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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 35 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 567 332 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.92% 5.73% 3.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.47% 24.74% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 258 203 248
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,150 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.47% - -

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 1,924 1,342 2,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.32% 23.17% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,017 1,772
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,250 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,695
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -3 305 £62,500 -3.85% 178
East Midlands +20 261 £53,750 -6.52% 123
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 10 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.59%) WordPress
3 7 (1.23%) Apache
3 7 (1.23%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 142 (25.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.18%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Line 50
2 3 (0.53%) Magento
2 3 (0.53%) Shopify
3 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 333 (58.73%) Azure
2 198 (34.92%) Azure AI
3 188 (33.16%) Power Platform
4 117 (20.63%) AWS
5 37 (6.53%) GCP
6 28 (4.94%) Snowflake
7 21 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.00%) Amazon S3
8 17 (3.00%) Serverless
9 16 (2.82%) GitHub
10 15 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.65%) dbt
10 15 (2.65%) SaaS
11 13 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.59%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.35%) Firewall
2 15 (2.65%) Wireless
3 14 (2.47%) VPN
4 10 (1.76%) MQTT
4 10 (1.76%) Network Security
5 9 (1.59%) Bluetooth
5 9 (1.59%) DNS
5 9 (1.59%) Internet
5 9 (1.59%) WAN
5 9 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.41%) VLAN
7 7 (1.23%) LAN
7 7 (1.23%) VoIP
8 6 (1.06%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.88%) BGP
9 5 (0.88%) OSPF
9 5 (0.88%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.53%) HTTP
10 3 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (33.16%) Power BI
2 144 (25.40%) Tableau
3 29 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.59%) Power Query
10 8 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.23%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.06%) Redis
13 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.88%) MySQL
14 4 (0.71%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 45 (7.94%) Git
2 17 (3.00%) GitLab
3 16 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.76%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.41%) Gatling
5 8 (1.41%) JMeter
6 7 (1.23%) Selenium
7 6 (1.06%) GDB
7 6 (1.06%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.88%) Postman
8 5 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.88%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.71%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.71%) JIRA
9 4 (0.71%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.53%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.35%) Ant
General
1 255 (44.97%) Social Skills
2 92 (16.23%) Finance
3 75 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.23%) Manufacturing
4 24 (4.23%) Retail
5 23 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.70%) Banking
7 15 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.29%) Law
9 11 (1.94%) Electronics
10 10 (1.76%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.59%) Marketing
12 8 (1.41%) Multimedia
13 7 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
13 7 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.71%) Automotive
14 4 (0.71%) Games
14 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 171 (30.16%) Analyst
2 165 (29.10%) Data Analyst
3 141 (24.87%) Junior
4 137 (24.16%) Junior Analyst
4 137 (24.16%) Junior Data Analyst
5 98 (17.28%) Senior
6 73 (12.87%) Developer
7 69 (12.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 62 (10.93%) Lead
9 60 (10.58%) Data Scientist
10 59 (10.41%) Data Engineer
11 41 (7.23%) Python Engineer
12 34 (6.00%) Software Engineer
13 27 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (4.41%) Senior Data Scientist
15 23 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
15 23 (4.06%) Lead Data Scientist
16 19 (3.35%) Python Developer
17 18 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (3.17%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.82%) PyTorch
2 29 (5.11%) Hugging Face
3 27 (4.76%) TensorFlow
4 24 (4.23%) HTML
5 23 (4.06%) CSS
6 16 (2.82%) REST
6 16 (2.82%) scikit-learn
7 15 (2.65%) Pandas
8 14 (2.47%) React
9 13 (2.29%) Kafka
10 12 (2.12%) RESTful
11 11 (1.94%) PySpark
12 10 (1.76%) Node.js
12 10 (1.76%) Playwright
13 9 (1.59%) NumPy
14 8 (1.41%) Matplotlib
15 7 (1.23%) FastAPI
15 7 (1.23%) JSON
15 7 (1.23%) Keycloak
16 6 (1.06%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.88%) Cloud Native
2 15 (2.65%) IoT
3 12 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (1.59%) ARM Cortex
5 9 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.23%) Device Driver
6 7 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.23%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 5 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.71%) CAN bus
9 4 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.71%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.53%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.53%) iSeries
10 3 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.58%) Linux
2 26 (4.59%) Windows
3 13 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.06%) Unix
5 5 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.71%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.71%) VMS
7 3 (0.53%) Solaris
8 2 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (50.44%) AI
2 192 (33.86%) Business Intelligence
3 105 (18.52%) Analytics
4 86 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (14.64%) Software Engineering
6 80 (14.11%) Machine Learning
7 76 (13.40%) Roadmaps
8 73 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 70 (12.35%) Data Science
10 68 (11.99%) CI/CD
11 67 (11.82%) Actionable Insight
12 65 (11.46%) Decision-Making
13 59 (10.41%) Mentoring
14 54 (9.52%) Statistics
15 51 (8.99%) DevOps
16 45 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (7.94%) Data Analysis
17 44 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
18 41 (7.23%) Data Engineering
19 40 (7.05%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 295 (52.03%) SQL
2 34 (6.00%) Java
3 33 (5.82%) JavaScript
4 32 (5.64%) PowerShell
5 21 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (3.53%) C#
7 19 (3.35%) Bash
7 19 (3.35%) C
7 19 (3.35%) R
8 16 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.65%) C++
10 9 (1.59%) Go
11 8 (1.41%) PHP
12 6 (1.06%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.71%) Bicep
13 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.53%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.35%) Ruby
15 2 (0.35%) Rust
16 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 220 (38.80%) Azure Certification
2 55 (9.70%) Degree
3 31 (5.47%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.94%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.53%) CCNA
14 2 (0.35%) CCNP
14 2 (0.35%) CISSP
14 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.82%) GDPR
3 10 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.59%) QA
5 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.23%) JTAG
6 5 (0.88%) SLA
7 4 (0.71%) ISO 14001
7 4 (0.71%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.71%) NIST
8 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.35%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.35%) MISRA
9 2 (0.35%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.35%) WCAG
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (4.06%) Docker
2 11 (1.94%) Firmware
3 9 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (5.11%) Terraform
2 20 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.47%) Grafana
4 6 (1.06%) Ansible
4 6 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.35%) Nagios
6 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.18%) Podman
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 185 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.82%) Databricks
3 17 (3.00%) Google
4 10 (1.76%) Cisco
4 10 (1.76%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.06%) VMware
6 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
6 5 (0.88%) Informatica
6 5 (0.88%) Meraki
6 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.71%) Adobe
7 4 (0.71%) Apple
7 4 (0.71%) Sage
7 4 (0.71%) Splunk
7 4 (0.71%) Veracode
8 3 (0.53%) Oracle
8 3 (0.53%) SAP
8 3 (0.53%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.35%) EMC
9 2 (0.35%) Veeam