Python Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Python
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 25 27
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Python 124 40 44
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 15.66% 6.35% 6.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.27% 22.35% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 26 25
10th Percentile £400 £395 £314
25th Percentile £468 £433 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +30.00% -22.73%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £538
90th Percentile £644 £697 £662
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 - £60.00

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 196 179 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.75% 28.41% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 133
10th Percentile £359 £358 £263
25th Percentile £444 £425 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £571 £650 £635
90th Percentile £638 £713 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Python job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Birmingham

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 13 (10.48%) Confluence
2 9 (7.26%) nginx
3 7 (5.65%) Apache
4 6 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.42%) Apache Pig
5 3 (2.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.10%) AWS
2 25 (20.16%) Azure
3 22 (17.74%) GCP
4 18 (14.52%) Amazon S3
4 18 (14.52%) AWS KMS
5 17 (13.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 17 (13.71%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (13.71%) Amazon ELB
5 17 (13.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (12.90%) Serverless
7 10 (8.06%) Power Platform
8 9 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (6.45%) GitHub
9 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.45%) Route 53
10 7 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.03%) Amazon Glacier
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.42%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.74%) DNS
2 18 (14.52%) Firewall
2 18 (14.52%) HTTP
3 17 (13.71%) SMTP
4 13 (10.48%) FTP
4 13 (10.48%) SSH
5 9 (7.26%) SSL
5 9 (7.26%) TCP/IP
6 8 (6.45%) IMAP
6 8 (6.45%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (4.03%) BIG-IP
7 5 (4.03%) DMZ
7 5 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (4.03%) VPN
7 5 (4.03%) Wireshark
8 4 (3.23%) DKIM
8 4 (3.23%) DMARC
9 3 (2.42%) Network Security
10 2 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.71%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (12.90%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.48%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (8.06%) Hadoop
6 9 (7.26%) Power BI
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (6.45%) Apache Hive
8 5 (4.03%) Data Mining
9 4 (3.23%) HBase
9 4 (3.23%) MySQL
9 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.42%) Power Query
11 2 (1.61%) Data Hub
11 2 (1.61%) Metadata
11 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.61%) Tableau
12 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (33.87%) Jenkins
2 28 (22.58%) Git
3 23 (18.55%) GitLab
4 18 (14.52%) JIRA
5 13 (10.48%) Vagrant
6 10 (8.06%) Liquibase
7 5 (4.03%) Fiddler
8 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.61%) Maven
8 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 58 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 20 (16.13%) Finance
5 19 (15.32%) Banking
6 10 (8.06%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.61%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (17.74%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (16.13%) Senior
4 16 (12.90%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (12.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) Site Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) Splunk Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) GCP Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Python Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (7.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.42%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (15.32%) REST
3 15 (12.10%) RESTful
4 12 (9.68%) LDAP
5 5 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.23%) HTML
6 4 (3.23%) Middleware
6 4 (3.23%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.42%) CSS
7 3 (2.42%) JSON
7 3 (2.42%) Kafka
7 3 (2.42%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.42%) React
8 2 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.61%) SLSA
8 2 (1.61%) YAML
9 1 (0.81%) Node.js
9 1 (0.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.29%) Public Cloud
3 13 (10.48%) Cloud Native
3 13 (10.48%) Replication
4 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.03%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.42%) SCADA
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.81%) FMCG
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 61 (49.19%) Linux
2 22 (17.74%) Windows
3 18 (14.52%) Unix
4 13 (10.48%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (10.48%) VMS
5 12 (9.68%) Ubuntu
6 8 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.23%) CentOS
8 2 (1.61%) Debian
8 2 (1.61%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (54.84%) DevOps
2 53 (42.74%) CI/CD
3 43 (34.68%) Containerisation
4 39 (31.45%) Change Management
5 31 (25.00%) Agile
5 31 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 30 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (22.58%) Root Cause Analysis
8 27 (21.77%) Data Modelling
9 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (20.97%) Observability
10 23 (18.55%) Migration
11 21 (16.94%) Incident Response
12 20 (16.13%) High Availability
13 17 (13.71%) Analytics
13 17 (13.71%) Validation
14 16 (12.90%) Cloud Security
14 16 (12.90%) Configuration Management
14 16 (12.90%) Machine Learning
15 15 (12.10%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.58%) Bash
2 25 (20.16%) SQL
3 22 (17.74%) Go
3 22 (17.74%) PowerShell
4 16 (12.90%) Groovy
5 14 (11.29%) Java
6 13 (10.48%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.06%) Perl
8 8 (6.45%) Scala
9 6 (4.84%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (3.23%) R
11 3 (2.42%) Bicep
12 2 (1.61%) C++
13 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.81%) Ruby
13 1 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (30.65%) Degree
2 32 (25.81%) Security Cleared
3 30 (24.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (21.77%) SC Cleared
5 13 (10.48%) Master's Degree
6 12 (9.68%) AWS Certification
7 9 (7.26%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.61%) CISSP
11 1 (0.81%) CISM
11 1 (0.81%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.42%) NIST
2 3 (2.42%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) SLA
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (45.16%) Docker
2 13 (10.48%) DFS Replication
3 12 (9.68%) Postfix
4 8 (6.45%) Dovecot
4 8 (6.45%) Squid
5 6 (4.84%) Active Directory
6 4 (3.23%) HDFS
7 3 (2.42%) Firmware
8 2 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (40.32%) Terraform
2 46 (37.10%) Ansible
3 42 (33.87%) Kubernetes
4 36 (29.03%) Grafana
5 32 (25.81%) Prometheus
6 17 (13.71%) Kibana
6 17 (13.71%) Puppet
7 8 (6.45%) Nessus
7 8 (6.45%) Proxmox
8 4 (3.23%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (2.42%) Argo
9 3 (2.42%) logstash
10 1 (0.81%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (36.29%) Splunk
2 18 (14.52%) ServiceNow
3 17 (13.71%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.06%) Google
5 9 (7.26%) F5
6 8 (6.45%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (4.03%) Blue Coat
7 5 (4.03%) McAfee
7 5 (4.03%) NetApp
8 4 (3.23%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.23%) Oracle
8 4 (3.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.42%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.61%) Databricks
10 2 (1.61%) Foundry
10 2 (1.61%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.61%) VMware
11 1 (0.81%) IBM
11 1 (0.81%) Pega
11 1 (0.81%) SAP