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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 535 314 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.42% 5.60% 4.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.99% 25.28% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 255 197 212
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% +5.73%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,000 £87,250
England median annual salary £70,500 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.37% -0.67% -

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 1,982 1,242 2,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.68% 22.15% 23.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 952 1,419
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,187 £37,750 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -11 289 £65,000 +7.88% 264
East Midlands +14 244 £52,500 -19.23% 192
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 9 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.12%) Apache
3 5 (0.93%) SAS
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) WordPress
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (15.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.19%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Line 50
2 3 (0.56%) Magento
2 3 (0.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 290 (54.21%) Azure
2 143 (26.73%) Azure AI
3 136 (25.42%) Power Platform
4 107 (20.00%) AWS
5 40 (7.48%) GCP
6 25 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (3.55%) Snowflake
9 16 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 16 (2.99%) Serverless
10 15 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.06%) dbt
13 11 (2.06%) GitHub
14 9 (1.68%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.68%) SaaS
15 8 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.05%) Firewall
2 15 (2.80%) DNS
2 15 (2.80%) VPN
3 14 (2.62%) Wireless
4 12 (2.24%) VLAN
4 12 (2.24%) WAN
5 10 (1.87%) LAN
5 10 (1.87%) MQTT
6 9 (1.68%) Bluetooth
6 9 (1.68%) Network Security
6 9 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.50%) BGP
7 8 (1.50%) DHCP
7 8 (1.50%) OSPF
7 8 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.31%) VoIP
9 6 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (1.12%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.93%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (25.42%) Power BI
2 91 (17.01%) Tableau
3 33 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (3.36%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 14 (2.62%) Delta Lake
8 13 (2.43%) QlikView
8 13 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.24%) Power Query
9 12 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.50%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.31%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.31%) MySQL
13 6 (1.12%) Big Data
13 6 (1.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (10.09%) Git
2 18 (3.36%) GitLab
3 17 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.87%) JIRA
5 8 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.50%) Gatling
6 6 (1.12%) GDB
6 6 (1.12%) Selenium
6 6 (1.12%) Zephyr
7 5 (0.93%) JMeter
7 5 (0.93%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.93%) Subversion
8 4 (0.75%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.75%) HP UFT
8 4 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 210 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.26%) Finance
3 78 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.67%) Banking
6 22 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.93%) Retail
8 19 (3.55%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.18%) Electronics
10 15 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.43%) Marketing
12 9 (1.68%) Fire and Rescue
12 9 (1.68%) Law
13 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.31%) Games
14 7 (1.31%) Legal
15 6 (1.12%) Automotive
15 6 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (20.93%) Analyst
2 108 (20.19%) Senior
3 107 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 81 (15.14%) Junior
5 79 (14.77%) Junior Analyst
5 79 (14.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 73 (13.64%) Developer
7 70 (13.08%) Data Engineer
8 69 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 64 (11.96%) Lead
10 57 (10.65%) Data Scientist
11 54 (10.09%) Python Engineer
12 45 (8.41%) Software Engineer
13 29 (5.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (4.67%) Senior Data Scientist
15 23 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (4.11%) Lead Data Scientist
17 20 (3.74%) Python Developer
18 18 (3.36%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.54%) PyTorch
1 35 (6.54%) Terraform
2 29 (5.42%) TensorFlow
3 23 (4.30%) Hugging Face
4 20 (3.74%) PySpark
5 18 (3.36%) REST
6 17 (3.18%) React
7 16 (2.99%) HTML
7 16 (2.99%) Kafka
8 15 (2.80%) CSS
9 12 (2.24%) Node.js
9 12 (2.24%) RESTful
10 11 (2.06%) Keycloak
10 11 (2.06%) scikit-learn
11 9 (1.68%) Django
11 9 (1.68%) Pandas
11 9 (1.68%) Playwright
12 8 (1.50%) .NET
12 8 (1.50%) FastAPI
13 6 (1.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.30%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.36%) IoT
3 16 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (1.68%) ARM Cortex
6 9 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.31%) Device Driver
7 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.12%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.93%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.79%) Linux
2 29 (5.42%) Windows
3 15 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.50%) Unix
5 6 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.75%) VMS
8 3 (0.56%) Solaris
9 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.19%) Debian
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (43.36%) AI
2 146 (27.29%) Business Intelligence
3 119 (22.24%) Analytics
4 103 (19.25%) Software Engineering
5 96 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (15.51%) Machine Learning
6 83 (15.51%) Roadmaps
7 81 (15.14%) Data Science
8 80 (14.95%) CI/CD
9 72 (13.46%) Decision-Making
10 70 (13.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 67 (12.52%) Actionable Insight
12 61 (11.40%) DevOps
12 61 (11.40%) Mentoring
13 56 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (10.09%) Agile
15 53 (9.91%) Statistics
16 52 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
17 51 (9.53%) Validation
18 48 (8.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 252 (47.10%) SQL
2 35 (6.54%) Java
3 34 (6.36%) JavaScript
4 33 (6.17%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.30%) C#
7 21 (3.93%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.74%) Bash
9 19 (3.55%) C
10 16 (2.99%) C++
11 14 (2.62%) R
12 13 (2.43%) Go
13 8 (1.50%) PHP
14 6 (1.12%) Embedded C
15 5 (0.93%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.93%) Perl
16 2 (0.37%) Bicep
16 2 (0.37%) Ruby
17 1 (0.19%) Groovy
17 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 161 (30.09%) Azure Certification
2 67 (12.52%) Degree
3 35 (6.54%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.93%) CCNA
11 3 (0.56%) MCSE
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CCNP
13 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.74%) GDPR
3 13 (2.43%) QA
4 7 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.31%) JTAG
4 7 (1.31%) SLA
5 4 (0.75%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.75%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.75%) NIST
6 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.37%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.37%) MISRA
6 2 (0.37%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (4.67%) Docker
2 12 (2.24%) Firmware
3 8 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.56%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.43%) Grafana
3 11 (2.06%) Ansible
4 6 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.37%) Argo
7 2 (0.37%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Nagios
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 124 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.36%) Databricks
3 21 (3.93%) Google
4 15 (2.80%) Cisco
5 9 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.50%) VMware
7 5 (0.93%) Altera
7 5 (0.93%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.93%) Microsemi
7 5 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.93%) SAP
7 5 (0.93%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.75%) Adobe
8 4 (0.75%) Apple
8 4 (0.75%) Informatica
8 4 (0.75%) Meraki
8 4 (0.75%) Sage
8 4 (0.75%) Veracode
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle
9 3 (0.56%) Splunk