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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 507 316 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.22% 5.62% 4.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.03% 25.53% 20.39%
Number of salaries quoted 260 198 210
10th Percentile £37,825 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,450 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,746 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.33% -

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 1,948 1,238 2,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.38% 22.02% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 947 1,348
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,250 £37,500 £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 £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -8 279 £65,000 +7.88% 305
East Midlands +12 226 £53,750 -17.31% 201
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 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.18%) Apache
3 4 (0.79%) SAS
4 3 (0.59%) WordPress
5 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (12.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.39%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Line 50
2 3 (0.59%) Magento
2 3 (0.59%) Shopify
3 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 257 (50.69%) Azure
2 113 (22.29%) Power Platform
3 110 (21.70%) Azure AI
4 102 (20.12%) AWS
5 35 (6.90%) GCP
6 25 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 16 (3.16%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.16%) Serverless
10 15 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.17%) dbt
13 11 (2.17%) GitHub
14 10 (1.97%) SaaS
15 9 (1.78%) Azure Stack
16 8 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.33%) Firewall
2 15 (2.96%) DNS
2 15 (2.96%) VPN
3 14 (2.76%) Wireless
4 12 (2.37%) VLAN
4 12 (2.37%) WAN
5 10 (1.97%) LAN
5 10 (1.97%) MQTT
6 9 (1.78%) Bluetooth
6 9 (1.78%) Network Security
6 9 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.58%) BGP
7 8 (1.58%) DHCP
7 8 (1.58%) OSPF
7 8 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.38%) VoIP
9 6 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (1.18%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.99%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (22.29%) Power BI
2 69 (13.61%) Tableau
3 35 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (3.94%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (2.76%) Delta Lake
7 14 (2.76%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.56%) Power Query
8 13 (2.56%) QlikView
8 13 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.58%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.38%) MySQL
12 6 (1.18%) Big Data
12 6 (1.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (10.65%) Git
2 19 (3.75%) GitLab
2 19 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.17%) JIRA
4 8 (1.58%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.58%) Gatling
5 6 (1.18%) GDB
5 6 (1.18%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.99%) JMeter
6 5 (0.99%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.99%) Selenium
6 5 (0.99%) Subversion
7 4 (0.79%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.79%) HP UFT
7 4 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.79%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.79%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 179 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.55%) Finance
3 77 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.93%) Banking
6 22 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.55%) Retail
9 17 (3.35%) Electronics
10 15 (2.96%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.56%) Marketing
12 10 (1.97%) Fire and Rescue
13 8 (1.58%) Games
13 8 (1.58%) Law
14 7 (1.38%) Legal
15 6 (1.18%) Automotive
15 6 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (21.70%) Senior
2 90 (17.75%) Analyst
3 85 (16.77%) Data Analyst
4 75 (14.79%) Developer
5 69 (13.61%) Data Engineer
6 66 (13.02%) Lead
7 59 (11.64%) Junior
8 58 (11.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 57 (11.24%) Junior Analyst
9 57 (11.24%) Junior Data Analyst
10 55 (10.85%) Data Scientist
10 55 (10.85%) Python Engineer
11 46 (9.07%) Software Engineer
12 29 (5.72%) Senior Data Engineer
13 26 (5.13%) Senior Data Scientist
14 24 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (4.34%) Lead Data Scientist
15 22 (4.34%) Python Developer
16 21 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (3.75%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.30%) Terraform
2 32 (6.31%) PyTorch
3 29 (5.72%) TensorFlow
4 23 (4.54%) Hugging Face
5 21 (4.14%) PySpark
6 18 (3.55%) REST
7 17 (3.35%) Kafka
8 16 (3.16%) React
9 15 (2.96%) HTML
10 14 (2.76%) CSS
11 12 (2.37%) Keycloak
11 12 (2.37%) Node.js
11 12 (2.37%) RESTful
12 9 (1.78%) .NET
12 9 (1.78%) Django
13 8 (1.58%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.58%) Playwright
13 8 (1.58%) scikit-learn
14 6 (1.18%) Pandas
14 6 (1.18%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.73%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.55%) IoT
3 17 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.78%) ARM Cortex
7 9 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.38%) Device Driver
8 7 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.18%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.99%) Verilog
10 5 (0.99%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.47%) Linux
2 30 (5.92%) Windows
3 16 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.58%) Unix
5 6 (1.18%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.79%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.79%) VMS
8 3 (0.59%) Solaris
9 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.20%) Debian
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (39.45%) AI
2 128 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
3 120 (23.67%) Analytics
4 105 (20.71%) Software Engineering
5 98 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (16.57%) Roadmaps
7 82 (16.17%) CI/CD
8 81 (15.98%) Machine Learning
9 80 (15.78%) Data Science
10 75 (14.79%) Decision-Making
11 67 (13.21%) Actionable Insight
12 62 (12.23%) DevOps
13 60 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 60 (11.83%) Mentoring
14 59 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (10.45%) Agile
15 53 (10.45%) Validation
16 52 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
17 50 (9.86%) Statistics
18 47 (9.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (45.36%) SQL
2 35 (6.90%) Java
2 35 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.71%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (4.34%) C#
6 21 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.94%) Bash
8 19 (3.75%) C
9 15 (2.96%) C++
10 14 (2.76%) Go
10 14 (2.76%) R
11 7 (1.38%) PHP
12 6 (1.18%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.99%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.99%) Perl
14 3 (0.59%) Bicep
14 3 (0.59%) Ruby
15 1 (0.20%) Groovy
15 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (25.44%) Azure Certification
2 65 (12.82%) Degree
3 35 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 33 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.99%) CCNA
10 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.59%) MCSE
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.20%) ACCA
13 1 (0.20%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.14%) GDPR
3 13 (2.56%) QA
4 7 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.38%) JTAG
4 7 (1.38%) SLA
5 4 (0.79%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.79%) NIST
6 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.39%) MISRA
7 2 (0.39%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (5.13%) Docker
2 12 (2.37%) Firmware
3 9 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.59%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.56%) Grafana
3 12 (2.37%) Ansible
4 6 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Nagios
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.92%) Databricks
3 18 (3.55%) Google
4 15 (2.96%) Cisco
5 9 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.58%) VMware
7 6 (1.18%) SAP
8 5 (0.99%) Altera
8 5 (0.99%) Fortinet
8 5 (0.99%) Microsemi
8 5 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.99%) Xilinx
9 4 (0.79%) Adobe
9 4 (0.79%) Apple
9 4 (0.79%) Meraki
9 4 (0.79%) Sage
9 4 (0.79%) Veracode
10 3 (0.59%) Informatica
10 3 (0.59%) Oracle
10 3 (0.59%) Splunk