Python Jobs in the West Midlands

Python
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 49 14
Rank change year-on-year -26 -35 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 139 307 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.11% 4.24% 13.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.19% 16.43% 35.52%
Number of salaries quoted 102 266 183
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £87,375 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 915 1,869 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.49% 25.81% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 589 1,627 1,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,400 £77,050 £79,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham -21 60 £50,000 -11.11% 54
Staffordshire +10 13 £53,688 +53.39% 61
Solihull +5 12 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Coventry +3 11 £68,750 +1.85% 22
Warwickshire -33 10 £66,500 -6.67% 32
Herefordshire +13 8 £40,000 -52.94% 4
Worcestershire +2 8 £65,000 +15.04% 6
Shropshire +18 6 £57,500 -20.69% 1
Wolverhampton +15 3 £95,000 +100.00% 1
Walsall -1 1 £42,000 -1.18% 1
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.76%) Confluence
2 6 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (13.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (53.24%) Azure
2 40 (28.78%) AWS
3 37 (26.62%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (9.35%) Serverless
6 12 (8.63%) GitHub
7 10 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.04%) GCP
9 7 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (2.88%) AWS KMS
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.88%) SaaS
11 4 (2.88%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.51%) Firewall
2 10 (7.19%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (3.60%) 5G
3 5 (3.60%) SSL
3 5 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.88%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.88%) DNS
5 3 (2.16%) DHCP
6 2 (1.44%) VPN
6 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) LTE
7 1 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.72%) SAN
7 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.72%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.72%) VoIP
7 1 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.90%) Power BI
2 21 (15.11%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (10.07%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.76%) Big Data
6 7 (5.04%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.04%) Redis
7 6 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.32%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.60%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.60%) Tableau
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.88%) MySQL
9 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.63%) JIRA
2 9 (6.47%) Git
3 7 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.32%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.16%) Appium
6 3 (2.16%) Selenium
6 3 (2.16%) Vagrant
6 3 (2.16%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.44%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.72%) GDB
8 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.72%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.72%) WinDbg
General
1 47 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 37 (26.62%) Finance
3 25 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.63%) Manufacturing
4 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.91%) Marketing
6 9 (6.47%) Law
7 8 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.04%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.60%) Retail
10 4 (2.88%) Banking
11 3 (2.16%) Police
11 3 (2.16%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.44%) Automotive
12 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.44%) Electronics
12 2 (1.44%) Local Government
13 1 (0.72%) Games
13 1 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (17.99%) Developer
2 24 (17.27%) Senior
3 21 (15.11%) Lead
4 18 (12.95%) Data Scientist
5 14 (10.07%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.91%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) Architect
9 6 (4.32%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Senior Backend Developer
10 5 (3.60%) Analytics Manager
10 5 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.91%) .NET
2 10 (7.19%) React
3 9 (6.47%) Django
3 9 (6.47%) FastAPI
4 7 (5.04%) Flask
4 7 (5.04%) GraphQL
4 7 (5.04%) RESTful
4 7 (5.04%) SQLAlchemy
5 6 (4.32%) Keycloak
5 6 (4.32%) OAuth
5 6 (4.32%) Pandas
5 6 (4.32%) PySpark
5 6 (4.32%) pytest
5 6 (4.32%) WebSockets
6 5 (3.60%) NumPy
7 4 (2.88%) Kafka
8 3 (2.16%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.16%) JSON
8 3 (2.16%) Next.js
8 3 (2.16%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.91%) Private Cloud
3 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.16%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.16%) IoT
6 3 (2.16%) Lidar
6 3 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.16%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.44%) CUDA
7 2 (1.44%) PKI
7 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.44%) SIMD
8 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.72%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.83%) Windows
2 19 (13.67%) Linux
3 6 (4.32%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.16%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.16%) VMS
4 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Debian
5 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.22%) Analytics
1 42 (30.22%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (25.90%) CI/CD
2 36 (25.90%) Machine Learning
2 36 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (24.46%) Decision-Making
4 30 (21.58%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (20.86%) DevOps
6 28 (20.14%) Agile
6 28 (20.14%) Data Science
7 27 (19.42%) ETL
8 25 (17.99%) Data Analysis
9 23 (16.55%) Computer Science
10 22 (15.83%) Data Engineering
11 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
12 20 (14.39%) Mathematics
12 20 (14.39%) Visualisation
13 19 (13.67%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (12.23%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.01%) SQL
2 32 (23.02%) Java
3 24 (17.27%) C#
4 23 (16.55%) PowerShell
5 22 (15.83%) C++
5 22 (15.83%) R
6 20 (14.39%) Bash
7 19 (13.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.60%) Perl
9 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.60%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.88%) Go
11 3 (2.16%) Groovy
11 3 (2.16%) Ruby
11 3 (2.16%) Swift
12 2 (1.44%) C
12 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.72%) VB
13 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (25.90%) Degree
2 22 (15.83%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.47%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.32%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.60%) ACCA
6 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.60%) CIMA
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.44%) CISSP
9 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.44%) PhD
9 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.44%) PMP
10 1 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (8.63%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.19%) COBIT
4 8 (5.76%) QA
5 5 (3.60%) NCSC
6 4 (2.88%) GDPR
7 3 (2.16%) NIST
8 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.44%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.72%) GRC
9 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (17.27%) Docker
2 6 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.23%) Terraform
3 11 (7.91%) Grafana
3 11 (7.91%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.47%) Ansible
5 5 (3.60%) Nessus
5 5 (3.60%) Puppet
6 4 (2.88%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.16%) Nagios
7 3 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.44%) SCOM
9 1 (0.72%) Argo
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.67%) Databricks
3 6 (4.32%) Alteryx
4 5 (3.60%) Oracle
5 4 (2.88%) Google
5 4 (2.88%) Juniper
6 3 (2.16%) VMware
7 2 (1.44%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.44%) Splunk
7 2 (1.44%) UiPath
8 1 (0.72%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco
8 1 (0.72%) Cognos
8 1 (0.72%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.72%) Sophos
8 1 (0.72%) Tagetik