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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 40 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 483 315 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.06% 5.61% 5.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.21% 25.69% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 260 197 209
10th Percentile £38,394 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +4.46%
75th Percentile £74,606 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,000 £85,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% -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 1,916 1,226 2,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.15% 21.83% 23.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 936 1,289
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.36% -8.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -13 263 £62,500 +4.17% 367
East Midlands +12 218 £55,000 -15.38% 267
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 9 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.24%) Apache
3 4 (0.83%) SAS
4 3 (0.62%) WordPress
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (11.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.41%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Line 50
1 3 (0.62%) Magento
1 3 (0.62%) Shopify
2 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 230 (47.62%) Azure
2 101 (20.91%) Power Platform
3 97 (20.08%) AWS
4 88 (18.22%) Azure AI
5 30 (6.21%) GCP
6 25 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (3.31%) Amazon S3
8 16 (3.31%) Serverless
9 15 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (2.90%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.69%) GitHub
11 13 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.28%) dbt
13 10 (2.07%) SaaS
14 9 (1.86%) Azure Stack
15 8 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.59%) Firewall
2 15 (3.11%) DNS
2 15 (3.11%) VPN
3 14 (2.90%) Wireless
4 12 (2.48%) VLAN
4 12 (2.48%) WAN
5 10 (2.07%) LAN
5 10 (2.07%) MQTT
6 9 (1.86%) Bluetooth
6 9 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.66%) BGP
7 8 (1.66%) DHCP
7 8 (1.66%) Network Security
7 8 (1.66%) OSPF
7 8 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.24%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.24%) VoIP
8 6 (1.24%) ZigBee
9 5 (1.04%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.91%) Power BI
2 56 (11.59%) Tableau
3 32 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 20 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.90%) Delta Lake
6 14 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (2.90%) Power Query
6 14 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.69%) QlikView
7 13 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.45%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.45%) MySQL
10 6 (1.24%) Big Data
10 6 (1.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (11.59%) Git
2 19 (3.93%) GitLab
2 19 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.48%) JIRA
4 6 (1.24%) GDB
5 5 (1.04%) Subversion
6 4 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (0.83%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.62%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.62%) Gatling
7 3 (0.62%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.62%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.62%) Postman
7 3 (0.62%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.62%) Selenium
7 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.62%) Zephyr
General
1 158 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.43%) Finance
3 75 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.18%) Banking
6 21 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.73%) Marketing
9 17 (3.52%) Retail
10 16 (3.31%) Electronics
11 15 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.07%) Fire and Rescue
12 10 (2.07%) Games
13 8 (1.66%) Law
14 7 (1.45%) Automotive
14 7 (1.45%) Legal
15 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 106 (21.95%) Senior
2 81 (16.77%) Analyst
3 77 (15.94%) Developer
4 76 (15.73%) Data Analyst
5 67 (13.87%) Data Engineer
6 61 (12.63%) Lead
7 57 (11.80%) Python Engineer
8 52 (10.77%) Data Scientist
9 48 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 48 (9.94%) Software Engineer
10 47 (9.73%) Junior
11 45 (9.32%) Junior Analyst
11 45 (9.32%) Junior Data Analyst
12 30 (6.21%) Senior Data Engineer
13 26 (5.38%) Senior Data Scientist
14 25 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (4.97%) Python Developer
16 22 (4.55%) Lead Data Scientist
17 21 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
18 20 (4.14%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.45%) Terraform
2 29 (6.00%) PyTorch
2 29 (6.00%) TensorFlow
3 23 (4.76%) Hugging Face
3 23 (4.76%) REST
4 20 (4.14%) PySpark
5 18 (3.73%) Kafka
6 15 (3.11%) CSS
6 15 (3.11%) React
7 14 (2.90%) HTML
8 13 (2.69%) Keycloak
9 12 (2.48%) .NET
9 12 (2.48%) Node.js
10 11 (2.28%) Django
10 11 (2.28%) RESTful
11 8 (1.66%) FastAPI
12 6 (1.24%) JSON
12 6 (1.24%) Middleware
12 6 (1.24%) Yocto
13 5 (1.04%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.97%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.93%) IoT
3 18 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.66%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.45%) Device Driver
9 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.45%) Robotics
10 6 (1.24%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.73%) Linux
2 29 (6.00%) Windows
3 16 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.45%) Unix
5 5 (1.04%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.83%) VMS
7 3 (0.62%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.62%) Solaris
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.21%) Debian
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (38.10%) AI
2 119 (24.64%) Business Intelligence
3 118 (24.43%) Analytics
4 110 (22.77%) Software Engineering
5 101 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 85 (17.60%) Roadmaps
7 81 (16.77%) CI/CD
8 80 (16.56%) Decision-Making
8 80 (16.56%) Machine Learning
9 76 (15.73%) Data Science
10 68 (14.08%) Actionable Insight
11 63 (13.04%) DevOps
12 61 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (12.01%) Mentoring
14 55 (11.39%) Validation
15 52 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
16 50 (10.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 50 (10.35%) ETL
17 48 (9.94%) Data Modelling
18 47 (9.73%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 215 (44.51%) SQL
2 35 (7.25%) JavaScript
3 34 (7.04%) PowerShell
4 31 (6.42%) Java
5 29 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (4.14%) Bash
6 20 (4.14%) C#
7 19 (3.93%) C
8 17 (3.52%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.11%) Go
9 15 (3.11%) R
10 14 (2.90%) C++
11 6 (1.24%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.04%) Perl
12 5 (1.04%) PHP
13 4 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.62%) Bicep
14 3 (0.62%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) Rust
15 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (22.36%) Azure Certification
2 60 (12.42%) Degree
3 36 (7.45%) Security Cleared
4 34 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.04%) CCNA
10 3 (0.62%) MCSE
10 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) ACCA
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.41%) CIMA
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.35%) GDPR
3 14 (2.90%) QA
4 7 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.45%) JTAG
4 7 (1.45%) SLA
5 4 (0.83%) NIST
6 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.62%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.21%) MISRA
7 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (6.21%) Docker
2 12 (2.48%) Firmware
3 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.62%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.48%) Ansible
3 11 (2.28%) Grafana
4 6 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.62%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.41%) Argo
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.21%) Nagios
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.59%) Databricks
3 15 (3.11%) Cisco
4 14 (2.90%) Google
5 9 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.66%) VMware
7 7 (1.45%) SAP
8 5 (1.04%) Altera
8 5 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.04%) Microsemi
8 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.04%) Xilinx
9 4 (0.83%) Meraki
9 4 (0.83%) Oracle
9 4 (0.83%) Sage
10 3 (0.62%) Adobe
10 3 (0.62%) Apple
10 3 (0.62%) Informatica
10 3 (0.62%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.62%) Splunk