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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 42 57
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -31
Permanent jobs citing Python 617 289 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.79% 5.44% 3.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.72% 22.13% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 279 167 373
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,830 1,306 3,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.20% 24.58% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 973 2,697
10th Percentile £32,450 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,922 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +13 317 £62,250 +4.40% 104
East Midlands +29 300 £55,000 - 104
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 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.46%) Jupyter
1 9 (1.46%) WordPress
2 6 (0.97%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 190 (30.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Line 50
2 3 (0.49%) Magento
2 3 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 360 (58.35%) Azure
2 242 (39.22%) Azure AI
3 229 (37.12%) Power Platform
4 129 (20.91%) AWS
5 31 (5.02%) Amazon S3
5 31 (5.02%) Serverless
6 30 (4.86%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.54%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (4.38%) GCP
9 22 (3.57%) GitHub
10 17 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.27%) SaaS
12 13 (2.11%) dbt
13 10 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.46%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.59%) VPN
1 16 (2.59%) Wireless
2 14 (2.27%) Firewall
2 14 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (1.94%) Bluetooth
3 12 (1.94%) Internet
4 9 (1.46%) LAN
5 8 (1.30%) MQTT
5 8 (1.30%) Network Security
6 7 (1.13%) DNS
6 7 (1.13%) WAN
7 6 (0.97%) BGP
7 6 (0.97%) Modbus
8 5 (0.81%) OSPF
8 5 (0.81%) VoIP
9 4 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.65%) EIGRP
9 4 (0.65%) VLAN
9 4 (0.65%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.65%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (37.12%) Power BI
2 189 (30.63%) Tableau
3 20 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.13%) Redis
9 6 (0.97%) Data Mining
9 6 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.81%) MySQL
11 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.65%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.65%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.49%) Metadata
12 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (6.81%) Git
2 14 (2.27%) GitLab
2 14 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.78%) Cucumber
4 9 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.30%) Gatling
5 8 (1.30%) JMeter
6 7 (1.13%) Selenium
7 6 (0.97%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.81%) JIRA
8 5 (0.81%) Postman
8 5 (0.81%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.81%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.65%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.65%) GDB
9 4 (0.65%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 295 (47.81%) Social Skills
2 98 (15.88%) Finance
3 86 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.73%) Manufacturing
5 21 (3.40%) Retail
6 20 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.92%) Banking
8 13 (2.11%) Law
9 12 (1.94%) Multimedia
10 11 (1.78%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.13%) Automotive
11 7 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.97%) Electronics
13 4 (0.65%) Games
13 4 (0.65%) Marketing
14 3 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.16%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (35.82%) Analyst
2 213 (34.52%) Data Analyst
3 184 (29.82%) Junior
4 181 (29.34%) Junior Analyst
4 181 (29.34%) Junior Data Analyst
5 88 (14.26%) Senior
6 78 (12.64%) Developer
7 69 (11.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 64 (10.37%) Data Scientist
9 62 (10.05%) Data Engineer
10 60 (9.72%) Lead
11 37 (6.00%) Software Engineer
12 31 (5.02%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.38%) Senior Data Scientist
14 24 (3.89%) Lead Data Scientist
14 24 (3.89%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.89%) Trainee
15 22 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
17 19 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.16%) HTML
2 35 (5.67%) PyTorch
3 33 (5.35%) CSS
4 32 (5.19%) Hugging Face
5 29 (4.70%) TensorFlow
6 27 (4.38%) React
7 22 (3.57%) Node.js
8 20 (3.24%) Pandas
9 18 (2.92%) scikit-learn
10 15 (2.43%) PySpark
11 12 (1.94%) NumPy
12 11 (1.78%) RESTful
13 10 (1.62%) Matplotlib
13 10 (1.62%) Playwright
13 10 (1.62%) REST
13 10 (1.62%) Streamlit
14 6 (0.97%) FastAPI
14 6 (0.97%) Kafka
15 5 (0.81%) pytest
15 5 (0.81%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.59%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.11%) Algorithms
2 13 (2.11%) IoT
3 9 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (1.46%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (0.97%) ARM Cortex
6 6 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.65%) CAN bus
8 4 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.65%) Device Driver
8 4 (0.65%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (0.65%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.49%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.49%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.49%) Robotics
9 3 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.54%) Linux
2 23 (3.73%) Windows
3 11 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.97%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.65%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.65%) Unix
6 4 (0.65%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (52.67%) AI
2 229 (37.12%) Business Intelligence
3 94 (15.24%) Analytics
4 82 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (13.13%) Machine Learning
6 79 (12.80%) Software Engineering
7 76 (12.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 72 (11.67%) Data Science
9 68 (11.02%) CI/CD
9 68 (11.02%) Roadmaps
10 66 (10.70%) Actionable Insight
11 61 (9.89%) Mentoring
12 55 (8.91%) Decision-Making
13 52 (8.43%) Statistics
14 47 (7.62%) DevOps
15 42 (6.81%) Data Analysis
16 41 (6.65%) Data Engineering
17 40 (6.48%) Data Pipeline
18 39 (6.32%) Deep Learning
19 38 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 355 (57.54%) SQL
2 44 (7.13%) JavaScript
3 30 (4.86%) Java
4 29 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 27 (4.38%) R
6 19 (3.08%) Bash
7 18 (2.92%) C
8 16 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.43%) C#
9 15 (2.43%) C++
10 12 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.46%) PHP
12 8 (1.30%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.97%) Bicep
14 5 (0.81%) Go
14 5 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.32%) Groovy
16 2 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 263 (42.63%) Azure Certification
2 47 (7.62%) Degree
3 23 (3.73%) AWS Certification
3 23 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.24%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.30%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.65%) CCNP
11 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.32%) PhD
13 1 (0.16%) CCNA
13 1 (0.16%) MCSE
13 1 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.94%) QA
3 11 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.46%) GDPR
5 4 (0.65%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.65%) JTAG
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.49%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.32%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.32%) MISRA
7 2 (0.32%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (3.40%) Docker
2 12 (1.94%) Firmware
3 7 (1.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (4.38%) Terraform
2 17 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.59%) Grafana
4 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.65%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.49%) Ansible
6 3 (0.49%) Nagios
7 2 (0.32%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) Argo
8 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.16%) Podman
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 235 (38.09%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.16%) Databricks
3 14 (2.27%) Google
4 9 (1.46%) Cisco
5 7 (1.13%) Meraki
6 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.65%) Adobe
7 4 (0.65%) Apple
7 4 (0.65%) Atmel
7 4 (0.65%) Informatica
7 4 (0.65%) Oracle
7 4 (0.65%) Sage
7 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.65%) Veracode
8 3 (0.49%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.49%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.49%) Talend
8 3 (0.49%) VMware
9 2 (0.32%) AlienVault
9 2 (0.32%) Splunk