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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Python 113 102 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.07% 8.55% 6.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.94% 32.38% 23.85%
Number of salaries quoted 80 84 79
10th Percentile £39,570 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £88,333 £76,750 £93,750
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 453 315 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.30% 26.40% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 303 271 327
10th Percentile £39,906 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 1 October 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 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.77%) SAS
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (40.71%) Azure
2 31 (27.43%) AWS
3 27 (23.89%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.73%) GCP
5 10 (8.85%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.08%) Azure AI
7 7 (6.19%) Azure Stack
8 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.31%) PaaS
8 6 (5.31%) SaaS
9 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.42%) dbt
9 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.42%) Serverless
10 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.54%) GitHub
10 4 (3.54%) Google Ads
10 4 (3.54%) Meta Ads
10 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) BGP
1 7 (6.19%) OSPF
1 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
1 7 (6.19%) VLAN
2 6 (5.31%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (5.31%) LAN
2 6 (5.31%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (5.31%) WAN
3 5 (4.42%) Firewall
4 4 (3.54%) DHCP
4 4 (3.54%) DNS
4 4 (3.54%) EIGRP
4 4 (3.54%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.54%) HSRP
4 4 (3.54%) VRRP
4 4 (3.54%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.77%) MPLS
5 2 (1.77%) Network Security
5 2 (1.77%) SSH
6 1 (0.88%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.89%) Power BI
2 11 (9.73%) Data Lake
2 11 (9.73%) Tableau
3 10 (8.85%) Delta Lake
4 9 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.31%) Big Data
6 5 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.42%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (4.42%) QlikView
6 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.54%) Parquet
7 4 (3.54%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.54%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.65%) MySQL
8 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (15.93%) Git
2 4 (3.54%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) Ant
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.77%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.77%) Maven
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) JMeter
5 1 (0.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 33 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.62%) Finance
4 12 (10.62%) Marketing
5 9 (7.96%) Retail
6 8 (7.08%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.08%) Telecoms
7 7 (6.19%) Legal
8 6 (5.31%) Banking
9 5 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.77%) Automotive
12 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.88%) Games
13 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (30.09%) Senior
2 28 (24.78%) Data Engineer
3 21 (18.58%) Python Engineer
4 14 (12.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (11.50%) Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) Lead
7 11 (9.73%) Software Engineer
8 10 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.85%) Data Analyst
9 8 (7.08%) Architect
9 8 (7.08%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) Developer
9 8 (7.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) Snowflake Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Junior
10 7 (6.19%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) PySpark
2 13 (11.50%) Terraform
3 11 (9.73%) REST
4 7 (6.19%) React
5 6 (5.31%) FastAPI
6 5 (4.42%) PyTorch
6 5 (4.42%) RESTful
6 5 (4.42%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.54%) .NET
7 4 (3.54%) YAML
8 3 (2.65%) JSON
8 3 (2.65%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (2.65%) XML
9 2 (1.77%) Django
9 2 (1.77%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.77%) Node.js
9 2 (1.77%) Web Services
10 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.88%) gRPC
10 1 (0.88%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.42%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.54%) IoT
7 3 (2.65%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.65%) iSeries
7 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.65%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.77%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.77%) PMI
8 2 (1.77%) Robotics
8 2 (1.77%) SCADA
8 2 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.08%) Linux
1 8 (7.08%) Windows
2 6 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.77%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.94%) AI
2 35 (30.97%) Analytics
2 35 (30.97%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (26.55%) CI/CD
4 28 (24.78%) Data Modelling
5 25 (22.12%) Software Engineering
6 24 (21.24%) Data Engineering
7 23 (20.35%) ETL
8 20 (17.70%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (16.81%) Data Science
10 18 (15.93%) Decision-Making
11 16 (14.16%) DevOps
11 16 (14.16%) Validation
12 15 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (13.27%) Data Governance
12 15 (13.27%) Machine Learning
13 14 (12.39%) LLM
14 13 (11.50%) Coaching
14 13 (11.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.67%) SQL
2 13 (11.50%) R
3 8 (7.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (7.08%) Java
3 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.65%) Bash
5 3 (2.65%) C#
6 2 (1.77%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (9.73%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.96%) Degree
3 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.01%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.65%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) SLA
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Ansible
2 2 (1.77%) Grafana
2 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.77%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.77%) Puppet
3 1 (0.88%) Nagios
3 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) Databricks
3 8 (7.08%) Google
4 6 (5.31%) Cisco
5 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.54%) SAP
7 3 (2.65%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.77%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.77%) Informatica
9 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.88%) New Relic
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media