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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 34 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 321 480 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.59% 5.43% 5.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.61% 22.40% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 252 224 215
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,879 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +12.28% -2.61%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £69,775
90th Percentile £84,875 £91,875 £84,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 1,122 2,143 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.55% 24.25% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,170 1,526
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,188
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +13 229 £60,000 -7.69% 267
East Midlands -16 95 £62,500 +13.64% 137
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 32 (9.97%) Confluence
2 12 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.18%) nginx
5 6 (1.87%) IIS
6 5 (1.56%) SAS
7 3 (0.93%) Apache
8 2 (0.62%) PowerFactory
8 2 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (12.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 129 (40.19%) Azure
2 121 (37.69%) AWS
3 44 (13.71%) Power Platform
4 42 (13.08%) Amazon S3
5 39 (12.15%) Amazon ELB
6 38 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (11.53%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (10.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 33 (10.28%) AWS KMS
9 33 (10.28%) GitHub
10 26 (8.10%) Amazon Glacier
11 25 (7.79%) GCP
12 18 (5.61%) SaaS
13 16 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.05%) Snowflake
15 12 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.12%) Azure AI
16 10 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.21%) Firewall
2 27 (8.41%) HTTP
3 23 (7.17%) DNS
4 22 (6.85%) FTP
4 22 (6.85%) SMTP
4 22 (6.85%) SSH
5 20 (6.23%) Internet
6 7 (2.18%) IMAP
6 7 (2.18%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (1.56%) VPN
8 3 (0.93%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.93%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.93%) Modbus
8 3 (0.93%) MQTT
8 3 (0.93%) UWB
8 3 (0.93%) WAN
9 2 (0.62%) LAN
9 2 (0.62%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.08%) Power BI
2 37 (11.53%) Tableau
3 36 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (9.03%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (7.48%) SQL Server
6 20 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (5.30%) Delta Lake
8 12 (3.74%) BigQuery
8 12 (3.74%) Data Mining
9 10 (3.12%) Big Data
9 10 (3.12%) DynamoDB
9 10 (3.12%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.80%) Metadata
10 9 (2.80%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.18%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.87%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.25%) MySQL
13 4 (1.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 65 (20.25%) Git
2 47 (14.64%) Jenkins
3 34 (10.59%) JIRA
4 33 (10.28%) Vagrant
5 9 (2.80%) GitLab
6 7 (2.18%) MLflow
6 7 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.87%) JUnit
8 5 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.56%) Selenium
9 4 (1.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.62%) Mockito
10 2 (0.62%) Subversion
11 1 (0.31%) Appium
11 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.31%) Locust
11 1 (0.31%) Maven
11 1 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.31%) TestNG
General
1 85 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.02%) Finance
3 43 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.48%) Retail
6 17 (5.30%) Marketing
6 17 (5.30%) Multimedia
7 16 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.43%) Law
10 9 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.56%) Automotive
12 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Legal
13 3 (0.93%) Local Government
13 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.62%) Games
14 2 (0.62%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 59 (18.38%) Developer
2 46 (14.33%) Analyst
2 46 (14.33%) Data Engineer
3 44 (13.71%) Senior
4 33 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (9.03%) Data Analyst
6 25 (7.79%) Trainee
7 24 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
9 20 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (6.23%) Lead
9 20 (6.23%) Python Developer
9 20 (6.23%) Support Engineer
10 19 (5.92%) Architect
11 17 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.30%) Software Developer
11 17 (5.30%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.67%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.17%) CSS
1 23 (7.17%) Django
2 20 (6.23%) HTML
3 19 (5.92%) PySpark
3 19 (5.92%) React
4 16 (4.98%) .NET
5 12 (3.74%) Flask
5 12 (3.74%) REST
6 8 (2.49%) YAML
7 7 (2.18%) LDAP
7 7 (2.18%) Node.js
7 7 (2.18%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.18%) Spring
7 7 (2.18%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.18%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.87%) Keras
8 6 (1.87%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (1.87%) Metaflow
8 6 (1.87%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.85%) Replication
2 11 (3.43%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.12%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.80%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.49%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (2.49%) IoT
5 8 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.18%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.56%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.93%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.82%) Linux
2 33 (10.28%) VMS
3 25 (7.79%) Windows
4 20 (6.23%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (3.12%) Unix
6 8 (2.49%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (23.36%) CI/CD
1 75 (23.36%) DevOps
2 67 (20.87%) Analytics
3 58 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (17.76%) AI
5 56 (17.45%) Agile
6 49 (15.26%) Data Science
6 49 (15.26%) Mentoring
6 49 (15.26%) Visualisation
7 47 (14.64%) Machine Learning
8 44 (13.71%) Decision-Making
9 43 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (12.15%) Cloud Security
10 39 (12.15%) Data Engineering
10 39 (12.15%) Data Modelling
11 38 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (11.53%) ETL
13 35 (10.90%) Data Visualisation
14 33 (10.28%) Change Management
14 33 (10.28%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (47.66%) SQL
2 61 (19.00%) JavaScript
3 52 (16.20%) Java
4 42 (13.08%) PowerShell
5 35 (10.90%) Groovy
6 30 (9.35%) R
7 23 (7.17%) Perl
8 22 (6.85%) C#
9 17 (5.30%) Bash
10 12 (3.74%) PHP
11 9 (2.80%) Bicep
11 9 (2.80%) C++
12 8 (2.49%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.18%) C
14 5 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.56%) Go
14 5 (1.56%) Scala
14 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.56%) VBA
15 4 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (21.81%) Degree
2 61 (19.00%) Security Cleared
3 52 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 33 (10.28%) AWS Certification
5 32 (9.97%) Azure Certification
6 22 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.67%) Master's Degree
9 11 (3.43%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (2.80%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.18%) HND
12 5 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (1.56%) PhD
13 4 (1.25%) CCNA
14 3 (0.93%) CCNP
14 3 (0.93%) HNC
15 2 (0.62%) CCSP
15 2 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.80%) GDPR
3 5 (1.56%) QA
4 4 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.93%) NIST
5 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (17.76%) Docker
2 28 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.85%) DFS Replication
4 7 (2.18%) Dovecot
4 7 (2.18%) Postfix
4 7 (2.18%) Squid
5 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 67 (20.87%) Terraform
2 37 (11.53%) Grafana
3 33 (10.28%) Kubernetes
4 31 (9.66%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.98%) Ansible
6 8 (2.49%) Nessus
7 7 (2.18%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.87%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.56%) Kibana
10 3 (0.93%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.62%) Argo
11 2 (0.62%) Nagios
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.31%) logstash
12 1 (0.31%) Oozie
12 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.71%) Databricks
3 31 (9.66%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.36%) Oracle
4 14 (4.36%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.05%) Juniper
6 7 (2.18%) Google
6 7 (2.18%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (1.87%) UiPath
8 5 (1.56%) Cisco
8 5 (1.56%) Siemens
8 5 (1.56%) Splunk
9 4 (1.25%) Informatica
9 4 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.25%) VMware
10 3 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.93%) Atmel
10 3 (0.93%) Meraki
10 3 (0.93%) Rockwell
10 3 (0.93%) SolarWinds