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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 32 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -30
Permanent jobs citing Python 484 323 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.81% 6.27% 4.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.54% 23.72% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 295 216 361
10th Percentile £28,850 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,000 £79,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 1,362 1,362 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.53% 26.44% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 960 2,488
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +15 308 £60,000 +9.09% 115
East Midlands -11 177 £55,000 - 142
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 (1.86%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.65%) WordPress
3 7 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 190 (39.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.86%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 280 (57.85%) Azure
2 203 (41.94%) Power Platform
3 156 (32.23%) Azure AI
4 133 (27.48%) AWS
5 45 (9.30%) GitHub
6 31 (6.40%) Amazon S3
7 30 (6.20%) Serverless
8 27 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.93%) Snowflake
10 16 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.69%) SaaS
12 12 (2.48%) dbt
12 12 (2.48%) GCP
13 9 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.65%) Datadog
14 8 (1.65%) PaaS
15 6 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.02%) Internet
2 10 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.86%) Wireless
4 7 (1.45%) VPN
5 6 (1.24%) BGP
5 6 (1.24%) LAN
6 5 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.03%) EIGRP
6 5 (1.03%) OSPF
6 5 (1.03%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.83%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.83%) Broadband
7 4 (0.83%) LTE
7 4 (0.83%) Modbus
7 4 (0.83%) WAN
8 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.21%) FTP
9 1 (0.21%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (41.94%) Power BI
2 186 (38.43%) Tableau
3 23 (4.75%) Data Mining
4 17 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (2.89%) Delta Lake
7 13 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.45%) Metadata
10 6 (1.24%) Redis
10 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.83%) Pentaho
11 4 (0.83%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.62%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.62%) Power Query
12 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (10.95%) Git
2 10 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.65%) Cucumber
5 7 (1.45%) GitLab
6 5 (1.03%) JMeter
6 5 (1.03%) Selenium
7 4 (0.83%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.83%) Subversion
8 3 (0.62%) JIRA
8 3 (0.62%) JUnit
8 3 (0.62%) Locust
9 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.41%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.41%) MLflow
9 2 (0.41%) Postman
9 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.21%) Gatling
10 1 (0.21%) Maven
General
1 202 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 70 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (11.57%) Finance
4 34 (7.02%) Multimedia
5 23 (4.75%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.89%) Law
8 12 (2.48%) Retail
9 9 (1.86%) Marketing
10 8 (1.65%) Automotive
11 6 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.62%) Local Government
13 3 (0.62%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.41%) Advertising
14 2 (0.41%) Games
14 2 (0.41%) Legal
14 2 (0.41%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 192 (39.67%) Analyst
2 188 (38.84%) Data Analyst
3 160 (33.06%) Junior
4 157 (32.44%) Junior Analyst
4 157 (32.44%) Junior Data Analyst
5 72 (14.88%) Developer
6 62 (12.81%) Trainee
7 58 (11.98%) Data Engineer
8 53 (10.95%) Senior
9 35 (7.23%) Lead
10 33 (6.82%) Software Developer
11 31 (6.40%) Python Developer
12 24 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (4.13%) Azure Data Engineer
13 20 (4.13%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.93%) Software Engineer
15 18 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.72%) Python Engineer
15 18 (3.72%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (12.19%) HTML
2 47 (9.71%) CSS
3 45 (9.30%) React
4 38 (7.85%) Node.js
5 26 (5.37%) PySpark
6 17 (3.51%) Django
7 12 (2.48%) Pandas
8 10 (2.07%) NumPy
8 10 (2.07%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.07%) Streamlit
9 9 (1.86%) Hugging Face
9 9 (1.86%) Matplotlib
9 9 (1.86%) REST
10 8 (1.65%) Flask
11 7 (1.45%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.45%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.03%) .NET
12 5 (1.03%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.89%) Algorithms
2 8 (1.65%) Cloud Native
2 8 (1.65%) Product Ownership
3 6 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (0.83%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.62%) Social Media
7 2 (0.41%) CUDA
7 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.41%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.41%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.41%) Robotics
7 2 (0.41%) SCADA
7 2 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.48%) Linux
2 7 (1.45%) Windows
3 4 (0.83%) Unix
4 2 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (44.01%) AI
2 204 (42.15%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (15.50%) Analytics
4 63 (13.02%) Mentoring
5 61 (12.60%) CI/CD
6 52 (10.74%) DevOps
6 52 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (10.33%) Machine Learning
8 48 (9.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (9.09%) ETL
10 43 (8.88%) Decision-Making
11 42 (8.68%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (8.26%) Agile
13 38 (7.85%) Data Engineering
13 38 (7.85%) Software Engineering
13 38 (7.85%) Visualisation
14 37 (7.64%) Data Analysis
15 36 (7.44%) Data Science
16 34 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
17 33 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 305 (63.02%) SQL
2 85 (17.56%) JavaScript
3 34 (7.02%) R
4 23 (4.75%) Java
5 16 (3.31%) Bash
6 12 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.86%) C
10 8 (1.65%) Bicep
10 8 (1.65%) PHP
11 7 (1.45%) C++
11 7 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.24%) C#
12 6 (1.24%) Scala
12 6 (1.24%) VBA
13 5 (1.03%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.03%) Go
14 3 (0.62%) Delphi
14 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 193 (39.88%) Azure Certification
2 47 (9.71%) AWS Certification
3 43 (8.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (8.68%) Degree
5 40 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.31%) Security Cleared
8 12 (2.48%) SC Cleared
9 6 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.03%) CCNP
10 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.41%) CEH
12 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.41%) PhD
12 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.41%) PMP
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.07%) QA
3 8 (1.65%) GDPR
4 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.62%) WCAG
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) NIST
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (5.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (5.79%) Terraform
2 27 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.69%) Grafana
4 5 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.83%) Ansible
6 3 (0.62%) Argo
6 3 (0.62%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.21%) Control-M
8 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 253 (52.27%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.09%) Databricks
3 10 (2.07%) Oracle
4 9 (1.86%) Google
5 7 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.24%) Cisco
7 5 (1.03%) Informatica
7 5 (1.03%) Meraki
7 5 (1.03%) Talend
8 4 (0.83%) Atmel
8 4 (0.83%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.62%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.62%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.41%) Civica
10 2 (0.41%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.41%) Logitech
10 2 (0.41%) Northgate
10 2 (0.41%) Orchard
10 2 (0.41%) PagerDuty