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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -30
Permanent jobs citing Python 429 389 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.73% 6.69% 4.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.75% 24.68% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 280 205 333
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,313 £38,000 £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 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 1,271 1,576 2,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.01% 27.09% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 997 903 2,279
10th Percentile £28,900 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £39,894
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +7 278 £55,000 - 116
East Midlands -18 153 £55,000 - 123
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 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.17%) IIS
2 5 (1.17%) Jupyter
2 5 (1.17%) SAS
3 2 (0.47%) WordPress
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.23%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 150 (34.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Simulink
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 225 (52.45%) Azure
2 155 (36.13%) Power Platform
3 122 (28.44%) AWS
4 114 (26.57%) Azure AI
5 42 (9.79%) GitHub
6 30 (6.99%) Amazon S3
7 29 (6.76%) Serverless
8 27 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.03%) GCP
11 12 (2.80%) SaaS
11 12 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.63%) Datadog
13 7 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.40%) dbt
15 5 (1.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.99%) Internet
2 10 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (2.10%) Wireless
4 7 (1.63%) VPN
5 6 (1.40%) BGP
5 6 (1.40%) LAN
6 5 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.17%) EIGRP
6 5 (1.17%) OSPF
6 5 (1.17%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.93%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.93%) Broadband
7 4 (0.93%) LTE
7 4 (0.93%) Modbus
7 4 (0.93%) WAN
8 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.23%) FTP
9 1 (0.23%) MPLS
9 1 (0.23%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (35.90%) Power BI
2 148 (34.50%) Tableau
3 26 (6.06%) Data Mining
4 22 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.03%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.63%) Metadata
11 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.93%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.93%) Redis
14 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.70%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.70%) Power Query
14 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (10.96%) Git
2 9 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.17%) Cucumber
3 5 (1.17%) GitLab
3 5 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (0.93%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.93%) Subversion
5 3 (0.70%) JIRA
5 3 (0.70%) JUnit
5 3 (0.70%) Selenium
6 2 (0.47%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) Locust
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 163 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (13.75%) Finance
4 30 (6.99%) Multimedia
5 19 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.50%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.80%) Law
7 12 (2.80%) Marketing
8 9 (2.10%) Retail
9 8 (1.86%) Automotive
10 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.93%) Local Government
11 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Legal
12 3 (0.70%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.47%) Advertising
13 2 (0.47%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.23%) Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 152 (35.43%) Analyst
2 145 (33.80%) Data Analyst
3 110 (25.64%) Junior
3 110 (25.64%) Junior Analyst
3 110 (25.64%) Junior Data Analyst
4 73 (17.02%) Developer
5 58 (13.52%) Trainee
6 52 (12.12%) Data Engineer
6 52 (12.12%) Senior
7 33 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 31 (7.23%) Python Developer
9 28 (6.53%) Lead
10 21 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (4.66%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.66%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.66%) Trainee Analyst
11 20 (4.66%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 19 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (4.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (12.82%) HTML
2 45 (10.49%) CSS
3 44 (10.26%) React
4 37 (8.62%) Node.js
5 27 (6.29%) PySpark
6 18 (4.20%) Django
7 9 (2.10%) .NET
7 9 (2.10%) REST
8 8 (1.86%) Flask
9 7 (1.63%) Pandas
10 6 (1.40%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.40%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.40%) Streamlit
10 6 (1.40%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.17%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.17%) Hugging Face
11 5 (1.17%) Matplotlib
11 5 (1.17%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.33%) Algorithms
2 7 (1.63%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.17%) Product Ownership
5 4 (0.93%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 4 (0.93%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.47%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.47%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.47%) Lidar
7 2 (0.47%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.47%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.80%) Linux
2 7 (1.63%) Windows
3 4 (0.93%) Unix
4 2 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (38.46%) AI
2 156 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (18.18%) Analytics
4 62 (14.45%) Mentoring
5 59 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 48 (11.19%) DevOps
8 47 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 46 (10.72%) Machine Learning
10 45 (10.49%) ETL
11 42 (9.79%) Decision-Making
12 41 (9.56%) Agile
12 41 (9.56%) Data Engineering
13 38 (8.86%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (8.86%) Software Engineering
14 37 (8.62%) Data Science
15 36 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (8.39%) Data Analysis
16 34 (7.93%) Data Analytics
16 34 (7.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 264 (61.54%) SQL
2 83 (19.35%) JavaScript
3 30 (6.99%) R
4 22 (5.13%) Java
5 18 (4.20%) Bash
6 13 (3.03%) PHP
7 12 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.33%) C
8 10 (2.33%) C#
8 10 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.63%) Bicep
9 7 (1.63%) VBA
10 6 (1.40%) C++
10 6 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.40%) Scala
11 5 (1.17%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.17%) Go
12 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.70%) Delphi
14 2 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 143 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 48 (11.19%) Degree
3 38 (8.86%) AWS Certification
4 37 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (8.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 22 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.73%) Security Cleared
8 14 (3.26%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.80%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.86%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (1.17%) CCNP
11 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.70%) PhD
14 2 (0.47%) CEH
14 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.47%) HND
14 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.10%) GDPR
3 6 (1.40%) QA
4 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (6.06%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (5.83%) Terraform
2 23 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.33%) Grafana
4 4 (0.93%) Ansible
4 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.70%) Argo
6 2 (0.47%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.47%) Nagios
6 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.23%) Control-M
Vendors
1 206 (48.02%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.56%) Databricks
3 14 (3.26%) Oracle
4 10 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.10%) Google
6 6 (1.40%) Cisco
7 5 (1.17%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (1.17%) Meraki
7 5 (1.17%) Talend
8 4 (0.93%) Atmel
8 4 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.93%) Informatica
8 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.70%) UiPath
10 2 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.47%) Logitech
10 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.47%) Siemens
10 2 (0.47%) Yealink