Python Engineer Job Trends in Birmingham

Python Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Python Engineer salary in Birmingham is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 111 100
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 5 14 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.30% 0.74% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.78% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile £53,500 £29,750 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £36,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -28.13% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -36.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,548 1,799 1,065
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.78% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,109 914 916
10th Percentile £31,100 £36,799 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,080 £45,000 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £88,375 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in Birmingham

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Python Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (60.00%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (60.00%) Databricks
3 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Parquet
3 3 (60.00%) PySpark
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Kafka
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (20.00%) Power BI

Python Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
2 3 (60.00%) Parquet
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (60.00%) Automotive
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Change Data Capture
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft