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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 306 452 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.48% 4.53% 4.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.94% 19.59% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 190 214 203
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £41,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +6.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,875 £86,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 1,227 2,307 1,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.95% 23.13% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,422 1,587
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +7 191 £64,750 -0.38% 223
East Midlands -2 116 £66,250 +43.24% 162
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (13.73%) Confluence
2 16 (5.23%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.61%) nginx
4 5 (1.63%) Apache
4 5 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.63%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) PowerFactory
5 2 (0.65%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.58%) AWS
2 103 (33.66%) Azure
3 55 (17.97%) Amazon S3
4 52 (16.99%) Amazon ELB
5 50 (16.34%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (15.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 48 (15.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 47 (15.36%) AWS KMS
8 39 (12.75%) Power Platform
9 38 (12.42%) Amazon Glacier
10 23 (7.52%) GCP
11 22 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (5.56%) SaaS
13 16 (5.23%) Serverless
14 14 (4.58%) GitHub
15 13 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.25%) Snowflake
16 12 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (16.01%) Firewall
2 32 (10.46%) HTTP
3 31 (10.13%) DNS
4 29 (9.48%) VPN
5 27 (8.82%) FTP
5 27 (8.82%) SMTP
5 27 (8.82%) SSH
6 17 (5.56%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.61%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (2.61%) IMAP
7 8 (2.61%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (1.63%) Internet
8 5 (1.63%) Modbus
8 5 (1.63%) SSL
9 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.98%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.98%) DHCP
10 3 (0.98%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.98%) WAN
10 3 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (15.36%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.76%) Power BI
3 27 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (8.50%) Tableau
5 18 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.58%) Big Data
8 11 (3.59%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.27%) Delta Lake
9 10 (3.27%) DynamoDB
9 10 (3.27%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.61%) Metadata
10 8 (2.61%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.29%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.96%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.31%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.31%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (18.63%) Git
1 57 (18.63%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.03%) Vagrant
3 44 (14.38%) JIRA
4 16 (5.23%) Cucumber
5 15 (4.90%) Robot Framework
6 12 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.29%) MLflow
8 5 (1.63%) GitLab
9 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.31%) Subversion
10 3 (0.98%) JMeter
10 3 (0.98%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.65%) Mockito
11 2 (0.65%) Selenium
12 1 (0.33%) Appium
12 1 (0.33%) Maven
12 1 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.33%) TestNG
General
1 100 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 40 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.09%) Finance
5 32 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (8.50%) Retail
7 19 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.90%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (4.25%) Law
10 10 (3.27%) Marketing
11 7 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.63%) Automotive
13 4 (1.31%) Banking
13 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.98%) Legal
14 3 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.65%) Electronics
15 2 (0.65%) Games
15 2 (0.65%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 40 (13.07%) Developer
2 34 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 33 (10.78%) Analyst
4 31 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (10.13%) Senior
5 27 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (8.17%) Support Engineer
7 22 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (5.88%) Data Analyst
9 17 (5.56%) Architect
9 17 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (5.23%) Azure Data Engineer
10 16 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.23%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (4.90%) Test Automation Engineer
11 15 (4.90%) Test Engineer
12 14 (4.58%) Infrastructure Support
12 14 (4.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 14 (4.58%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.84%) HTML
2 23 (7.52%) .NET
3 19 (6.21%) PySpark
4 12 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.27%) Pandas
6 8 (2.61%) CSS
6 8 (2.61%) Django
6 8 (2.61%) Flask
6 8 (2.61%) LDAP
6 8 (2.61%) NumPy
6 8 (2.61%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.61%) REST
6 8 (2.61%) TensorFlow
6 8 (2.61%) YAML
7 7 (2.29%) React
7 7 (2.29%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.96%) Keras
8 6 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (1.96%) Metaflow
8 6 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.48%) Replication
2 22 (7.19%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (3.59%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.59%) Cyberattack
3 11 (3.59%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.27%) IoT
5 9 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.61%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.63%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.63%) Raspberry Pi
10 4 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.31%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.31%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.98%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 92 (30.07%) Linux
2 61 (19.93%) Windows
3 46 (15.03%) VMS
4 26 (8.50%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (4.58%) Ubuntu
6 12 (3.92%) Android
7 7 (2.29%) Unix
8 3 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.01%) DevOps
2 67 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (19.61%) CI/CD
4 58 (18.95%) Artificial Intelligence
4 58 (18.95%) Machine Learning
5 57 (18.63%) Agile
6 53 (17.32%) Cloud Security
7 48 (15.69%) Configuration Management
8 46 (15.03%) Analytics
9 43 (14.05%) Computer Science
10 42 (13.73%) Change Management
10 42 (13.73%) Visualisation
11 41 (13.40%) Mentoring
12 38 (12.42%) Data Science
13 36 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (11.76%) Data Modelling
14 34 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (10.46%) Patch Management
16 30 (9.80%) Test Automation
17 29 (9.48%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.04%) SQL
2 84 (27.45%) Java
3 78 (25.49%) PowerShell
4 71 (23.20%) JavaScript
5 47 (15.36%) Groovy
6 44 (14.38%) R
7 43 (14.05%) C#
8 37 (12.09%) Bash
9 35 (11.44%) C++
10 33 (10.78%) Perl
11 30 (9.80%) C
12 26 (8.50%) PHP
13 24 (7.84%) Ruby
13 24 (7.84%) TypeScript
14 21 (6.86%) MATLAB
14 21 (6.86%) Rust
15 19 (6.21%) Dart
16 7 (2.29%) Bicep
16 7 (2.29%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.96%) Go
Qualifications
1 98 (32.03%) Degree
2 75 (24.51%) Security Cleared
3 63 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 34 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (7.84%) AWS Certification
6 22 (7.19%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.25%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.27%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.29%) HND
9 7 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.63%) PhD
11 4 (1.31%) CCNA
12 3 (0.98%) CCNP
12 3 (0.98%) HNC
13 2 (0.65%) CCSP
13 2 (0.65%) CISM
13 2 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.54%) Data Quality
1 20 (6.54%) QA
2 8 (2.61%) GDPR
3 7 (2.29%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.31%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.33%) GRC
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (22.22%) Docker
2 41 (13.40%) Active Directory
3 29 (9.48%) DFS Replication
4 8 (2.61%) Dovecot
4 8 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.61%) Postfix
4 8 (2.61%) Squid
4 8 (2.61%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.61%) vSphere
5 4 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.98%) Firmware
6 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.33%) HDFS
7 1 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 89 (29.08%) Terraform
2 43 (14.05%) Grafana
3 42 (13.73%) Prometheus
4 36 (11.76%) Ansible
5 24 (7.84%) Kubernetes
6 13 (4.25%) Nessus
7 12 (3.92%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.96%) Kubeflow
9 5 (1.63%) Kibana
9 5 (1.63%) Nagios
10 3 (0.98%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.98%) Puppet
11 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.65%) SCOM
12 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.33%) logstash
12 1 (0.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 44 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.05%) ServiceNow
3 35 (11.44%) Databricks
4 29 (9.48%) Juniper
5 15 (4.90%) Splunk
6 13 (4.25%) Cisco
7 9 (2.94%) Oracle
8 8 (2.61%) 3PAR
8 8 (2.61%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.63%) Atmel
9 5 (1.63%) Google
9 5 (1.63%) Siemens
9 5 (1.63%) UiPath
10 4 (1.31%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.31%) VMware
11 3 (0.98%) AVEVA
11 3 (0.98%) IBM
11 3 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.98%) Meraki