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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 42
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 412 400 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.70% 6.71% 4.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.36% 24.77% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 275 204 330
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,625 £88,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 1,235 1,615 2,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.08% 27.08% 30.46%
Number of salaries quoted 980 900 2,259
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,100 £74,144 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +4 266 £55,000 - 106
East Midlands -16 149 £55,000 - 103
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 6 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.46%) IIS
2 5 (1.21%) SAS
3 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 137 (33.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Simulink
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 214 (51.94%) Azure
2 142 (34.47%) Power Platform
3 118 (28.64%) AWS
4 103 (25.00%) Azure AI
5 41 (9.95%) GitHub
6 28 (6.80%) Amazon S3
6 28 (6.80%) Serverless
7 26 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.40%) SaaS
10 13 (3.16%) GCP
11 11 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.70%) Datadog
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.46%) dbt
14 6 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.21%) Azure AKS
15 5 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.28%) Internet
2 9 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.94%) Wireless
4 6 (1.46%) BGP
4 6 (1.46%) VPN
5 5 (1.21%) LAN
5 5 (1.21%) OSPF
6 4 (0.97%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.97%) EIGRP
6 4 (0.97%) LTE
6 4 (0.97%) Modbus
6 4 (0.97%) WAN
6 4 (0.97%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.73%) Broadband
8 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.24%) Firewall
9 1 (0.24%) FTP
9 1 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (34.22%) Power BI
2 135 (32.77%) Tableau
3 24 (5.83%) Data Mining
3 24 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (3.40%) Delta Lake
6 8 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.46%) Metadata
7 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.97%) Pentaho
9 4 (0.97%) Redis
10 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.73%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.73%) Power Query
10 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.73%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (11.41%) Git
2 10 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.46%) GitLab
4 5 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.97%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.97%) Subversion
6 3 (0.73%) JIRA
6 3 (0.73%) JUnit
6 3 (0.73%) Selenium
6 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.24%) JMeter
8 1 (0.24%) Locust
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 153 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (12.86%) Finance
4 30 (7.28%) Multimedia
5 19 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.91%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.91%) Marketing
7 10 (2.43%) Law
8 8 (1.94%) Automotive
9 7 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.70%) Retail
10 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.97%) Local Government
10 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.73%) Legal
11 3 (0.73%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.49%) Advertising
12 2 (0.49%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.24%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (33.98%) Analyst
2 133 (32.28%) Data Analyst
3 99 (24.03%) Junior
3 99 (24.03%) Junior Analyst
3 99 (24.03%) Junior Data Analyst
4 73 (17.72%) Developer
5 54 (13.11%) Trainee
6 52 (12.62%) Data Engineer
7 48 (11.65%) Senior
8 33 (8.01%) Software Developer
9 31 (7.52%) Python Developer
10 27 (6.55%) Lead
11 21 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.10%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.61%) Senior Developer
14 18 (4.37%) Azure Data Engineer
14 18 (4.37%) Python Engineer
14 18 (4.37%) Trainee Analyst
14 18 (4.37%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.11%) HTML
2 44 (10.68%) CSS
3 43 (10.44%) React
4 36 (8.74%) Node.js
5 28 (6.80%) PySpark
6 18 (4.37%) Django
7 10 (2.43%) .NET
8 9 (2.18%) REST
9 8 (1.94%) Flask
10 5 (1.21%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.21%) ARM Templates
10 5 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.21%) Pandas
10 5 (1.21%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.21%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.97%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.97%) JSON
11 4 (0.97%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.97%) Spring
11 4 (0.97%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (1.94%) Algorithms
2 7 (1.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.21%) Product Ownership
5 4 (0.97%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.49%) CUDA
7 2 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.49%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.49%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.49%) Robotics
7 2 (0.49%) SCADA
7 2 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.91%) Linux
2 6 (1.46%) Windows
3 4 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (36.65%) AI
2 143 (34.71%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (18.69%) Analytics
4 60 (14.56%) Mentoring
5 59 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (13.35%) CI/CD
7 48 (11.65%) DevOps
8 46 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (10.92%) ETL
10 44 (10.68%) Machine Learning
11 43 (10.44%) Decision-Making
12 42 (10.19%) Agile
13 41 (9.95%) Data Engineering
14 39 (9.47%) Software Engineering
15 36 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
16 35 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (8.50%) Data Science
17 34 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
17 34 (8.25%) Data Analysis
17 34 (8.25%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 248 (60.19%) SQL
2 84 (20.39%) JavaScript
3 29 (7.04%) R
4 23 (5.58%) Java
5 18 (4.37%) Bash
6 15 (3.64%) PHP
7 13 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.67%) C#
9 10 (2.43%) C
9 10 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.94%) VBA
11 7 (1.70%) Bicep
12 6 (1.46%) C++
13 5 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.21%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.21%) Go
13 5 (1.21%) Scala
14 3 (0.73%) Delphi
14 3 (0.73%) Perl
14 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (32.04%) Azure Certification
2 49 (11.89%) Degree
3 37 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 36 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 33 (8.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 23 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.13%) Security Cleared
8 15 (3.64%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.16%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.94%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (1.21%) CCNP
11 5 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.97%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.73%) PhD
14 2 (0.49%) CEH
14 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.49%) HND
14 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.18%) GDPR
3 6 (1.46%) QA
4 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (6.31%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (6.31%) Terraform
2 23 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.43%) Grafana
4 6 (1.46%) Ansible
5 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.49%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.49%) Nagios
7 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.24%) Control-M
8 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 193 (46.84%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.44%) Databricks
3 15 (3.64%) Oracle
4 10 (2.43%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.18%) Google
6 6 (1.46%) Cisco
7 5 (1.21%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (1.21%) Meraki
7 5 (1.21%) Talend
8 4 (0.97%) Atmel
8 4 (0.97%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.97%) Informatica
8 4 (0.97%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.73%) UiPath
10 2 (0.49%) Logitech
10 2 (0.49%) Northgate
10 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.49%) Siemens
10 2 (0.49%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.49%) Yealink