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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 314 480 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.68% 5.15% 5.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.54% 21.52% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 212 209 201
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,503 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,742 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +6.38%

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 1,183 2,230 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.40% 23.91% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 912 1,209 1,488
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £34,350
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +6 209 £60,000 -7.69% 213
East Midlands -14 107 £65,000 +44.44% 108
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 42 (13.38%) Confluence
2 13 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.55%) nginx
4 7 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.91%) IIS
6 4 (1.27%) Apache
7 3 (0.96%) SAS
8 2 (0.64%) PowerFactory
9 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.32%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 119 (37.90%) AWS
2 113 (35.99%) Azure
3 51 (16.24%) Amazon S3
4 49 (15.61%) Amazon ELB
5 47 (14.97%) Amazon EC2
6 45 (14.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 44 (14.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 43 (13.69%) AWS KMS
9 42 (13.38%) Power Platform
10 35 (11.15%) Amazon Glacier
11 25 (7.96%) GCP
12 20 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (6.37%) GitHub
13 18 (5.73%) SaaS
14 14 (4.46%) Snowflake
15 13 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (3.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.33%) Firewall
2 32 (10.19%) HTTP
3 31 (9.87%) DNS
4 27 (8.60%) FTP
4 27 (8.60%) SMTP
4 27 (8.60%) SSH
5 14 (4.46%) VPN
6 9 (2.87%) Internet
7 8 (2.55%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (2.55%) IMAP
7 8 (2.55%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (1.59%) Modbus
9 4 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.96%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.96%) DHCP
10 3 (0.96%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.96%) WAN
10 3 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.33%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (12.42%) Power BI
3 30 (9.55%) Tableau
4 26 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (6.05%) SQL Server
6 18 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.14%) Big Data
8 11 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.50%) Delta Lake
8 11 (3.50%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.18%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.55%) Data Mining
10 8 (2.55%) Metadata
10 8 (2.55%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.23%) Spark SQL
12 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 62 (19.75%) Git
2 54 (17.20%) Jenkins
3 44 (14.01%) JIRA
4 43 (13.69%) Vagrant
5 12 (3.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.23%) MLflow
7 5 (1.59%) GitLab
8 4 (1.27%) Subversion
9 3 (0.96%) JMeter
9 3 (0.96%) JUnit
10 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.64%) Mockito
10 2 (0.64%) Selenium
11 1 (0.32%) Appium
11 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.32%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.32%) Maven
11 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 91 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (13.38%) Finance
5 27 (8.60%) Retail
6 19 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.10%) Law
9 14 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (4.46%) Marketing
10 8 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.91%) Multimedia
12 5 (1.59%) Automotive
13 4 (1.27%) Banking
13 4 (1.27%) Legal
13 4 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Local Government
14 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.64%) Electronics
15 2 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (13.38%) Developer
2 41 (13.06%) Analyst
3 38 (12.10%) Data Engineer
4 35 (11.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (10.83%) Senior
6 26 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (8.28%) Support Engineer
7 24 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (7.32%) Data Analyst
9 18 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.41%) Architect
10 17 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (5.10%) Azure Data Engineer
11 16 (5.10%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 14 (4.46%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Lead
15 12 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.24%) HTML
2 20 (6.37%) .NET
3 19 (6.05%) PySpark
4 12 (3.82%) CSS
4 12 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.18%) Django
5 10 (3.18%) Flask
6 9 (2.87%) React
7 8 (2.55%) LDAP
7 8 (2.55%) NumPy
7 8 (2.55%) Pandas
7 8 (2.55%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.55%) REST
7 8 (2.55%) TensorFlow
7 8 (2.55%) YAML
8 7 (2.23%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.91%) Keras
9 6 (1.91%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (1.91%) Metaflow
9 6 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.24%) Replication
2 11 (3.50%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.18%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.18%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.18%) IoT
4 9 (2.87%) Cyberattack
5 8 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.23%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.59%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.59%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.27%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 74 (23.57%) Linux
2 43 (13.69%) VMS
2 43 (13.69%) Windows
3 26 (8.28%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (3.18%) Android
5 9 (2.87%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.55%) Unix
7 3 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.39%) DevOps
2 64 (20.38%) AI
2 64 (20.38%) CI/CD
3 61 (19.43%) Analytics
4 60 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (18.47%) Machine Learning
6 57 (18.15%) Agile
7 49 (15.61%) Cloud Security
8 45 (14.33%) Configuration Management
8 45 (14.33%) Visualisation
9 43 (13.69%) Computer Science
10 42 (13.38%) Change Management
10 42 (13.38%) Data Science
11 41 (13.06%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (11.78%) Decision-Making
13 36 (11.46%) Data Modelling
13 36 (11.46%) Mentoring
14 33 (10.51%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (10.19%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 158 (50.32%) SQL
2 79 (25.16%) Java
3 63 (20.06%) PowerShell
4 60 (19.11%) JavaScript
5 46 (14.65%) R
6 44 (14.01%) Groovy
7 43 (13.69%) C#
8 31 (9.87%) C++
9 30 (9.55%) C
9 30 (9.55%) Perl
10 28 (8.92%) PHP
11 26 (8.28%) TypeScript
12 23 (7.32%) Bash
13 21 (6.69%) MATLAB
13 21 (6.69%) Ruby
14 19 (6.05%) Dart
14 19 (6.05%) Rust
15 8 (2.55%) Bicep
16 4 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (28.03%) Degree
2 74 (23.57%) Security Cleared
3 64 (20.38%) SC Cleared
4 34 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (8.60%) AWS Certification
6 25 (7.96%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.78%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.18%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.55%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.23%) HND
12 6 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (1.59%) PhD
14 4 (1.27%) CCNA
15 3 (0.96%) CCNP
15 3 (0.96%) HNC
16 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.55%) GDPR
3 7 (2.23%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (1.91%) QA
5 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.96%) NIST
7 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 65 (20.70%) Docker
2 37 (11.78%) Active Directory
3 29 (9.24%) DFS Replication
4 8 (2.55%) Dovecot
4 8 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.55%) Postfix
4 8 (2.55%) Squid
4 8 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.55%) vSphere
5 3 (0.96%) Firmware
5 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.32%) HDFS
6 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 86 (27.39%) Terraform
2 44 (14.01%) Grafana
3 42 (13.38%) Prometheus
4 31 (9.87%) Ansible
5 25 (7.96%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.87%) Nessus
7 8 (2.55%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.91%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.59%) Kibana
10 3 (0.96%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.96%) Puppet
11 2 (0.64%) Argo
11 2 (0.64%) Nagios
11 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.64%) SCOM
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.32%) logstash
12 1 (0.32%) Oozie
Vendors
1 55 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.69%) ServiceNow
3 40 (12.74%) Databricks
4 25 (7.96%) Juniper
5 15 (4.78%) Splunk
6 13 (4.14%) Cisco
7 11 (3.50%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.87%) Oracle
9 8 (2.55%) 3PAR
9 8 (2.55%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.91%) Google
11 5 (1.59%) Atmel
11 5 (1.59%) Siemens
11 5 (1.59%) UiPath
12 4 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.27%) VMware
13 3 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.96%) AVEVA
13 3 (0.96%) Meraki
13 3 (0.96%) SolarWinds