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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 38 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 -13
Permanent jobs citing Python 604 317 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.44% 5.62% 3.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.67% 23.71% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 275 197 298
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £74,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 1,907 1,337 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.01% 23.69% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 1,022 2,120
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £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 £69,250 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 July 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 July 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 +1 317 £62,500 -1.57% 115
East Midlands +21 286 £54,500 -0.91% 85
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 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.66%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.49%) WordPress
3 7 (1.16%) Apache
4 3 (0.50%) SAS
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 179 (29.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.49%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Line 50
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
2 3 (0.50%) Shopify
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 356 (58.94%) Azure
2 231 (38.25%) Azure AI
3 221 (36.59%) Power Platform
4 122 (20.20%) AWS
5 34 (5.63%) GCP
6 30 (4.97%) Snowflake
7 22 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 22 (3.64%) Serverless
8 20 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.81%) GitHub
11 15 (2.48%) dbt
11 15 (2.48%) SaaS
12 11 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.49%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.16%) Azure Stack
15 7 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.81%) Wireless
2 15 (2.48%) Firewall
3 14 (2.32%) VPN
4 12 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.82%) Bluetooth
6 10 (1.66%) MQTT
7 9 (1.49%) Internet
8 8 (1.32%) Network Security
9 7 (1.16%) DNS
9 7 (1.16%) WAN
10 6 (0.99%) LAN
10 6 (0.99%) VoIP
10 6 (0.99%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.83%) VLAN
12 4 (0.66%) BGP
12 4 (0.66%) Modbus
12 4 (0.66%) OSPF
12 4 (0.66%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (36.59%) Power BI
2 179 (29.64%) Tableau
3 24 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.32%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.99%) Data Mining
10 6 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.99%) Redis
11 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.83%) MySQL
11 5 (0.83%) Power Query
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (7.28%) Git
2 17 (2.81%) GitLab
3 15 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.66%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.32%) Gatling
6 8 (1.32%) JMeter
7 7 (1.16%) Selenium
8 6 (0.99%) GDB
8 6 (0.99%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.83%) Postman
9 5 (0.83%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.83%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.66%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.66%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.50%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.50%) JIRA
12 2 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 289 (47.85%) Social Skills
2 100 (16.56%) Finance
3 83 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.81%) Retail
5 22 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.15%) Banking
8 14 (2.32%) Law
9 12 (1.99%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.32%) Electronics
10 8 (1.32%) Multimedia
10 8 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.83%) Automotive
12 5 (0.83%) Marketing
13 4 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 4 (0.66%) Games
14 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (34.60%) Analyst
2 201 (33.28%) Data Analyst
3 174 (28.81%) Junior
4 170 (28.15%) Junior Analyst
4 170 (28.15%) Junior Data Analyst
5 90 (14.90%) Senior
6 71 (11.75%) Developer
7 69 (11.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 65 (10.76%) Data Scientist
9 63 (10.43%) Data Engineer
10 59 (9.77%) Lead
11 37 (6.13%) Software Engineer
12 36 (5.96%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.47%) Senior Data Scientist
14 24 (3.97%) Lead Data Scientist
14 24 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (3.31%) Trainee
16 18 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (2.98%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.79%) PyTorch
2 32 (5.30%) Hugging Face
3 29 (4.80%) TensorFlow
4 27 (4.47%) HTML
5 25 (4.14%) CSS
6 20 (3.31%) Pandas
7 19 (3.15%) scikit-learn
8 16 (2.65%) React
9 13 (2.15%) PySpark
9 13 (2.15%) REST
10 12 (1.99%) Node.js
10 12 (1.99%) NumPy
10 12 (1.99%) RESTful
11 11 (1.82%) Kafka
11 11 (1.82%) Matplotlib
12 10 (1.66%) Playwright
12 10 (1.66%) Streamlit
13 7 (1.16%) Django
14 6 (0.99%) JSON
14 6 (0.99%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (2.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (2.48%) IoT
3 12 (1.99%) Algorithms
4 11 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.49%) ARM Cortex
6 9 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.16%) Device Driver
7 7 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.16%) Virtual Team
8 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.66%) CAN bus
9 4 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.66%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.66%) Robotics
9 4 (0.66%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.50%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.29%) Linux
2 25 (4.14%) Windows
3 13 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.83%) Unix
6 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.66%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Debian
8 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.17%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (52.98%) AI
2 222 (36.75%) Business Intelligence
3 102 (16.89%) Analytics
4 86 (14.24%) Machine Learning
5 85 (14.07%) Software Engineering
6 81 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (12.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 75 (12.42%) Data Science
9 71 (11.75%) Roadmaps
10 68 (11.26%) CI/CD
11 67 (11.09%) Actionable Insight
12 62 (10.26%) Decision-Making
13 57 (9.44%) Mentoring
14 55 (9.11%) Statistics
15 51 (8.44%) DevOps
16 45 (7.45%) Data Analysis
17 43 (7.12%) Data Engineering
18 42 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
19 41 (6.79%) Data Pipeline
20 39 (6.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 338 (55.96%) SQL
2 31 (5.13%) JavaScript
2 31 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 28 (4.64%) Java
4 24 (3.97%) R
5 21 (3.48%) Bash
6 19 (3.15%) C
7 17 (2.81%) C#
7 17 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (2.65%) C++
9 13 (2.15%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.32%) PHP
11 7 (1.16%) Go
12 6 (0.99%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.83%) Bicep
13 5 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.33%) Ruby
15 2 (0.33%) Rust
16 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 252 (41.72%) Azure Certification
2 50 (8.28%) Degree
3 27 (4.47%) Security Cleared
4 24 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.31%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.32%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.50%) CCNP
15 2 (0.33%) CCNA
15 2 (0.33%) CISSP
15 2 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.33%) PhD
16 1 (0.17%) CREST Certified
16 1 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.48%) GDPR
3 11 (1.82%) QA
4 10 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.16%) JTAG
6 4 (0.66%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.66%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.66%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.33%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.33%) MISRA
7 2 (0.33%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.33%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (3.15%) Docker
2 13 (2.15%) Firmware
3 7 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (4.47%) Terraform
2 17 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.65%) Grafana
4 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.66%) Ansible
5 4 (0.66%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
6 2 (0.33%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.33%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 223 (36.92%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.96%) Databricks
3 17 (2.81%) Google
4 8 (1.32%) Cisco
5 6 (0.99%) Informatica
5 6 (0.99%) Meraki
6 5 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.66%) Adobe
7 4 (0.66%) Apple
7 4 (0.66%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle
7 4 (0.66%) Sage
7 4 (0.66%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.66%) Splunk
7 4 (0.66%) Veracode
7 4 (0.66%) VMware
8 3 (0.50%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.50%) Talend
9 2 (0.33%) Atmel