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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 349 486 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.67% 5.83% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.86% 23.60% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 256 240 207
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £86,250 £88,850
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 1,131 2,059 1,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.38% 24.72% 36.49%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,147 1,461
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,832 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +15 244 £60,000 -5.51% 210
East Midlands -13 108 £62,500 +13.64% 120
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 25 (7.16%) Confluence
2 12 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.72%) IIS
4 6 (1.72%) SAS
5 5 (1.43%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) Apache
6 2 (0.57%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 72 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 163 (46.70%) Azure
2 118 (33.81%) AWS
3 77 (22.06%) Power Platform
4 42 (12.03%) Azure AI
5 37 (10.60%) Amazon S3
6 35 (10.03%) GitHub
7 32 (9.17%) Amazon ELB
8 31 (8.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (7.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (7.45%) AWS KMS
12 25 (7.16%) GCP
13 21 (6.02%) Amazon Glacier
14 16 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (4.58%) SaaS
15 13 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (3.72%) Snowflake
16 12 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.31%) Firewall
2 22 (6.30%) HTTP
3 20 (5.73%) DNS
3 20 (5.73%) Internet
4 19 (5.44%) FTP
4 19 (5.44%) SMTP
4 19 (5.44%) SSH
5 5 (1.43%) IMAP
5 5 (1.43%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.43%) VPN
6 3 (0.86%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.86%) UWB
6 3 (0.86%) WAN
7 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.57%) LAN
7 2 (0.57%) Modbus
7 2 (0.57%) MQTT
7 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (21.49%) Power BI
2 72 (20.63%) Tableau
3 31 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.31%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (7.45%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.44%) Delta Lake
7 18 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.58%) Data Mining
9 12 (3.44%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.87%) Big Data
10 10 (2.87%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.58%) Metadata
12 8 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.01%) Spark SQL
14 6 (1.72%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
16 4 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (16.33%) Git
2 39 (11.17%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.02%) JIRA
4 26 (7.45%) Vagrant
5 8 (2.29%) GitLab
6 7 (2.01%) MLflow
7 6 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.43%) JUnit
9 4 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.15%) Selenium
10 3 (0.86%) JMeter
11 2 (0.57%) Mockito
11 2 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.57%) Subversion
12 1 (0.29%) Locust
General
1 111 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.61%) Finance
3 39 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 38 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.30%) Retail
6 19 (5.44%) Multimedia
7 17 (4.87%) Marketing
8 14 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.87%) Law
11 7 (2.01%) Automotive
12 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Local Government
15 2 (0.57%) Electronics
15 2 (0.57%) Legal
15 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.57%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 80 (22.92%) Analyst
2 64 (18.34%) Data Analyst
3 55 (15.76%) Developer
4 53 (15.19%) Data Engineer
5 47 (13.47%) Senior
6 34 (9.74%) Junior
7 33 (9.46%) Junior Analyst
7 33 (9.46%) Junior Data Analyst
8 30 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 30 (8.60%) Trainee
9 28 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (7.45%) Azure Data Engineer
11 21 (6.02%) Python Developer
12 20 (5.73%) Software Developer
13 18 (5.16%) Lead
13 18 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (5.16%) Software Engineer
14 17 (4.87%) Architect
14 17 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (4.58%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.88%) CSS
1 24 (6.88%) HTML
2 23 (6.59%) Django
2 23 (6.59%) PySpark
3 19 (5.44%) React
4 13 (3.72%) .NET
5 12 (3.44%) Flask
6 11 (3.15%) Node.js
7 9 (2.58%) REST
8 8 (2.29%) YAML
9 7 (2.01%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.01%) Spring
9 7 (2.01%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.01%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.72%) Keras
10 6 (1.72%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (1.72%) Metaflow
10 6 (1.72%) Pandas
10 6 (1.72%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.58%) Replication
2 10 (2.87%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.58%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.58%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.01%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.72%) Credit Risk
5 6 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.43%) IoT
6 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.86%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.61%) Linux
2 26 (7.45%) VMS
3 19 (5.44%) Windows
4 17 (4.87%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.87%) Unix
6 6 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (25.50%) AI
2 76 (21.78%) Business Intelligence
3 73 (20.92%) CI/CD
4 69 (19.77%) Analytics
5 65 (18.62%) DevOps
6 57 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (14.90%) Mentoring
8 51 (14.61%) Agile
9 49 (14.04%) Machine Learning
10 48 (13.75%) Visualisation
11 47 (13.47%) Data Science
12 43 (12.32%) ETL
13 42 (12.03%) Data Engineering
14 41 (11.75%) Data Modelling
14 41 (11.75%) Decision-Making
15 34 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (9.46%) Data Visualisation
17 32 (9.17%) Data Analysis
18 31 (8.88%) Cloud Security
19 29 (8.31%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 188 (53.87%) SQL
2 57 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 46 (13.18%) Java
4 34 (9.74%) PowerShell
5 31 (8.88%) R
6 27 (7.74%) Groovy
7 21 (6.02%) Perl
8 18 (5.16%) C#
9 17 (4.87%) Bash
10 12 (3.44%) PHP
11 9 (2.58%) Bicep
12 7 (2.01%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.72%) C++
14 5 (1.43%) C
14 5 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.43%) Go
14 5 (1.43%) Scala
14 5 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.43%) VBA
15 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (18.91%) Azure Certification
2 62 (17.77%) Degree
3 52 (14.90%) Security Cleared
4 44 (12.61%) SC Cleared
5 33 (9.46%) AWS Certification
6 25 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (5.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.30%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.58%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.43%) HND
12 4 (1.15%) CCNA
12 4 (1.15%) PhD
13 3 (0.86%) CCNP
13 3 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.29%) GDPR
3 4 (1.15%) QA
4 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.57%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (15.19%) Docker
2 23 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.58%) DFS Replication
4 5 (1.43%) Dovecot
4 5 (1.43%) Postfix
4 5 (1.43%) Squid
5 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) HDFS
6 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 60 (17.19%) Terraform
2 33 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 30 (8.60%) Grafana
4 24 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.44%) Ansible
6 6 (1.72%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.72%) Nessus
7 5 (1.43%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.15%) Kibana
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.57%) Nagios
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.29%) logstash
10 1 (0.29%) Oozie
10 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 106 (30.37%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.04%) Databricks
3 24 (6.88%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.30%) Oracle
5 12 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.58%) Juniper
7 8 (2.29%) Google
8 5 (1.43%) Cisco
8 5 (1.43%) Informatica
8 5 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.43%) UiPath
9 4 (1.15%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.15%) Siemens
9 4 (1.15%) Splunk
10 3 (0.86%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.86%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.86%) Meraki
10 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.86%) Talend
10 3 (0.86%) VMware