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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 391 428 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.74% 6.92% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 25.16% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 264 205 316
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -8.15%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,250 £88,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 1,173 1,701 2,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.23% 27.49% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 933 921 2,149
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,112
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +2 260 £55,000 - 93
East Midlands -19 134 £55,000 - 113
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 6 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (1.53%) IIS
2 5 (1.28%) SAS
3 4 (1.02%) Confluence
4 3 (0.77%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.26%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 120 (30.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Simulink
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 197 (50.38%) Azure
2 123 (31.46%) Power Platform
3 115 (29.41%) AWS
4 82 (20.97%) Azure AI
5 41 (10.49%) GitHub
6 31 (7.93%) Amazon S3
7 27 (6.91%) Serverless
8 24 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.84%) SaaS
11 13 (3.32%) GCP
11 13 (3.32%) Snowflake
12 10 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.53%) Datadog
15 6 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.28%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.67%) Internet
2 9 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.79%) VPN
3 7 (1.79%) Wireless
4 6 (1.53%) Firewall
4 6 (1.53%) FTP
5 5 (1.28%) BGP
5 5 (1.28%) Bluetooth
5 5 (1.28%) DNS
5 5 (1.28%) HTTP
5 5 (1.28%) LAN
5 5 (1.28%) SMTP
5 5 (1.28%) SSH
6 4 (1.02%) LTE
6 4 (1.02%) Modbus
6 4 (1.02%) OSPF
6 4 (1.02%) WAN
7 3 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.77%) EIGRP
7 3 (0.77%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (30.95%) Power BI
2 109 (27.88%) Tableau
3 26 (6.65%) SQL Server
4 23 (5.88%) Data Mining
5 16 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.84%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.53%) Metadata
11 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.28%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.02%) Pentaho
13 4 (1.02%) Power Query
13 4 (1.02%) Redis
14 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.77%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (13.04%) Git
2 14 (3.58%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.79%) GitLab
3 7 (1.79%) JIRA
4 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.28%) Subversion
4 5 (1.28%) Vagrant
5 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.77%) JUnit
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
7 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.26%) JMeter
7 1 (0.26%) Locust
7 1 (0.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.26%) MLflow
7 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (11.76%) Finance
4 30 (7.67%) Multimedia
5 22 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.32%) Marketing
7 10 (2.56%) Automotive
7 10 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.30%) Law
9 8 (2.05%) Retail
10 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Local Government
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 122 (31.20%) Analyst
2 108 (27.62%) Data Analyst
3 77 (19.69%) Junior
3 77 (19.69%) Junior Analyst
3 77 (19.69%) Junior Data Analyst
4 76 (19.44%) Developer
5 50 (12.79%) Trainee
6 49 (12.53%) Data Engineer
7 44 (11.25%) Senior
8 34 (8.70%) Software Developer
9 33 (8.44%) Python Developer
10 25 (6.39%) Lead
11 24 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.86%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (4.60%) Python Engineer
16 17 (4.35%) Senior Developer
17 16 (4.09%) Trainee Analyst
17 16 (4.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (13.30%) HTML
2 42 (10.74%) CSS
3 40 (10.23%) React
4 34 (8.70%) Node.js
5 27 (6.91%) PySpark
6 17 (4.35%) Django
7 10 (2.56%) .NET
8 9 (2.30%) REST
9 8 (2.05%) Flask
10 5 (1.28%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.28%) XML
11 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.02%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.02%) JSON
11 4 (1.02%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.02%) Spring
11 4 (1.02%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.77%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.77%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.30%) Data Structures
2 8 (2.05%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.28%) Raspberry Pi
5 4 (1.02%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
6 3 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.77%) Replication
7 2 (0.51%) CUDA
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.51%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (0.51%) Robotics
7 2 (0.51%) SCADA
7 2 (0.51%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.37%) Linux
2 8 (2.05%) Windows
3 5 (1.28%) VMS
4 4 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.02%) Unix
5 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.74%) AI
2 124 (31.71%) Business Intelligence
3 76 (19.44%) Analytics
4 62 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (15.35%) Mentoring
6 57 (14.58%) CI/CD
7 49 (12.53%) ETL
8 48 (12.28%) DevOps
9 44 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (10.74%) Data Engineering
10 42 (10.74%) Decision-Making
11 40 (10.23%) Agile
11 40 (10.23%) Machine Learning
12 38 (9.72%) Software Engineering
13 35 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (8.70%) Data Analysis
15 33 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (8.44%) Data Science
16 32 (8.18%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 227 (58.06%) SQL
2 85 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 28 (7.16%) R
4 27 (6.91%) Java
5 16 (4.09%) Bash
6 15 (3.84%) PHP
7 14 (3.58%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.07%) C#
9 10 (2.56%) C
9 10 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.05%) Perl
10 8 (2.05%) VBA
11 7 (1.79%) Bicep
11 7 (1.79%) C++
12 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.53%) Groovy
13 5 (1.28%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.28%) Go
13 5 (1.28%) Scala
14 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (28.39%) Azure Certification
2 55 (14.07%) Degree
3 37 (9.46%) AWS Certification
4 35 (8.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (7.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 22 (5.63%) Security Cleared
7 20 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (4.60%) SC Cleared
9 15 (3.84%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.05%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.28%) CCNP
13 4 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.77%) PhD
15 2 (0.51%) CCNA
15 2 (0.51%) CEH
15 2 (0.51%) HND
15 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.05%) GDPR
3 5 (1.28%) QA
4 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (7.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.02%) Firmware
3 3 (0.77%) DFS Replication
3 3 (0.77%) Dovecot
3 3 (0.77%) Postfix
3 3 (0.77%) Squid
4 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (7.93%) Terraform
2 24 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.56%) Grafana
4 7 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.53%) Ansible
6 3 (0.77%) Argo
6 3 (0.77%) Nagios
6 3 (0.77%) Nessus
6 3 (0.77%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.26%) Control-M
8 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 170 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.74%) Databricks
3 16 (4.09%) Oracle
4 10 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.05%) Google
6 7 (1.79%) Cisco
7 5 (1.28%) Meraki
7 5 (1.28%) Talend
8 4 (1.02%) Atmel
8 4 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.02%) Informatica
8 4 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.02%) UiPath
9 3 (0.77%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (0.77%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.51%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.51%) Siemens
10 2 (0.51%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.51%) Zoho