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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -13
Permanent jobs citing Python 127 80 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.12% 6.91% 4.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.05% 23.60% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 98 59 130
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £79,900
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,500 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £59,250 £56,500
% change year-on-year +5.49% +4.87% -5.83%

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 373 339 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.09% 29.27% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 282 281 712
10th Percentile £36,300 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £84,964
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 2 July 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 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.72%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.24%) Azure
2 43 (33.86%) AWS
3 37 (29.13%) Power Platform
4 22 (17.32%) Azure AI
5 19 (14.96%) Snowflake
6 11 (8.66%) SaaS
7 9 (7.09%) dbt
8 7 (5.51%) Azure Stack
8 7 (5.51%) PaaS
9 6 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.94%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.94%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.94%) GCP
10 5 (3.94%) GitHub
10 5 (3.94%) Serverless
11 3 (2.36%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.36%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.79%) OSPF
2 1 (0.79%) SNMP
2 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.13%) Power BI
2 24 (18.90%) Tableau
3 14 (11.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.94%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.94%) Delta Lake
5 5 (3.94%) Redis
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.36%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.57%) MySQL
8 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.57%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Git
2 6 (4.72%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.36%) JMeter
4 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.57%) Locust
4 2 (1.57%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
5 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.17%) Finance
3 16 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.87%) Retail
5 8 (6.30%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.94%) Multimedia
7 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.57%) Automotive
9 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Marketing
9 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.79%) Games
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (29.13%) Data Engineer
2 26 (20.47%) Analyst
3 24 (18.90%) Senior
4 23 (18.11%) Data Analyst
5 21 (16.54%) Python Engineer
6 18 (14.17%) Junior
6 18 (14.17%) Junior Analyst
6 18 (14.17%) Junior Data Analyst
7 17 (13.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 17 (13.39%) Snowflake Engineer
8 16 (12.60%) Trainee
9 15 (11.81%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (10.24%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (10.24%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (8.66%) Lead
12 10 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (7.87%) Developer
13 9 (7.09%) Software Engineer
14 8 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) NumPy
1 7 (5.51%) Pandas
1 7 (5.51%) PySpark
1 7 (5.51%) RESTful
2 6 (4.72%) CSS
2 6 (4.72%) HTML
2 6 (4.72%) Hugging Face
2 6 (4.72%) Matplotlib
2 6 (4.72%) scikit-learn
2 6 (4.72%) Streamlit
3 5 (3.94%) FastAPI
3 5 (3.94%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (3.15%) React
4 4 (3.15%) REST
5 2 (1.57%) Flask
5 2 (1.57%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.57%) Node.js
6 1 (0.79%) Playwright
6 1 (0.79%) Puppeteer
6 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.36%) iSeries
5 3 (2.36%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.57%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.57%) IoT
6 2 (1.57%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.57%) Social Media
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.36%) Windows
1 3 (2.36%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.73%) AI
2 36 (28.35%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (19.69%) Analytics
4 22 (17.32%) LLM
5 21 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (16.54%) ETL
6 17 (13.39%) Data Engineering
7 15 (11.81%) CI/CD
8 13 (10.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 13 (10.24%) Data Modelling
9 12 (9.45%) Machine Learning
9 12 (9.45%) Software Engineering
10 11 (8.66%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.66%) Prompt Engineering
11 10 (7.87%) Data Analysis
11 10 (7.87%) Innovative Thinking
11 10 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (7.87%) Translating Business Requirements
11 10 (7.87%) Visualisation
12 9 (7.09%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 67 (52.76%) SQL
2 10 (7.87%) Java
3 8 (6.30%) R
4 6 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.36%) Go
6 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.57%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) Bash
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) C++
8 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (21.26%) Azure Certification
2 12 (9.45%) AWS Certification
3 11 (8.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (4.72%) Degree
5 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.24%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.57%) QA
3 2 (1.57%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Terraform
2 4 (3.15%) Grafana
3 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) Nagios
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (32.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.45%) Databricks
3 5 (3.94%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.36%) Google
4 3 (2.36%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.79%) Informatica
5 1 (0.79%) New Relic
5 1 (0.79%) Sonatype