Python Job Trends in the Midlands

Python
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 43
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -30
Permanent jobs citing Python 424 396 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.77% 6.69% 4.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.84% 24.66% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 274 199 329
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,253 1,606 2,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.08% 27.12% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 984 889 2,248
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,315 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Python job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Python
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Midlands

Python
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
West Midlands +4 272 £55,000 - 112
East Midlands -13 155 £55,000 - 129
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.42%) IIS
2 5 (1.18%) SAS
3 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.47%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 148 (34.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Simulink
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 224 (52.83%) Azure
2 153 (36.08%) Power Platform
3 118 (27.83%) AWS
4 114 (26.89%) Azure AI
5 42 (9.91%) GitHub
6 29 (6.84%) Amazon S3
7 28 (6.60%) Serverless
8 26 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (3.30%) SaaS
11 13 (3.07%) GCP
12 11 (2.59%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.65%) Datadog
14 7 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.42%) dbt
16 5 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.08%) Internet
2 9 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.89%) Wireless
4 6 (1.42%) BGP
4 6 (1.42%) VPN
5 5 (1.18%) LAN
5 5 (1.18%) OSPF
6 4 (0.94%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.94%) Broadband
6 4 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.94%) EIGRP
6 4 (0.94%) LTE
6 4 (0.94%) Modbus
6 4 (0.94%) WAN
6 4 (0.94%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.24%) Firewall
8 1 (0.24%) FTP
8 1 (0.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (35.85%) Power BI
2 146 (34.43%) Tableau
3 24 (5.66%) Data Mining
3 24 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (3.30%) Delta Lake
7 8 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.65%) Metadata
9 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.94%) Pentaho
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
12 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.71%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.71%) Power Query
12 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.71%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (11.08%) Git
2 9 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.18%) Cucumber
3 5 (1.18%) GitLab
4 4 (0.94%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.94%) Subversion
5 3 (0.71%) JIRA
5 3 (0.71%) JUnit
5 3 (0.71%) Selenium
5 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.47%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Locust
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 164 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (12.97%) Finance
4 30 (7.08%) Multimedia
5 19 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.83%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.83%) Marketing
7 10 (2.36%) Law
8 8 (1.89%) Automotive
9 7 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.65%) Retail
10 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.94%) Local Government
10 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Legal
11 3 (0.71%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.47%) Advertising
12 2 (0.47%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.24%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (35.61%) Analyst
2 144 (33.96%) Data Analyst
3 110 (25.94%) Junior
3 110 (25.94%) Junior Analyst
3 110 (25.94%) Junior Data Analyst
4 72 (16.98%) Developer
5 54 (12.74%) Trainee
6 52 (12.26%) Data Engineer
7 49 (11.56%) Senior
8 33 (7.78%) Software Developer
9 31 (7.31%) Python Developer
10 28 (6.60%) Lead
11 21 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 19 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.25%) Azure Data Engineer
13 18 (4.25%) Python Engineer
13 18 (4.25%) Trainee Analyst
13 18 (4.25%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.74%) HTML
2 44 (10.38%) CSS
3 43 (10.14%) React
4 36 (8.49%) Node.js
5 28 (6.60%) PySpark
6 18 (4.25%) Django
7 10 (2.36%) .NET
8 9 (2.12%) REST
9 8 (1.89%) Flask
10 6 (1.42%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.42%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.18%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.18%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.18%) Pandas
12 4 (0.94%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.94%) JSON
12 4 (0.94%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.94%) Spring
12 4 (0.94%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (1.89%) Algorithms
2 7 (1.65%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 4 (0.94%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 4 (0.94%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.47%) CUDA
7 2 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.47%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.47%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.47%) Robotics
7 2 (0.47%) SCADA
7 2 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.59%) Linux
2 6 (1.42%) Windows
3 4 (0.94%) Unix
4 2 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (38.44%) AI
2 154 (36.32%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (18.40%) Analytics
4 62 (14.62%) Mentoring
5 60 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 48 (11.32%) DevOps
8 46 (10.85%) ETL
8 46 (10.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (10.61%) Machine Learning
10 43 (10.14%) Data Engineering
10 43 (10.14%) Decision-Making
11 41 (9.67%) Agile
12 39 (9.20%) Software Engineering
13 37 (8.73%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (8.49%) Data Science
15 34 (8.02%) Data Analysis
15 34 (8.02%) Data Analytics
16 33 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 261 (61.56%) SQL
2 83 (19.58%) JavaScript
3 29 (6.84%) R
4 23 (5.42%) Java
5 17 (4.01%) Bash
6 15 (3.54%) PHP
7 12 (2.83%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.59%) C#
9 10 (2.36%) C
9 10 (2.36%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.89%) VBA
11 7 (1.65%) Bicep
12 6 (1.42%) C++
12 6 (1.42%) Scala
13 5 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.18%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.18%) Go
14 3 (0.71%) Delphi
14 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 143 (33.73%) Azure Certification
2 49 (11.56%) Degree
3 37 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 36 (8.49%) AWS Certification
5 33 (7.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 23 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.77%) Security Cleared
8 15 (3.54%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.83%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (1.18%) CCNP
11 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.71%) PhD
14 2 (0.47%) CEH
14 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.47%) HND
14 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.12%) GDPR
3 6 (1.42%) QA
4 3 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (6.13%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (6.13%) Terraform
2 22 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.36%) Grafana
4 5 (1.18%) Ansible
5 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.71%) Argo
7 2 (0.47%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.47%) Nagios
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.24%) Control-M
8 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 204 (48.11%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.14%) Databricks
3 15 (3.54%) Oracle
4 10 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.12%) Google
6 6 (1.42%) Cisco
7 5 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (1.18%) Meraki
7 5 (1.18%) Talend
8 4 (0.94%) Atmel
8 4 (0.94%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.94%) Informatica
8 4 (0.94%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.71%) UiPath
10 2 (0.47%) Logitech
10 2 (0.47%) Northgate
10 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.47%) Siemens
10 2 (0.47%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.47%) Yealink