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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 47 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 -28 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 168 350 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.13% 4.05% 10.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.83% 16.67% 29.37%
Number of salaries quoted 114 282 170
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £82,625
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

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 942 2,099 2,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.17% 24.31% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 608 1,724 1,183
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,625 £77,500 £77,500
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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -2 76 £67,500 +12.50% 83
Solihull +9 22 £55,000 - 7
Staffordshire +18 20 £54,344 +55.27% 26
Shropshire +21 11 £60,000 -17.24% 18
Warwickshire -6 7 £71,500 +16.73% 34
Herefordshire +10 6 £40,000 -52.94% 1
Worcestershire -3 6 £65,000 +18.18% 14
Wolverhampton +11 4 £95,000 -27.17% 6
Coventry -7 4 £66,250 -1.85% 26
Walsall +7 1 £42,000 -1.18% 1
West Bromwich - 1 £30,000 - 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 28 (16.67%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.79%) nginx
4 2 (1.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.60%) Simulink
3 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.43%) Azure
2 76 (45.24%) AWS
3 35 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 29 (17.26%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 28 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 28 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 27 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (16.07%) Amazon ELB
7 24 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
8 23 (13.69%) Serverless
9 18 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (10.12%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (7.14%) GCP
12 10 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (5.95%) GitHub
13 7 (4.17%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (23.21%) Firewall
2 14 (8.33%) HTTP
3 13 (7.74%) DNS
4 10 (5.95%) FTP
4 10 (5.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (5.95%) SMTP
4 10 (5.95%) SSH
5 5 (2.98%) SSL
5 5 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.38%) 5G
6 4 (2.38%) Broadband
6 4 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.79%) 3GPP
7 3 (1.79%) DHCP
7 3 (1.79%) IMAP
8 2 (1.19%) VPN
8 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.64%) Power BI
2 28 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.36%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.76%) Big Data
7 6 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.98%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.98%) MySQL
8 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.98%) Tableau
9 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.38%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.38%) Redis
10 3 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Git
1 32 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 30 (17.86%) JIRA
3 27 (16.07%) Vagrant
4 7 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.79%) Appium
6 3 (1.79%) Selenium
6 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.79%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.19%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.19%) JMeter
7 2 (1.19%) JUnit
7 2 (1.19%) Mockito
7 2 (1.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.60%) GitLab
8 1 (0.60%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.83%) Finance
3 28 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.14%) Retail
6 11 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.95%) Law
8 9 (5.36%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.98%) Banking
10 5 (2.98%) Marketing
10 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.79%) Automotive
11 3 (1.79%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.19%) Electronics
12 2 (1.19%) Games
12 2 (1.19%) Legal
12 2 (1.19%) Local Government
12 2 (1.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (15.48%) Developer
2 22 (13.10%) Senior
3 20 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (11.90%) Lead
4 18 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) Data Scientist
5 13 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 12 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Architect
9 8 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) Analyst
10 7 (4.17%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.57%) Applications Support Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.12%) .NET
2 13 (7.74%) React
3 10 (5.95%) HTML
4 7 (4.17%) PySpark
5 6 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 6 (3.57%) Pandas
6 5 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.98%) JSON
6 5 (2.98%) Kafka
6 5 (2.98%) NumPy
6 5 (2.98%) REST
7 4 (2.38%) Django
7 4 (2.38%) Flask
7 4 (2.38%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.38%) LDAP
7 4 (2.38%) RESTful
7 4 (2.38%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (2.38%) XML
8 3 (1.79%) Spring
8 3 (1.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.71%) Replication
2 13 (7.74%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.55%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.79%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.79%) IoT
7 3 (1.79%) Lidar
7 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.19%) Clustering
8 2 (1.19%) CUDA
8 2 (1.19%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.19%) SIMD
9 1 (0.60%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (26.19%) Linux
2 40 (23.81%) Windows
3 27 (16.07%) VMS
4 11 (6.55%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (5.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.38%) Unix
7 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.19%) Android
9 1 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.60%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.36%) DevOps
2 38 (22.62%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (22.62%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (19.64%) Cloud Security
5 32 (19.05%) Analytics
6 30 (17.86%) Agile
7 29 (17.26%) Configuration Management
7 29 (17.26%) Machine Learning
8 27 (16.07%) ETL
9 26 (15.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (14.29%) Change Management
11 22 (13.10%) Data Science
12 21 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 21 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (11.90%) Decision-Making
14 19 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (10.71%) Data Analysis
15 18 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.88%) SQL
2 50 (29.76%) Java
3 49 (29.17%) PowerShell
4 33 (19.64%) C#
5 32 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 27 (16.07%) Groovy
7 22 (13.10%) Bash
8 21 (12.50%) R
9 18 (10.71%) C++
10 14 (8.33%) Perl
10 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
11 10 (5.95%) C
11 10 (5.95%) Ruby
12 8 (4.76%) MATLAB
12 8 (4.76%) PHP
12 8 (4.76%) Rust
13 7 (4.17%) Dart
13 7 (4.17%) Shell Script
14 5 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (2.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 44 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.40%) Degree
3 32 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.93%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.93%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.98%) ACCA
7 5 (2.98%) CIMA
8 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.79%) PhD
10 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.60%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.95%) COBIT
4 9 (5.36%) QA
5 8 (4.76%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (2.38%) NCSC
8 3 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.79%) GDPR
8 3 (1.79%) NIST
9 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.60%) GRC
System Software
1 36 (21.43%) Docker
2 28 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.71%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.79%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.79%) Postfix
5 3 (1.79%) Squid
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.60%) HDFS
6 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 44 (26.19%) Terraform
2 35 (20.83%) Prometheus
3 33 (19.64%) Grafana
4 24 (14.29%) Ansible
5 18 (10.71%) Kubernetes
6 8 (4.76%) Nessus
7 7 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 4 (2.38%) Kibana
8 4 (2.38%) Puppet
9 3 (1.79%) Argo
9 3 (1.79%) Nagios
10 2 (1.19%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.19%) SCOM
11 1 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.60%) logstash
11 1 (0.60%) Oozie
Vendors
1 47 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.48%) ServiceNow
3 19 (11.31%) Databricks
4 17 (10.12%) Juniper
5 6 (3.57%) Alteryx
5 6 (3.57%) Google
6 5 (2.98%) Oracle
6 5 (2.98%) Splunk
7 3 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.79%) VMware
8 2 (1.19%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.19%) IBM
8 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.19%) SAP
8 2 (1.19%) UiPath
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco
9 1 (0.60%) Cognos
9 1 (0.60%) QNX
9 1 (0.60%) Sophos