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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 134 129 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.11% 7.31% 6.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.64% 23.08% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 110 60 105
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £29,400
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69,688 £74,144 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

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 356 559 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.89% 31.69% 32.94%
Number of salaries quoted 290 254 588
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,375 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,563 £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 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,625
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 6 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 2 (1.49%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 23 (17.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (55.22%) Azure
2 43 (32.09%) AWS
3 27 (20.15%) GitHub
4 21 (15.67%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.96%) Azure AI
6 11 (8.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.72%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.73%) GCP
9 3 (2.24%) dbt
9 3 (2.24%) SaaS
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.49%) PaaS
10 2 (1.49%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon Glacier
11 1 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.15%) Internet
2 2 (1.49%) Firewall
2 2 (1.49%) FTP
2 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.75%) BGP
3 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) OSPF
3 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.75%) SMTP
3 1 (0.75%) SSH
3 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.40%) Tableau
2 21 (15.67%) Power BI
3 15 (11.19%) Data Mining
4 10 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (5.22%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.49%) Parquet
9 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.49%) Power Query
9 2 (1.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.75%) Metadata
10 1 (0.75%) MySQL
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (20.90%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) JMeter
3 1 (0.75%) Locust
3 1 (0.75%) Maven
3 1 (0.75%) MLflow
3 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (20.15%) Multimedia
2 24 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.67%) Finance
4 19 (14.18%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Retail
6 6 (4.48%) Automotive
7 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.99%) Marketing
9 3 (2.24%) Law
9 3 (2.24%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 44 (32.84%) Trainee
2 29 (21.64%) Analyst
3 27 (20.15%) Developer
4 25 (18.66%) Data Analyst
5 22 (16.42%) Data Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Software Developer
6 14 (10.45%) Trainee Analyst
6 14 (10.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (9.70%) Trainee Developer
7 13 (9.70%) Trainee Software Developer
8 11 (8.21%) Senior
9 10 (7.46%) Lead
10 9 (6.72%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Junior
11 8 (5.97%) Junior Analyst
11 8 (5.97%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) CSS
1 27 (20.15%) HTML
2 11 (8.21%) PySpark
3 8 (5.97%) Django
4 7 (5.22%) Node.js
5 6 (4.48%) React
6 3 (2.24%) Flask
6 3 (2.24%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.24%) XML
7 2 (1.49%) EDI
7 2 (1.49%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.49%) JSON
7 2 (1.49%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.49%) NumPy
7 2 (1.49%) Pandas
7 2 (1.49%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.75%) SLSA
8 1 (0.75%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.24%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.49%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 3 (2.24%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.34%) AI
2 40 (29.85%) Mentoring
3 34 (25.37%) Analytics
4 30 (22.39%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (17.16%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (15.67%) ETL
7 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.18%) Agile
8 19 (14.18%) Data Analysis
9 17 (12.69%) Machine Learning
10 16 (11.94%) Data Analytics
11 15 (11.19%) Business Analysis
11 15 (11.19%) Data Engineering
11 15 (11.19%) Project Management
12 13 (9.70%) CI/CD
13 12 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (8.21%) Coaching
14 11 (8.21%) Creative Thinking
15 10 (7.46%) Data Architecture
15 10 (7.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.27%) SQL
2 40 (29.85%) JavaScript
3 16 (11.94%) R
4 6 (4.48%) Java
5 4 (2.99%) Go
6 3 (2.24%) Perl
7 2 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.49%) Groovy
7 2 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (26.12%) Azure Certification
2 30 (22.39%) AWS Certification
3 29 (21.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (20.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.48%) Degree
6 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) CEH
7 2 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.48%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.48%) Terraform
2 2 (1.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) Ansible
3 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 75 (55.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.67%) Databricks
3 3 (2.24%) UiPath
4 2 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco
5 1 (0.75%) Meraki
5 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle
5 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) Sonatype