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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -26
Permanent jobs citing Python 135 161 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 9.58% 7.33% 5.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.02% 24.51% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 116 83 61
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £92,500 £90,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%

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 346 657 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.56% 29.93% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 297 298 381
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,893 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 20 November 2025.

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 23 (17.04%) Confluence
2 4 (2.96%) nginx
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.48%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 63 (46.67%) Azure
2 57 (42.22%) AWS
3 24 (17.78%) Amazon ELB
3 24 (17.78%) Amazon S3
4 23 (17.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (17.04%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (17.04%) AWS KMS
4 23 (17.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (14.07%) Amazon Glacier
6 15 (11.11%) GitHub
7 10 (7.41%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.67%) GCP
8 9 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.96%) Route 53
10 4 (2.96%) SaaS
11 3 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.78%) Firewall
2 14 (10.37%) Internet
3 13 (9.63%) DNS
3 13 (9.63%) FTP
3 13 (9.63%) HTTP
3 13 (9.63%) SMTP
3 13 (9.63%) SSH
4 4 (2.96%) IMAP
4 4 (2.96%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.74%) BGP
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.74%) Network Security
6 1 (0.74%) OSPF
6 1 (0.74%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (11.85%) Tableau
3 13 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 9 (6.67%) Power BI
4 9 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.19%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.96%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.22%) MySQL
8 3 (2.22%) Parquet
9 2 (1.48%) Big Data
9 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.48%) Redis
9 2 (1.48%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (28.15%) Git
2 23 (17.04%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.04%) JIRA
2 23 (17.04%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.74%) JMeter
3 1 (0.74%) Locust
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
3 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (22.96%) Public Sector
2 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.07%) Finance
4 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.37%) Multimedia
6 13 (9.63%) Retail
7 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.70%) Automotive
9 4 (2.96%) Marketing
10 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.22%) Legal
11 2 (1.48%) Games
11 2 (1.48%) Law
12 1 (0.74%) Back Office
12 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (20.00%) Developer
2 23 (17.04%) Trainee
3 19 (14.07%) Data Engineer
4 17 (12.59%) Analyst
5 15 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Senior
6 13 (9.63%) Support Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Data Analyst
8 11 (8.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Lead
8 11 (8.15%) Software Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Architect
9 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Python Developer
10 8 (5.93%) Trainee Analyst
10 8 (5.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.37%) CSS
1 14 (10.37%) HTML
2 11 (8.15%) PySpark
3 8 (5.93%) Django
4 7 (5.19%) React
5 6 (4.44%) Node.js
6 4 (2.96%) LDAP
6 4 (2.96%) XML
7 3 (2.22%) .NET
8 2 (1.48%) Kafka
8 2 (1.48%) RESTful
8 2 (1.48%) Spring
8 2 (1.48%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.48%) YAML
9 1 (0.74%) Flask
9 1 (0.74%) Keras
9 1 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.74%) NumPy
9 1 (0.74%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.37%) Replication
2 7 (5.19%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.48%) Linux
2 23 (17.04%) VMS
3 14 (10.37%) Windows
4 13 (9.63%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (3.70%) Unix
6 4 (2.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.93%) AI
2 31 (22.96%) DevOps
3 27 (20.00%) Analytics
4 26 (19.26%) Mentoring
5 24 (17.78%) Change Management
5 24 (17.78%) Cloud Security
6 23 (17.04%) Configuration Management
7 20 (14.81%) Agile
7 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.59%) Data Engineering
8 17 (12.59%) Machine Learning
9 16 (11.85%) CI/CD
10 15 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (10.37%) Data Analytics
11 14 (10.37%) Data Science
11 14 (10.37%) ETL
11 14 (10.37%) Visualisation
12 13 (9.63%) Patch Management
13 11 (8.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 59 (43.70%) SQL
2 24 (17.78%) Java
2 24 (17.78%) JavaScript
3 23 (17.04%) Groovy
3 23 (17.04%) PowerShell
4 18 (13.33%) R
5 13 (9.63%) Perl
6 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.48%) Bash
7 2 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (1.48%) Go
7 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.48%) Scala
8 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.74%) JCL
8 1 (0.74%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.74%) REXX
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (21.48%) SC Cleared
1 29 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.56%) Azure Certification
3 20 (14.81%) AWS Certification
4 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (10.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 14 (10.37%) Degree
6 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.48%) PhD
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) CBAP
8 1 (0.74%) CCIE
8 1 (0.74%) CCNP
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (14.81%) Docker
2 19 (14.07%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.37%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.96%) Dovecot
4 4 (2.96%) Postfix
4 4 (2.96%) Squid
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.74%) HDFS
5 1 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 29 (21.48%) Terraform
2 24 (17.78%) Grafana
3 23 (17.04%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.15%) Ansible
5 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.96%) Nessus
5 4 (2.96%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.74%) Kibana
6 1 (0.74%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.74%) logstash
6 1 (0.74%) Oozie
Vendors
1 45 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.04%) ServiceNow
3 18 (13.33%) Databricks
4 10 (7.41%) Juniper
5 5 (3.70%) UiPath
6 4 (2.96%) Google
6 4 (2.96%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.48%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.48%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.74%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.74%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.74%) Dell
9 1 (0.74%) Informatica
9 1 (0.74%) Meraki
9 1 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.74%) SAP
9 1 (0.74%) Splunk