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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 20 45
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 123 96 120
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.82% 7.77% 4.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.80% 26.59% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 95 75 106
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,875
25th Percentile £47,875 £45,625 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £73,908 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £75,750 £86,993
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +1.69%

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 375 361 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.65% 29.23% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 282 309 567
10th Percentile £36,975 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £74,985 £68,750 £70,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 23 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 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.88%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (17.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (46.34%) Azure
2 39 (31.71%) AWS
3 37 (30.08%) Power Platform
4 21 (17.07%) Azure AI
5 17 (13.82%) Snowflake
6 12 (9.76%) SaaS
7 9 (7.32%) dbt
8 7 (5.69%) Azure Stack
8 7 (5.69%) PaaS
9 6 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.88%) GCP
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.07%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.07%) Serverless
11 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.44%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) BGP
1 1 (0.81%) Internet
1 1 (0.81%) IPFIX
1 1 (0.81%) OSPF
1 1 (0.81%) SNMP
1 1 (0.81%) SSH
1 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.08%) Power BI
2 23 (18.70%) Tableau
3 12 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (4.88%) Delta Lake
5 5 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.07%) Data Mining
5 5 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.07%) Redis
5 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.44%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.44%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.63%) MySQL
8 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Git
2 6 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.44%) JMeter
4 2 (1.63%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.63%) Locust
4 2 (1.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) Ant
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Ivy
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.26%) Finance
3 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.13%) Retail
5 8 (6.50%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.44%) Marketing
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Games
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.81%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 36 (29.27%) Data Engineer
2 25 (20.33%) Analyst
2 25 (20.33%) Senior
3 22 (17.89%) Data Analyst
4 21 (17.07%) Python Engineer
5 18 (14.63%) Junior
6 17 (13.82%) Junior Analyst
6 17 (13.82%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (12.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (12.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 15 (12.20%) Snowflake Engineer
8 12 (9.76%) Trainee
9 11 (8.94%) Azure Data Engineer
9 11 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (8.94%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) Lead
10 10 (8.13%) Software Engineer
11 8 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (6.50%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.50%) PySpark
2 7 (5.69%) NumPy
2 7 (5.69%) Pandas
2 7 (5.69%) REST
2 7 (5.69%) RESTful
3 6 (4.88%) Hugging Face
3 6 (4.88%) Matplotlib
3 6 (4.88%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.88%) Streamlit
4 5 (4.07%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.07%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (3.25%) React
6 2 (1.63%) CSS
6 2 (1.63%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.63%) HTML
6 2 (1.63%) JSON
6 2 (1.63%) Node.js
6 2 (1.63%) XML
7 1 (0.81%) jQuery
7 1 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.44%) iSeries
4 3 (2.44%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.63%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.63%) IoT
5 2 (1.63%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.63%) Social Media
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) PMI
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.07%) Windows
2 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.44%) Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.09%) AI
2 36 (29.27%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (21.95%) Analytics
4 22 (17.89%) LLM
5 21 (17.07%) ETL
6 19 (15.45%) Data Engineering
6 19 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (13.01%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.01%) Data Modelling
8 15 (12.20%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 13 (10.57%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.94%) Decision-Making
10 11 (8.94%) Prompt Engineering
10 11 (8.94%) Translating Business Requirements
11 10 (8.13%) Data Analysis
11 10 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.32%) Agile
12 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (7.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (54.47%) SQL
2 10 (8.13%) Java
3 6 (4.88%) R
4 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.63%) Bash
6 2 (1.63%) Go
6 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Groovy
7 1 (0.81%) PHP
7 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (18.70%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.32%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (4.88%) Degree
5 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.63%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) SLA
3 2 (1.63%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) Grafana
3 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) Nagios
4 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (30.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.94%) Databricks
3 5 (4.07%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.25%) Google
5 3 (2.44%) Informatica
5 3 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) New Relic
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media