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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 132 158 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 10.01% 7.31% 5.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.88% 24.31% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 113 80 62
10th Percentile £28,850 £31,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £51,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.34% -0.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £93,750 £90,550
West Midlands median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 331 650 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.09% 30.09% 37.82%
Number of salaries quoted 283 295 392
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £45,653
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 £79,758 £79,225 £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 9 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 28 (21.21%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) nginx
3 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.52%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.21%) AWS
2 60 (45.45%) Azure
3 29 (21.97%) Amazon ELB
3 29 (21.97%) Amazon S3
4 28 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (21.21%) AWS KMS
4 28 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 23 (17.42%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (9.09%) GitHub
7 11 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (7.58%) GCP
9 9 (6.82%) Azure AI
10 8 (6.06%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (5.30%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (3.79%) Route 53
13 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (21.97%) Firewall
2 17 (12.88%) HTTP
3 16 (12.12%) DNS
3 16 (12.12%) FTP
3 16 (12.12%) SMTP
3 16 (12.12%) SSH
4 11 (8.33%) Internet
5 5 (3.79%) IMAP
5 5 (3.79%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.76%) Network Security
7 1 (0.76%) OSPF
7 1 (0.76%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (9.85%) Tableau
3 12 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.06%) Power BI
6 7 (5.30%) Data Mining
6 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.55%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.27%) Big Data
10 3 (2.27%) MySQL
10 3 (2.27%) Parquet
11 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.52%) Redis
11 2 (1.52%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (30.30%) Git
2 28 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.21%) JIRA
2 28 (21.21%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.76%) JMeter
3 1 (0.76%) Locust
3 1 (0.76%) MLflow
3 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.64%) Finance
4 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.61%) Retail
5 11 (8.33%) Multimedia
6 7 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Automotive
8 4 (3.03%) Marketing
9 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.52%) Games
10 2 (1.52%) Law
10 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (18.94%) Developer
2 18 (13.64%) Data Engineer
2 18 (13.64%) Trainee
3 17 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (12.12%) Support Engineer
5 14 (10.61%) Analyst
6 13 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 12 (9.09%) Senior
8 10 (7.58%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Architect
9 9 (6.82%) Data Analyst
9 9 (6.82%) Lead
9 9 (6.82%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.82%) Software Developer
10 8 (6.06%) Applications Support
11 7 (5.30%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.33%) CSS
1 11 (8.33%) HTML
2 10 (7.58%) PySpark
3 7 (5.30%) Django
3 7 (5.30%) React
4 5 (3.79%) LDAP
4 5 (3.79%) Node.js
5 4 (3.03%) .NET
5 4 (3.03%) XML
6 2 (1.52%) Kafka
6 2 (1.52%) NumPy
6 2 (1.52%) Pandas
6 2 (1.52%) RESTful
6 2 (1.52%) Spring
6 2 (1.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.52%) YAML
7 1 (0.76%) Keras
7 1 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.88%) Replication
2 7 (5.30%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.27%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.76%) Linux
2 28 (21.21%) VMS
3 17 (12.88%) Windows
4 16 (12.12%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (3.79%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.79%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.52%) DevOps
2 33 (25.00%) AI
3 29 (21.97%) Change Management
3 29 (21.97%) Cloud Security
4 28 (21.21%) Configuration Management
5 26 (19.70%) Analytics
6 23 (17.42%) Mentoring
7 20 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.39%) Agile
9 18 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (12.12%) Machine Learning
10 16 (12.12%) Patch Management
11 15 (11.36%) CI/CD
11 15 (11.36%) Data Engineering
12 14 (10.61%) Data Science
13 13 (9.85%) ETL
13 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (9.85%) Visualisation
14 12 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.09%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 58 (43.94%) SQL
2 28 (21.21%) Groovy
2 28 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 27 (20.45%) Java
4 21 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.88%) R
6 15 (11.36%) Perl
7 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.52%) Bash
8 2 (1.52%) C#
8 2 (1.52%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.52%) Scala
9 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.76%) Go
9 1 (0.76%) JCL
9 1 (0.76%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.76%) REXX
9 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (25.76%) SC Cleared
1 34 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 18 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 16 (12.12%) Degree
4 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.52%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.52%) PhD
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) CBAP
8 1 (0.76%) CCIE
8 1 (0.76%) CCNP
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) QA
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.67%) Docker
3 17 (12.88%) DFS Replication
4 5 (3.79%) Dovecot
4 5 (3.79%) Postfix
4 5 (3.79%) Squid
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.76%) HDFS
5 1 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 34 (25.76%) Terraform
2 29 (21.97%) Grafana
3 28 (21.21%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.85%) Ansible
5 5 (3.79%) Nessus
5 5 (3.79%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.76%) Kibana
7 1 (0.76%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.76%) logstash
7 1 (0.76%) Oozie
Vendors
1 40 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.21%) ServiceNow
3 17 (12.88%) Databricks
4 12 (9.09%) Juniper
5 5 (3.79%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (3.79%) UiPath
6 4 (3.03%) Google
7 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.52%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.52%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.76%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.76%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.76%) Dell
9 1 (0.76%) Informatica
9 1 (0.76%) Meraki
9 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle
9 1 (0.76%) SAP
9 1 (0.76%) Splunk