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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Python 118 103 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.24% 8.62% 6.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.46% 31.89% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 81 85 80
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £44,702
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £79,600
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,500 £93,750
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.88% -7.31% +13.04%

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 446 323 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.25% 27.03% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 304 281 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,269 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%

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 September 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 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.69%) Apache
2 2 (1.69%) SAS
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.46%) Azure
2 33 (27.97%) AWS
3 29 (24.58%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.02%) Azure AI
5 12 (10.17%) GCP
6 11 (9.32%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.93%) Azure Stack
8 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.08%) PaaS
8 6 (5.08%) SaaS
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.24%) dbt
9 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.24%) Serverless
10 4 (3.39%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.39%) GitHub
10 4 (3.39%) Google Ads
10 4 (3.39%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) BGP
1 7 (5.93%) OSPF
1 7 (5.93%) TCP/IP
1 7 (5.93%) VLAN
2 6 (5.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (5.08%) LAN
2 6 (5.08%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (5.08%) WAN
3 5 (4.24%) Firewall
4 4 (3.39%) DHCP
4 4 (3.39%) DNS
4 4 (3.39%) EIGRP
4 4 (3.39%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.39%) HSRP
4 4 (3.39%) VRRP
4 4 (3.39%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.69%) MPLS
5 2 (1.69%) Network Security
5 2 (1.69%) SSH
6 1 (0.85%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) Power BI
2 15 (12.71%) Tableau
3 10 (8.47%) Data Lake
3 10 (8.47%) Delta Lake
4 8 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.08%) Big Data
5 6 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.24%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.24%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.24%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (4.24%) QlikView
6 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.39%) Parquet
7 4 (3.39%) Redis
7 4 (3.39%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (15.25%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) Ant
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.69%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.69%) Maven
4 2 (1.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.85%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.17%) Finance
5 10 (8.47%) Marketing
6 9 (7.63%) Retail
7 8 (6.78%) Telecoms
8 7 (5.93%) Legal
8 7 (5.93%) Manufacturing
9 6 (5.08%) Banking
10 5 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.85%) Automotive
13 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.85%) Games
13 1 (0.85%) Law
13 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) Senior
2 30 (25.42%) Data Engineer
3 23 (19.49%) Python Engineer
4 14 (11.86%) Analyst
4 14 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Data Analyst
5 11 (9.32%) Lead
5 11 (9.32%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Junior
7 9 (7.63%) Junior Analyst
7 9 (7.63%) Junior Data Analyst
7 9 (7.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Snowflake Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Python Data Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) PySpark
1 13 (11.02%) Terraform
2 10 (8.47%) REST
3 8 (6.78%) React
4 7 (5.93%) FastAPI
5 6 (5.08%) RESTful
6 5 (4.24%) PyTorch
6 5 (4.24%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.39%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (3.39%) YAML
8 3 (2.54%) JSON
8 3 (2.54%) XML
9 2 (1.69%) .NET
9 2 (1.69%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.69%) Node.js
10 1 (0.85%) gRPC
10 1 (0.85%) Kafka
10 1 (0.85%) Playwright
10 1 (0.85%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.85%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.63%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.24%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.54%) IoT
6 3 (2.54%) iSeries
6 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.54%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.69%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.69%) PMI
7 2 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.85%) NHS
8 1 (0.85%) Robotics
8 1 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Linux
1 8 (6.78%) Windows
2 6 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.54%) Unix
4 2 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.37%) AI
2 36 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (29.66%) Analytics
4 29 (24.58%) CI/CD
5 27 (22.88%) Data Modelling
6 25 (21.19%) Data Engineering
7 24 (20.34%) Software Engineering
8 23 (19.49%) ETL
9 21 (17.80%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (15.25%) Data Science
11 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.56%) Decision-Making
12 16 (13.56%) DevOps
13 15 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.71%) Data Governance
13 15 (12.71%) LLM
14 14 (11.86%) Machine Learning
14 14 (11.86%) Translating Business Requirements
14 14 (11.86%) Validation
15 13 (11.02%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 56 (47.46%) SQL
2 11 (9.32%) R
3 9 (7.63%) Java
4 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.54%) Bash
7 3 (2.54%) C#
8 2 (1.69%) Go
9 1 (0.85%) C++
9 1 (0.85%) Groovy
9 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
9 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.63%) Degree
3 7 (5.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.54%) SLA
3 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.08%) Ansible
2 2 (1.69%) Grafana
2 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (0.85%) Nagios
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.47%) Databricks
3 9 (7.63%) Google
4 6 (5.08%) Cisco
5 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.39%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.39%) SAP
7 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.69%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.69%) Informatica
9 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.85%) New Relic
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media