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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 41
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 393 414 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.64% 6.79% 4.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.25% 25.06% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 265 206 324
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,875 £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 1,182 1,652 2,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.95% 27.11% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 942 909 2,268
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +1 258 £55,000 - 108
East Midlands -20 138 £55,000 - 104
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 6 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.53%) IIS
2 5 (1.27%) SAS
3 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.51%) WordPress
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.25%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 124 (31.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 201 (51.15%) Azure
2 128 (32.57%) Power Platform
3 115 (29.26%) AWS
4 92 (23.41%) Azure AI
5 40 (10.18%) GitHub
6 28 (7.12%) Amazon S3
6 28 (7.12%) Serverless
7 25 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (3.82%) SaaS
10 13 (3.31%) GCP
11 11 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.53%) Datadog
13 6 (1.53%) dbt
14 5 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.02%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.63%) Internet
2 10 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (2.04%) Wireless
4 7 (1.78%) VPN
5 6 (1.53%) BGP
5 6 (1.53%) LAN
6 5 (1.27%) Bluetooth
6 5 (1.27%) OSPF
6 5 (1.27%) WAN
7 4 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.02%) EIGRP
7 4 (1.02%) LTE
7 4 (1.02%) Modbus
7 4 (1.02%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.76%) Broadband
8 3 (0.76%) Firewall
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.51%) FTP
9 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.25%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (32.06%) Power BI
2 121 (30.79%) Tableau
3 23 (5.85%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.60%) Data Mining
5 14 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.31%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.53%) Metadata
9 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.02%) Pentaho
11 4 (1.02%) Power Query
11 4 (1.02%) Redis
12 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (12.21%) Git
2 10 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.53%) GitLab
4 5 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.02%) JIRA
5 4 (1.02%) Subversion
6 3 (0.76%) JUnit
6 3 (0.76%) Selenium
7 2 (0.51%) MLflow
7 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.25%) Locust
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 142 (36.13%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (12.47%) Finance
4 30 (7.63%) Multimedia
5 18 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.31%) Marketing
7 11 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.54%) Law
9 8 (2.04%) Automotive
10 7 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.78%) Retail
11 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.02%) Local Government
11 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.51%) Advertising
13 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Games
14 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 126 (32.06%) Analyst
2 120 (30.53%) Data Analyst
3 88 (22.39%) Junior
3 88 (22.39%) Junior Analyst
3 88 (22.39%) Junior Data Analyst
4 73 (18.58%) Developer
5 52 (13.23%) Trainee
6 49 (12.47%) Data Engineer
7 47 (11.96%) Senior
8 34 (8.65%) Software Developer
9 32 (8.14%) Python Developer
10 27 (6.87%) Lead
11 21 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (4.58%) Senior Developer
15 17 (4.33%) Azure Data Engineer
15 17 (4.33%) Trainee Analyst
15 17 (4.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 16 (4.07%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.49%) HTML
2 43 (10.94%) CSS
3 42 (10.69%) React
4 35 (8.91%) Node.js
5 27 (6.87%) PySpark
6 18 (4.58%) Django
7 10 (2.54%) .NET
8 9 (2.29%) REST
9 8 (2.04%) Flask
10 5 (1.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.27%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.27%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.02%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.02%) JSON
11 4 (1.02%) Spring
12 3 (0.76%) EDI
12 3 (0.76%) Kafka
12 3 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (1.78%) Algorithms
1 7 (1.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (1.27%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
4 4 (1.02%) Credit Risk
4 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.51%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.51%) CUDA
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.51%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.51%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.51%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.82%) Linux
2 6 (1.53%) Windows
3 4 (1.02%) Unix
4 2 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (35.37%) AI
2 128 (32.57%) Business Intelligence
3 76 (19.34%) Analytics
4 60 (15.27%) Mentoring
4 60 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (13.74%) CI/CD
6 45 (11.45%) DevOps
6 45 (11.45%) ETL
6 45 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 42 (10.69%) Machine Learning
8 41 (10.43%) Decision-Making
9 40 (10.18%) Agile
10 39 (9.92%) Data Engineering
10 39 (9.92%) Software Engineering
11 35 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
12 34 (8.65%) Data Science
13 33 (8.40%) Data Analysis
14 32 (8.14%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 230 (58.52%) SQL
2 84 (21.37%) JavaScript
3 27 (6.87%) R
4 24 (6.11%) Java
5 16 (4.07%) Bash
6 15 (3.82%) PHP
7 11 (2.80%) C#
7 11 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.54%) C
8 10 (2.54%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.04%) VBA
10 7 (1.78%) C++
11 6 (1.53%) Bicep
12 5 (1.27%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.27%) Go
12 5 (1.27%) Scala
13 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.02%) Perl
14 3 (0.76%) Delphi
15 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (30.53%) Azure Certification
2 48 (12.21%) Degree
3 35 (8.91%) AWS Certification
3 35 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 32 (8.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 21 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.58%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.82%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.56%) SC Cleared
9 8 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (1.53%) CCNP
10 6 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.76%) PhD
13 2 (0.51%) CEH
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) HND
13 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.04%) GDPR
3 5 (1.27%) QA
4 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
5 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (6.87%) Docker
2 4 (1.02%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.25%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.25%) Postfix
3 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (6.62%) Terraform
2 23 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.04%) Grafana
4 6 (1.53%) Ansible
5 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.76%) Argo
7 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
7 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.25%) Control-M
8 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 177 (45.04%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.18%) Databricks
3 15 (3.82%) Oracle
4 10 (2.54%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.04%) Google
6 7 (1.78%) Cisco
7 5 (1.27%) Meraki
7 5 (1.27%) Talend
8 4 (1.02%) Atmel
8 4 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.02%) Informatica
8 4 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.76%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.76%) UiPath
10 2 (0.51%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.51%) Logitech
10 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.51%) Siemens
10 2 (0.51%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.51%) Zoho