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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 +20
Permanent jobs citing Python 109 106 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.97% 8.86% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.38% 33.54% 23.85%
Number of salaries quoted 76 88 79
10th Percentile £41,660 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £45,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +0.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £88,074 £77,500 £93,750
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 447 316 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.17% 26.42% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 295 272 325
10th Percentile £39,570 £35,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,188 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,450 £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 4 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 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) SAS
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.37%) Azure
2 29 (26.61%) AWS
3 25 (22.94%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.26%) GCP
5 8 (7.34%) Azure AI
5 8 (7.34%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.42%) Azure Stack
7 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.50%) PaaS
7 6 (5.50%) SaaS
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.59%) dbt
8 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.59%) Serverless
9 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
9 4 (3.67%) Google Ads
9 4 (3.67%) Meta Ads
9 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) BGP
1 7 (6.42%) OSPF
1 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
1 7 (6.42%) VLAN
2 6 (5.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (5.50%) LAN
2 6 (5.50%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (5.50%) WAN
3 5 (4.59%) Firewall
4 4 (3.67%) DHCP
4 4 (3.67%) DNS
4 4 (3.67%) EIGRP
4 4 (3.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.67%) HSRP
4 4 (3.67%) VRRP
4 4 (3.67%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.83%) MPLS
5 2 (1.83%) Network Security
5 2 (1.83%) SSH
6 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.94%) Power BI
2 11 (10.09%) Data Lake
3 10 (9.17%) Delta Lake
3 10 (9.17%) Tableau
4 8 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.50%) Big Data
6 5 (4.59%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.59%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (4.59%) QlikView
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.67%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.67%) Parquet
7 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.67%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) Ant
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.83%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.83%) Maven
5 1 (0.92%) GitLab
General
1 31 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Marketing
4 13 (11.93%) Finance
5 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.26%) Retail
7 8 (7.34%) Manufacturing
7 8 (7.34%) Telecoms
8 7 (6.42%) Legal
9 6 (5.50%) Banking
9 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.83%) Automotive
12 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.92%) Games
13 1 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Senior
2 26 (23.85%) Data Engineer
3 21 (19.27%) Python Engineer
4 14 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Analyst
6 11 (10.09%) Lead
6 11 (10.09%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Data Analyst
9 8 (7.34%) Architect
9 8 (7.34%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Site Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) PySpark
1 13 (11.93%) REST
2 12 (11.01%) Terraform
3 6 (5.50%) FastAPI
3 6 (5.50%) React
4 5 (4.59%) PyTorch
4 5 (4.59%) RESTful
4 5 (4.59%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.67%) .NET
5 4 (3.67%) YAML
6 3 (2.75%) JSON
6 3 (2.75%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (2.75%) XML
7 2 (1.83%) CSS
7 2 (1.83%) Django
7 2 (1.83%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.83%) JWT
7 2 (1.83%) Middleware
7 2 (1.83%) OAuth
7 2 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.59%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.67%) IoT
6 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.75%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.75%) iSeries
7 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.83%) PMI
8 2 (1.83%) Robotics
8 2 (1.83%) SCADA
8 2 (1.83%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
1 8 (7.34%) Windows
2 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.12%) AI
2 34 (31.19%) Analytics
3 33 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (27.52%) CI/CD
5 27 (24.77%) Data Modelling
6 26 (23.85%) Software Engineering
7 24 (22.02%) Data Engineering
8 22 (20.18%) ETL
9 20 (18.35%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (15.60%) Data Science
11 17 (15.60%) Decision-Making
12 16 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (14.68%) Validation
13 15 (13.76%) Data Governance
13 15 (13.76%) DevOps
13 15 (13.76%) Machine Learning
14 14 (12.84%) ERP
14 14 (12.84%) LLM
14 14 (12.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 51 (46.79%) SQL
2 12 (11.01%) R
3 8 (7.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (7.34%) Java
3 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.75%) Bash
5 3 (2.75%) C#
5 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.83%) Go
7 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (10.09%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.42%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.75%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (6.42%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.50%) Ansible
2 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.83%) Puppet
3 1 (0.92%) Grafana
3 1 (0.92%) Nagios
3 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) Databricks
3 8 (7.34%) Google
4 6 (5.50%) Cisco
5 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.67%) SAP
7 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.75%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.83%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.83%) Informatica
9 1 (0.92%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media