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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -27
Permanent jobs citing Python 141 150 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 8.49% 7.90% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.95% 25.82% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 121 74 55
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £79,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,880 £103,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

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 362 581 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.79% 30.61% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 310 264 357
10th Percentile £28,925 £34,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,125 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £54,892 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.20% +4.56% -4.55%

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 20 December 2025.

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 9 (6.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.42%) nginx
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 70 (49.65%) Azure
2 47 (33.33%) AWS
3 21 (14.89%) GitHub
4 19 (13.48%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.93%) Azure AI
6 10 (7.09%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (7.09%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.38%) AWS KMS
7 9 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.38%) GCP
7 9 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (4.96%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (4.96%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.84%) SaaS
10 3 (2.13%) dbt
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.42%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.89%) Internet
2 10 (7.09%) Firewall
3 8 (5.67%) FTP
4 7 (4.96%) DNS
4 7 (4.96%) HTTP
4 7 (4.96%) SMTP
4 7 (4.96%) SSH
5 2 (1.42%) IMAP
5 2 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) BGP
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) OSPF
6 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.73%) Tableau
2 19 (13.48%) Power BI
3 13 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.51%) Data Mining
5 11 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (6.38%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.67%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.13%) Parquet
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.42%) MySQL
10 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.42%) Power Query
10 2 (1.42%) Redis
11 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (21.28%) Git
2 9 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.38%) JIRA
2 9 (6.38%) Vagrant
3 2 (1.42%) MLflow
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) JMeter
4 1 (0.71%) Locust
4 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
1 23 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.60%) Finance
3 21 (14.89%) Multimedia
4 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.38%) Retail
6 7 (4.96%) Marketing
7 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.55%) Automotive
9 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.13%) Law
10 3 (2.13%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.42%) Legal
11 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (23.40%) Trainee
2 30 (21.28%) Developer
3 27 (19.15%) Analyst
4 22 (15.60%) Data Analyst
5 21 (14.89%) Data Engineer
6 14 (9.93%) Azure Data Engineer
6 14 (9.93%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (9.93%) Senior
6 14 (9.93%) Software Developer
7 12 (8.51%) Lead
8 11 (7.80%) Trainee Analyst
8 11 (7.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (7.09%) Architect
9 10 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Trainee Developer
9 10 (7.09%) Trainee Software Developer
10 9 (6.38%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.89%) CSS
1 21 (14.89%) HTML
2 11 (7.80%) PySpark
3 8 (5.67%) Django
4 7 (4.96%) Node.js
5 6 (4.26%) React
6 5 (3.55%) XML
7 3 (2.13%) EDI
8 2 (1.42%) LDAP
8 2 (1.42%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.42%) RESTful
8 2 (1.42%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.42%) Spring
8 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.42%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.71%) CrewAI
9 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.71%) LangChain
9 1 (0.71%) Metaflow
9 1 (0.71%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.96%) AI Agents
2 5 (3.55%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.84%) Replication
4 3 (2.13%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.64%) Linux
2 9 (6.38%) VMS
3 7 (4.96%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.84%) Unix
4 4 (2.84%) Windows
5 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.50%) AI
2 35 (24.82%) Analytics
3 32 (22.70%) Mentoring
4 24 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (15.60%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (14.18%) Machine Learning
8 19 (13.48%) Agile
9 17 (12.06%) Data Analytics
9 17 (12.06%) DevOps
9 17 (12.06%) ETL
10 16 (11.35%) Data Analysis
10 16 (11.35%) Data Engineering
11 15 (10.64%) CI/CD
12 14 (9.93%) Decision-Making
13 13 (9.22%) Visualisation
14 12 (8.51%) Business Analysis
14 12 (8.51%) Data Science
14 12 (8.51%) Project Management
15 11 (7.80%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.52%) SQL
2 37 (26.24%) JavaScript
3 21 (14.89%) R
4 18 (12.77%) Java
5 9 (6.38%) Groovy
5 9 (6.38%) Perl
5 9 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.13%) C#
7 3 (2.13%) Go
8 2 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.42%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.71%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.71%) Bash
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (20.57%) Azure Certification
2 25 (17.73%) AWS Certification
3 22 (15.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (14.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 15 (10.64%) SC Cleared
5 15 (10.64%) Security Cleared
6 12 (8.51%) Degree
7 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) CBAP
9 1 (0.71%) CCIE
9 1 (0.71%) CCNP
9 1 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.42%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (11.35%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.84%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.42%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.42%) Postfix
4 2 (1.42%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (10.64%) Terraform
2 10 (7.09%) Grafana
3 9 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.13%) Ansible
6 2 (1.42%) Nessus
6 2 (1.42%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 59 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) Databricks
3 9 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.55%) UiPath
5 4 (2.84%) Google
6 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.42%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.42%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.42%) Juniper
8 1 (0.71%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Meraki
8 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle
8 1 (0.71%) Splunk