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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -34
Permanent jobs citing Python 545 282 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.06% 5.82% 4.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.33% 23.02% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 301 209 366
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,750 £89,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 1,460 1,225 2,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.54% 25.29% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 955 2,567
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £39,500
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 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 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 31 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 +19 335 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East Midlands -6 211 £55,000 - 125
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 9 (1.65%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.47%) WordPress
3 7 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.10%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 221 (40.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 342 (62.75%) Azure
2 238 (43.67%) Power Platform
3 211 (38.72%) Azure AI
4 140 (25.69%) AWS
5 45 (8.26%) GitHub
6 31 (5.69%) Amazon S3
7 30 (5.50%) Serverless
8 27 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (3.67%) Snowflake
10 17 (3.12%) GCP
11 16 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.20%) dbt
13 11 (2.02%) SaaS
14 10 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.47%) PaaS
17 7 (1.28%) Datadog
18 6 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 5 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 5 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.24%) Internet
2 10 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.65%) Wireless
4 7 (1.28%) VPN
5 6 (1.10%) BGP
5 6 (1.10%) LAN
6 5 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.92%) EIGRP
6 5 (0.92%) Modbus
6 5 (0.92%) OSPF
6 5 (0.92%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.73%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.73%) Broadband
7 4 (0.73%) LTE
7 4 (0.73%) WAN
8 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.18%) FTP
9 1 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (43.67%) Power BI
2 219 (40.18%) Tableau
3 23 (4.22%) Data Mining
4 18 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (2.39%) Delta Lake
9 10 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.28%) Metadata
10 7 (1.28%) Redis
11 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.92%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.73%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.55%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.55%) Power Query
13 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (10.09%) Git
2 10 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.65%) Cucumber
3 9 (1.65%) GitLab
3 9 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.47%) Selenium
5 6 (1.10%) JMeter
6 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.73%) JIRA
6 4 (0.73%) Subversion
7 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.55%) JUnit
7 3 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.55%) Locust
7 3 (0.55%) Postman
7 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.37%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.37%) Gatling
8 2 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 256 (46.97%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (10.28%) Finance
4 34 (6.24%) Multimedia
5 23 (4.22%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.75%) Retail
8 14 (2.57%) Law
9 8 (1.47%) Automotive
9 8 (1.47%) Marketing
10 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.55%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.37%) Advertising
14 2 (0.37%) Electronics
14 2 (0.37%) Games
14 2 (0.37%) Legal
14 2 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 225 (41.28%) Analyst
2 220 (40.37%) Data Analyst
3 193 (35.41%) Junior
4 190 (34.86%) Junior Analyst
4 190 (34.86%) Junior Data Analyst
5 75 (13.76%) Developer
6 62 (11.38%) Trainee
7 61 (11.19%) Data Engineer
8 56 (10.28%) Senior
9 36 (6.61%) Lead
9 36 (6.61%) Software Developer
10 32 (5.87%) Python Developer
11 24 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 23 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.67%) Azure Data Engineer
14 20 (3.67%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (3.67%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.49%) Software Engineer
16 18 (3.30%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.83%) HTML
2 48 (8.81%) CSS
3 46 (8.44%) React
4 38 (6.97%) Node.js
5 26 (4.77%) PySpark
6 17 (3.12%) Django
7 15 (2.75%) Pandas
8 13 (2.39%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.83%) NumPy
9 10 (1.83%) PyTorch
9 10 (1.83%) Streamlit
10 9 (1.65%) Hugging Face
10 9 (1.65%) Matplotlib
10 9 (1.65%) REST
11 8 (1.47%) Flask
12 7 (1.28%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.92%) FastAPI
14 4 (0.73%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.57%) Algorithms
2 9 (1.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (0.73%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.73%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.55%) Social Media
6 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.37%) CUDA
7 2 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.37%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.37%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.37%) Lidar
7 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.37%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.20%) Linux
2 7 (1.28%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) Unix
4 2 (0.37%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (48.99%) AI
2 236 (43.30%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (14.13%) Analytics
4 64 (11.74%) Mentoring
5 61 (11.19%) CI/CD
6 53 (9.72%) Machine Learning
7 52 (9.54%) DevOps
8 49 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (8.26%) ETL
11 44 (8.07%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (7.71%) Agile
13 41 (7.52%) Data Engineering
14 40 (7.34%) Decision-Making
14 40 (7.34%) Visualisation
15 39 (7.16%) Software Engineering
16 37 (6.79%) Data Science
17 36 (6.61%) Data Analysis
18 35 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
19 34 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 343 (62.94%) SQL
2 83 (15.23%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.24%) R
4 25 (4.59%) Java
5 16 (2.94%) Bash
6 12 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.83%) C
8 10 (1.83%) C++
8 10 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.65%) PHP
10 7 (1.28%) Bicep
10 7 (1.28%) C#
10 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.10%) Scala
11 6 (1.10%) VBA
12 5 (0.92%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.92%) Go
13 3 (0.55%) Delphi
13 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 248 (45.50%) Azure Certification
2 47 (8.62%) AWS Certification
3 44 (8.07%) Degree
4 43 (7.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 39 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.12%) Security Cleared
8 13 (2.39%) SC Cleared
9 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.92%) CCNP
11 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.37%) CEH
12 2 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.37%) PhD
13 1 (0.18%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.18%) OSCP
13 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.83%) QA
3 8 (1.47%) GDPR
4 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.55%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) MISRA
6 1 (0.18%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (5.14%) Docker
2 6 (1.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (4.95%) Terraform
2 26 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.39%) Grafana
4 5 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.73%) Ansible
6 3 (0.55%) Nagios
7 2 (0.37%) Argo
7 2 (0.37%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 284 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.44%) Databricks
3 13 (2.39%) Google
4 10 (1.83%) Oracle
5 6 (1.10%) Cisco
5 6 (1.10%) Informatica
5 6 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.10%) Talend
6 5 (0.92%) Cloudera
6 5 (0.92%) Meraki
7 4 (0.73%) Atmel
7 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.37%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.37%) Logitech
9 2 (0.37%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.37%) Splunk
9 2 (0.37%) Yealink
9 2 (0.37%) Zoho