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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 555 328 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.75% 5.63% 4.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.83% 24.87% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 260 205 242
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,450 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £73,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -

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 1,925 1,319 2,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.02% 22.64% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,005 1,647
10th Percentile £32,750 £29,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 29 August 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 August 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 -3 295 £65,000 - 179
East Midlands +19 258 £52,500 -19.23% 139
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 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.62%) WordPress
3 7 (1.26%) Apache
4 5 (0.90%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 116 (20.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.36%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.18%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Line 50
2 3 (0.54%) Magento
2 3 (0.54%) Shopify
3 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 320 (57.66%) Azure
2 176 (31.71%) Azure AI
3 170 (30.63%) Power Platform
4 114 (20.54%) AWS
5 37 (6.67%) GCP
6 27 (4.86%) Snowflake
7 23 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.06%) GitHub
9 16 (2.88%) Amazon S3
9 16 (2.88%) Serverless
10 15 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.34%) dbt
11 13 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (2.34%) SaaS
12 12 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.62%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.14%) Firewall
2 14 (2.52%) Wireless
3 13 (2.34%) DNS
3 13 (2.34%) VPN
4 10 (1.80%) Internet
4 10 (1.80%) MQTT
4 10 (1.80%) Network Security
4 10 (1.80%) VLAN
4 10 (1.80%) WAN
5 9 (1.62%) Bluetooth
6 8 (1.44%) LAN
6 8 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.26%) VoIP
8 6 (1.08%) BGP
8 6 (1.08%) DHCP
8 6 (1.08%) OSPF
8 6 (1.08%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (30.63%) Power BI
2 122 (21.98%) Tableau
3 32 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.62%) Power Query
11 8 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.44%) QlikView
12 7 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.08%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.08%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.08%) MySQL
14 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 56 (10.09%) Git
2 21 (3.78%) GitLab
3 19 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.80%) Cucumber
4 10 (1.80%) JIRA
5 9 (1.62%) Gatling
6 8 (1.44%) JMeter
6 8 (1.44%) Selenium
7 7 (1.26%) LoadRunner
8 6 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.08%) GDB
8 6 (1.08%) Postman
8 6 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.08%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.90%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.72%) HP UFT
10 4 (0.72%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.72%) Subversion
10 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 238 (42.88%) Social Skills
2 88 (15.86%) Finance
3 70 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.32%) Retail
5 23 (4.14%) Banking
5 23 (4.14%) Manufacturing
6 22 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.24%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.52%) Electronics
9 13 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.16%) Law
10 12 (2.16%) Marketing
11 8 (1.44%) Multimedia
12 7 (1.26%) Fire and Rescue
12 7 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.08%) Games
14 5 (0.90%) Legal
14 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.72%) Automotive
15 4 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (26.31%) Analyst
2 140 (25.23%) Data Analyst
3 118 (21.26%) Junior
4 114 (20.54%) Junior Analyst
4 114 (20.54%) Junior Data Analyst
5 101 (18.20%) Senior
6 74 (13.33%) Developer
7 68 (12.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 65 (11.71%) Lead
9 63 (11.35%) Data Engineer
10 58 (10.45%) Data Scientist
11 47 (8.47%) Python Engineer
12 39 (7.03%) Software Engineer
13 28 (5.05%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (4.50%) Senior Data Scientist
15 23 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (4.14%) Lead Data Scientist
16 20 (3.60%) Python Developer
17 19 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
18 18 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.13%) PyTorch
2 33 (5.95%) Terraform
3 28 (5.05%) TensorFlow
4 27 (4.86%) Hugging Face
5 24 (4.32%) HTML
6 23 (4.14%) CSS
7 17 (3.06%) REST
8 15 (2.70%) scikit-learn
9 14 (2.52%) Kafka
9 14 (2.52%) Pandas
9 14 (2.52%) React
10 13 (2.34%) PySpark
11 12 (2.16%) RESTful
12 11 (1.98%) Playwright
13 10 (1.80%) Node.js
14 8 (1.44%) Django
14 8 (1.44%) Keycloak
14 8 (1.44%) NumPy
15 7 (1.26%) JSON
16 6 (1.08%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (2.88%) IoT
3 13 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.62%) ARM Cortex
7 7 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.26%) Device Driver
7 7 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.08%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.72%) CAN bus
10 4 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.72%) Robotics
10 4 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.11%) Linux
2 27 (4.86%) Windows
3 13 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.08%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.08%) Unix
5 5 (0.90%) Kali Linux
5 5 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.72%) VMS
7 3 (0.54%) Solaris
8 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (47.21%) AI
2 176 (31.71%) Business Intelligence
3 108 (19.46%) Analytics
4 90 (16.22%) Software Engineering
5 87 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (14.77%) Machine Learning
7 77 (13.87%) Roadmaps
8 73 (13.15%) CI/CD
9 72 (12.97%) Data Science
10 71 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 67 (12.07%) Actionable Insight
12 65 (11.71%) Decision-Making
13 62 (11.17%) Mentoring
14 54 (9.73%) DevOps
15 53 (9.55%) Statistics
16 46 (8.29%) Agile
16 46 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (8.29%) Validation
17 45 (8.11%) Data Pipeline
18 42 (7.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 274 (49.37%) SQL
2 36 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 35 (6.31%) Java
4 34 (6.13%) PowerShell
5 23 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (3.78%) C#
7 20 (3.60%) C
8 19 (3.42%) Bash
9 18 (3.24%) R
10 16 (2.88%) C++
10 16 (2.88%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.80%) Go
12 8 (1.44%) PHP
13 6 (1.08%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.72%) Bicep
14 4 (0.72%) Perl
15 3 (0.54%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.36%) Ruby
16 2 (0.36%) Rust
16 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (35.86%) Azure Certification
2 62 (11.17%) Degree
3 33 (5.95%) Security Cleared
4 30 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.34%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.26%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.90%) CCNA
13 3 (0.54%) MCSE
14 2 (0.36%) CISSP
14 2 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) CCNP
15 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.88%) GDPR
3 11 (1.98%) QA
4 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.26%) JTAG
5 7 (1.26%) SLA
6 4 (0.72%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.72%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.72%) NIST
7 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.36%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.36%) MISRA
8 2 (0.36%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (4.14%) Docker
2 13 (2.34%) Firmware
3 8 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.54%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.52%) Grafana
3 9 (1.62%) Ansible
4 5 (0.90%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.54%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.36%) Argo
6 2 (0.36%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.36%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) Nagios
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.18%) Podman
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 164 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.13%) Databricks
3 18 (3.24%) Google
4 13 (2.34%) Cisco
5 10 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.44%) VMware
7 5 (0.90%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.90%) Informatica
7 5 (0.90%) Veracode
8 4 (0.72%) Adobe
8 4 (0.72%) Altera
8 4 (0.72%) Apple
8 4 (0.72%) Meraki
8 4 (0.72%) Microsemi
8 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.72%) Sage
8 4 (0.72%) Splunk
8 4 (0.72%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.54%) SAP
9 3 (0.54%) SolarWinds