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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 -36
Permanent jobs citing Python 631 276 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.12% 5.55% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.91% 21.78% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 287 153 385
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £90,750
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 1,757 1,267 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.26% 25.46% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 928 2,760
10th Percentile £31,250 £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 12 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 12 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 +17 333 £60,000 +4.35% 84
East Midlands +28 298 £55,000 +20.88% 68
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 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.43%) Jupyter
1 9 (1.43%) WordPress
2 5 (0.79%) Apache
3 3 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 191 (30.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Line 50
2 3 (0.48%) Magento
2 3 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 364 (57.69%) Azure
2 242 (38.35%) Azure AI
3 228 (36.13%) Power Platform
4 137 (21.71%) AWS
5 37 (5.86%) Amazon S3
6 36 (5.71%) Serverless
7 33 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (4.75%) Snowflake
9 25 (3.96%) GCP
10 23 (3.65%) GitHub
11 16 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.22%) dbt
13 13 (2.06%) SaaS
14 10 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (1.11%) Azure Stack
17 7 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.69%) Internet
1 17 (2.69%) Wireless
2 16 (2.54%) VPN
3 15 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (1.90%) Bluetooth
5 11 (1.74%) Firewall
6 9 (1.43%) LAN
7 8 (1.27%) BGP
7 8 (1.27%) MQTT
8 7 (1.11%) Network Security
8 7 (1.11%) OSPF
8 7 (1.11%) WAN
9 6 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.95%) DNS
9 6 (0.95%) EIGRP
9 6 (0.95%) Modbus
9 6 (0.95%) Wireshark
10 5 (0.79%) VoIP
11 4 (0.63%) Broadband
11 4 (0.63%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (36.13%) Power BI
2 190 (30.11%) Tableau
3 19 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.58%) Delta Lake
7 8 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.27%) Data Mining
7 8 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.11%) Redis
9 6 (0.95%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.79%) Metadata
10 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.63%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.63%) MySQL
11 4 (0.63%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (7.13%) Git
2 13 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.74%) Cucumber
3 11 (1.74%) GitLab
4 9 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.27%) Gatling
5 8 (1.27%) JMeter
6 7 (1.11%) Selenium
7 6 (0.95%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.79%) Postman
8 5 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.63%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.63%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.63%) GDB
9 4 (0.63%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.63%) Subversion
9 4 (0.63%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 295 (46.75%) Social Skills
2 100 (15.85%) Finance
3 93 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.49%) Manufacturing
5 21 (3.33%) Retail
6 20 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.69%) Multimedia
8 16 (2.54%) Banking
9 14 (2.22%) Law
10 13 (2.06%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.27%) Automotive
12 7 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.95%) Electronics
13 6 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Games
14 4 (0.63%) Marketing
14 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (35.18%) Analyst
2 214 (33.91%) Data Analyst
3 184 (29.16%) Junior
4 181 (28.68%) Junior Analyst
4 181 (28.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (13.31%) Senior
6 82 (13.00%) Developer
7 69 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 64 (10.14%) Lead
9 63 (9.98%) Data Engineer
10 61 (9.67%) Data Scientist
11 37 (5.86%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.91%) Trainee
13 29 (4.60%) Python Engineer
13 29 (4.60%) Software Developer
14 25 (3.96%) Senior Data Scientist
15 22 (3.49%) Lead Data Scientist
16 21 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
17 20 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
18 19 (3.01%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.61%) HTML
2 40 (6.34%) CSS
3 32 (5.07%) PyTorch
4 31 (4.91%) React
5 30 (4.75%) Hugging Face
6 27 (4.28%) Node.js
7 26 (4.12%) TensorFlow
8 20 (3.17%) Pandas
9 19 (3.01%) PySpark
10 17 (2.69%) scikit-learn
11 12 (1.90%) NumPy
12 10 (1.58%) Playwright
12 10 (1.58%) RESTful
12 10 (1.58%) Streamlit
13 9 (1.43%) Matplotlib
13 9 (1.43%) REST
14 6 (0.95%) FastAPI
14 6 (0.95%) JSON
15 5 (0.79%) pytest
15 5 (0.79%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.06%) Algorithms
1 13 (2.06%) Cloud Native
2 11 (1.74%) IoT
3 10 (1.58%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (0.95%) ARM Cortex
7 5 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.63%) CAN bus
8 4 (0.63%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.63%) Device Driver
8 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.63%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (0.63%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.28%) Linux
2 22 (3.49%) Windows
3 10 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.95%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.79%) Unix
6 4 (0.63%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.63%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (51.82%) AI
2 229 (36.29%) Business Intelligence
3 98 (15.53%) Analytics
4 82 (13.00%) Machine Learning
5 81 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 76 (12.04%) Software Engineering
7 71 (11.25%) Mentoring
8 69 (10.94%) Data Science
8 69 (10.94%) Roadmaps
9 67 (10.62%) CI/CD
10 64 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
11 52 (8.24%) Decision-Making
12 49 (7.77%) Statistics
13 47 (7.45%) DevOps
14 44 (6.97%) Agile
14 44 (6.97%) Data Engineering
15 43 (6.81%) Data Analysis
16 42 (6.66%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (6.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 364 (57.69%) SQL
2 55 (8.72%) JavaScript
3 29 (4.60%) R
4 28 (4.44%) Java
5 25 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.85%) Bash
7 17 (2.69%) C
7 17 (2.69%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.22%) C++
9 13 (2.06%) C#
10 12 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.43%) PHP
12 8 (1.27%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.95%) Bicep
14 5 (0.79%) Go
14 5 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.63%) Scala
16 3 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 265 (42.00%) Azure Certification
2 49 (7.77%) Degree
3 29 (4.60%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 24 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (3.01%) Security Cleared
8 18 (2.85%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.95%) CCNP
11 6 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.32%) CEH
13 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.32%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
14 1 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.90%) QA
3 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.74%) GDPR
4 4 (0.63%) ISO 14001
4 4 (0.63%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.63%) JTAG
5 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.32%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.32%) MISRA
5 2 (0.32%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (3.33%) Docker
2 11 (1.74%) Firmware
3 6 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (4.60%) Terraform
2 17 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.22%) Grafana
4 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.63%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.48%) Nagios
7 2 (0.32%) Ansible
7 2 (0.32%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
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
1 245 (38.83%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.66%) Databricks
3 14 (2.22%) Google
4 9 (1.43%) Cisco
5 8 (1.27%) Meraki
6 6 (0.95%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.63%) Adobe
7 4 (0.63%) Apple
7 4 (0.63%) Atmel
7 4 (0.63%) Informatica
7 4 (0.63%) Oracle
7 4 (0.63%) Sage
7 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.63%) Talend
7 4 (0.63%) Veracode
8 3 (0.48%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.32%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.32%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.32%) Splunk