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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 134 161 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 9.56% 7.35% 5.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.07% 24.47% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 115 83 64
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £43,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £51,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% -2.31%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £92,500 £90,150
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 343 658 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.47% 30.06% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 294 298 388
10th Percentile £29,675 £31,250 £39,175
25th Percentile £42,813 £38,750 £45,489
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,893 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 19 November 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 23 (17.16%) Confluence
2 4 (2.99%) nginx
3 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.49%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.99%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.27%) Azure
2 57 (42.54%) AWS
3 24 (17.91%) Amazon ELB
3 24 (17.91%) Amazon S3
4 23 (17.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (17.16%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (17.16%) AWS KMS
4 23 (17.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (14.18%) Amazon Glacier
6 15 (11.19%) GitHub
7 10 (7.46%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (6.72%) GCP
8 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
9 8 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.48%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.99%) Route 53
11 4 (2.99%) SaaS
12 3 (2.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.91%) Firewall
2 14 (10.45%) HTTP
2 14 (10.45%) Internet
3 13 (9.70%) DNS
3 13 (9.70%) FTP
3 13 (9.70%) SMTP
3 13 (9.70%) SSH
4 4 (2.99%) IMAP
4 4 (2.99%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.75%) BGP
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) OSPF
6 1 (0.75%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.66%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (11.19%) Tableau
3 13 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.72%) Power BI
5 8 (5.97%) Data Mining
5 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.22%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.24%) MySQL
8 3 (2.24%) Parquet
9 2 (1.49%) Big Data
9 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.49%) Metadata
9 2 (1.49%) Redis
9 2 (1.49%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (28.36%) Git
2 23 (17.16%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.16%) JIRA
2 23 (17.16%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.75%) JMeter
3 1 (0.75%) Locust
3 1 (0.75%) MLflow
3 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (23.13%) Public Sector
2 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.18%) Finance
4 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Multimedia
6 13 (9.70%) Retail
7 6 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.99%) Automotive
9 4 (2.99%) Marketing
10 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.24%) Legal
11 2 (1.49%) Games
11 2 (1.49%) Law
11 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 28 (20.90%) Developer
2 22 (16.42%) Trainee
3 18 (13.43%) Data Engineer
4 16 (11.94%) Analyst
5 15 (11.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Support Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Senior
8 11 (8.21%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Data Analyst
8 11 (8.21%) Lead
8 11 (8.21%) Software Developer
9 10 (7.46%) Architect
9 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Python Developer
10 7 (5.22%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) CSS
1 14 (10.45%) HTML
2 10 (7.46%) PySpark
3 8 (5.97%) Django
3 8 (5.97%) React
4 6 (4.48%) Node.js
5 4 (2.99%) LDAP
5 4 (2.99%) XML
6 3 (2.24%) .NET
7 2 (1.49%) Kafka
7 2 (1.49%) RESTful
7 2 (1.49%) Spring
7 2 (1.49%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.49%) YAML
8 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.75%) Keras
8 1 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.75%) Pandas
8 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Replication
2 7 (5.22%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.24%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.64%) Linux
2 23 (17.16%) VMS
3 14 (10.45%) Windows
4 13 (9.70%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (3.73%) Unix
6 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.12%) AI
2 31 (23.13%) DevOps
3 26 (19.40%) Analytics
3 26 (19.40%) Mentoring
4 24 (17.91%) Change Management
4 24 (17.91%) Cloud Security
5 23 (17.16%) Configuration Management
6 20 (14.93%) Agile
6 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (12.69%) Machine Learning
8 16 (11.94%) Data Engineering
9 15 (11.19%) CI/CD
9 15 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (10.45%) Data Science
11 13 (9.70%) Data Analytics
11 13 (9.70%) ETL
11 13 (9.70%) Patch Management
11 13 (9.70%) Visualisation
12 11 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.03%) SQL
2 25 (18.66%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.91%) Java
4 23 (17.16%) Groovy
4 23 (17.16%) PowerShell
5 18 (13.43%) R
6 13 (9.70%) Perl
7 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.49%) Bash
8 2 (1.49%) C#
8 2 (1.49%) Go
8 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.75%) JCL
9 1 (0.75%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.75%) REXX
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (21.64%) SC Cleared
1 29 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.67%) Azure Certification
3 20 (14.93%) AWS Certification
4 15 (11.19%) Degree
4 15 (11.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (10.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.49%) PhD
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) CBAP
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.49%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (14.93%) Docker
2 19 (14.18%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.45%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.99%) Dovecot
4 4 (2.99%) Postfix
4 4 (2.99%) Squid
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.75%) HDFS
5 1 (0.75%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 29 (21.64%) Terraform
2 24 (17.91%) Grafana
3 23 (17.16%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.21%) Ansible
5 4 (2.99%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.99%) Nessus
5 4 (2.99%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
6 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.75%) logstash
6 1 (0.75%) Oozie
Vendors
1 44 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.16%) ServiceNow
3 17 (12.69%) Databricks
4 10 (7.46%) Juniper
5 5 (3.73%) UiPath
6 4 (2.99%) Google
6 4 (2.99%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.49%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.75%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.75%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco
9 1 (0.75%) Dell
9 1 (0.75%) IBM
9 1 (0.75%) Informatica
9 1 (0.75%) Meraki
9 1 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk