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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 36 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 466 325 481
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.97% 5.81% 5.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.60% 26.86% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 259 207 206
10th Percentile £38,438 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,002
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% +1.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,850 £79,274 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% -

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 1,894 1,210 2,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.09% 21.63% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 924 1,237
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,523 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -14 250 £65,000 +8.33% 272
East Midlands +12 214 £55,000 -15.38% 169
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 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.29%) Apache
3 4 (0.86%) SAS
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) WordPress
5 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.21%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.43%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Line 50
2 2 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.43%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 208 (44.64%) Azure
2 99 (21.24%) AWS
3 92 (19.74%) Power Platform
4 66 (14.16%) Azure AI
5 30 (6.44%) GCP
6 25 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (3.43%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.22%) GitHub
9 15 (3.22%) Serverless
9 15 (3.22%) Snowflake
10 13 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.36%) dbt
13 10 (2.15%) iPaaS
14 9 (1.93%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.93%) SaaS
15 8 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.58%) Firewall
2 15 (3.22%) VPN
3 14 (3.00%) DNS
4 13 (2.79%) Wireless
5 12 (2.58%) VLAN
5 12 (2.58%) WAN
6 10 (2.15%) LAN
6 10 (2.15%) MQTT
7 9 (1.93%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.72%) BGP
8 8 (1.72%) Network Security
8 8 (1.72%) OSPF
8 8 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.50%) Bluetooth
9 7 (1.50%) DHCP
10 6 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (1.29%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (1.29%) VoIP
10 6 (1.29%) ZigBee
11 5 (1.07%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (19.74%) Power BI
2 44 (9.44%) Tableau
3 34 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (4.51%) Data Lake
6 20 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.00%) Delta Lake
7 14 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.00%) Power Query
7 14 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.79%) QlikView
8 13 (2.79%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.29%) Big Data
12 6 (1.29%) MySQL
13 5 (1.07%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 55 (11.80%) Git
2 21 (4.51%) GitLab
3 20 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.79%) JIRA
5 6 (1.29%) GDB
6 5 (1.07%) Subversion
7 4 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.86%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.86%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.64%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.64%) Gatling
8 3 (0.64%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.64%) JMeter
8 3 (0.64%) Postman
8 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 139 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.17%) Finance
3 77 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (5.58%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.36%) Banking
6 24 (5.15%) Marketing
7 20 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.86%) Retail
9 15 (3.22%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.79%) Electronics
11 10 (2.15%) Fire and Rescue
11 10 (2.15%) Games
12 8 (1.72%) Law
13 7 (1.50%) Automotive
13 7 (1.50%) Legal
14 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 104 (22.32%) Senior
2 79 (16.95%) Developer
3 71 (15.24%) Analyst
4 68 (14.59%) Data Engineer
5 64 (13.73%) Data Analyst
6 61 (13.09%) Lead
7 57 (12.23%) Python Engineer
8 53 (11.37%) Data Scientist
9 40 (8.58%) Software Engineer
10 37 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 36 (7.73%) Junior
12 33 (7.08%) Junior Analyst
12 33 (7.08%) Junior Data Analyst
13 30 (6.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (5.79%) Senior Data Scientist
15 26 (5.58%) Python Developer
16 25 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
17 22 (4.72%) Lead Data Scientist
18 21 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
19 20 (4.29%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.73%) Terraform
2 29 (6.22%) PyTorch
2 29 (6.22%) REST
2 29 (6.22%) TensorFlow
3 23 (4.94%) Hugging Face
4 22 (4.72%) PySpark
5 19 (4.08%) CSS
6 18 (3.86%) Kafka
7 15 (3.22%) React
8 14 (3.00%) .NET
9 13 (2.79%) Django
9 13 (2.79%) HTML
9 13 (2.79%) Keycloak
10 12 (2.58%) Node.js
11 11 (2.36%) Middleware
12 10 (2.15%) RESTful
13 9 (1.93%) JWT
13 9 (1.93%) OAuth
14 8 (1.72%) FastAPI
15 6 (1.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.29%) IoT
3 18 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
7 9 (1.93%) Robotics
8 8 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.50%) ARM Cortex
9 7 (1.50%) Device Driver
9 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.30%) Linux
2 29 (6.22%) Windows
3 16 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.50%) Unix
5 4 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.86%) VMS
6 3 (0.64%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.64%) Solaris
7 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.21%) Debian
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (35.62%) AI
2 119 (25.54%) Analytics
3 111 (23.82%) Business Intelligence
4 105 (22.53%) Software Engineering
5 99 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (18.45%) Roadmaps
7 84 (18.03%) CI/CD
8 83 (17.81%) Decision-Making
9 76 (16.31%) Data Science
9 76 (16.31%) Machine Learning
10 68 (14.59%) Actionable Insight
11 65 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (13.73%) DevOps
13 59 (12.66%) Mentoring
14 56 (12.02%) Validation
15 54 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
16 53 (11.37%) Data Modelling
16 53 (11.37%) ETL
17 47 (10.09%) Data Engineering
18 46 (9.87%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 208 (44.64%) SQL
2 43 (9.23%) JavaScript
3 33 (7.08%) PowerShell
4 32 (6.87%) Java
5 29 (6.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (4.51%) C#
7 20 (4.29%) Bash
8 19 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.65%) C
10 15 (3.22%) Go
10 15 (3.22%) R
11 13 (2.79%) C++
12 5 (1.07%) Perl
13 4 (0.86%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.86%) PHP
14 3 (0.64%) Bicep
14 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.64%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 86 (18.45%) Azure Certification
2 58 (12.45%) Degree
3 36 (7.73%) Security Cleared
4 34 (7.30%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.07%) ACCA
8 5 (1.07%) CCNA
8 5 (1.07%) CIMA
9 3 (0.64%) MCSE
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.43%) CISSP
10 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.08%) GDPR
3 15 (3.22%) QA
4 7 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.50%) JTAG
5 6 (1.29%) SLA
6 4 (0.86%) NIST
7 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.64%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.64%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (7.08%) Docker
2 10 (2.15%) Firmware
3 8 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.64%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.58%) Ansible
3 11 (2.36%) Grafana
4 6 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.64%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.43%) Argo
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Nagios
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.79%) Databricks
3 15 (3.22%) Cisco
4 14 (3.00%) Google
5 10 (2.15%) SAP
6 9 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.72%) VMware
8 7 (1.50%) Oracle
9 5 (1.07%) Adaptive Insights
9 5 (1.07%) Altera
9 5 (1.07%) Anaplan
9 5 (1.07%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.07%) Microsemi
9 5 (1.07%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.07%) Xilinx
10 4 (0.86%) Meraki
10 4 (0.86%) Sage
11 3 (0.64%) Adobe
11 3 (0.64%) Apple
11 3 (0.64%) Informatica