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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 27 37
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 383 414 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.57% 6.77% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.68% 24.98% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 266 204 319
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,875 £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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,625 £87,750
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 1,172 1,657 2,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.99% 27.10% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 944 908 2,227
10th Percentile £28,825 £32,500 £31,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 5 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 5 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 +2 253 £55,000 - 105
East Midlands -22 133 £55,000 - 113
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 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.57%) IIS
2 5 (1.31%) SAS
3 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.52%) Confluence
3 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.26%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 114 (29.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.26%) Simulink
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 192 (50.13%) Azure
2 116 (30.29%) Power Platform
3 114 (29.77%) AWS
4 81 (21.15%) Azure AI
5 40 (10.44%) GitHub
6 29 (7.57%) Amazon S3
7 28 (7.31%) Serverless
8 25 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.92%) SaaS
11 13 (3.39%) GCP
12 12 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 7 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.57%) Datadog
15 5 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.31%) dbt
15 5 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.04%) Azure AKS
16 4 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.83%) Internet
2 10 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (2.09%) Wireless
4 7 (1.83%) VPN
5 6 (1.57%) BGP
5 6 (1.57%) LAN
6 5 (1.31%) Bluetooth
6 5 (1.31%) OSPF
6 5 (1.31%) WAN
7 4 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.04%) EIGRP
7 4 (1.04%) Firewall
7 4 (1.04%) LTE
7 4 (1.04%) Modbus
7 4 (1.04%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.78%) Broadband
8 3 (0.78%) FTP
9 2 (0.52%) DNS
9 2 (0.52%) HTTP
9 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (29.77%) Power BI
2 110 (28.72%) Tableau
3 25 (6.53%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.01%) Data Mining
5 16 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.92%) Delta Lake
7 13 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.57%) Metadata
10 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.31%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.04%) Pentaho
12 4 (1.04%) Power Query
12 4 (1.04%) Redis
13 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.78%) Parquet
13 3 (0.78%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (12.79%) Git
2 11 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.57%) GitLab
4 5 (1.31%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.31%) JIRA
5 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.04%) Subversion
6 3 (0.78%) JUnit
6 3 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.52%) MLflow
7 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) Locust
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 132 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (12.27%) Finance
4 30 (7.83%) Multimedia
5 19 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.39%) Marketing
7 11 (2.87%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.61%) Automotive
8 10 (2.61%) Law
9 9 (2.35%) Retail
10 7 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.04%) Local Government
11 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.52%) Advertising
13 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 116 (30.29%) Analyst
2 109 (28.46%) Data Analyst
3 77 (20.10%) Junior
3 77 (20.10%) Junior Analyst
3 77 (20.10%) Junior Data Analyst
4 74 (19.32%) Developer
5 52 (13.58%) Trainee
6 50 (13.05%) Data Engineer
7 46 (12.01%) Senior
8 34 (8.88%) Software Developer
9 32 (8.36%) Python Developer
10 26 (6.79%) Lead
11 21 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.22%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.96%) Azure Data Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Python Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Senior Developer
15 17 (4.44%) Trainee Analyst
15 17 (4.44%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.84%) HTML
2 43 (11.23%) CSS
3 41 (10.70%) React
4 35 (9.14%) Node.js
5 28 (7.31%) PySpark
6 17 (4.44%) Django
7 10 (2.61%) .NET
8 9 (2.35%) REST
9 8 (2.09%) Flask
10 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.31%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.31%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.04%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.04%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.04%) JSON
11 4 (1.04%) Spring
12 3 (0.78%) EDI
12 3 (0.78%) Kafka
12 3 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (1.83%) Algorithms
1 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.31%) Raspberry Pi
4 4 (1.04%) Credit Risk
4 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
5 3 (0.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.52%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.52%) CUDA
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.52%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.52%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.18%) Linux
2 5 (1.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.04%) Unix
4 2 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.26%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (33.42%) AI
2 117 (30.55%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (19.58%) Analytics
4 61 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (15.67%) Mentoring
6 54 (14.10%) CI/CD
7 48 (12.53%) ETL
8 45 (11.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (11.49%) DevOps
10 42 (10.97%) Data Engineering
10 42 (10.97%) Machine Learning
11 41 (10.70%) Decision-Making
12 39 (10.18%) Agile
13 38 (9.92%) Software Engineering
14 35 (9.14%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (8.88%) Data Analysis
15 34 (8.88%) Data Science
16 33 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (8.36%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 222 (57.96%) SQL
2 84 (21.93%) JavaScript
3 27 (7.05%) R
4 25 (6.53%) Java
5 16 (4.18%) Bash
6 15 (3.92%) PHP
7 11 (2.87%) C#
7 11 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.61%) C
8 10 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.09%) VBA
10 7 (1.83%) C++
11 6 (1.57%) Bicep
12 5 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.31%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.31%) Go
12 5 (1.31%) Perl
12 5 (1.31%) Scala
13 3 (0.78%) Delphi
13 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (28.46%) Azure Certification
2 48 (12.53%) Degree
3 35 (9.14%) AWS Certification
3 35 (9.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 32 (8.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 21 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.96%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.92%) SC Cleared
8 8 (2.09%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (1.57%) CCNP
9 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) PhD
12 2 (0.52%) CEH
12 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.52%) HND
12 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.09%) GDPR
3 5 (1.31%) QA
4 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (7.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.04%) Firmware
3 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.26%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (7.05%) Terraform
2 23 (6.01%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.09%) Grafana
4 6 (1.57%) Ansible
5 5 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.78%) Argo
7 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.52%) Nagios
7 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.26%) Control-M
8 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.26%) Nessus
8 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 169 (44.13%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.23%) Databricks
3 15 (3.92%) Oracle
4 10 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.09%) Google
6 7 (1.83%) Cisco
7 5 (1.31%) Meraki
7 5 (1.31%) Talend
8 4 (1.04%) Atmel
8 4 (1.04%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.04%) Informatica
8 4 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.78%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.78%) UiPath
10 2 (0.52%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.52%) Siemens
10 2 (0.52%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.52%) Yealink
10 2 (0.52%) Zoho