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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 374 435 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.76% 6.80% 5.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.78% 25.50% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 268 208 232
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £37,875 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -11.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £84,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £75,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -9.33% +4.17% +2.86%

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 1,141 1,706 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.53% 26.68% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 930 926 1,624
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,001 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,754 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 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 15 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 +1 260 £60,000 +4.35% 127
East Midlands -31 117 £62,500 +13.64% 189
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 8 (2.14%) Confluence
2 6 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.60%) IIS
3 4 (1.07%) nginx
3 4 (1.07%) SAS
4 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 98 (26.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 182 (48.66%) Azure
2 110 (29.41%) AWS
3 98 (26.20%) Power Platform
4 60 (16.04%) Azure AI
5 41 (10.96%) GitHub
6 28 (7.49%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.35%) Serverless
8 19 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.55%) SaaS
11 14 (3.74%) GCP
12 13 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.21%) Snowflake
14 9 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
14 9 (2.41%) AWS KMS
14 9 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.02%) Internet
2 12 (3.21%) Firewall
3 10 (2.67%) DNS
3 10 (2.67%) FTP
3 10 (2.67%) HTTP
4 9 (2.41%) SMTP
4 9 (2.41%) SSH
4 9 (2.41%) VPN
5 7 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.60%) LAN
7 5 (1.34%) BGP
7 5 (1.34%) WAN
7 5 (1.34%) Wireless
8 4 (1.07%) Bluetooth
8 4 (1.07%) IMAP
8 4 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.07%) OSPF
9 3 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.80%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (25.67%) Power BI
2 92 (24.60%) Tableau
3 27 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 24 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (6.15%) Data Mining
6 16 (4.28%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.07%) Metadata
12 4 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.07%) Parquet
12 4 (1.07%) Power Query
13 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (14.17%) Git
2 17 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.94%) JIRA
4 9 (2.41%) Vagrant
5 8 (2.14%) GitLab
6 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.80%) JUnit
7 3 (0.80%) Selenium
7 3 (0.80%) Subversion
8 2 (0.53%) MLflow
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) Locust
9 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 117 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (11.76%) Finance
4 30 (8.02%) Multimedia
5 27 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.28%) Marketing
7 15 (4.01%) Retail
8 11 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.67%) Automotive
9 10 (2.67%) Law
10 8 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.07%) Local Government
15 3 (0.80%) Legal
15 3 (0.80%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.53%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.27%) Advertising
17 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 106 (28.34%) Analyst
2 89 (23.80%) Data Analyst
3 76 (20.32%) Developer
4 55 (14.71%) Junior
4 55 (14.71%) Junior Analyst
4 55 (14.71%) Junior Data Analyst
5 52 (13.90%) Data Engineer
5 52 (13.90%) Senior
6 48 (12.83%) Trainee
7 34 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 31 (8.29%) Python Developer
9 28 (7.49%) Lead
10 26 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 25 (6.68%) Azure Data Engineer
12 18 (4.81%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.55%) Python Engineer
13 17 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (4.55%) Software Engineer
14 15 (4.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.10%) HTML
2 41 (10.96%) CSS
3 32 (8.56%) React
4 27 (7.22%) Node.js
5 25 (6.68%) PySpark
6 16 (4.28%) Django
7 9 (2.41%) .NET
8 7 (1.87%) Flask
8 7 (1.87%) REST
9 5 (1.34%) Spring
9 5 (1.34%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.34%) XML
10 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.07%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.07%) LDAP
11 3 (0.80%) JSON
11 3 (0.80%) pytest
11 3 (0.80%) RESTful
12 2 (0.53%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.41%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.87%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.87%) Credit Risk
3 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.07%) AI Agents
4 4 (1.07%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.07%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.07%) Raspberry Pi
4 4 (1.07%) Replication
4 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
5 3 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.53%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.53%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.22%) Linux
2 11 (2.94%) Windows
3 9 (2.41%) VMS
4 7 (1.87%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.07%) AI
2 99 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (20.59%) Analytics
4 67 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (16.04%) Mentoring
6 59 (15.78%) CI/CD
7 48 (12.83%) ETL
8 47 (12.57%) DevOps
9 42 (11.23%) Decision-Making
10 41 (10.96%) Data Engineering
11 40 (10.70%) Agile
12 39 (10.43%) Machine Learning
13 37 (9.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (9.63%) Data Analysis
15 35 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.36%) Data Analytics
15 35 (9.36%) Data Science
16 34 (9.09%) Visualisation
17 32 (8.56%) Data Modelling
18 31 (8.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 209 (55.88%) SQL
2 82 (21.93%) JavaScript
3 29 (7.75%) Java
3 29 (7.75%) R
4 16 (4.28%) PowerShell
5 15 (4.01%) Bash
5 15 (4.01%) C#
5 15 (4.01%) PHP
6 11 (2.94%) Perl
7 9 (2.41%) Groovy
7 9 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.14%) Bicep
8 8 (2.14%) VBA
9 7 (1.87%) C++
9 7 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.60%) C
10 6 (1.60%) Go
10 6 (1.60%) Scala
11 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.80%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 91 (24.33%) Azure Certification
2 57 (15.24%) Degree
3 38 (10.16%) AWS Certification
4 34 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (8.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 29 (7.75%) Security Cleared
7 22 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 21 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.74%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (1.60%) CCNP
13 4 (1.07%) CCNA
13 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.53%) CEH
14 2 (0.53%) HND
14 2 (0.53%) PhD
14 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.14%) GDPR
3 3 (0.80%) QA
4 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (9.36%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.07%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.07%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.07%) Postfix
3 4 (1.07%) Squid
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (8.82%) Terraform
2 25 (6.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.21%) Grafana
4 9 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.87%) Ansible
6 5 (1.34%) Nessus
7 4 (1.07%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.80%) Argo
8 3 (0.80%) Nagios
9 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 147 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.76%) Databricks
3 15 (4.01%) Oracle
4 13 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.14%) Cisco
5 8 (2.14%) Google
6 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.34%) Meraki
8 4 (1.07%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.07%) Talend
8 4 (1.07%) UiPath
9 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.80%) Informatica
9 3 (0.80%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.53%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.53%) Juniper
10 2 (0.53%) Siemens
10 2 (0.53%) Toshiba
10 2 (0.53%) Zoho