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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Python 547 314 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.65% 5.51% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.09% 25.14% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 257 194 225
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,911 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £86,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,947 1,249 2,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.99% 21.92% 22.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,337 951 1,527
10th Percentile £32,650 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,250 £37,750 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 5 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 5 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 -4 293 £62,500 -3.85% 195
East Midlands +16 252 £52,500 -19.23% 149
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 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.65%) WordPress
3 7 (1.28%) Apache
4 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.73%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 106 (19.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.18%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Line 50
2 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 3 (0.55%) Shopify
3 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 309 (56.49%) Azure
2 165 (30.16%) Azure AI
3 160 (29.25%) Power Platform
4 113 (20.66%) AWS
5 37 (6.76%) GCP
6 24 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.02%) Snowflake
8 18 (3.29%) GitHub
9 17 (3.11%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (2.93%) Serverless
11 15 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.01%) dbt
14 11 (2.01%) SaaS
15 9 (1.65%) Azure Stack
16 8 (1.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.20%) Firewall
2 14 (2.56%) Wireless
3 13 (2.38%) DNS
3 13 (2.38%) VPN
4 10 (1.83%) Internet
4 10 (1.83%) MQTT
4 10 (1.83%) VLAN
4 10 (1.83%) WAN
5 9 (1.65%) Bluetooth
5 9 (1.65%) Network Security
6 8 (1.46%) LAN
6 8 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.28%) VoIP
8 6 (1.10%) BGP
8 6 (1.10%) DHCP
8 6 (1.10%) OSPF
8 6 (1.10%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (29.25%) Power BI
2 112 (20.48%) Tableau
3 33 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (2.93%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.01%) QlikView
8 11 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (1.83%) Delta Lake
9 10 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.83%) Power Query
10 8 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.10%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.10%) MySQL
12 5 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 58 (10.60%) Git
2 21 (3.84%) GitLab
3 19 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.01%) JIRA
5 10 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.65%) Gatling
7 8 (1.46%) JMeter
7 8 (1.46%) Selenium
8 7 (1.28%) LoadRunner
9 6 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.10%) GDB
9 6 (1.10%) Postman
9 6 (1.10%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.10%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.91%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.91%) Subversion
11 4 (0.73%) HP UFT
11 4 (0.73%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 229 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.27%) Finance
3 74 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.20%) Banking
4 23 (4.20%) Manufacturing
4 23 (4.20%) Retail
5 22 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.84%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.74%) Electronics
8 13 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.19%) Law
9 12 (2.19%) Marketing
10 8 (1.46%) Fire and Rescue
10 8 (1.46%) Multimedia
11 7 (1.28%) Games
11 7 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.10%) Legal
13 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.73%) Automotive
14 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (24.86%) Analyst
2 130 (23.77%) Data Analyst
3 107 (19.56%) Junior
4 103 (18.83%) Junior Analyst
4 103 (18.83%) Junior Data Analyst
5 102 (18.65%) Senior
6 74 (13.53%) Developer
7 68 (12.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 66 (12.07%) Lead
9 63 (11.52%) Data Engineer
10 58 (10.60%) Data Scientist
11 49 (8.96%) Python Engineer
12 40 (7.31%) Software Engineer
13 28 (5.12%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (4.57%) Senior Data Scientist
15 23 (4.20%) Lead Data Scientist
16 22 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (3.66%) Python Developer
18 18 (3.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.40%) PyTorch
2 31 (5.67%) Terraform
3 29 (5.30%) TensorFlow
4 26 (4.75%) Hugging Face
5 24 (4.39%) HTML
6 23 (4.20%) CSS
7 17 (3.11%) REST
8 15 (2.74%) Kafka
9 14 (2.56%) PySpark
9 14 (2.56%) React
9 14 (2.56%) scikit-learn
10 13 (2.38%) Pandas
11 12 (2.19%) RESTful
12 11 (2.01%) Node.js
12 11 (2.01%) Playwright
13 9 (1.65%) Keycloak
14 8 (1.46%) Django
15 7 (1.28%) NumPy
16 6 (1.10%) JSON
16 6 (1.10%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.20%) Cloud Native
2 16 (2.93%) IoT
3 14 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.65%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.28%) Device Driver
8 7 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.91%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.91%) FPGA
10 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.91%) Verilog
10 5 (0.91%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.23%) Linux
2 27 (4.94%) Windows
3 13 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.10%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.10%) Unix
5 5 (0.91%) Kali Linux
5 5 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.73%) VMS
7 3 (0.55%) Solaris
8 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (45.89%) AI
2 166 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
3 112 (20.48%) Analytics
4 91 (16.64%) Software Engineering
5 89 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (15.36%) Machine Learning
7 79 (14.44%) Roadmaps
8 78 (14.26%) Data Science
9 72 (13.16%) CI/CD
10 70 (12.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 69 (12.61%) Actionable Insight
11 69 (12.61%) Decision-Making
12 62 (11.33%) Mentoring
13 56 (10.24%) DevOps
14 53 (9.69%) Statistics
15 51 (9.32%) Agile
15 51 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (8.78%) Validation
17 45 (8.23%) Data Pipeline
18 43 (7.86%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 264 (48.26%) SQL
2 38 (6.95%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.22%) Java
4 32 (5.85%) PowerShell
5 26 (4.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (3.84%) C#
6 21 (3.84%) R
7 20 (3.66%) C
8 19 (3.47%) Bash
9 16 (2.93%) C++
9 16 (2.93%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.01%) Go
11 8 (1.46%) PHP
12 6 (1.10%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.91%) Perl
14 3 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.37%) Bicep
15 2 (0.37%) Ruby
15 2 (0.37%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (34.19%) Azure Certification
2 66 (12.07%) Degree
3 34 (6.22%) Security Cleared
4 31 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.19%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.91%) CCNA
13 3 (0.55%) MCSE
14 2 (0.37%) CISSP
14 2 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) CCNP
15 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.29%) GDPR
3 14 (2.56%) QA
4 8 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.28%) JTAG
5 7 (1.28%) SLA
6 4 (0.73%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.73%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.73%) NIST
7 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.37%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.37%) MISRA
8 2 (0.37%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) PSD2
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.39%) Docker
2 13 (2.38%) Firmware
3 8 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.55%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.56%) Grafana
3 9 (1.65%) Ansible
4 5 (0.91%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.37%) Argo
6 2 (0.37%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.37%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) Nagios
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.18%) Podman
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 151 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.22%) Databricks
3 18 (3.29%) Google
4 13 (2.38%) Cisco
5 10 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.46%) VMware
7 5 (0.91%) Altera
7 5 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.91%) Informatica
7 5 (0.91%) Microsemi
7 5 (0.91%) Veracode
7 5 (0.91%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.73%) Adobe
8 4 (0.73%) Apple
8 4 (0.73%) Meraki
8 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.73%) Sage
8 4 (0.73%) Splunk
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle
9 3 (0.55%) SAP