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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -31
Permanent jobs citing Python 452 373 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.69% 6.73% 4.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.32% 24.21% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 284 213 345
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,313 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,000 £88,250
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 1,317 1,541 2,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.68% 27.79% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 963 2,408
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +6 292 £58,750 +6.82% 116
East Midlands -13 162 £55,000 - 142
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 (1.33%) Jupyter
2 5 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.11%) SAS
3 3 (0.66%) IIS
4 2 (0.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.22%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 171 (37.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Simulink
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 248 (54.87%) Azure
2 179 (39.60%) Power Platform
3 135 (29.87%) Azure AI
4 121 (26.77%) AWS
5 39 (8.63%) GitHub
6 30 (6.64%) Amazon S3
6 30 (6.64%) Serverless
7 27 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (3.32%) Snowflake
10 13 (2.88%) SaaS
11 12 (2.65%) GCP
12 10 (2.21%) dbt
13 7 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.33%) Datadog
14 6 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.33%) PaaS
15 5 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.19%) Internet
2 10 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.99%) Wireless
4 7 (1.55%) VPN
5 6 (1.33%) BGP
5 6 (1.33%) LAN
6 5 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.11%) EIGRP
6 5 (1.11%) OSPF
6 5 (1.11%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.88%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.88%) Broadband
7 4 (0.88%) LTE
7 4 (0.88%) Modbus
7 4 (0.88%) WAN
8 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.22%) FTP
9 1 (0.22%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.22%) PuTTY
9 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (39.38%) Power BI
2 167 (36.95%) Tableau
3 25 (5.53%) Data Mining
4 19 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.88%) Delta Lake
8 11 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.55%) Metadata
11 6 (1.33%) Redis
11 6 (1.33%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.88%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.66%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.66%) Power Query
13 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 45 (9.96%) Git
2 8 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (1.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.88%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.88%) Subversion
6 3 (0.66%) JIRA
6 3 (0.66%) JUnit
6 3 (0.66%) Selenium
7 2 (0.44%) JMeter
7 2 (0.44%) Locust
7 2 (0.44%) MLflow
8 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.22%) Maven
8 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 182 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (12.83%) Finance
4 28 (6.19%) Multimedia
5 18 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.76%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.43%) Law
7 11 (2.43%) Marketing
8 10 (2.21%) Retail
9 8 (1.77%) Automotive
10 6 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Local Government
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.44%) Advertising
14 2 (0.44%) Games
14 2 (0.44%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (38.50%) Analyst
2 167 (36.95%) Data Analyst
3 133 (29.42%) Junior
3 133 (29.42%) Junior Analyst
3 133 (29.42%) Junior Data Analyst
4 70 (15.49%) Developer
5 56 (12.39%) Trainee
6 53 (11.73%) Data Engineer
7 52 (11.50%) Senior
8 32 (7.08%) Software Developer
9 31 (6.86%) Lead
10 30 (6.64%) Python Developer
11 23 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.42%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
13 19 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (4.20%) Trainee Analyst
13 19 (4.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 18 (3.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.73%) HTML
2 45 (9.96%) React
3 41 (9.07%) CSS
4 38 (8.41%) Node.js
5 26 (5.75%) PySpark
6 17 (3.76%) Django
7 10 (2.21%) REST
8 8 (1.77%) Flask
8 8 (1.77%) Pandas
9 7 (1.55%) .NET
9 7 (1.55%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.55%) Streamlit
10 6 (1.33%) Hugging Face
10 6 (1.33%) Matplotlib
10 6 (1.33%) NumPy
10 6 (1.33%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.33%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.11%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.43%) Algorithms
2 7 (1.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (0.88%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.88%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.66%) Social Media
7 2 (0.44%) CUDA
7 2 (0.44%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.44%) Lidar
7 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.44%) Robotics
7 2 (0.44%) SCADA
7 2 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.21%) Linux
2 7 (1.55%) Windows
3 4 (0.88%) Unix
4 2 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (41.37%) AI
2 180 (39.82%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (17.26%) Analytics
4 60 (13.27%) Mentoring
5 57 (12.61%) CI/CD
5 57 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (10.84%) DevOps
7 48 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (10.40%) Machine Learning
9 44 (9.73%) Decision-Making
10 43 (9.51%) ETL
11 40 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
12 39 (8.63%) Agile
13 38 (8.41%) Data Engineering
13 38 (8.41%) Software Engineering
14 36 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (7.96%) Data Analysis
14 36 (7.96%) Data Science
14 36 (7.96%) Visualisation
15 33 (7.30%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 282 (62.39%) SQL
2 79 (17.48%) JavaScript
3 30 (6.64%) R
4 22 (4.87%) Java
5 17 (3.76%) Bash
6 13 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.43%) PHP
7 11 (2.43%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.99%) C
9 8 (1.77%) Bicep
10 7 (1.55%) C#
10 7 (1.55%) C++
10 7 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.55%) VBA
11 6 (1.33%) Scala
12 5 (1.11%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.11%) Go
12 5 (1.11%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.66%) Delphi
13 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 165 (36.50%) Azure Certification
2 45 (9.96%) Degree
3 37 (8.19%) AWS Certification
4 34 (7.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 34 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.76%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.88%) SC Cleared
8 10 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.77%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.11%) CCNP
11 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.66%) PhD
14 2 (0.44%) CEH
14 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.44%) PMP
15 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.99%) GDPR
3 7 (1.55%) QA
4 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.44%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.22%) NIST
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (5.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (5.97%) Terraform
2 26 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.43%) Grafana
4 5 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.88%) Ansible
6 3 (0.66%) Argo
6 3 (0.66%) Nagios
7 2 (0.44%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.22%) Control-M
Vendors
1 225 (49.78%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.85%) Databricks
3 12 (2.65%) Oracle
4 9 (1.99%) Google
4 9 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.33%) Cisco
6 5 (1.11%) Meraki
6 5 (1.11%) Talend
7 4 (0.88%) Atmel
7 4 (0.88%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.88%) Informatica
7 4 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.66%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.44%) Logitech
9 2 (0.44%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.44%) UiPath
9 2 (0.44%) Yealink
9 2 (0.44%) Zoho