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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 51 56
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 -36
Permanent jobs citing Python 645 269 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.03% 5.36% 3.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.09% 21.37% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 292 150 374
10th Percentile £30,125 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,188 £41,313 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 1,739 1,259 3,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.57% 25.10% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 926 2,708
10th Percentile £31,325 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5 June 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 June 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 +10 341 £60,000 +9.09% 108
East Midlands +29 304 £55,000 +20.88% 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 9 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.40%) Jupyter
1 9 (1.40%) WordPress
2 5 (0.78%) Apache
3 3 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 205 (31.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Line 50
2 3 (0.47%) Magento
2 3 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 374 (57.98%) Azure
2 253 (39.22%) Azure AI
3 239 (37.05%) Power Platform
4 139 (21.55%) AWS
5 37 (5.74%) Amazon S3
6 36 (5.58%) Serverless
7 33 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (4.65%) Snowflake
9 25 (3.88%) GCP
10 24 (3.72%) GitHub
11 17 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.17%) dbt
12 14 (2.17%) SaaS
13 11 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.40%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.09%) Azure Stack
16 7 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.79%) Internet
2 15 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (2.33%) Wireless
3 13 (2.02%) VPN
4 12 (1.86%) Bluetooth
5 8 (1.24%) BGP
5 8 (1.24%) Firewall
5 8 (1.24%) MQTT
6 7 (1.09%) LAN
6 7 (1.09%) OSPF
7 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.93%) DNS
7 6 (0.93%) EIGRP
7 6 (0.93%) Modbus
7 6 (0.93%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.78%) Network Security
8 5 (0.78%) VoIP
8 5 (0.78%) WAN
9 4 (0.62%) Broadband
9 4 (0.62%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (37.05%) Power BI
2 205 (31.78%) Tableau
3 19 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.71%) Data Mining
7 10 (1.55%) Delta Lake
8 9 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.09%) Redis
10 6 (0.93%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.93%) Metadata
11 5 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.62%) FileMaker
12 4 (0.62%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.62%) MySQL
12 4 (0.62%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (6.98%) Git
2 14 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.71%) Cucumber
3 11 (1.71%) GitLab
4 9 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.24%) Gatling
5 8 (1.24%) JMeter
6 7 (1.09%) Selenium
7 6 (0.93%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.78%) Postman
8 5 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.62%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.62%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.62%) GDB
9 4 (0.62%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.62%) Subversion
9 4 (0.62%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 306 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 102 (15.81%) Finance
3 95 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.26%) Manufacturing
4 21 (3.26%) Retail
5 20 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (2.79%) Multimedia
7 16 (2.48%) Banking
8 14 (2.17%) Law
9 12 (1.86%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.24%) Automotive
11 7 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.93%) Electronics
13 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.62%) Games
13 4 (0.62%) Marketing
13 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.16%) Local Government
15 1 (0.16%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 236 (36.59%) Analyst
2 228 (35.35%) Data Analyst
3 195 (30.23%) Junior
4 192 (29.77%) Junior Analyst
4 192 (29.77%) Junior Data Analyst
5 85 (13.18%) Senior
6 84 (13.02%) Developer
7 69 (10.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 63 (9.77%) Data Engineer
9 61 (9.46%) Lead
10 59 (9.15%) Data Scientist
11 37 (5.74%) Software Engineer
12 35 (5.43%) Trainee
13 31 (4.81%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.50%) Python Engineer
15 25 (3.88%) Senior Data Scientist
16 22 (3.41%) Lead Data Scientist
16 22 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
18 19 (2.95%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (7.60%) HTML
2 41 (6.36%) CSS
3 32 (4.96%) PyTorch
4 31 (4.81%) React
5 30 (4.65%) Hugging Face
6 27 (4.19%) Node.js
7 26 (4.03%) TensorFlow
8 20 (3.10%) Pandas
8 20 (3.10%) PySpark
9 17 (2.64%) scikit-learn
10 12 (1.86%) NumPy
11 10 (1.55%) Playwright
11 10 (1.55%) RESTful
11 10 (1.55%) Streamlit
12 9 (1.40%) Matplotlib
12 9 (1.40%) REST
13 6 (0.93%) FastAPI
13 6 (0.93%) JSON
14 5 (0.78%) pytest
14 5 (0.78%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.17%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.02%) Algorithms
3 11 (1.71%) IoT
4 10 (1.55%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (0.93%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.62%) CAN bus
9 4 (0.62%) Device Driver
9 4 (0.62%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (0.62%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.47%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.47%) Social Media
10 3 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.03%) Linux
2 21 (3.26%) Windows
3 9 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.78%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.78%) Unix
6 4 (0.62%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.62%) VMS
7 2 (0.31%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (52.71%) AI
2 240 (37.21%) Business Intelligence
3 99 (15.35%) Analytics
4 86 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 79 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (11.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 75 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 72 (11.16%) Mentoring
9 68 (10.54%) CI/CD
9 68 (10.54%) Data Science
10 67 (10.39%) Roadmaps
11 64 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
12 51 (7.91%) Decision-Making
13 49 (7.60%) Statistics
14 48 (7.44%) DevOps
15 46 (7.13%) Data Analysis
16 43 (6.67%) Agile
16 43 (6.67%) Data Engineering
16 43 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (6.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 377 (58.45%) SQL
2 58 (8.99%) JavaScript
3 29 (4.50%) R
4 28 (4.34%) Java
5 23 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.79%) Bash
7 17 (2.64%) C
7 17 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.17%) C#
8 14 (2.17%) C++
9 11 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (1.55%) PHP
11 8 (1.24%) Bicep
11 8 (1.24%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.78%) Go
13 5 (0.78%) Scala
14 3 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 275 (42.64%) Azure Certification
2 46 (7.13%) Degree
3 30 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 24 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.95%) Security Cleared
8 18 (2.79%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.24%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.93%) CCNP
11 6 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.31%) CEH
13 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.31%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.31%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
14 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.86%) QA
3 11 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.71%) GDPR
4 4 (0.62%) ISO 14001
4 4 (0.62%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.62%) JTAG
5 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.31%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.31%) MISRA
5 2 (0.31%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.31%) SLA
5 2 (0.31%) WCAG
6 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (3.10%) Docker
2 11 (1.71%) Firmware
3 6 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (4.65%) Terraform
2 16 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.02%) Grafana
4 5 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.62%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.47%) Nagios
7 2 (0.31%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) Ansible
8 1 (0.16%) Argo
8 1 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.16%) Podman
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 260 (40.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.51%) Databricks
3 14 (2.17%) Google
4 7 (1.09%) Cisco
5 6 (0.93%) Meraki
5 6 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.78%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.62%) Adobe
7 4 (0.62%) Apple
7 4 (0.62%) Atmel
7 4 (0.62%) Informatica
7 4 (0.62%) Oracle
7 4 (0.62%) Sage
7 4 (0.62%) Talend
7 4 (0.62%) Veracode
8 3 (0.47%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.31%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.31%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.31%) Splunk