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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +11
Permanent jobs citing Python 533 307 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.50% 5.42% 4.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.38% 24.72% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 250 191 214
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £86,750
England median annual salary £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% - -

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 1,947 1,242 2,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.78% 21.94% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 949 1,458
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -9 286 £65,000 +0.78% 155
East Midlands +20 245 £52,500 -19.23% 159
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 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.31%) Apache
3 4 (0.75%) SAS
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) WordPress
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (17.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.19%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Line 50
2 3 (0.56%) Magento
2 3 (0.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 293 (54.97%) Azure
2 154 (28.89%) Azure AI
3 150 (28.14%) Power Platform
4 103 (19.32%) AWS
5 37 (6.94%) GCP
6 24 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.94%) Snowflake
8 18 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.00%) Serverless
11 15 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.06%) GitHub
15 9 (1.69%) Azure Stack
15 9 (1.69%) dbt
15 9 (1.69%) SaaS
16 8 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
18 6 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.69%) Firewall
2 15 (2.81%) DNS
3 14 (2.63%) Wireless
4 13 (2.44%) VPN
5 12 (2.25%) VLAN
5 12 (2.25%) WAN
6 10 (1.88%) LAN
6 10 (1.88%) MQTT
7 9 (1.69%) Bluetooth
7 9 (1.69%) Network Security
7 9 (1.69%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.50%) BGP
8 8 (1.50%) DHCP
8 8 (1.50%) OSPF
8 8 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.31%) VoIP
10 6 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (1.13%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.94%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (28.14%) Power BI
2 102 (19.14%) Tableau
3 34 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.44%) QlikView
7 13 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.25%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.88%) Power Query
11 8 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.31%) MySQL
13 6 (1.13%) Big Data
13 6 (1.13%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.13%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (9.94%) Git
2 19 (3.56%) GitLab
3 17 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.06%) JIRA
5 8 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.50%) Gatling
6 6 (1.13%) GDB
6 6 (1.13%) Selenium
6 6 (1.13%) Zephyr
7 5 (0.94%) JMeter
7 5 (0.94%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.94%) Subversion
8 4 (0.75%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.75%) HP UFT
8 4 (0.75%) Postman
8 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 217 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 86 (16.14%) Finance
3 75 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.69%) Banking
5 24 (4.50%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (4.13%) Retail
7 19 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.19%) Electronics
9 15 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.63%) Marketing
11 12 (2.25%) Law
12 8 (1.50%) Fire and Rescue
13 7 (1.31%) Games
13 7 (1.31%) Legal
13 7 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.94%) Automotive
16 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (23.45%) Analyst
2 119 (22.33%) Data Analyst
3 105 (19.70%) Senior
4 94 (17.64%) Junior
5 92 (17.26%) Junior Analyst
5 92 (17.26%) Junior Data Analyst
6 72 (13.51%) Developer
7 68 (12.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 66 (12.38%) Data Engineer
9 63 (11.82%) Lead
10 58 (10.88%) Data Scientist
11 51 (9.57%) Python Engineer
12 42 (7.88%) Software Engineer
13 29 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (4.69%) Senior Data Scientist
15 23 (4.32%) Lead Data Scientist
16 22 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (3.94%) Python Developer
18 20 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
19 17 (3.19%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.75%) PyTorch
2 32 (6.00%) Terraform
3 30 (5.63%) TensorFlow
4 23 (4.32%) Hugging Face
5 17 (3.19%) REST
6 16 (3.00%) HTML
6 16 (3.00%) Kafka
6 16 (3.00%) PySpark
7 15 (2.81%) CSS
7 15 (2.81%) React
8 12 (2.25%) RESTful
9 11 (2.06%) Node.js
9 11 (2.06%) scikit-learn
10 10 (1.88%) Keycloak
10 10 (1.88%) Pandas
11 9 (1.69%) Playwright
12 8 (1.50%) Django
13 6 (1.13%) .NET
13 6 (1.13%) FastAPI
13 6 (1.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.00%) IoT
3 15 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.69%) ARM Cortex
6 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.31%) Device Driver
8 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.13%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.94%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.94%) FPGA
10 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.94%) Verilog
10 5 (0.94%) VHDL
11 4 (0.75%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.44%) Linux
2 27 (5.07%) Windows
3 13 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.13%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.13%) Unix
5 5 (0.94%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.75%) VMS
7 3 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (44.84%) AI
2 158 (29.64%) Business Intelligence
3 115 (21.58%) Analytics
4 97 (18.20%) Software Engineering
5 91 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (15.20%) Data Science
6 81 (15.20%) Machine Learning
6 81 (15.20%) Roadmaps
7 73 (13.70%) CI/CD
8 70 (13.13%) Decision-Making
9 68 (12.76%) Actionable Insight
9 68 (12.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 62 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 56 (10.51%) DevOps
12 53 (9.94%) Statistics
13 51 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (9.38%) Validation
15 49 (9.19%) Agile
16 47 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
17 46 (8.63%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 255 (47.84%) SQL
2 32 (6.00%) Java
2 32 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 30 (5.63%) JavaScript
4 27 (5.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (3.94%) C#
6 19 (3.56%) Bash
6 19 (3.56%) C
7 17 (3.19%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.00%) C++
8 16 (3.00%) R
9 12 (2.25%) Go
10 8 (1.50%) PHP
11 6 (1.13%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.94%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.94%) Perl
13 2 (0.38%) Bicep
13 2 (0.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) Rust
13 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (31.71%) Azure Certification
2 68 (12.76%) Degree
3 35 (6.57%) Security Cleared
4 32 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.31%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.94%) CCNA
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.56%) MCSE
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CCNP
13 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.38%) GDPR
3 11 (2.06%) QA
4 7 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.31%) JTAG
4 7 (1.31%) SLA
5 4 (0.75%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.75%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.75%) NIST
6 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.38%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.38%) MISRA
7 2 (0.38%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (4.32%) Docker
2 12 (2.25%) Firmware
3 8 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.56%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.25%) Grafana
3 11 (2.06%) Ansible
4 5 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.38%) Argo
7 2 (0.38%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.38%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Nagios
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 131 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.75%) Databricks
3 18 (3.38%) Google
4 15 (2.81%) Cisco
5 10 (1.88%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.50%) VMware
7 5 (0.94%) Altera
7 5 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.94%) Informatica
7 5 (0.94%) Microsemi
7 5 (0.94%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.75%) Adobe
8 4 (0.75%) Apple
8 4 (0.75%) Meraki
8 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.75%) Sage
8 4 (0.75%) Veracode
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle
9 3 (0.56%) SAP
9 3 (0.56%) SolarWinds