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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 29 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 372 439 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.77% 6.59% 5.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.55% 25.13% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 266 212 210
10th Percentile £29,875 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,550
90th Percentile £86,875 £84,875 £90,868
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 1,143 1,747 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.65% 26.22% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 934 958 1,472
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +1 261 £60,000 -0.83% 177
East Midlands -25 114 £62,500 +13.64% 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 10 (2.69%) Confluence
2 6 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.61%) IIS
3 5 (1.34%) SAS
4 4 (1.08%) nginx
5 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.54%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 99 (26.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 185 (49.73%) Azure
2 105 (28.23%) AWS
3 99 (26.61%) Power Platform
4 64 (17.20%) Azure AI
5 40 (10.75%) GitHub
6 25 (6.72%) Amazon S3
7 18 (4.84%) SaaS
8 17 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (4.57%) GCP
9 16 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (3.76%) Serverless
11 12 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.23%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.96%) Amazon ELB
12 11 (2.96%) AWS KMS
12 11 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.99%) Internet
2 14 (3.76%) Firewall
3 12 (3.23%) DNS
3 12 (3.23%) FTP
3 12 (3.23%) HTTP
4 11 (2.96%) SMTP
4 11 (2.96%) SSH
5 7 (1.88%) VPN
6 4 (1.08%) IMAP
6 4 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.08%) WAN
7 3 (0.81%) BGP
7 3 (0.81%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.81%) LAN
7 3 (0.81%) OSPF
7 3 (0.81%) UWB
7 3 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.81%) Wireless
8 2 (0.54%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (26.08%) Power BI
1 97 (26.08%) Tableau
2 29 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.18%) Data Mining
5 15 (4.03%) Delta Lake
6 13 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.34%) Metadata
11 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.08%) Parquet
12 4 (1.08%) Power Query
13 3 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 47 (12.63%) Git
2 21 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.23%) JIRA
4 11 (2.96%) Vagrant
5 8 (2.15%) GitLab
6 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.81%) JUnit
7 3 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.54%) MLflow
8 2 (0.54%) Subversion
9 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) Locust
9 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 120 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (12.90%) Finance
4 26 (6.99%) Multimedia
4 26 (6.99%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.11%) Retail
6 16 (4.30%) Marketing
7 14 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.69%) Law
9 9 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.15%) Automotive
11 7 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.81%) Legal
14 3 (0.81%) Local Government
14 3 (0.81%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 109 (29.30%) Analyst
2 92 (24.73%) Data Analyst
3 65 (17.47%) Developer
4 56 (15.05%) Data Engineer
5 55 (14.78%) Junior
5 55 (14.78%) Junior Analyst
5 55 (14.78%) Junior Data Analyst
6 51 (13.71%) Senior
7 44 (11.83%) Trainee
8 30 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (7.80%) Software Developer
10 28 (7.53%) Azure Data Engineer
11 27 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.99%) Python Developer
13 23 (6.18%) Lead
14 21 (5.65%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.30%) Architect
15 16 (4.30%) Python Engineer
15 16 (4.30%) Software Engineer
16 15 (4.03%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.48%) HTML
2 33 (8.87%) CSS
3 26 (6.99%) React
4 23 (6.18%) PySpark
5 21 (5.65%) Node.js
6 16 (4.30%) Django
7 10 (2.69%) .NET
8 7 (1.88%) REST
9 6 (1.61%) ARM Templates
10 5 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.34%) Flask
10 5 (1.34%) Spring
10 5 (1.34%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.34%) XML
11 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.08%) LDAP
12 3 (0.81%) EDI
12 3 (0.81%) JSON
12 3 (0.81%) pytest
12 3 (0.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.42%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.88%) AI Agents
2 7 (1.88%) Credit Risk
3 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
3 6 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.34%) Replication
4 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.81%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (0.54%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.54%) Device Driver
7 2 (0.54%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.54%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.54%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.54%) SCADA
7 2 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.80%) Linux
2 11 (2.96%) VMS
3 10 (2.69%) Windows
4 9 (2.42%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (29.03%) AI
2 101 (27.15%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (20.97%) Analytics
4 63 (16.94%) CI/CD
4 63 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (14.52%) Mentoring
6 53 (14.25%) DevOps
7 44 (11.83%) ETL
8 43 (11.56%) Machine Learning
9 42 (11.29%) Data Engineering
10 41 (11.02%) Agile
10 41 (11.02%) Decision-Making
11 38 (10.22%) Visualisation
12 37 (9.95%) Data Modelling
13 36 (9.68%) Data Analytics
13 36 (9.68%) Data Science
14 35 (9.41%) Data Analysis
15 34 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 215 (57.80%) SQL
2 71 (19.09%) JavaScript
3 36 (9.68%) Java
4 30 (8.06%) R
5 20 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.11%) Bash
7 16 (4.30%) C#
8 14 (3.76%) Perl
8 14 (3.76%) PHP
9 11 (2.96%) Bicep
9 11 (2.96%) Groovy
10 9 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.15%) Scala
12 7 (1.88%) C++
12 7 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.88%) VBA
13 6 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.34%) C
14 5 (1.34%) Go
15 4 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 89 (23.92%) Azure Certification
2 56 (15.05%) Degree
3 36 (9.68%) AWS Certification
4 33 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (8.06%) Security Cleared
6 26 (6.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 23 (6.18%) SC Cleared
8 18 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.76%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.15%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (1.34%) CCNP
13 4 (1.08%) CCNA
13 4 (1.08%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.54%) CCSP
14 2 (0.54%) CISSP
14 2 (0.54%) HND
14 2 (0.54%) PhD
14 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.69%) GDPR
3 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.81%) QA
4 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (9.95%) Docker
2 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.34%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.08%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.08%) Postfix
4 4 (1.08%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (10.22%) Terraform
2 24 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.03%) Grafana
4 11 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.88%) Ansible
6 5 (1.34%) Nessus
7 4 (1.08%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.81%) Argo
8 3 (0.81%) Nagios
9 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) Kibana
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 146 (39.25%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.56%) Databricks
3 15 (4.03%) Oracle
4 11 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.15%) Google
7 7 (1.88%) Cisco
8 5 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.34%) Meraki
8 5 (1.34%) UiPath
9 4 (1.08%) Informatica
9 4 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.08%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.08%) Talend
10 3 (0.81%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.54%) Allen-Bradley
11 2 (0.54%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.54%) Siemens
11 2 (0.54%) Splunk
11 2 (0.54%) Zoho