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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 373 427 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.60% 6.86% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.49% 25.24% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 258 204 300
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,728 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,625 £88,775
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 1,148 1,692 2,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.15% 27.19% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 923 916 2,062
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,335
Median % change year-on-year - +0.32% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +2 252 £55,000 -4.35% 143
East Midlands -24 124 £55,000 - 220
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 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.61%) IIS
2 5 (1.34%) Confluence
3 4 (1.07%) SAS
4 3 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 107 (28.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 185 (49.60%) Azure
2 112 (30.03%) AWS
3 110 (29.49%) Power Platform
4 71 (19.03%) Azure AI
5 42 (11.26%) GitHub
6 30 (8.04%) Amazon S3
7 24 (6.43%) Serverless
8 21 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (4.02%) SaaS
11 13 (3.49%) GCP
12 12 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (2.95%) Snowflake
14 9 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.88%) Amazon ELB
16 7 (1.88%) AWS KMS
16 7 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.04%) Internet
2 8 (2.14%) Firewall
2 8 (2.14%) FTP
2 8 (2.14%) VPN
3 7 (1.88%) DNS
3 7 (1.88%) HTTP
3 7 (1.88%) SMTP
3 7 (1.88%) SSH
3 7 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.34%) BGP
4 5 (1.34%) LAN
4 5 (1.34%) Wireless
5 4 (1.07%) OSPF
5 4 (1.07%) WAN
6 3 (0.80%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.80%) EIGRP
6 3 (0.80%) IMAP
6 3 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (28.95%) Power BI
2 99 (26.54%) Tableau
3 27 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.90%) Data Mining
5 16 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (4.02%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.34%) Metadata
12 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.07%) Power Query
13 4 (1.07%) Redis
14 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.80%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (13.14%) Git
2 16 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.14%) JIRA
4 7 (1.88%) GitLab
4 7 (1.88%) Vagrant
5 5 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.07%) Subversion
7 3 (0.80%) JUnit
7 3 (0.80%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) Locust
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 126 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (11.53%) Finance
4 30 (8.04%) Multimedia
5 22 (5.90%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.49%) Marketing
7 9 (2.41%) Automotive
7 9 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.41%) Law
7 9 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Retail
9 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.07%) Local Government
10 3 (0.80%) Legal
10 3 (0.80%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (30.03%) Analyst
2 98 (26.27%) Data Analyst
3 75 (20.11%) Developer
4 66 (17.69%) Junior
4 66 (17.69%) Junior Analyst
4 66 (17.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 48 (12.87%) Trainee
6 45 (12.06%) Data Engineer
7 44 (11.80%) Senior
8 32 (8.58%) Software Developer
9 31 (8.31%) Python Developer
10 26 (6.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 24 (6.43%) Lead
12 20 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (4.83%) Azure Data Engineer
13 18 (4.83%) Software Engineer
14 17 (4.56%) Python Engineer
14 17 (4.56%) Senior Developer
15 15 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (4.02%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.67%) HTML
2 42 (11.26%) CSS
3 38 (10.19%) React
4 32 (8.58%) Node.js
5 26 (6.97%) PySpark
6 17 (4.56%) Django
7 10 (2.68%) .NET
8 9 (2.41%) REST
9 8 (2.14%) Flask
10 5 (1.34%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.34%) XML
11 4 (1.07%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.07%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.07%) JSON
11 4 (1.07%) Spring
12 3 (0.80%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.80%) pytest
12 3 (0.80%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.41%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.88%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.34%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.07%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.07%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.07%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.80%) Replication
7 2 (0.54%) CUDA
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.54%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.54%) Robotics
7 2 (0.54%) SCADA
7 2 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.17%) Linux
2 9 (2.41%) Windows
3 7 (1.88%) VMS
4 5 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.07%) Unix
6 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.54%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (30.83%) AI
2 111 (29.76%) Business Intelligence
3 72 (19.30%) Analytics
4 64 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (15.55%) Mentoring
6 55 (14.75%) CI/CD
7 51 (13.67%) DevOps
8 46 (12.33%) ETL
9 42 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (10.72%) Agile
10 40 (10.72%) Decision-Making
11 39 (10.46%) Data Engineering
12 37 (9.92%) Machine Learning
13 35 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (9.38%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.85%) Data Analysis
15 31 (8.31%) Data Analytics
15 31 (8.31%) Data Pipeline
16 30 (8.04%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 210 (56.30%) SQL
2 84 (22.52%) JavaScript
3 29 (7.77%) Java
4 26 (6.97%) R
5 15 (4.02%) Bash
5 15 (4.02%) PHP
5 15 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.49%) C#
7 10 (2.68%) Perl
7 10 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.14%) Bicep
8 8 (2.14%) C
8 8 (2.14%) Groovy
8 8 (2.14%) VBA
9 7 (1.88%) C++
10 6 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.61%) Go
11 5 (1.34%) Scala
12 4 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 101 (27.08%) Azure Certification
2 54 (14.48%) Degree
3 37 (9.92%) AWS Certification
4 35 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (8.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 24 (6.43%) Security Cleared
7 20 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (5.09%) SC Cleared
9 15 (4.02%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.34%) CCNP
12 5 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.80%) PhD
15 2 (0.54%) CCNA
15 2 (0.54%) CEH
15 2 (0.54%) HND
15 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.88%) GDPR
3 5 (1.34%) QA
4 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (8.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.80%) DFS Replication
2 3 (0.80%) Dovecot
2 3 (0.80%) Postfix
2 3 (0.80%) Squid
3 2 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (9.12%) Terraform
2 25 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.95%) Grafana
4 8 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.61%) Ansible
6 4 (1.07%) Nagios
7 3 (0.80%) Argo
7 3 (0.80%) Nessus
7 3 (0.80%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.27%) Control-M
9 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 156 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.99%) Databricks
3 16 (4.29%) Oracle
4 10 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.14%) Google
6 7 (1.88%) Cisco
7 5 (1.34%) Meraki
7 5 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.07%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.07%) Talend
8 4 (1.07%) UiPath
9 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.80%) Informatica
9 3 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.54%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.54%) Atmel
10 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.54%) Siemens
10 2 (0.54%) Toshiba