) Power BI
9 41 (6.84%) DB2
10 34 (5.68%) MySQL
11 33 (5.51%) Big Data
12 31 (5.18%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (4.34%) Data Lake
13 26 (4.34%) Tableau
14 22 (3.67%) Data Vault
15 20 (3.34%) Delta Lake
16 17 (2.84%) BigQuery
17 15 (2.50%) Hadoop
17 15 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (8.85%) Git
2 50 (8.35%) JIRA
3 29 (4.84%) GitLab
4 20 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.34%) Selenium
6 6 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.00%) JDeveloper
6 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.67%) Postman
8 3 (0.50%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.50%) GDB
8 3 (0.50%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.50%) Subversion
8 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 105 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.19%) Finance
3 60 (10.02%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (4.34%) Law
7 24 (4.01%) Retail
8 17 (2.84%) Banking
9 12 (2.00%) Legal
10 11 (1.84%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.67%) Automotive
11 10 (1.67%) Marketing
12 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.17%) Games
13 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Advertising
16 4 (0.67%) Military
17 3 (0.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 167 (27.88%) Software Engineer
2 159 (26.54%) Senior
3 112 (18.70%) Developer
4 109 (18.20%) Data Engineer
5 57 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 47 (7.85%) Lead
7 44 (7.35%) Azure Developer
8 42 (7.01%) Analyst
8 42 (7.01%) Full Stack Developer
9 27 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (4.34%) Software Developer
11 22 (3.67%) Data Scientist
12 20 (3.34%) Technical Leader
13 19 (3.17%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.01%) Consultant
15 16 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.50%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.34%) Platform Engineer
18 13 (2.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (24.37%) React
2 127 (21.20%) .NET
3 119 (19.87%) CSS
4 101 (16.86%) Node.js
5 79 (13.19%) HTML
6 71 (11.85%) AngularJS
7 65 (10.85%) PostGIS
8 64 (10.68%) .NET Core
9 61 (10.18%) Leaflet
9 61 (10.18%) OpenLayers
10 58 (9.68%) REST
11 52 (8.68%) ASP.NET
12 49 (8.18%) Vue
13 46 (7.68%) Web Services
14 44 (7.35%) jQuery
15 41 (6.84%) ASP.NET Core
15 41 (6.84%) Backbone.js
15 41 (6.84%) Ember.js
15 41 (6.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 29 (4.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.19%) Data Structures
2 50 (8.35%) Algorithms
3 48 (8.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (6.84%) Blockchain
5 38 (6.34%) Public Cloud
6 36 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (4.67%) Reinsurance
8 24 (4.01%) Cloud Native
9 17 (2.84%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.50%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
12 13 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (2.00%) IoT
14 10 (1.67%) Device Driver
14 10 (1.67%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.34%) Mainframe
16 7 (1.17%) NHS
16 7 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 6 (1.00%) Mobile App
17 6 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 173 (28.88%) Linux
2 98 (16.36%) Windows
3 44 (7.35%) Android
4 43 (7.18%) Apple iOS
5 20 (3.34%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.67%) Windows Server
7 15 (2.50%) Unix
8 14 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (2.00%) CentOS
10 11 (1.84%) Debian
11 10 (1.67%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.33%) FreeBSD
14 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.33%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (40.73%) Agile
2 220 (36.73%) Software Engineering
3 199 (33.22%) DevOps
4 114 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (17.70%) Web Development
6 96 (16.03%) ETL
7 94 (15.69%) Actionable Insight
7 94 (15.69%) CI/CD
8 83 (13.86%) Full Stack Development
9 82 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 81 (13.52%) Mentoring
11 80 (13.36%) Analytics
12 65 (10.85%) Open Source
13 64 (10.68%) Data Modelling
13 64 (10.68%) Visualisation
14 63 (10.52%) OO
15 62 (10.35%) Data Science
16 61 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (10.02%) Design Patterns
18 59 (9.85%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 244 (40.73%) SQL
2 204 (34.06%) JavaScript
3 186 (31.05%) Java
4 134 (22.37%) C#
5 47 (7.85%) PowerShell
6 42 (7.01%) Bash
7 40 (6.68%) C
8 35 (5.84%) Go
9 32 (5.34%) C++
10 23 (3.84%) Ruby
11 22 (3.67%) Perl
12 21 (3.51%) R
12 21 (3.51%) Rust
13 12 (2.00%) Scala
14 10 (1.67%) COBOL
14 10 (1.67%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 10 (1.67%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.67%) TypeScript
15 9 (1.50%) Embedded C
16 7 (1.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.02%) Degree
3 83 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.00%) ACCA
8 6 (1.00%) CCNP
8 6 (1.00%) CISA
8 6 (1.00%) 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 (0.67%) MBA
10 4 (0.67%) OSCP
11 3 (0.50%) OSCE
12 2 (0.33%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.84%) QA
3 9 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.17%) GDPR
5 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) NIST
8 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) GMP
System Software
1 53 (8.85%) Docker
2 18 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.84%) Firmware
5 4 (0.67%) 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 66 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.35%) Terraform
3 40 (6.68%) Ansible
4 14 (2.34%) Puppet
5 13 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.50%) Grafana
8 3 (0.50%) Nessus
8 3 (0.50%) Nmap
8 3 (0.50%) Podman
8 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.33%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Icinga
10 1 (0.17%) Packer
10 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 65 (10.85%) ESRI
1 65 (10.85%) Red Hat
2 61 (10.18%) Oracle
3 45 (7.51%) IBM
4 38 (6.34%) Databricks
5 33 (5.51%) Informatica
6 29 (4.84%) Google
7 27 (4.51%) Microsoft
8 18 (3.01%) VMware
9 12 (2.00%) F5
10 11 (1.84%) SaltStack
10 11 (1.84%) YouTube
11 10 (1.67%) CA
11 10 (1.67%) Micro Focus
11 10 (1.67%) NetApp
11 10 (1.67%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.67%) SAP
11 10 (1.67%) SolidFire
12 9 (1.50%) Facebook
13 8 (1.34%) Teradata