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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -31
Permanent jobs citing Python 672 263 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.31% 5.27% 4.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.65% 21.12% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 323 178 371
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £87,500
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 1,695 1,245 3,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.39% 24.93% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 975 2,591
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +23 391 £55,200 +0.36% 103
East Midlands +5 281 £55,000 - 82
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 11 (1.64%) WordPress
2 9 (1.34%) Jupyter
3 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.89%) SAS
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 258 (38.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Line 50
2 3 (0.45%) Magento
2 3 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 437 (65.03%) Azure
2 299 (44.49%) Azure AI
3 291 (43.30%) Power Platform
4 147 (21.88%) AWS
5 40 (5.95%) GitHub
6 32 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 31 (4.61%) Serverless
8 28 (4.17%) Snowflake
9 27 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.98%) GCP
11 15 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.08%) SaaS
13 13 (1.93%) dbt
14 12 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (1.04%) PaaS
17 6 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (0.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.46%) Internet
2 11 (1.64%) VPN
2 11 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (1.64%) Wireless
3 8 (1.19%) Bluetooth
4 7 (1.04%) BGP
4 7 (1.04%) LAN
5 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.89%) EIGRP
5 6 (0.89%) Modbus
5 6 (0.89%) OSPF
5 6 (0.89%) Wireshark
6 5 (0.74%) Network Security
6 5 (0.74%) WAN
7 4 (0.60%) Broadband
7 4 (0.60%) DNS
7 4 (0.60%) Firewall
7 4 (0.60%) LTE
7 4 (0.60%) VoIP
8 2 (0.30%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (43.30%) Power BI
2 261 (38.84%) Tableau
3 22 (3.27%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.98%) Data Mining
5 19 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.64%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.04%) Metadata
9 7 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.89%) Pentaho
10 6 (0.89%) Redis
11 5 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.60%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.45%) MySQL
13 3 (0.45%) Power Query
13 3 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 56 (8.33%) Git
2 14 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 13 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.79%) GitLab
5 10 (1.49%) Selenium
6 9 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.19%) Gatling
7 8 (1.19%) JMeter
8 6 (0.89%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.74%) Postman
9 5 (0.74%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.60%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.60%) JIRA
10 4 (0.60%) Subversion
10 4 (0.60%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.45%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 354 (52.68%) Social Skills
2 83 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (10.42%) Finance
4 30 (4.46%) Multimedia
5 24 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 21 (3.13%) Retail
7 17 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 13 (1.93%) Law
9 11 (1.64%) Automotive
10 10 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.04%) Electronics
11 7 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.74%) Marketing
14 4 (0.60%) Banking
14 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.30%) Advertising
16 2 (0.30%) Games
16 2 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 274 (40.77%) Analyst
2 266 (39.58%) Data Analyst
3 239 (35.57%) Junior
4 236 (35.12%) Junior Analyst
4 236 (35.12%) Junior Data Analyst
5 74 (11.01%) Developer
6 71 (10.57%) Senior
7 68 (10.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 68 (10.12%) Data Engineer
8 55 (8.18%) Trainee
9 44 (6.55%) Lead
10 35 (5.21%) Software Developer
11 30 (4.46%) Data Scientist
12 29 (4.32%) Python Developer
12 29 (4.32%) Software Engineer
13 26 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
14 24 (3.57%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.42%) Azure Data Engineer
16 21 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.23%) HTML
2 52 (7.74%) CSS
3 44 (6.55%) React
4 37 (5.51%) Node.js
5 25 (3.72%) PySpark
6 18 (2.68%) Pandas
6 18 (2.68%) PyTorch
7 16 (2.38%) scikit-learn
8 14 (2.08%) Django
8 14 (2.08%) Hugging Face
9 12 (1.79%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.49%) NumPy
10 10 (1.49%) Playwright
10 10 (1.49%) Streamlit
11 9 (1.34%) Matplotlib
11 9 (1.34%) REST
12 7 (1.04%) RESTful
13 6 (0.89%) Flask
14 5 (0.74%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (1.93%) Algorithms
2 9 (1.34%) Cloud Native
2 9 (1.34%) Product Ownership
3 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
4 6 (0.89%) Credit Risk
4 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (0.60%) CAN bus
6 4 (0.60%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (0.45%) iSeries
7 3 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.45%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.45%) Social Media
8 2 (0.30%) ARM Cortex
8 2 (0.30%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.30%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.30%) Lidar
8 2 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.68%) Linux
1 18 (2.68%) Windows
2 7 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.74%) Unix
5 4 (0.60%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.30%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (54.02%) AI
2 287 (42.71%) Business Intelligence
3 81 (12.05%) Analytics
4 75 (11.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 68 (10.12%) Mentoring
6 67 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (9.82%) Machine Learning
8 63 (9.38%) CI/CD
9 53 (7.89%) Software Engineering
10 49 (7.29%) DevOps
11 47 (6.99%) Data Science
12 46 (6.85%) ETL
12 46 (6.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 45 (6.70%) Agile
13 45 (6.70%) Data Pipeline
14 43 (6.40%) Data Engineering
15 41 (6.10%) Visualisation
16 39 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (5.65%) Computer Science
18 36 (5.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 414 (61.61%) SQL
2 78 (11.61%) JavaScript
3 33 (4.91%) R
4 30 (4.46%) Java
5 18 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.38%) Bash
7 15 (2.23%) C
8 14 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.79%) C#
9 12 (1.79%) C++
9 12 (1.79%) PHP
10 10 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.34%) Embedded C
12 7 (1.04%) Bicep
12 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.89%) Scala
14 5 (0.74%) VBA
15 4 (0.60%) Go
16 3 (0.45%) Delphi
16 3 (0.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 332 (49.40%) Azure Certification
2 49 (7.29%) Degree
3 43 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 39 (5.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 35 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.79%) Security Cleared
8 11 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.64%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.89%) CCNP
10 6 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.30%) CEH
11 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.30%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.30%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.15%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.27%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.79%) GDPR
3 11 (1.64%) QA
4 4 (0.60%) ISO 14001
4 4 (0.60%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.30%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.30%) MISRA
5 2 (0.30%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.30%) WCAG
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.15%) NIST
6 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (2.98%) Docker
2 11 (1.64%) Firmware
3 6 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (3.72%) Terraform
2 20 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.23%) Grafana
4 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.45%) Nagios
7 2 (0.30%) Ansible
7 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Control-M
8 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.15%) Podman
8 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 327 (48.66%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.14%) Databricks
3 14 (2.08%) Google
4 10 (1.49%) Oracle
5 7 (1.04%) Cisco
5 7 (1.04%) Informatica
5 7 (1.04%) Talend
6 6 (0.89%) Cloudera
6 6 (0.89%) Meraki
7 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.74%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.60%) Adobe
8 4 (0.60%) Apple
8 4 (0.60%) Atmel
8 4 (0.60%) Sage
8 4 (0.60%) Veracode
9 3 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.45%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.30%) Logitech
10 2 (0.30%) Yealink