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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 +19
Permanent jobs citing Python 113 101 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.08% 8.46% 6.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.17% 32.37% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 78 84 80
10th Percentile £45,150 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £54,150 £47,500 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £79,525
90th Percentile £88,704 £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 449 312 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.25% 26.13% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 299 271 336
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,000 £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 £76,787 £72,500 £72,118
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 28 September 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 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.36%) Azure
2 31 (27.43%) AWS
3 27 (23.89%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.73%) GCP
4 11 (9.73%) Snowflake
5 10 (8.85%) Azure AI
6 7 (6.19%) Azure Stack
7 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.31%) PaaS
7 6 (5.31%) SaaS
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.42%) dbt
8 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.42%) Serverless
9 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.54%) GitHub
9 4 (3.54%) Google Ads
9 4 (3.54%) Meta Ads
9 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%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.89%) Power BI
2 12 (10.62%) Tableau
3 11 (9.73%) Data Lake
4 10 (8.85%) Delta Lake
5 9 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.31%) Big Data
6 6 (5.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (4.42%) QlikView
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.54%) Parquet
8 4 (3.54%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.54%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.65%) MySQL
9 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 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.62%) Finance
5 10 (8.85%) Marketing
6 9 (7.96%) Retail
7 8 (7.08%) Telecoms
8 7 (6.19%) Legal
8 7 (6.19%) Manufacturing
9 6 (5.31%) Banking
10 5 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.88%) Automotive
13 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.88%) Games
13 1 (0.88%) Law
13 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (30.09%) Senior
2 29 (25.66%) Data Engineer
3 21 (18.58%) Python Engineer
4 14 (12.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Lead
6 11 (9.73%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (7.96%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 9 (7.96%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) Developer
9 8 (7.08%) Junior
10 7 (6.19%) Architect
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Junior Analyst
10 7 (6.19%) Junior Data Analyst
10 7 (6.19%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) PySpark
2 13 (11.50%) Terraform
3 10 (8.85%) 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%) YAML
8 3 (2.65%) .NET
8 3 (2.65%) JSON
8 3 (2.65%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (2.65%) XML
9 2 (1.77%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.77%) Node.js
10 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.88%) gRPC
10 1 (0.88%) LangChain
10 1 (0.88%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.42%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.65%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.65%) IoT
5 3 (2.65%) iSeries
5 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.65%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.77%) PMI
6 2 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
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 46 (40.71%) AI
2 35 (30.97%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (30.09%) Analytics
4 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
5 27 (23.89%) Data Modelling
6 24 (21.24%) Data Engineering
6 24 (21.24%) Software Engineering
7 23 (20.35%) ETL
8 20 (17.70%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (16.81%) Data Science
10 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.16%) Decision-Making
12 15 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (13.27%) Data Governance
12 15 (13.27%) DevOps
12 15 (13.27%) Machine Learning
12 15 (13.27%) Validation
13 14 (12.39%) LLM
14 13 (11.50%) Coaching
14 13 (11.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 54 (47.79%) SQL
2 11 (9.73%) R
3 8 (7.08%) Java
3 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.65%) Bash
6 2 (1.77%) C#
6 2 (1.77%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (11.50%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.08%) 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%) SLA
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (5.31%) 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 24 (21.24%) 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