Python Job Trends in Birmingham

Python
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Python 119 102 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.35% 8.46% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.74% 31.29% 22.62%
Number of salaries quoted 82 81 80
10th Percentile £39,340 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,213 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £79,600
90th Percentile £87,700 £77,500 £93,750
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.57% -2.31% +13.04%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 429 326 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.06% 27.05% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 296 279 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,399 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Python job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Python
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Birmingham

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 6 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
3 2 (1.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.74%) Azure
2 34 (28.57%) AWS
2 34 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 15 (12.61%) Azure AI
4 13 (10.92%) Snowflake
5 10 (8.40%) GCP
6 7 (5.88%) Azure Stack
6 7 (5.88%) PaaS
6 7 (5.88%) SaaS
7 6 (5.04%) dbt
8 5 (4.20%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.20%) Serverless
9 4 (3.36%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.36%) Google Ads
9 4 (3.36%) Meta Ads
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) BGP
1 7 (5.88%) OSPF
1 7 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 7 (5.88%) VLAN
2 6 (5.04%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (5.04%) LAN
2 6 (5.04%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (5.04%) WAN
3 4 (3.36%) DHCP
3 4 (3.36%) DNS
3 4 (3.36%) EIGRP
3 4 (3.36%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (3.36%) Firewall
3 4 (3.36%) HSRP
3 4 (3.36%) VRRP
3 4 (3.36%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.68%) MPLS
4 2 (1.68%) Network Security
4 2 (1.68%) SSH
5 1 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.57%) Power BI
2 17 (14.29%) Tableau
3 9 (7.56%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.56%) Delta Lake
4 8 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (5.04%) Big Data
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.20%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.20%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (4.20%) QlikView
6 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.36%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.36%) Redis
7 4 (3.36%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.52%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (15.97%) Git
2 4 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.68%) Ant
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.68%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.68%) JMeter
4 2 (1.68%) Maven
4 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.84%) GitLab
5 1 (0.84%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.84%) Locust
General
1 35 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.08%) Finance
4 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.40%) Marketing
6 9 (7.56%) Retail
7 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
8 7 (5.88%) Legal
9 6 (5.04%) Banking
10 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
10 5 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.84%) Games
12 1 (0.84%) Law
12 1 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Senior
2 30 (25.21%) Data Engineer
3 24 (20.17%) Python Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Analyst
5 14 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Data Analyst
7 12 (10.08%) Junior
8 11 (9.24%) Junior Analyst
8 11 (9.24%) Junior Data Analyst
8 11 (9.24%) Lead
8 11 (9.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Snowflake Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) Developer
10 8 (6.72%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Azure Data Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.92%) Terraform
2 11 (9.24%) PySpark
3 9 (7.56%) REST
4 6 (5.04%) FastAPI
4 6 (5.04%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.04%) React
4 6 (5.04%) RESTful
4 6 (5.04%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.36%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (3.36%) YAML
6 3 (2.52%) JSON
6 3 (2.52%) XML
7 2 (1.68%) CSS
7 2 (1.68%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.68%) HTML
7 2 (1.68%) Node.js
8 1 (0.84%) gRPC
8 1 (0.84%) Playwright
8 1 (0.84%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.84%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.56%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.04%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.20%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.52%) iSeries
6 3 (2.52%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) IoT
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.68%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.68%) PMI
7 2 (1.68%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.88%) Linux
1 7 (5.88%) Windows
2 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.68%) Solaris
3 2 (1.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.34%) AI
2 40 (33.61%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (28.57%) Analytics
4 26 (21.85%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.17%) Data Engineering
5 24 (20.17%) Data Modelling
5 24 (20.17%) ETL
6 23 (19.33%) Software Engineering
7 20 (16.81%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (13.45%) Decision-Making
9 15 (12.61%) Data Governance
9 15 (12.61%) Data Science
9 15 (12.61%) LLM
9 15 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.76%) Machine Learning
10 14 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
11 13 (10.92%) Coaching
11 13 (10.92%) DevOps
11 13 (10.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (47.06%) SQL
2 12 (10.08%) R
3 10 (8.40%) Java
4 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.68%) Bash
6 2 (1.68%) Go
6 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.84%) C#
7 1 (0.84%) C++
7 1 (0.84%) Groovy
7 1 (0.84%) PHP
7 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (15.13%) Azure Certification
2 10 (8.40%) Degree
3 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) SLA
3 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) Ansible
2 3 (2.52%) Grafana
2 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.68%) Puppet
4 1 (0.84%) Nagios
4 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.08%) Databricks
3 7 (5.88%) Google
4 6 (5.04%) Cisco
5 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.36%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.52%) Informatica
7 3 (2.52%) SAP
7 3 (2.52%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.84%) New Relic
9 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.84%) Virgin Media