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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 370 433 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.69% 6.82% 5.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.54% 25.40% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 264 207 236
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,665 £37,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,125
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.53% -11.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £64,813
90th Percentile £84,625 £84,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.27% -0.46%

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 1,137 1,705 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.42% 26.86% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,643
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 £65,063 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,600
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 16 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 16 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 +4 258 £60,000 +4.35% 126
East Midlands -28 115 £60,000 +9.09% 174
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 7 (1.89%) Confluence
2 6 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.62%) IIS
3 4 (1.08%) nginx
3 4 (1.08%) SAS
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 98 (26.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) 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
1 178 (48.11%) Azure
2 109 (29.46%) AWS
3 99 (26.76%) Power Platform
4 60 (16.22%) Azure AI
5 40 (10.81%) GitHub
6 27 (7.30%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.41%) Serverless
8 19 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.59%) SaaS
11 14 (3.78%) GCP
12 12 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.24%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.16%) Amazon ELB
13 8 (2.16%) AWS KMS
13 8 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.11%) Internet
2 11 (2.97%) Firewall
3 9 (2.43%) DNS
3 9 (2.43%) FTP
3 9 (2.43%) HTTP
3 9 (2.43%) VPN
4 8 (2.16%) SMTP
4 8 (2.16%) SSH
5 7 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.62%) LAN
7 5 (1.35%) BGP
7 5 (1.35%) WAN
7 5 (1.35%) Wireless
8 4 (1.08%) Bluetooth
8 4 (1.08%) IMAP
8 4 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.08%) OSPF
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.81%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (26.22%) Power BI
2 92 (24.86%) Tableau
3 27 (7.30%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.22%) Data Mining
5 21 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (4.32%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.35%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.08%) Metadata
11 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.08%) Parquet
11 4 (1.08%) Power Query
12 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (14.05%) Git
2 16 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.70%) JIRA
4 8 (2.16%) Vagrant
5 7 (1.89%) GitLab
6 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.81%) JUnit
7 3 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.81%) Subversion
8 2 (0.54%) MLflow
8 2 (0.54%) 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
1 117 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.16%) Finance
4 30 (8.11%) Multimedia
5 26 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.32%) Marketing
7 12 (3.24%) Retail
8 11 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.70%) Automotive
9 10 (2.70%) Law
10 8 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.08%) Local Government
15 3 (0.81%) Legal
15 3 (0.81%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.54%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.27%) Advertising
17 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 106 (28.65%) Analyst
2 89 (24.05%) Data Analyst
3 76 (20.54%) Developer
4 55 (14.86%) Junior
4 55 (14.86%) Junior Analyst
4 55 (14.86%) Junior Data Analyst
5 49 (13.24%) Data Engineer
5 49 (13.24%) Senior
6 48 (12.97%) Trainee
7 34 (9.19%) Software Developer
8 31 (8.38%) Python Developer
9 28 (7.57%) Lead
10 25 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (5.95%) Azure Data Engineer
13 18 (4.86%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.59%) Python Engineer
14 17 (4.59%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.05%) Lead Developer
15 15 (4.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.24%) HTML
2 41 (11.08%) CSS
3 32 (8.65%) React
4 27 (7.30%) Node.js
5 26 (7.03%) PySpark
6 16 (4.32%) Django
7 9 (2.43%) .NET
8 7 (1.89%) Flask
8 7 (1.89%) REST
9 5 (1.35%) Spring
9 5 (1.35%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.35%) XML
10 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.08%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.08%) LDAP
11 3 (0.81%) JSON
11 3 (0.81%) pytest
11 3 (0.81%) RESTful
12 2 (0.54%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.43%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.89%) Credit Risk
3 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
4 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.08%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
4 4 (1.08%) Replication
4 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
5 3 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.54%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.54%) Device Driver
6 2 (0.54%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (0.54%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (0.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.03%) Linux
2 11 (2.97%) Windows
3 8 (2.16%) VMS
4 6 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.38%) AI
2 100 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (20.81%) Analytics
4 67 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (16.22%) Mentoring
6 55 (14.86%) CI/CD
7 48 (12.97%) ETL
8 45 (12.16%) DevOps
9 42 (11.35%) Decision-Making
10 41 (11.08%) Data Engineering
11 40 (10.81%) Agile
12 39 (10.54%) Machine Learning
13 37 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (9.73%) Data Analysis
15 35 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.46%) Data Analytics
15 35 (9.46%) Data Science
15 35 (9.46%) Visualisation
16 31 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (8.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 207 (55.95%) SQL
2 82 (22.16%) JavaScript
3 29 (7.84%) R
4 28 (7.57%) Java
5 15 (4.05%) Bash
5 15 (4.05%) C#
5 15 (4.05%) PHP
5 15 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.70%) Perl
7 9 (2.43%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.16%) Groovy
8 8 (2.16%) VBA
9 7 (1.89%) Bicep
9 7 (1.89%) C++
9 7 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.62%) C
10 6 (1.62%) Go
10 6 (1.62%) Scala
11 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.81%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 91 (24.59%) Azure Certification
2 57 (15.41%) Degree
3 38 (10.27%) AWS Certification
4 34 (9.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (8.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 28 (7.57%) Security Cleared
7 21 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (5.68%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.78%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.16%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (1.62%) CCNP
11 4 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.81%) CCNA
13 2 (0.54%) CEH
13 2 (0.54%) HND
13 2 (0.54%) PhD
13 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.16%) GDPR
3 3 (0.81%) QA
4 2 (0.54%) 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 (8.92%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.08%) DFS Replication
2 4 (1.08%) Dovecot
2 4 (1.08%) Postfix
2 4 (1.08%) Squid
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (8.38%) Terraform
2 24 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.97%) Grafana
4 8 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.89%) Ansible
6 5 (1.35%) Nessus
7 4 (1.08%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.81%) Argo
8 3 (0.81%) Nagios
9 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.54%) 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
1 147 (39.73%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.89%) Databricks
3 15 (4.05%) Oracle
4 13 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.16%) Cisco
5 8 (2.16%) Google
6 6 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.35%) Meraki
8 4 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.08%) Talend
8 4 (1.08%) UiPath
9 3 (0.81%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.81%) Informatica
9 3 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.81%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.54%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.54%) Juniper
10 2 (0.54%) Siemens
10 2 (0.54%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.54%) Zoho