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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 337 480 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.74% 5.46% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.08% 22.56% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 257 224 212
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,325
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,690 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +9.98% -0.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £69,663
90th Percentile £84,250 £91,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,150 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.85% +3.66% +3.57%

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 1,159 2,128 1,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.72% 24.22% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 978 1,162 1,491
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,001 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +12 237 £60,000 -7.69% 262
East Midlands -5 103 £63,750 +15.91% 133
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 32 (9.50%) Confluence
2 12 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.08%) nginx
5 6 (1.78%) IIS
6 5 (1.48%) SAS
7 3 (0.89%) Apache
8 2 (0.59%) PowerFactory
8 2 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (15.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 143 (42.43%) Azure
2 123 (36.50%) AWS
3 55 (16.32%) Power Platform
4 43 (12.76%) Amazon S3
5 39 (11.57%) Amazon ELB
6 38 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (10.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 33 (9.79%) AWS KMS
9 33 (9.79%) GitHub
10 26 (7.72%) Amazon Glacier
11 25 (7.42%) GCP
12 21 (6.23%) Azure AI
13 18 (5.34%) SaaS
14 16 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (3.86%) Snowflake
17 12 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (2.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.68%) Firewall
2 26 (7.72%) HTTP
3 23 (6.82%) DNS
4 22 (6.53%) FTP
4 22 (6.53%) SMTP
4 22 (6.53%) SSH
5 20 (5.93%) Internet
6 7 (2.08%) IMAP
6 7 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (1.48%) VPN
8 3 (0.89%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.89%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.89%) Modbus
8 3 (0.89%) MQTT
8 3 (0.89%) UWB
8 3 (0.89%) WAN
9 2 (0.59%) LAN
9 2 (0.59%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.73%) Power BI
2 49 (14.54%) Tableau
3 36 (10.68%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (7.72%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (5.34%) Delta Lake
8 13 (3.86%) Data Mining
9 12 (3.56%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.97%) Big Data
10 10 (2.97%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.97%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.67%) Metadata
11 9 (2.67%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (2.08%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 65 (19.29%) Git
2 47 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 34 (10.09%) JIRA
4 33 (9.79%) Vagrant
5 9 (2.67%) GitLab
6 7 (2.08%) MLflow
6 7 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.78%) JUnit
8 5 (1.48%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.48%) Selenium
9 4 (1.19%) JMeter
10 2 (0.59%) Mockito
10 2 (0.59%) Subversion
11 1 (0.30%) Appium
11 1 (0.30%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.30%) Locust
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
11 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.30%) TestNG
General
1 97 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.35%) Finance
3 43 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.12%) Retail
6 17 (5.04%) Marketing
6 17 (5.04%) Multimedia
7 16 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.26%) Law
10 8 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.08%) Automotive
11 7 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.89%) Legal
13 3 (0.89%) Local Government
13 3 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.59%) Games
14 2 (0.59%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.30%) Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (17.51%) Developer
2 58 (17.21%) Analyst
3 49 (14.54%) Data Engineer
4 47 (13.95%) Senior
5 41 (12.17%) Data Analyst
6 33 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.72%) Trainee
8 25 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (6.82%) Azure Data Engineer
10 21 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (6.23%) Python Developer
11 20 (5.93%) Lead
11 20 (5.93%) Support Engineer
12 19 (5.64%) Architect
12 19 (5.64%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (5.34%) Software Developer
13 18 (5.34%) Software Engineer
14 16 (4.75%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.82%) CSS
1 23 (6.82%) Django
2 21 (6.23%) HTML
2 21 (6.23%) PySpark
3 20 (5.93%) React
4 16 (4.75%) .NET
5 12 (3.56%) Flask
5 12 (3.56%) REST
6 9 (2.67%) Node.js
7 8 (2.37%) YAML
8 7 (2.08%) LDAP
8 7 (2.08%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.08%) Spring
8 7 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.08%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.78%) Keras
9 6 (1.78%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (1.78%) Metaflow
9 6 (1.78%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.53%) Replication
2 11 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.97%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (2.37%) IoT
6 7 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.48%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.19%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.89%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.02%) Linux
2 33 (9.79%) VMS
3 25 (7.42%) Windows
4 20 (5.93%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.97%) Unix
6 8 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (22.85%) CI/CD
2 75 (22.26%) DevOps
3 68 (20.18%) AI
3 68 (20.18%) Analytics
4 58 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (16.62%) Agile
6 54 (16.02%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (15.13%) Visualisation
8 50 (14.84%) Mentoring
9 49 (14.54%) Data Science
10 47 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 44 (13.06%) Decision-Making
12 42 (12.46%) Data Engineering
13 40 (11.87%) ETL
14 39 (11.57%) Cloud Security
14 39 (11.57%) Data Modelling
15 38 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (10.98%) Data Visualisation
17 34 (10.09%) Change Management
18 33 (9.79%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (49.26%) SQL
2 61 (18.10%) JavaScript
3 52 (15.43%) Java
4 42 (12.46%) PowerShell
5 35 (10.39%) Groovy
6 30 (8.90%) R
7 23 (6.82%) Perl
8 22 (6.53%) C#
9 17 (5.04%) Bash
10 12 (3.56%) PHP
11 9 (2.67%) Bicep
11 9 (2.67%) C++
12 8 (2.37%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.08%) C
14 5 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.48%) Go
14 5 (1.48%) Scala
14 5 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.48%) VBA
15 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (20.47%) Degree
2 61 (18.10%) Security Cleared
3 52 (15.43%) SC Cleared
4 43 (12.76%) Azure Certification
5 33 (9.79%) AWS Certification
6 22 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (4.45%) Master's Degree
10 11 (3.26%) Numerate Degree
11 9 (2.67%) DV Cleared
12 7 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.08%) HND
13 5 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (1.48%) PhD
14 4 (1.19%) CCNA
15 3 (0.89%) CCNP
15 3 (0.89%) HNC
16 2 (0.59%) CCSP
16 2 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.67%) GDPR
3 5 (1.48%) QA
4 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.89%) NIST
5 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (16.91%) Docker
2 28 (8.31%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.53%) DFS Replication
4 7 (2.08%) Dovecot
4 7 (2.08%) Postfix
4 7 (2.08%) Squid
5 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) HDFS
6 1 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 67 (19.88%) Terraform
2 37 (10.98%) Grafana
3 33 (9.79%) Kubernetes
4 31 (9.20%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.75%) Ansible
6 8 (2.37%) Nessus
7 7 (2.08%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.78%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.48%) Kibana
10 3 (0.89%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.59%) Argo
11 2 (0.59%) Nagios
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.30%) logstash
12 1 (0.30%) Oozie
12 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (24.33%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.95%) Databricks
3 31 (9.20%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.15%) Oracle
4 14 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.86%) Juniper
6 7 (2.08%) Google
6 7 (2.08%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (1.78%) UiPath
8 5 (1.48%) Cisco
8 5 (1.48%) Siemens
8 5 (1.48%) Splunk
9 4 (1.19%) Informatica
9 4 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.19%) VMware
10 3 (0.89%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.89%) Atmel
10 3 (0.89%) Meraki
10 3 (0.89%) Rockwell
10 3 (0.89%) SolarWinds