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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 36 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 590 324 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.22% 5.66% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.70% 24.13% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 271 202 265
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,025 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £41,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £63,500 £57,503
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +10.43% +0.01%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 1,922 1,343 2,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.74% 23.46% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 1,031 1,937
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +4 313 £62,500 -3.85% 111
East Midlands +19 276 £55,000 - 78
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 10 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.53%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.53%) WordPress
3 7 (1.19%) Apache
4 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 166 (28.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Line 50
2 3 (0.51%) Magento
2 3 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 349 (59.15%) Azure
2 220 (37.29%) Azure AI
3 211 (35.76%) Power Platform
4 119 (20.17%) AWS
5 34 (5.76%) GCP
6 28 (4.75%) Snowflake
7 19 (3.22%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.22%) Serverless
8 17 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (2.88%) GitHub
9 15 (2.54%) dbt
9 15 (2.54%) SaaS
10 11 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (1.36%) Azure Stack
12 8 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.88%) Firewall
2 15 (2.54%) Wireless
3 14 (2.37%) VPN
4 10 (1.69%) MQTT
4 10 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.53%) Bluetooth
5 9 (1.53%) Internet
6 8 (1.36%) Network Security
7 7 (1.19%) DNS
7 7 (1.19%) WAN
8 6 (1.02%) LAN
8 6 (1.02%) VoIP
8 6 (1.02%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.85%) VLAN
10 4 (0.68%) BGP
10 4 (0.68%) OSPF
10 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.51%) EIGRP
11 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (35.76%) Power BI
2 168 (28.47%) Tableau
3 27 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.53%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.36%) Delta Lake
9 8 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.19%) Power Query
11 6 (1.02%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.02%) Redis
12 5 (0.85%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.85%) MySQL
13 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.68%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 41 (6.95%) Git
2 17 (2.88%) GitLab
3 15 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.36%) Gatling
5 8 (1.36%) JMeter
5 8 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (1.19%) Selenium
7 6 (1.02%) GDB
7 6 (1.02%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.85%) Postman
8 5 (0.85%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.85%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.68%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.51%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.51%) JIRA
11 2 (0.34%) Locust
General
1 275 (46.61%) Social Skills
2 100 (16.95%) Finance
3 82 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.56%) Manufacturing
4 21 (3.56%) Retail
5 20 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.22%) Banking
7 14 (2.37%) Law
8 13 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.53%) Electronics
10 8 (1.36%) Multimedia
10 8 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
12 6 (1.02%) Marketing
13 4 (0.68%) Automotive
13 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Games
14 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (33.39%) Analyst
2 190 (32.20%) Data Analyst
3 163 (27.63%) Junior
4 159 (26.95%) Junior Analyst
4 159 (26.95%) Junior Data Analyst
5 93 (15.76%) Senior
6 71 (12.03%) Developer
7 69 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 64 (10.85%) Data Scientist
9 61 (10.34%) Lead
10 60 (10.17%) Data Engineer
11 37 (6.27%) Python Engineer
12 35 (5.93%) Software Engineer
13 27 (4.58%) Senior Data Scientist
14 25 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
15 24 (4.07%) Lead Data Scientist
16 21 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (3.05%) Senior Data Analyst
17 18 (3.05%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.59%) PyTorch
2 31 (5.25%) Hugging Face
3 27 (4.58%) TensorFlow
4 26 (4.41%) HTML
5 25 (4.24%) CSS
6 19 (3.22%) Pandas
7 18 (3.05%) scikit-learn
8 14 (2.37%) React
8 14 (2.37%) REST
9 13 (2.20%) PySpark
10 12 (2.03%) RESTful
11 11 (1.86%) Kafka
11 11 (1.86%) NumPy
12 10 (1.69%) Matplotlib
12 10 (1.69%) Node.js
12 10 (1.69%) Playwright
13 8 (1.36%) Streamlit
14 7 (1.19%) Django
14 7 (1.19%) JSON
15 6 (1.02%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.05%) Cloud Native
2 15 (2.54%) IoT
3 10 (1.69%) Algorithms
3 10 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
3 10 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (1.53%) ARM Cortex
4 9 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.19%) Device Driver
5 7 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 5 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.68%) CAN bus
8 4 (0.68%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.68%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.51%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.51%) iSeries
9 3 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.61%) Linux
2 26 (4.41%) Windows
3 13 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.02%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.85%) Unix
6 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.68%) VMS
7 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Debian
8 1 (0.17%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (51.86%) AI
2 212 (35.93%) Business Intelligence
3 103 (17.46%) Analytics
4 84 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (14.07%) Machine Learning
5 83 (14.07%) Software Engineering
6 75 (12.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 73 (12.37%) Data Science
8 72 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 67 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
10 66 (11.19%) CI/CD
11 62 (10.51%) Decision-Making
12 56 (9.49%) Mentoring
13 54 (9.15%) Statistics
14 52 (8.81%) DevOps
15 47 (7.97%) Data Analysis
16 45 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (6.95%) Data Engineering
18 40 (6.78%) Agile
19 39 (6.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 323 (54.75%) SQL
2 32 (5.42%) JavaScript
2 32 (5.42%) PowerShell
3 30 (5.08%) Java
4 21 (3.56%) R
5 20 (3.39%) Bash
6 19 (3.22%) C#
6 19 (3.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (3.05%) C
8 15 (2.54%) C++
9 13 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.36%) PHP
11 7 (1.19%) Go
12 5 (0.85%) Bicep
12 5 (0.85%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) Ruby
14 2 (0.34%) Rust
15 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 241 (40.85%) Azure Certification
2 54 (9.15%) Degree
3 26 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 23 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.51%) CCNP
14 2 (0.34%) CCNA
14 2 (0.34%) CISSP
14 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.17%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.71%) GDPR
3 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.69%) QA
4 7 (1.19%) JTAG
5 6 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.68%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.68%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.68%) NIST
6 4 (0.68%) SLA
7 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.34%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.34%) WCAG
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (3.22%) Docker
2 11 (1.86%) Firmware
3 8 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (4.58%) Terraform
2 17 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.71%) Grafana
4 7 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.68%) Ansible
5 4 (0.68%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 212 (35.93%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.10%) Databricks
3 17 (2.88%) Google
4 8 (1.36%) Cisco
5 6 (1.02%) Meraki
5 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 5 (0.85%) Informatica
6 5 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.68%) Adobe
7 4 (0.68%) Apple
7 4 (0.68%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.68%) Sage
7 4 (0.68%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.68%) Splunk
7 4 (0.68%) Veracode
7 4 (0.68%) VMware
8 2 (0.34%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.34%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.34%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.34%) Talend