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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 37 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -32
Permanent jobs citing Python 498 294 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.79% 6.02% 4.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.60% 23.52% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 297 210 366
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £79,550 £88,875
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,399 1,250 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.45% 25.61% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 945 2,538
10th Percentile £29,225 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,688 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +22 313 £60,000 +9.09% 126
East Midlands -11 186 £55,000 - 117
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 (1.81%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.61%) WordPress
3 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.00%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 201 (40.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 294 (59.04%) Azure
2 216 (43.37%) Power Platform
3 167 (33.53%) Azure AI
4 137 (27.51%) AWS
5 46 (9.24%) GitHub
6 31 (6.22%) Amazon S3
7 30 (6.02%) Serverless
8 27 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.82%) Snowflake
10 16 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (3.21%) GCP
11 12 (2.41%) dbt
12 11 (2.21%) SaaS
13 10 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.61%) Datadog
15 8 (1.61%) PaaS
16 6 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.83%) Internet
2 10 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.81%) Wireless
4 7 (1.41%) VPN
5 6 (1.20%) BGP
5 6 (1.20%) LAN
6 5 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.00%) EIGRP
6 5 (1.00%) OSPF
6 5 (1.00%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.80%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.80%) Broadband
7 4 (0.80%) LTE
7 4 (0.80%) Modbus
7 4 (0.80%) WAN
8 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.20%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.20%) MPLS
9 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (43.37%) Power BI
2 197 (39.56%) Tableau
3 23 (4.62%) Data Mining
4 17 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (2.81%) Delta Lake
7 13 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.41%) Metadata
10 6 (1.20%) Redis
11 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.80%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.80%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.60%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.60%) Power Query
13 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (10.84%) Git
2 10 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (1.61%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.61%) GitLab
5 6 (1.20%) Selenium
6 5 (1.00%) JMeter
7 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.80%) JIRA
7 4 (0.80%) Subversion
8 3 (0.60%) JUnit
8 3 (0.60%) Locust
9 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.40%) MLflow
9 2 (0.40%) Postman
9 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 213 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 73 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (11.24%) Finance
4 34 (6.83%) Multimedia
5 23 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.61%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.81%) Retail
8 13 (2.61%) Law
9 9 (1.81%) Marketing
10 8 (1.61%) Automotive
11 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Local Government
14 3 (0.60%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.40%) Advertising
15 2 (0.40%) Games
15 2 (0.40%) Legal
15 2 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 204 (40.96%) Analyst
2 199 (39.96%) Data Analyst
3 171 (34.34%) Junior
4 168 (33.73%) Junior Analyst
4 168 (33.73%) Junior Data Analyst
5 75 (15.06%) Developer
6 62 (12.45%) Trainee
7 57 (11.45%) Data Engineer
8 53 (10.64%) Senior
9 36 (7.23%) Lead
10 35 (7.03%) Software Developer
11 32 (6.43%) Python Developer
12 23 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (4.22%) Senior Developer
14 20 (4.02%) Azure Data Engineer
14 20 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.82%) Python Engineer
16 18 (3.61%) Software Engineer
16 18 (3.61%) Trainee Analyst
16 18 (3.61%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.85%) HTML
2 47 (9.44%) CSS
3 46 (9.24%) React
4 38 (7.63%) Node.js
5 26 (5.22%) PySpark
6 17 (3.41%) Django
7 14 (2.81%) Pandas
8 12 (2.41%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.01%) NumPy
9 10 (2.01%) Streamlit
10 9 (1.81%) Hugging Face
10 9 (1.81%) Matplotlib
10 9 (1.81%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.81%) REST
11 8 (1.61%) Flask
12 7 (1.41%) TensorFlow
13 5 (1.00%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 4 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.81%) Algorithms
2 9 (1.81%) Cloud Native
3 8 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
6 4 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (0.60%) Social Media
8 2 (0.40%) CUDA
8 2 (0.40%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.40%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.40%) Lidar
8 2 (0.40%) Robotics
8 2 (0.40%) SCADA
8 2 (0.40%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.41%) Windows
3 4 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (44.78%) AI
2 215 (43.17%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (15.46%) Analytics
4 63 (12.65%) Mentoring
5 61 (12.25%) CI/CD
6 53 (10.64%) DevOps
7 51 (10.24%) Machine Learning
7 51 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (8.84%) ETL
10 42 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
10 42 (8.43%) Decision-Making
11 41 (8.23%) Agile
12 40 (8.03%) Visualisation
13 38 (7.63%) Data Engineering
13 38 (7.63%) Data Science
14 37 (7.43%) Data Analysis
14 37 (7.43%) Software Engineering
15 35 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 318 (63.86%) SQL
2 83 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 34 (6.83%) R
4 23 (4.62%) Java
5 17 (3.41%) Bash
6 13 (2.61%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.81%) C
10 8 (1.61%) Bicep
10 8 (1.61%) C++
10 8 (1.61%) PHP
11 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.20%) C#
12 6 (1.20%) Scala
12 6 (1.20%) VBA
13 5 (1.00%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.00%) Go
14 3 (0.60%) Delphi
14 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 204 (40.96%) Azure Certification
2 47 (9.44%) AWS Certification
3 43 (8.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 43 (8.63%) Degree
4 40 (8.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.41%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.00%) CCNP
8 5 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.40%) CEH
9 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.40%) PhD
9 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.20%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.81%) QA
3 8 (1.61%) GDPR
4 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (5.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (5.62%) Terraform
2 27 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.41%) Grafana
4 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.80%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) Nagios
7 2 (0.40%) Argo
7 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.20%) Control-M
8 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 264 (53.01%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.04%) Databricks
3 11 (2.21%) Google
4 9 (1.81%) Oracle
5 7 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.20%) Cisco
7 5 (1.00%) Informatica
7 5 (1.00%) Meraki
7 5 (1.00%) Talend
8 4 (0.80%) Atmel
8 4 (0.80%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.80%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.60%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.40%) Civica
10 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.40%) Logitech
10 2 (0.40%) Northgate
10 2 (0.40%) Orchard
10 2 (0.40%) Yealink