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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 42 60
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 597 307 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.49% 5.44% 3.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.03% 22.91% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 269 188 334
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,661 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £74,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £93,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

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 1,864 1,340 3,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.03% 23.75% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,019 2,389
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £68,000 £65,000 £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 17 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 17 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 +3 308 £62,500 +4.17% 90
East Midlands +31 289 £55,000 - 82
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 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.68%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.51%) WordPress
3 7 (1.17%) Apache
4 3 (0.50%) SAS
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 179 (29.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Line 50
2 3 (0.50%) Magento
2 3 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 350 (58.63%) Azure
2 231 (38.69%) Azure AI
3 220 (36.85%) Power Platform
4 125 (20.94%) AWS
5 32 (5.36%) GCP
6 31 (5.19%) Snowflake
7 26 (4.36%) Amazon S3
7 26 (4.36%) Serverless
8 23 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (3.02%) GitHub
10 17 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.51%) SaaS
12 13 (2.18%) dbt
13 10 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.17%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.02%) Wireless
2 15 (2.51%) Firewall
3 14 (2.35%) VPN
4 13 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (2.01%) Bluetooth
6 10 (1.68%) MQTT
7 8 (1.34%) Internet
7 8 (1.34%) Network Security
8 7 (1.17%) DNS
8 7 (1.17%) WAN
9 6 (1.01%) LAN
9 6 (1.01%) VoIP
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) Modbus
10 5 (0.84%) VLAN
11 4 (0.67%) BGP
11 4 (0.67%) OSPF
12 3 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.50%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (36.85%) Power BI
2 179 (29.98%) Tableau
3 22 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.17%) Redis
10 6 (1.01%) Data Mining
10 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.84%) MySQL
12 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.67%) FileMaker
12 4 (0.67%) Metadata
12 4 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (6.87%) Git
2 17 (2.85%) GitLab
3 15 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.68%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.34%) Gatling
6 8 (1.34%) JMeter
7 7 (1.17%) Selenium
8 6 (1.01%) GDB
8 6 (1.01%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.84%) Postman
9 5 (0.84%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.84%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.67%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.50%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 285 (47.74%) Social Skills
2 101 (16.92%) Finance
3 83 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 22 (3.69%) Retail
6 19 (3.18%) Banking
6 19 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.35%) Law
8 11 (1.84%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.34%) Electronics
9 8 (1.34%) Multimedia
10 7 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.84%) Automotive
11 5 (0.84%) Marketing
12 4 (0.67%) Games
13 3 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (35.01%) Analyst
2 201 (33.67%) Data Analyst
3 174 (29.15%) Junior
4 170 (28.48%) Junior Analyst
4 170 (28.48%) Junior Data Analyst
5 87 (14.57%) Senior
6 71 (11.89%) Developer
7 69 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 65 (10.89%) Data Scientist
9 63 (10.55%) Data Engineer
10 58 (9.72%) Lead
11 36 (6.03%) Software Engineer
12 32 (5.36%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.52%) Senior Data Scientist
14 24 (4.02%) Lead Data Scientist
15 23 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (3.35%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.35%) Trainee
17 18 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.03%) PyTorch
2 32 (5.36%) Hugging Face
3 30 (5.03%) TensorFlow
4 29 (4.86%) HTML
5 26 (4.36%) CSS
6 20 (3.35%) Pandas
6 20 (3.35%) React
7 19 (3.18%) scikit-learn
8 16 (2.68%) Node.js
9 14 (2.35%) PySpark
10 12 (2.01%) NumPy
10 12 (2.01%) RESTful
11 11 (1.84%) Matplotlib
11 11 (1.84%) REST
12 10 (1.68%) Kafka
12 10 (1.68%) Playwright
12 10 (1.68%) Streamlit
13 6 (1.01%) JSON
13 6 (1.01%) Yocto
14 5 (0.84%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.68%) Cloud Native
2 15 (2.51%) IoT
3 13 (2.18%) Algorithms
4 12 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (1.51%) ARM Cortex
5 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.17%) Device Driver
6 7 (1.17%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.17%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.67%) CAN bus
9 4 (0.67%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.67%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (0.67%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.50%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.50%) CUDA
10 3 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.36%) Linux
2 23 (3.85%) Windows
3 12 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.67%) Unix
6 4 (0.67%) VMS
7 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Debian
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (53.43%) AI
2 221 (37.02%) Business Intelligence
3 100 (16.75%) Analytics
4 86 (14.41%) Machine Learning
5 79 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (13.23%) Software Engineering
6 76 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 74 (12.40%) Data Science
8 69 (11.56%) Roadmaps
9 67 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
10 65 (10.89%) CI/CD
11 60 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 56 (9.38%) Mentoring
13 55 (9.21%) Statistics
14 49 (8.21%) DevOps
15 44 (7.37%) Data Analysis
16 43 (7.20%) Data Engineering
17 42 (7.04%) Data Pipeline
18 40 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (6.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 340 (56.95%) SQL
2 33 (5.53%) JavaScript
3 30 (5.03%) Java
4 29 (4.86%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.19%) R
6 20 (3.35%) Bash
6 20 (3.35%) C
7 17 (2.85%) C++
8 16 (2.68%) C#
9 15 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (2.35%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.34%) PHP
12 7 (1.17%) Embedded C
13 6 (1.01%) Go
14 5 (0.84%) Bicep
14 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.34%) Ruby
16 2 (0.34%) Rust
16 2 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 250 (41.88%) Azure Certification
2 51 (8.54%) Degree
3 24 (4.02%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.18%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.34%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.50%) CCNP
12 3 (0.50%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CCNA
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
13 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.17%) MCSE
14 1 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.35%) GDPR
3 11 (1.84%) QA
4 10 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.17%) JTAG
6 4 (0.67%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.34%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) WCAG
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (3.02%) Docker
2 13 (2.18%) Firmware
3 7 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.01%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (4.36%) Terraform
2 16 (2.68%) Grafana
2 16 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.50%) Ansible
5 3 (0.50%) Nagios
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 221 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.86%) Databricks
3 16 (2.68%) Google
4 8 (1.34%) Cisco
5 6 (1.01%) Informatica
5 6 (1.01%) Meraki
6 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.67%) Adobe
7 4 (0.67%) Apple
7 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.67%) Oracle
7 4 (0.67%) Sage
7 4 (0.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.67%) Splunk
7 4 (0.67%) Veracode
7 4 (0.67%) VMware
8 3 (0.50%) Atmel
8 3 (0.50%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.50%) Talend