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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 44 37
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 152 66 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.08% 5.49% 5.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.38% 18.59% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 116 44 124
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £32,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,750 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.07% -0.83%
75th Percentile £71,142 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 396 355 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.23% 29.51% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 310 291 697
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,276 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £75,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -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 May 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 (3.95%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (20.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.95%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (50.66%) Azure
2 47 (30.92%) Power Platform
3 46 (30.26%) AWS
4 26 (17.11%) Azure AI
5 20 (13.16%) Snowflake
6 14 (9.21%) GitHub
7 11 (7.24%) SaaS
8 8 (5.26%) dbt
9 7 (4.61%) Azure Stack
9 7 (4.61%) PaaS
10 6 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.29%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.63%) GCP
13 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.97%) Serverless
14 2 (1.32%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.66%) BGP
2 1 (0.66%) FTP
2 1 (0.66%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.66%) OSPF
2 1 (0.66%) SNMP
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (30.92%) Power BI
2 35 (23.03%) Tableau
3 17 (11.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.92%) Data Mining
5 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.29%) Delta Lake
6 5 (3.29%) Redis
7 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.32%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) Metadata
9 1 (0.66%) Power Query
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Git
2 6 (3.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.97%) JMeter
4 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Locust
4 2 (1.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) MLflow
5 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (14.47%) Finance
3 14 (9.21%) Multimedia
4 10 (6.58%) Retail
5 9 (5.92%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.63%) Marketing
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.97%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.32%) Automotive
8 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Law
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (25.66%) Analyst
2 34 (22.37%) Data Analyst
3 33 (21.71%) Data Engineer
4 29 (19.08%) Trainee
5 22 (14.47%) Junior
5 22 (14.47%) Junior Analyst
5 22 (14.47%) Junior Data Analyst
6 20 (13.16%) Python Engineer
6 20 (13.16%) Senior
7 19 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 19 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
8 17 (11.18%) Azure Data Engineer
8 17 (11.18%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (9.87%) Developer
10 13 (8.55%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (7.89%) Lead
12 10 (6.58%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (5.92%) Trainee Analyst
13 9 (5.92%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 8 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.87%) CSS
1 15 (9.87%) HTML
2 7 (4.61%) NumPy
2 7 (4.61%) Pandas
2 7 (4.61%) PySpark
2 7 (4.61%) scikit-learn
3 6 (3.95%) Hugging Face
3 6 (3.95%) Matplotlib
3 6 (3.95%) Streamlit
4 5 (3.29%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.29%) RESTful
4 5 (3.29%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (1.97%) React
6 2 (1.32%) EDI
6 2 (1.32%) Flask
6 2 (1.32%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.32%) JSON
6 2 (1.32%) Node.js
6 2 (1.32%) REST
6 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.61%) Algorithms
1 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) iSeries
5 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.32%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.32%) Social Media
6 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.66%) IoT
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) NHS
6 1 (0.66%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Windows
1 3 (1.97%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.79%) AI
2 46 (30.26%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (19.08%) Analytics
4 22 (14.47%) Mentoring
5 20 (13.16%) ETL
6 19 (12.50%) LLM
6 19 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 17 (11.18%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (11.18%) Data Analysis
7 17 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (8.55%) CI/CD
10 12 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 11 (7.24%) Data Analytics
11 11 (7.24%) Data Engineering
11 11 (7.24%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.24%) Prompt Engineering
12 10 (6.58%) Agile
12 10 (6.58%) Data Modelling
12 10 (6.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (51.97%) SQL
2 22 (14.47%) JavaScript
3 13 (8.55%) R
4 10 (6.58%) Java
5 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.97%) Go
6 3 (1.97%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.32%) C#
7 2 (1.32%) C++
7 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.32%) Groovy
7 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.66%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.66%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.66%) Bash
8 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (26.32%) Azure Certification
2 22 (14.47%) AWS Certification
3 20 (13.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.92%) Degree
6 2 (1.32%) CEH
6 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.97%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.61%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.29%) Terraform
2 4 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (0.66%) Nagios
3 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (41.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.55%) Databricks
3 6 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.97%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.66%) Informatica
6 1 (0.66%) New Relic
6 1 (0.66%) Sonatype