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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 135 117 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.86% 6.80% 6.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.14% 21.35% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 110 56 108
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,750 £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 £70,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £78,500 £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 354 548 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.98% 31.86% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 286 254 600
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,575
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 16 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 3 (2.22%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 72 (53.33%) Azure
2 43 (31.85%) AWS
3 27 (20.00%) GitHub
4 23 (17.04%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.63%) Azure AI
6 9 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.96%) dbt
7 4 (2.96%) GCP
8 3 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.48%) PaaS
9 2 (1.48%) Pulumi
9 2 (1.48%) SaaS
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.74%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.00%) Internet
2 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) FTP
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.74%) Tableau
2 23 (17.04%) Power BI
3 16 (11.85%) Data Mining
4 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.70%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.48%) Power Query
7 2 (1.48%) Redis
8 1 (0.74%) Big Data
8 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) JMeter
3 1 (0.74%) Locust
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
3 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 26 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (17.04%) Finance
4 19 (14.07%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Retail
6 4 (2.96%) Automotive
6 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Law
7 3 (2.22%) Marketing
7 3 (2.22%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (34.07%) Trainee
2 31 (22.96%) Analyst
3 27 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 25 (18.52%) Developer
5 22 (16.30%) Data Engineer
6 15 (11.11%) Trainee Analyst
6 15 (11.11%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (9.63%) Senior
7 13 (9.63%) Software Developer
7 13 (9.63%) Trainee Developer
7 13 (9.63%) Trainee Software Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Azure Data Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Junior
9 9 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
9 9 (6.67%) Junior Data Analyst
9 9 (6.67%) Lead
9 9 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.00%) CSS
1 27 (20.00%) HTML
2 9 (6.67%) PySpark
3 8 (5.93%) Django
4 7 (5.19%) Node.js
5 6 (4.44%) React
6 4 (2.96%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.22%) Flask
7 3 (2.22%) Hugging Face
7 3 (2.22%) Matplotlib
7 3 (2.22%) NumPy
7 3 (2.22%) Pandas
7 3 (2.22%) Streamlit
8 2 (1.48%) EDI
8 2 (1.48%) JSON
8 2 (1.48%) XML
9 1 (0.74%) .NET
9 1 (0.74%) EDIFACT
9 1 (0.74%) SOAP
9 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.96%) Algorithms
1 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.48%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.48%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.22%) Linux
1 3 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.85%) AI
2 40 (29.63%) Mentoring
3 34 (25.19%) Analytics
4 30 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (14.81%) Data Analysis
7 19 (14.07%) Agile
7 19 (14.07%) ETL
7 19 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 17 (12.59%) Data Analytics
10 16 (11.85%) Business Analysis
10 16 (11.85%) Project Management
11 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
11 13 (9.63%) Data Engineering
12 12 (8.89%) Coaching
12 12 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
13 11 (8.15%) Creative Thinking
14 10 (7.41%) Data Architecture
14 10 (7.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.41%) SQL
2 39 (28.89%) JavaScript
3 17 (12.59%) R
4 5 (3.70%) Java
5 4 (2.96%) Go
6 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.74%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.74%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.74%) C#
7 1 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.74%) Groovy
7 1 (0.74%) Perl
7 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 31 (22.96%) AWS Certification
3 30 (22.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.19%) Degree
6 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.48%) CEH
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) CCIE
8 1 (0.74%) CCNP
8 1 (0.74%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.48%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 76 (56.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.56%) Databricks
3 3 (2.22%) UiPath
4 2 (1.48%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco
5 1 (0.74%) Meraki
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype