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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 383 433 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.83% 6.88% 5.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.22% 25.53% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 266 207 249
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,063 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +3.29% -11.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £84,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -1.27%

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 1,153 1,696 1,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.53% 26.95% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 932 926 1,754
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,188 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,525
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +2 262 £58,750 +2.17% 126
East Midlands -27 124 £57,600 +4.73% 168
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 7 (1.83%) Confluence
2 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.57%) IIS
3 4 (1.04%) nginx
3 4 (1.04%) SAS
4 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 109 (28.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.04%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 192 (50.13%) Azure
2 111 (28.98%) AWS
3 109 (28.46%) Power Platform
4 71 (18.54%) Azure AI
5 41 (10.70%) GitHub
6 27 (7.05%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.22%) Serverless
8 19 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.44%) SaaS
11 15 (3.92%) GCP
12 13 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.13%) Snowflake
14 9 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.09%) Amazon ELB
15 8 (2.09%) AWS KMS
15 8 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.83%) Internet
2 11 (2.87%) Firewall
3 9 (2.35%) DNS
3 9 (2.35%) FTP
3 9 (2.35%) HTTP
3 9 (2.35%) VPN
4 8 (2.09%) SMTP
4 8 (2.09%) SSH
5 7 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.57%) LAN
7 5 (1.31%) BGP
7 5 (1.31%) WAN
8 4 (1.04%) IMAP
8 4 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.04%) OSPF
8 4 (1.04%) Wireless
9 3 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.78%) EIGRP
9 3 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (27.94%) Power BI
2 102 (26.63%) Tableau
3 27 (7.05%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.01%) Data Mining
5 21 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (4.18%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.04%) Metadata
11 4 (1.04%) Parquet
11 4 (1.04%) Power Query
12 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (13.32%) Git
2 17 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.61%) JIRA
4 8 (2.09%) Vagrant
5 7 (1.83%) GitLab
6 5 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.78%) JUnit
7 3 (0.78%) Selenium
7 3 (0.78%) Subversion
8 2 (0.52%) MLflow
8 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.26%) JMeter
9 1 (0.26%) Locust
9 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 129 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (11.49%) Finance
4 30 (7.83%) Multimedia
5 26 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.92%) Marketing
7 12 (3.13%) Retail
8 11 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.61%) Automotive
9 10 (2.61%) Law
10 8 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.04%) Local Government
14 3 (0.78%) Legal
14 3 (0.78%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.52%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.26%) Advertising
16 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 117 (30.55%) Analyst
2 100 (26.11%) Data Analyst
3 76 (19.84%) Developer
4 66 (17.23%) Junior
4 66 (17.23%) Junior Analyst
4 66 (17.23%) Junior Data Analyst
5 50 (13.05%) Senior
6 49 (12.79%) Data Engineer
7 48 (12.53%) Trainee
8 34 (8.88%) Software Developer
9 31 (8.09%) Python Developer
10 28 (7.31%) Lead
11 26 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (5.74%) Azure Data Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Senior Developer
14 18 (4.70%) Software Engineer
15 17 (4.44%) Python Engineer
16 15 (3.92%) Lead Developer
16 15 (3.92%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.79%) HTML
2 41 (10.70%) CSS
3 34 (8.88%) React
4 28 (7.31%) Node.js
5 26 (6.79%) PySpark
6 17 (4.44%) Django
7 10 (2.61%) .NET
8 8 (2.09%) Flask
8 8 (2.09%) REST
9 6 (1.57%) Spring
10 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.31%) XML
11 4 (1.04%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.04%) LDAP
12 3 (0.78%) EDI
12 3 (0.78%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.78%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.35%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.83%) Credit Risk
3 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.04%) Replication
6 3 (0.78%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.52%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.79%) Linux
2 11 (2.87%) Windows
3 8 (2.09%) VMS
4 6 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.04%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.77%) AI
2 110 (28.72%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (20.10%) Analytics
4 65 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (15.40%) CI/CD
5 59 (15.40%) Mentoring
6 49 (12.79%) DevOps
7 48 (12.53%) ETL
8 43 (11.23%) Agile
9 42 (10.97%) Decision-Making
10 40 (10.44%) Data Engineering
11 38 (9.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (9.92%) Machine Learning
12 36 (9.40%) Data Analysis
13 35 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
14 34 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (8.88%) Data Analytics
14 34 (8.88%) Data Science
14 34 (8.88%) Visualisation
15 32 (8.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 219 (57.18%) SQL
2 84 (21.93%) JavaScript
3 29 (7.57%) Java
3 29 (7.57%) R
4 16 (4.18%) Bash
4 16 (4.18%) PowerShell
5 15 (3.92%) C#
5 15 (3.92%) PHP
6 11 (2.87%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.61%) Perl
8 8 (2.09%) Bicep
8 8 (2.09%) Groovy
8 8 (2.09%) VBA
9 7 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.57%) C
10 6 (1.57%) C++
10 6 (1.57%) Go
10 6 (1.57%) Scala
11 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.78%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 102 (26.63%) Azure Certification
2 57 (14.88%) Degree
3 38 (9.92%) AWS Certification
4 35 (9.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (7.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 29 (7.57%) Security Cleared
7 22 (5.74%) SC Cleared
8 21 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.66%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.09%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.57%) CCNP
13 4 (1.04%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.78%) CCNA
15 2 (0.52%) CEH
15 2 (0.52%) HND
15 2 (0.52%) PhD
15 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.09%) GDPR
3 4 (1.04%) QA
4 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (9.14%) Docker
2 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.04%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.04%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.04%) Postfix
2 4 (1.04%) Squid
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (8.62%) Terraform
2 25 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.13%) Grafana
4 8 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.83%) Ansible
6 5 (1.31%) Nessus
7 4 (1.04%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.78%) Argo
8 3 (0.78%) Nagios
9 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 159 (41.51%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.49%) Databricks
3 15 (3.92%) Oracle
4 13 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.09%) Cisco
5 8 (2.09%) Google
6 6 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.31%) Meraki
8 4 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.04%) Talend
8 4 (1.04%) UiPath
9 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.78%) Informatica
9 3 (0.78%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.52%) Juniper
10 2 (0.52%) Siemens
10 2 (0.52%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.52%) Zoho