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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 366 474 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.13% 6.01% 5.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.83% 23.87% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 260 235 204
10th Percentile £34,854 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,125 £86,250 £88,925
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 1,150 1,986 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.13% 25.17% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,121 1,456
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -1.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +7 252 £60,000 -5.51% 416
East Midlands -14 117 £65,000 +18.18% 306
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 21 (5.74%) Confluence
2 12 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.64%) IIS
4 6 (1.64%) SAS
5 5 (1.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 84 (22.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 179 (48.91%) Azure
2 119 (32.51%) AWS
3 87 (23.77%) Power Platform
4 53 (14.48%) Azure AI
5 37 (10.11%) GitHub
6 33 (9.02%) Amazon S3
7 28 (7.65%) Amazon ELB
8 27 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (7.38%) GCP
9 26 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (6.01%) AWS KMS
12 18 (4.92%) SaaS
13 17 (4.64%) Amazon Glacier
14 16 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (3.55%) Snowflake
16 12 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
18 9 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.83%) Firewall
2 21 (5.74%) HTTP
2 21 (5.74%) Internet
3 19 (5.19%) DNS
4 18 (4.92%) FTP
4 18 (4.92%) SMTP
4 18 (4.92%) SSH
5 5 (1.37%) IMAP
5 5 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.37%) VPN
6 3 (0.82%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.82%) UWB
6 3 (0.82%) WAN
7 2 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.55%) LAN
7 2 (0.55%) Modbus
7 2 (0.55%) MQTT
7 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (23.22%) Power BI
2 84 (22.95%) Tableau
3 31 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.10%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (5.19%) Delta Lake
6 19 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.92%) Data Mining
8 12 (3.28%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.73%) Big Data
9 10 (2.73%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.46%) Metadata
11 8 (2.19%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.91%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.91%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
15 4 (1.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (15.57%) Git
2 35 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.56%) JIRA
4 22 (6.01%) Vagrant
5 9 (2.46%) GitLab
6 8 (2.19%) MLflow
7 6 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.37%) JUnit
9 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.09%) Selenium
10 3 (0.82%) JMeter
11 2 (0.55%) Mockito
11 2 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.55%) Subversion
12 1 (0.27%) Locust
General
1 125 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.57%) Finance
3 42 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.46%) Multimedia
5 20 (5.46%) Retail
6 16 (4.37%) Marketing
7 14 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.01%) Law
10 9 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.91%) Automotive
12 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Local Government
14 2 (0.55%) Electronics
14 2 (0.55%) Legal
14 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.55%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 93 (25.41%) Analyst
2 77 (21.04%) Data Analyst
3 57 (15.57%) Developer
4 53 (14.48%) Data Engineer
5 48 (13.11%) Senior
6 45 (12.30%) Junior
7 44 (12.02%) Junior Analyst
7 44 (12.02%) Junior Data Analyst
8 33 (9.02%) Trainee
9 31 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (7.10%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (6.01%) Python Developer
13 21 (5.74%) Software Developer
14 20 (5.46%) Software Engineer
15 19 (5.19%) Python Engineer
16 18 (4.92%) Lead
16 18 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (4.64%) Architect
18 15 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.10%) HTML
1 26 (7.10%) PySpark
2 25 (6.83%) CSS
3 23 (6.28%) Django
4 20 (5.46%) React
5 13 (3.55%) Node.js
6 12 (3.28%) .NET
6 12 (3.28%) Flask
7 9 (2.46%) REST
8 8 (2.19%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.19%) TensorFlow
8 8 (2.19%) YAML
9 7 (1.91%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.91%) Spring
9 7 (1.91%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.64%) Keras
10 6 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (1.64%) NumPy
10 6 (1.64%) Pandas
10 6 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.55%) Replication
2 11 (3.01%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.46%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.46%) Data Structures
4 7 (1.91%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.91%) Credit Risk
4 7 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.37%) IoT
6 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.82%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.82%) SCADA
9 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.93%) Linux
2 22 (6.01%) VMS
3 17 (4.64%) Windows
4 16 (4.37%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.73%) Unix
6 6 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (27.32%) AI
2 86 (23.50%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (21.04%) CI/CD
4 73 (19.95%) Analytics
5 65 (17.76%) DevOps
6 60 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (14.48%) Mentoring
8 52 (14.21%) Agile
9 50 (13.66%) Machine Learning
10 47 (12.84%) Data Science
10 47 (12.84%) Visualisation
11 43 (11.75%) ETL
12 42 (11.48%) Data Engineering
13 41 (11.20%) Data Modelling
14 40 (10.93%) Decision-Making
15 34 (9.29%) Data Analysis
15 34 (9.29%) Data Analytics
16 32 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (8.74%) Data Visualisation
17 30 (8.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 200 (54.64%) SQL
2 60 (16.39%) JavaScript
3 46 (12.57%) Java
4 32 (8.74%) R
5 30 (8.20%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.28%) Groovy
7 20 (5.46%) Perl
8 19 (5.19%) C#
9 18 (4.92%) Bash
10 13 (3.55%) PHP
11 9 (2.46%) Bicep
11 9 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.19%) C++
13 6 (1.64%) C
13 6 (1.64%) VBA
14 5 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.37%) Go
14 5 (1.37%) Scala
14 5 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (21.31%) Azure Certification
2 64 (17.49%) Degree
3 48 (13.11%) Security Cleared
4 40 (10.93%) SC Cleared
5 35 (9.56%) AWS Certification
6 26 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (5.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 17 (4.64%) Master's Degree
9 16 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.46%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.19%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.37%) HND
14 4 (1.09%) CCNA
14 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.09%) PhD
15 3 (0.82%) CCNP
15 3 (0.82%) Chartered Engineer
16 2 (0.55%) CCSP
16 2 (0.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.19%) GDPR
3 4 (1.09%) QA
4 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (15.03%) Docker
2 18 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.55%) DFS Replication
4 5 (1.37%) Dovecot
4 5 (1.37%) Postfix
4 5 (1.37%) Squid
5 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.27%) Firmware
6 1 (0.27%) HDFS
6 1 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 59 (16.12%) Terraform
2 36 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.10%) Grafana
4 21 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.73%) Ansible
6 6 (1.64%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.64%) Nessus
7 5 (1.37%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.09%) Kibana
9 3 (0.82%) Nagios
10 2 (0.55%) Argo
10 2 (0.55%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.27%) logstash
11 1 (0.27%) Oozie
11 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 118 (32.24%) Microsoft
2 50 (13.66%) Databricks
3 20 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.10%) Oracle
5 11 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.19%) Google
7 6 (1.64%) Juniper
8 5 (1.37%) Cisco
8 5 (1.37%) Informatica
8 5 (1.37%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.37%) UiPath
9 4 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.09%) Siemens
9 4 (1.09%) Splunk
10 3 (0.82%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.82%) Meraki
10 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.82%) Talend
10 3 (0.82%) VMware