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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 45 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 -38
Permanent jobs citing Python 623 285 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.92% 5.61% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.36% 22.08% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 282 163 377
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £90,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

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 1,813 1,291 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.33% 25.42% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 959 2,725
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,500
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +17 322 £61,000 +3.39% 82
East Midlands +26 301 £55,000 +4.76% 82
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 9 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.44%) Jupyter
1 9 (1.44%) WordPress
2 6 (0.96%) Apache
3 3 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 191 (30.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Line 50
2 3 (0.48%) Magento
2 3 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 363 (58.27%) Azure
2 242 (38.84%) Azure AI
3 229 (36.76%) Power Platform
4 132 (21.19%) AWS
5 33 (5.30%) Amazon S3
5 33 (5.30%) Serverless
6 30 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (4.82%) Snowflake
7 26 (4.17%) GCP
8 23 (3.69%) GitHub
9 17 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.25%) SaaS
11 13 (2.09%) dbt
12 10 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.12%) Azure Stack
15 7 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.57%) VPN
1 16 (2.57%) Wireless
2 14 (2.25%) Firewall
2 14 (2.25%) Internet
2 14 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (1.93%) Bluetooth
4 9 (1.44%) LAN
5 8 (1.28%) MQTT
5 8 (1.28%) Network Security
6 7 (1.12%) DNS
6 7 (1.12%) WAN
7 6 (0.96%) BGP
7 6 (0.96%) Modbus
8 5 (0.80%) OSPF
8 5 (0.80%) VoIP
9 4 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.64%) EIGRP
9 4 (0.64%) VLAN
9 4 (0.64%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.64%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (36.76%) Power BI
2 190 (30.50%) Tableau
3 21 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (2.89%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.44%) Delta Lake
7 8 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.28%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.12%) Data Mining
8 7 (1.12%) Redis
9 6 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.80%) MySQL
11 4 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.64%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.64%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.48%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (7.06%) Git
2 14 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.09%) GitLab
4 11 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.28%) Gatling
6 8 (1.28%) JMeter
7 7 (1.12%) Selenium
8 6 (0.96%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.80%) JIRA
9 5 (0.80%) Postman
9 5 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.80%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.64%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.64%) GDB
10 4 (0.64%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 295 (47.35%) Social Skills
2 101 (16.21%) Finance
3 89 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.53%) Manufacturing
5 21 (3.37%) Retail
6 20 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.89%) Banking
8 14 (2.25%) Multimedia
9 13 (2.09%) Law
10 11 (1.77%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.12%) Automotive
11 7 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.96%) Electronics
13 4 (0.64%) Games
13 4 (0.64%) Marketing
14 3 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (35.96%) Analyst
2 214 (34.35%) Data Analyst
3 184 (29.53%) Junior
4 181 (29.05%) Junior Analyst
4 181 (29.05%) Junior Data Analyst
5 85 (13.64%) Senior
6 79 (12.68%) Developer
7 69 (11.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 64 (10.27%) Data Scientist
9 62 (9.95%) Data Engineer
9 62 (9.95%) Lead
10 37 (5.94%) Software Engineer
11 30 (4.82%) Python Engineer
12 27 (4.33%) Senior Data Scientist
12 27 (4.33%) Trainee
13 26 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.85%) Lead Data Scientist
15 21 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.58%) HTML
2 35 (5.62%) CSS
2 35 (5.62%) PyTorch
3 32 (5.14%) Hugging Face
4 29 (4.65%) TensorFlow
5 28 (4.49%) React
6 24 (3.85%) Node.js
7 20 (3.21%) Pandas
8 18 (2.89%) scikit-learn
9 16 (2.57%) PySpark
10 12 (1.93%) NumPy
11 11 (1.77%) RESTful
12 10 (1.61%) Matplotlib
12 10 (1.61%) Playwright
12 10 (1.61%) Streamlit
13 9 (1.44%) REST
14 6 (0.96%) FastAPI
15 5 (0.80%) Kafka
15 5 (0.80%) pytest
15 5 (0.80%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (2.41%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.09%) Algorithms
3 12 (1.93%) IoT
4 9 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (1.28%) Virtual Team
6 6 (0.96%) ARM Cortex
6 6 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.64%) CAN bus
8 4 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.64%) Device Driver
8 4 (0.64%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (0.64%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.48%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.48%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.48%) Robotics
9 3 (0.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.49%) Linux
2 23 (3.69%) Windows
3 11 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.64%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.64%) Unix
6 4 (0.64%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (52.49%) AI
2 229 (36.76%) Business Intelligence
3 95 (15.25%) Analytics
4 84 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (13.16%) Machine Learning
6 79 (12.68%) Software Engineering
7 76 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 72 (11.56%) Data Science
9 69 (11.08%) Roadmaps
10 67 (10.75%) CI/CD
10 67 (10.75%) Mentoring
11 66 (10.59%) Actionable Insight
12 52 (8.35%) Decision-Making
12 52 (8.35%) Statistics
13 45 (7.22%) DevOps
14 43 (6.90%) Data Analysis
15 42 (6.74%) Data Engineering
16 41 (6.58%) Agile
17 40 (6.42%) Computer Science
18 39 (6.26%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 362 (58.11%) SQL
2 47 (7.54%) JavaScript
3 29 (4.65%) Java
3 29 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 28 (4.49%) R
5 19 (3.05%) Bash
6 18 (2.89%) C
7 16 (2.57%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.41%) C++
9 14 (2.25%) C#
10 12 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.44%) PHP
12 8 (1.28%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.96%) Bicep
14 5 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.64%) Go
16 3 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.32%) Groovy
17 2 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 264 (42.38%) Azure Certification
2 51 (8.19%) Degree
3 25 (4.01%) AWS Certification
4 23 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 19 (3.05%) SC Cleared
7 18 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.64%) CCNP
11 4 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.48%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.32%) CEH
13 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 2 (0.32%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) CCNA
14 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.69%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.93%) QA
3 11 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.44%) GDPR
5 4 (0.64%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.64%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.64%) JTAG
6 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.32%) MISRA
7 2 (0.32%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (3.37%) Docker
2 12 (1.93%) Firmware
3 7 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (4.33%) Terraform
2 16 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.41%) Grafana
4 6 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.64%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.48%) Ansible
6 3 (0.48%) Nagios
7 2 (0.32%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.16%) Podman
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 242 (38.84%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.42%) Databricks
3 13 (2.09%) Google
4 9 (1.44%) Cisco
5 7 (1.12%) Meraki
6 6 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.64%) Adobe
7 4 (0.64%) Apple
7 4 (0.64%) Atmel
7 4 (0.64%) Informatica
7 4 (0.64%) Oracle
7 4 (0.64%) Sage
7 4 (0.64%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.64%) Veracode
8 3 (0.48%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.48%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.48%) Talend
8 3 (0.48%) VMware
9 2 (0.32%) AlienVault
9 2 (0.32%) Splunk