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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 25 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 102 145 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.50% 6.28% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.48% 23.13% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 84 78 72
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,188 £51,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - -0.46%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,600 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,750 £88,625
West Midlands median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +13.04% +4.55%

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 324 627 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.00% 27.14% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 282 357 420
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £38,063
25th Percentile £44,563 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,450 £80,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Birmingham

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 29 (28.43%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) nginx
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.96%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (57.84%) AWS
2 42 (41.18%) Azure
3 34 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 33 (32.35%) Amazon ELB
4 33 (32.35%) AWS KMS
4 33 (32.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 32 (31.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 32 (31.37%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (26.47%) Amazon Glacier
7 16 (15.69%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (11.76%) Serverless
9 8 (7.84%) GCP
10 7 (6.86%) Azure AI
10 7 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.88%) GitHub
12 5 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.90%) Route 53
12 5 (4.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (33.33%) Firewall
2 17 (16.67%) HTTP
3 16 (15.69%) DNS
3 16 (15.69%) FTP
3 16 (15.69%) SMTP
3 16 (15.69%) SSH
4 5 (4.90%) IMAP
4 5 (4.90%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (3.92%) Internet
5 4 (3.92%) SSL
6 1 (0.98%) BGP
6 1 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.98%) Network Security
6 1 (0.98%) OSPF
6 1 (0.98%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.37%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.84%) Tableau
4 7 (6.86%) Power BI
5 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.90%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.92%) Big Data
7 4 (3.92%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.94%) Parquet
9 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.96%) Metadata
9 2 (1.96%) MySQL
9 2 (1.96%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (33.33%) Git
2 33 (32.35%) Jenkins
3 32 (31.37%) Vagrant
4 29 (28.43%) JIRA
5 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 34 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Retail
4 12 (11.76%) Finance
5 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Marketing
7 4 (3.92%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.96%) Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Games
9 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.96%) Legal
10 1 (0.98%) Back Office
10 1 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (17.65%) Developer
1 18 (17.65%) Support Engineer
2 17 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (13.73%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (13.73%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
4 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Analyst
5 10 (9.80%) Applications Support
6 9 (8.82%) Senior
7 8 (7.84%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Azure Data Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Software Applications Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Software Support Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) PySpark
2 8 (7.84%) .NET
3 5 (4.90%) HTML
3 5 (4.90%) LDAP
4 4 (3.92%) CSS
4 4 (3.92%) XML
5 3 (2.94%) NumPy
5 3 (2.94%) Pandas
5 3 (2.94%) React
6 2 (1.96%) Kafka
6 2 (1.96%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.96%) RESTful
6 2 (1.96%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.96%) Spring
6 2 (1.96%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.96%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.96%) YAML
7 1 (0.98%) CherryPy
7 1 (0.98%) EDI
7 1 (0.98%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Replication
2 7 (6.86%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.94%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.98%) Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (38.24%) Linux
2 32 (31.37%) VMS
3 21 (20.59%) Windows
4 16 (15.69%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (9.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.96%) Unix
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.24%) DevOps
2 34 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 32 (31.37%) Configuration Management
4 29 (28.43%) Change Management
5 20 (19.61%) Patch Management
6 19 (18.63%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (13.73%) Analytics
8 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (12.75%) Agile
9 13 (12.75%) Visualisation
10 12 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (11.76%) Data Engineering
10 12 (11.76%) Data Science
11 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
11 11 (10.78%) ETL
11 11 (10.78%) Machine Learning
11 11 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (8.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.08%) SQL
2 33 (32.35%) Java
3 32 (31.37%) Groovy
4 30 (29.41%) PowerShell
5 18 (17.65%) Perl
6 14 (13.73%) R
7 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.94%) Bash
9 3 (2.94%) C#
9 3 (2.94%) Ruby
9 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.96%) Scala
11 1 (0.98%) JCL
11 1 (0.98%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.98%) REXX
Qualifications
1 33 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.71%) Degree
4 12 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.96%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.96%) PhD
8 1 (0.98%) CBAP
8 1 (0.98%) CCIE
8 1 (0.98%) CCNP
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.86%) PCI DSS
2 7 (6.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) QA
4 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.98%) NCSC
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) Active Directory
2 23 (22.55%) Docker
3 18 (17.65%) DFS Replication
4 5 (4.90%) Dovecot
4 5 (4.90%) Postfix
4 5 (4.90%) Squid
5 4 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.98%) HDFS
6 1 (0.98%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 38 (37.25%) Terraform
2 30 (29.41%) Grafana
2 30 (29.41%) Prometheus
3 19 (18.63%) Ansible
4 9 (8.82%) Nessus
4 9 (8.82%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.94%) Nagios
6 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.98%) Kibana
7 1 (0.98%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.98%) logstash
7 1 (0.98%) Oozie
Vendors
1 29 (28.43%) ServiceNow
2 22 (21.57%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.67%) Juniper
4 11 (10.78%) Databricks
5 5 (4.90%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (3.92%) UiPath
7 3 (2.94%) IBM
7 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.96%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.96%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.96%) Google
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle
9 1 (0.98%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.98%) Dell
9 1 (0.98%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (0.98%) Informatica
9 1 (0.98%) Meraki
9 1 (0.98%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.98%) Splunk