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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 137 116 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.77% 6.79% 6.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.48% 21.28% 18.94%
Number of salaries quoted 110 58 108
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £31,450
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69,688 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £78,100 £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 356 545 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.60% 31.91% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 289 258 599
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £33,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £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 19 February 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 4 (2.92%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.73%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (53.28%) Azure
2 44 (32.12%) AWS
3 27 (19.71%) GitHub
4 24 (17.52%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.22%) Azure AI
6 9 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.57%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.92%) dbt
7 4 (2.92%) GCP
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.46%) PaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.46%) SaaS
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.73%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.71%) Internet
2 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.90%) Tableau
2 24 (17.52%) Power BI
3 17 (12.41%) Data Mining
4 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.65%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.46%) Power Query
7 2 (1.46%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Big Data
8 1 (0.73%) Metadata
8 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.73%) JMeter
3 1 (0.73%) Locust
3 1 (0.73%) Maven
3 1 (0.73%) MLflow
3 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (19.71%) Multimedia
2 26 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Finance
3 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.38%) Retail
5 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.92%) Automotive
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Law
7 3 (2.19%) Marketing
7 3 (2.19%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (35.04%) Trainee
2 33 (24.09%) Analyst
3 29 (21.17%) Data Analyst
4 24 (17.52%) Developer
5 22 (16.06%) Data Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) Trainee Analyst
6 16 (11.68%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (9.49%) Senior
7 13 (9.49%) Software Developer
7 13 (9.49%) Trainee Developer
7 13 (9.49%) Trainee Software Developer
8 12 (8.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Junior
9 10 (7.30%) Junior Analyst
9 10 (7.30%) Junior Data Analyst
10 9 (6.57%) Lead
10 9 (6.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.71%) CSS
1 27 (19.71%) HTML
2 9 (6.57%) PySpark
3 8 (5.84%) Django
4 7 (5.11%) Node.js
5 6 (4.38%) React
6 5 (3.65%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.92%) Hugging Face
7 4 (2.92%) Matplotlib
7 4 (2.92%) NumPy
7 4 (2.92%) Pandas
7 4 (2.92%) Streamlit
8 3 (2.19%) Flask
9 2 (1.46%) EDI
9 2 (1.46%) JSON
10 1 (0.73%) EDIFACT
10 1 (0.73%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.73%) Kafka
10 1 (0.73%) REST
10 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.65%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.46%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Unix
2 2 (1.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.85%) AI
2 40 (29.20%) Mentoring
3 36 (26.28%) Analytics
4 30 (21.90%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (15.33%) Data Analysis
7 20 (14.60%) ETL
8 19 (13.87%) Agile
8 19 (13.87%) Machine Learning
8 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.14%) Data Analytics
10 17 (12.41%) Business Analysis
10 17 (12.41%) Project Management
11 14 (10.22%) Data Engineering
12 13 (9.49%) CI/CD
13 12 (8.76%) Coaching
13 12 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (8.03%) Creative Thinking
15 10 (7.30%) Data Architecture
16 9 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.91%) SQL
2 38 (27.74%) JavaScript
3 17 (12.41%) R
4 5 (3.65%) Java
5 4 (2.92%) Go
6 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.73%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.73%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.73%) C#
7 1 (0.73%) C++
7 1 (0.73%) Groovy
7 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (27.01%) Azure Certification
2 32 (23.36%) AWS Certification
3 31 (22.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (19.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.11%) Degree
6 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.92%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.46%) CEH
7 2 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.46%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) SLA
3 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (57.66%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.33%) Databricks
3 3 (2.19%) UiPath
4 2 (1.46%) Google
5 1 (0.73%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle
5 1 (0.73%) Sonatype