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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -36
Permanent jobs citing Python 585 269 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.12% 5.58% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.79% 22.14% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 313 204 363
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,125 £89,000
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 1,548 1,215 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.54% 25.22% 27.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 958 2,582
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,750
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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +28 358 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East Midlands -3 228 £55,000 - 125
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 (1.54%) Jupyter
1 9 (1.54%) WordPress
2 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.03%) SAS
4 2 (0.34%) Apache
4 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 230 (39.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Line 50
1 1 (0.17%) Magento
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 367 (62.74%) Azure
2 254 (43.42%) Power Platform
3 233 (39.83%) Azure AI
4 141 (24.10%) AWS
5 42 (7.18%) GitHub
6 32 (5.47%) Amazon S3
6 32 (5.47%) Serverless
7 28 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.93%) Snowflake
9 21 (3.59%) GCP
10 17 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.22%) dbt
12 12 (2.05%) SaaS
13 10 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.54%) PaaS
15 7 (1.20%) Datadog
16 6 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.47%) Internet
2 10 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.54%) Wireless
4 7 (1.20%) VPN
5 6 (1.03%) BGP
5 6 (1.03%) LAN
5 6 (1.03%) Modbus
6 5 (0.85%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.85%) EIGRP
6 5 (0.85%) OSPF
6 5 (0.85%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.68%) Broadband
7 4 (0.68%) LTE
7 4 (0.68%) WAN
8 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.34%) Network Security
8 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.17%) FTP
9 1 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (43.42%) Power BI
2 230 (39.32%) Tableau
3 22 (3.76%) Data Mining
4 19 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (2.22%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.20%) Metadata
10 7 (1.20%) Redis
11 6 (1.03%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.85%) Pentaho
12 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.51%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.51%) Power Query
14 3 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
15 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (9.23%) Git
2 13 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 10 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.54%) GitLab
4 9 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.37%) Selenium
6 7 (1.20%) JMeter
7 6 (1.03%) Gatling
8 4 (0.68%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.68%) JIRA
8 4 (0.68%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.68%) Subversion
8 4 (0.68%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.51%) JUnit
9 3 (0.51%) Locust
9 3 (0.51%) Postman
9 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
General
1 280 (47.86%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (10.43%) Finance
4 32 (5.47%) Multimedia
5 24 (4.10%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.91%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.91%) Retail
7 13 (2.22%) Law
8 9 (1.54%) Automotive
8 9 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.37%) Marketing
10 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Electronics
14 3 (0.51%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.34%) Advertising
15 2 (0.34%) Games
15 2 (0.34%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (40.51%) Analyst
2 232 (39.66%) Data Analyst
3 205 (35.04%) Junior
4 202 (34.53%) Junior Analyst
4 202 (34.53%) Junior Data Analyst
5 75 (12.82%) Developer
6 63 (10.77%) Data Engineer
7 60 (10.26%) Senior
8 59 (10.09%) Trainee
9 40 (6.84%) Lead
10 35 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 35 (5.98%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.13%) Python Developer
12 25 (4.27%) Software Engineer
13 23 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (3.76%) Senior Developer
15 21 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (3.42%) Azure Data Engineer
16 20 (3.42%) Data Scientist
16 20 (3.42%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.09%) HTML
2 48 (8.21%) CSS
3 46 (7.86%) React
4 38 (6.50%) Node.js
5 27 (4.62%) PySpark
6 18 (3.08%) Pandas
7 17 (2.91%) Django
8 16 (2.74%) scikit-learn
9 13 (2.22%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.71%) NumPy
10 10 (1.71%) Streamlit
11 9 (1.54%) Hugging Face
11 9 (1.54%) Matplotlib
11 9 (1.54%) REST
12 8 (1.37%) Playwright
13 7 (1.20%) TensorFlow
14 6 (1.03%) Flask
15 5 (0.85%) AngularJS
15 5 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (0.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.39%) Algorithms
2 9 (1.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (1.54%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
4 5 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (0.68%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.68%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.51%) Social Media
7 2 (0.34%) CUDA
7 2 (0.34%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.34%) Lidar
7 2 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.34%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.34%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.22%) Linux
2 8 (1.37%) Windows
3 5 (0.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.34%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (50.26%) AI
2 249 (42.56%) Business Intelligence
3 81 (13.85%) Analytics
4 65 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 64 (10.94%) Mentoring
6 59 (10.09%) Machine Learning
7 52 (8.89%) DevOps
7 52 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 46 (7.86%) Agile
9 46 (7.86%) ETL
10 45 (7.69%) Software Engineering
10 45 (7.69%) Visualisation
11 43 (7.35%) Data Engineering
11 43 (7.35%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 40 (6.84%) Data Science
14 38 (6.50%) Decision-Making
15 35 (5.98%) Computer Science
15 35 (5.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 362 (61.88%) SQL
2 85 (14.53%) JavaScript
3 34 (5.81%) R
4 29 (4.96%) Java
5 16 (2.74%) Bash
6 15 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.05%) C
7 12 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.88%) C#
8 11 (1.88%) C++
9 10 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (1.71%) PHP
10 7 (1.20%) Bicep
10 7 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.03%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.03%) Scala
11 6 (1.03%) VBA
12 5 (0.85%) Go
13 3 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 268 (45.81%) Azure Certification
2 49 (8.38%) Degree
3 45 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 41 (7.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 37 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.91%) Security Cleared
8 13 (2.22%) SC Cleared
9 10 (1.71%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.85%) CCNP
11 5 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.34%) CEH
12 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.34%) PhD
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.17%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.76%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.71%) QA
4 9 (1.54%) GDPR
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
6 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.34%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.34%) MISRA
6 2 (0.34%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (4.44%) Docker
2 8 (1.37%) Firmware
3 3 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (4.79%) Terraform
2 25 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.39%) Grafana
4 5 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Nagios
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 293 (50.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.55%) Databricks
3 15 (2.56%) Google
4 10 (1.71%) Oracle
5 6 (1.03%) Cisco
5 6 (1.03%) Informatica
5 6 (1.03%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.03%) Talend
6 5 (0.85%) Cloudera
6 5 (0.85%) Meraki
7 4 (0.68%) Atmel
7 4 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.34%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.34%) Logitech
9 2 (0.34%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.34%) Splunk
9 2 (0.34%) Veracode
9 2 (0.34%) Zoho