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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 25 36
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 374 435 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.78% 6.82% 5.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.98% 25.56% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 268 208 232
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £37,875 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -12.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £85,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 1,134 1,702 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.50% 26.67% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 923 923 1,630
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,125 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14 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 14 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 +5 261 £60,000 +4.35% 114
East Midlands -27 116 £61,250 +11.36% 170
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 8 (2.14%) Confluence
2 6 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.60%) IIS
3 4 (1.07%) nginx
3 4 (1.07%) SAS
4 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 98 (26.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.53%) 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
1 184 (49.20%) Azure
2 109 (29.14%) AWS
3 98 (26.20%) Power Platform
4 61 (16.31%) Azure AI
5 42 (11.23%) GitHub
6 26 (6.95%) Amazon S3
7 19 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (4.81%) Serverless
9 17 (4.55%) SaaS
10 16 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (3.74%) GCP
12 11 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 9 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (2.41%) AWS KMS
13 9 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.02%) Internet
2 12 (3.21%) Firewall
3 10 (2.67%) DNS
3 10 (2.67%) FTP
3 10 (2.67%) HTTP
4 9 (2.41%) SMTP
4 9 (2.41%) SSH
4 9 (2.41%) VPN
5 7 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.60%) LAN
7 5 (1.34%) BGP
7 5 (1.34%) WAN
7 5 (1.34%) Wireless
8 4 (1.07%) Bluetooth
8 4 (1.07%) IMAP
8 4 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.07%) OSPF
9 3 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.80%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (25.67%) Power BI
2 92 (24.60%) Tableau
3 27 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.68%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (6.15%) Data Mining
6 16 (4.28%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.07%) Metadata
11 4 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.07%) Parquet
11 4 (1.07%) Power Query
12 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (14.17%) Git
2 18 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.94%) JIRA
4 9 (2.41%) Vagrant
5 8 (2.14%) GitLab
6 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.80%) JUnit
7 3 (0.80%) Selenium
7 3 (0.80%) Subversion
8 2 (0.53%) MLflow
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) Locust
9 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 118 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.03%) Finance
4 30 (8.02%) Multimedia
5 27 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.28%) Marketing
6 16 (4.28%) Retail
7 11 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.67%) Automotive
8 10 (2.67%) Law
9 8 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.07%) Local Government
14 3 (0.80%) Legal
14 3 (0.80%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.53%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.27%) Advertising
16 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 106 (28.34%) Analyst
2 89 (23.80%) Data Analyst
3 75 (20.05%) Developer
4 55 (14.71%) Junior
4 55 (14.71%) Junior Analyst
4 55 (14.71%) Junior Data Analyst
5 53 (14.17%) Data Engineer
6 52 (13.90%) Senior
7 48 (12.83%) Trainee
8 34 (9.09%) Software Developer
9 31 (8.29%) Python Developer
10 27 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (6.95%) Lead
12 25 (6.68%) Azure Data Engineer
13 18 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (4.55%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.55%) Software Engineer
15 16 (4.28%) Python Engineer
16 15 (4.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.57%) HTML
2 39 (10.43%) CSS
3 30 (8.02%) React
4 25 (6.68%) Node.js
4 25 (6.68%) PySpark
5 16 (4.28%) Django
6 9 (2.41%) .NET
7 7 (1.87%) Flask
7 7 (1.87%) REST
8 5 (1.34%) Spring
8 5 (1.34%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.34%) XML
9 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.07%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.07%) LDAP
10 3 (0.80%) JSON
10 3 (0.80%) pytest
10 3 (0.80%) RESTful
11 2 (0.53%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.41%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.87%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.87%) Credit Risk
3 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.34%) AI Agents
4 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.07%) Raspberry Pi
5 4 (1.07%) Replication
5 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.80%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.53%) ARM Cortex
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.53%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.53%) Device Driver
7 2 (0.53%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.22%) Linux
2 11 (2.94%) Windows
3 9 (2.41%) VMS
4 7 (1.87%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.61%) AI
2 99 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (20.86%) Analytics
4 66 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (16.04%) CI/CD
5 60 (16.04%) Mentoring
6 47 (12.57%) DevOps
6 47 (12.57%) ETL
7 42 (11.23%) Data Engineering
7 42 (11.23%) Decision-Making
8 40 (10.70%) Agile
8 40 (10.70%) Machine Learning
9 36 (9.63%) Data Analysis
9 36 (9.63%) Data Analytics
9 36 (9.63%) Data Science
10 35 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (9.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (9.36%) Visualisation
11 33 (8.82%) Data Modelling
12 32 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 209 (55.88%) SQL
2 79 (21.12%) JavaScript
3 30 (8.02%) Java
3 30 (8.02%) R
4 17 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 16 (4.28%) Bash
6 15 (4.01%) C#
6 15 (4.01%) PHP
7 11 (2.94%) Perl
8 9 (2.41%) Bicep
8 9 (2.41%) Groovy
8 9 (2.41%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.14%) VBA
10 7 (1.87%) C++
10 7 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.60%) C
11 6 (1.60%) Scala
12 5 (1.34%) Go
12 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.80%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 91 (24.33%) Azure Certification
2 55 (14.71%) Degree
3 38 (10.16%) AWS Certification
4 35 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (8.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 29 (7.75%) Security Cleared
7 22 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 19 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.74%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (1.60%) CCNP
13 4 (1.07%) CCNA
13 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.53%) CEH
14 2 (0.53%) HND
14 2 (0.53%) PhD
14 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.14%) GDPR
3 3 (0.80%) QA
4 2 (0.53%) 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 34 (9.09%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.07%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.07%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.07%) Postfix
3 4 (1.07%) Squid
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (9.09%) Terraform
2 24 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.48%) Grafana
4 9 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.87%) Ansible
6 5 (1.34%) Nessus
7 4 (1.07%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.80%) Argo
8 3 (0.80%) Nagios
9 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 148 (39.57%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.76%) Databricks
3 15 (4.01%) Oracle
4 13 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.14%) Cisco
5 8 (2.14%) Google
6 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.34%) Meraki
7 5 (1.34%) UiPath
8 4 (1.07%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.07%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.07%) Talend
9 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.80%) Informatica
9 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.53%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.53%) Juniper
10 2 (0.53%) Siemens
10 2 (0.53%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.53%) Zoho