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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 39 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -36
Permanent jobs citing Python 629 274 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.28% 5.70% 4.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.95% 22.10% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 314 192 363
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,750 £89,800
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 1,615 1,240 3,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.57% 25.78% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 976 2,618
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 £63,250
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 15 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 15 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 +21 376 £60,000 +9.09% 119
East Midlands -1 254 £55,000 - 114
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 (1.59%) WordPress
2 9 (1.43%) Jupyter
3 6 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.95%) SAS
4 2 (0.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 252 (40.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Line 50
1 2 (0.32%) Magento
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 407 (64.71%) Azure
2 277 (44.04%) Azure AI
2 277 (44.04%) Power Platform
3 139 (22.10%) AWS
4 42 (6.68%) GitHub
5 32 (5.09%) Amazon S3
6 31 (4.93%) Serverless
7 27 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.66%) Snowflake
9 19 (3.02%) GCP
10 16 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.07%) dbt
11 13 (2.07%) SaaS
12 10 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.27%) PaaS
15 7 (1.11%) Datadog
16 6 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.09%) Internet
2 10 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (1.59%) Wireless
3 7 (1.11%) VPN
4 6 (0.95%) BGP
4 6 (0.95%) Bluetooth
4 6 (0.95%) LAN
4 6 (0.95%) Modbus
5 5 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.79%) EIGRP
5 5 (0.79%) OSPF
5 5 (0.79%) Wireshark
6 4 (0.64%) Broadband
6 4 (0.64%) LTE
6 4 (0.64%) WAN
7 3 (0.48%) Network Security
8 2 (0.32%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.32%) VoIP
9 1 (0.16%) FTP
9 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (44.04%) Power BI
2 253 (40.22%) Tableau
3 22 (3.50%) Data Mining
4 19 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (2.07%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.11%) Metadata
10 6 (0.95%) Pentaho
10 6 (0.95%) Redis
11 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.79%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.48%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.48%) MySQL
13 3 (0.48%) Power Query
13 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (8.74%) Git
2 13 (2.07%) Cucumber
3 10 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.43%) GitLab
4 9 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.27%) Selenium
6 7 (1.11%) JMeter
7 6 (0.95%) Gatling
8 4 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.64%) JIRA
8 4 (0.64%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.64%) Subversion
8 4 (0.64%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.48%) JUnit
9 3 (0.48%) Locust
9 3 (0.48%) Postman
9 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.32%) MLflow
General
1 327 (51.99%) Social Skills
2 77 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (10.02%) Finance
4 32 (5.09%) Multimedia
5 25 (3.97%) Manufacturing
6 18 (2.86%) Retail
7 16 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 12 (1.91%) Law
9 9 (1.43%) Automotive
9 9 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.11%) Marketing
11 6 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.79%) Electronics
12 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
14 2 (0.32%) Games
14 2 (0.32%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (41.34%) Analyst
2 254 (40.38%) Data Analyst
3 228 (36.25%) Junior
4 225 (35.77%) Junior Analyst
4 225 (35.77%) Junior Data Analyst
5 75 (11.92%) Developer
6 61 (9.70%) Data Engineer
7 60 (9.54%) Senior
8 59 (9.38%) Trainee
9 57 (9.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 40 (6.36%) Lead
11 36 (5.72%) Software Developer
12 30 (4.77%) Python Developer
13 27 (4.29%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.50%) Data Scientist
15 22 (3.50%) Senior Developer
16 21 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
17 20 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
17 20 (3.18%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.70%) HTML
2 51 (8.11%) CSS
3 45 (7.15%) React
4 37 (5.88%) Node.js
5 25 (3.97%) PySpark
6 18 (2.86%) Pandas
7 16 (2.54%) scikit-learn
8 15 (2.38%) Django
9 13 (2.07%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.59%) NumPy
10 10 (1.59%) Streamlit
11 9 (1.43%) Hugging Face
11 9 (1.43%) Matplotlib
11 9 (1.43%) REST
12 8 (1.27%) Playwright
13 7 (1.11%) TensorFlow
14 6 (0.95%) Flask
15 5 (0.79%) AngularJS
15 5 (0.79%) JSON
15 5 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.07%) Algorithms
2 9 (1.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (1.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
4 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (0.64%) Credit Risk
6 4 (0.64%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.48%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (0.48%) Social Media
8 2 (0.32%) CAN bus
8 2 (0.32%) CUDA
8 2 (0.32%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.32%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.32%) Robotics
8 2 (0.32%) SCADA
8 2 (0.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.07%) Linux
2 11 (1.75%) Windows
3 5 (0.79%) Unix
4 4 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.32%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (53.58%) AI
2 272 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (12.40%) Analytics
4 64 (10.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 62 (9.86%) Mentoring
6 61 (9.70%) CI/CD
7 60 (9.54%) Machine Learning
8 54 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (7.79%) DevOps
9 49 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (7.31%) Software Engineering
11 45 (7.15%) ETL
12 44 (7.00%) Agile
13 43 (6.84%) Visualisation
14 41 (6.52%) Data Engineering
14 41 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (6.52%) Data Science
15 37 (5.88%) Computer Science
16 36 (5.72%) Decision-Making
17 34 (5.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 386 (61.37%) SQL
2 83 (13.20%) JavaScript
3 34 (5.41%) R
4 30 (4.77%) Java
5 17 (2.70%) Bash
6 14 (2.23%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.07%) C
8 12 (1.91%) C#
8 12 (1.91%) C++
9 11 (1.75%) PHP
10 10 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.11%) Bicep
11 7 (1.11%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.95%) Scala
12 6 (0.95%) VBA
13 5 (0.79%) Go
14 3 (0.48%) Delphi
14 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 312 (49.60%) Azure Certification
2 49 (7.79%) Degree
3 45 (7.15%) AWS Certification
4 41 (6.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 37 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.38%) Security Cleared
8 12 (1.91%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.75%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.79%) CCNP
11 5 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.64%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.32%) CEH
13 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.32%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
14 1 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.75%) GDPR
4 10 (1.59%) QA
5 3 (0.48%) WCAG
6 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.32%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.32%) MISRA
6 2 (0.32%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (3.82%) Docker
2 9 (1.43%) Firmware
3 4 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (4.13%) Terraform
2 23 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.23%) Grafana
4 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.48%) Nagios
6 2 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 316 (50.24%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.31%) Databricks
3 14 (2.23%) Google
4 11 (1.75%) Oracle
5 7 (1.11%) Informatica
5 7 (1.11%) Talend
6 6 (0.95%) Cisco
6 6 (0.95%) Cloudera
7 5 (0.79%) Meraki
7 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.64%) Atmel
8 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.48%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.48%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.32%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.32%) Apple
10 2 (0.32%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.32%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.32%) Splunk
10 2 (0.32%) Zoho