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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 51 40
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 163 60 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.66% 4.69% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.45% 16.17% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 126 41 126
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.16% -2.92%
75th Percentile £71,080 £68,750 £79,600
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,993
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 384 371 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.33% 29.01% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 311 292 697
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 4 May 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 6 (3.68%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (21.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (50.92%) Azure
2 46 (28.22%) Power Platform
3 45 (27.61%) AWS
4 29 (17.79%) Azure AI
5 18 (11.04%) GitHub
5 18 (11.04%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.13%) SaaS
7 8 (4.91%) dbt
8 7 (4.29%) PaaS
9 6 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.07%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (2.45%) GCP
12 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.23%) Datadog
14 1 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
14 1 (0.61%) Dagster
14 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.61%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.04%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.22%) Power BI
2 39 (23.93%) Tableau
3 16 (9.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (7.36%) Data Mining
5 9 (5.52%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.07%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.45%) Redis
8 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.23%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.61%) Metadata
10 1 (0.61%) Power Query
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (12.88%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.84%) JMeter
4 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) Locust
4 2 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) GitLab
5 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.61%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) MLflow
5 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.34%) Finance
3 24 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.04%) Multimedia
5 10 (6.13%) Retail
6 9 (5.52%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.84%) Automotive
8 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.84%) Marketing
8 3 (1.84%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (26.38%) Analyst
2 38 (23.31%) Data Analyst
3 36 (22.09%) Trainee
4 32 (19.63%) Data Engineer
5 23 (14.11%) Junior
5 23 (14.11%) Junior Analyst
5 23 (14.11%) Junior Data Analyst
6 21 (12.88%) Developer
7 19 (11.66%) Senior
8 17 (10.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 17 (10.43%) Snowflake Engineer
9 16 (9.82%) Azure Data Engineer
9 16 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (9.82%) Python Engineer
10 15 (9.20%) Lead
11 12 (7.36%) Trainee Analyst
11 12 (7.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 11 (6.75%) Python Data Engineer
13 9 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (5.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.66%) CSS
1 19 (11.66%) HTML
2 8 (4.91%) PySpark
3 7 (4.29%) NumPy
3 7 (4.29%) Pandas
3 7 (4.29%) scikit-learn
4 6 (3.68%) Hugging Face
4 6 (3.68%) Matplotlib
4 6 (3.68%) React
4 6 (3.68%) Streamlit
5 5 (3.07%) Node.js
6 4 (2.45%) Django
6 4 (2.45%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.45%) RESTful
6 4 (2.45%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.23%) Flask
7 2 (1.23%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.23%) JSON
7 2 (1.23%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.29%) Algorithms
1 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.84%) iSeries
4 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.23%) Social Media
5 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.61%) NHS
5 1 (0.61%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Windows
1 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.04%) AI
2 45 (27.61%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (17.18%) Analytics
4 26 (15.95%) Mentoring
5 21 (12.88%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (12.27%) ETL
6 20 (12.27%) Machine Learning
7 18 (11.04%) Data Analysis
8 17 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (10.43%) LLM
9 14 (8.59%) Data Analytics
10 13 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 12 (7.36%) Business Analysis
11 12 (7.36%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.36%) Data Engineering
11 12 (7.36%) Project Management
12 11 (6.75%) Agile
12 11 (6.75%) Prompt Engineering
12 11 (6.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (49.69%) SQL
2 28 (17.18%) JavaScript
3 13 (7.98%) R
4 10 (6.13%) Java
5 3 (1.84%) Go
5 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.84%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.23%) C#
6 2 (1.23%) C++
6 2 (1.23%) Groovy
6 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.61%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.61%) Bash
7 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (27.61%) Azure Certification
2 26 (15.95%) AWS Certification
3 24 (14.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 18 (11.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.52%) Degree
6 2 (1.23%) CEH
6 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.91%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.84%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (4.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.45%) Terraform
3 3 (1.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 72 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.20%) Databricks
3 5 (3.07%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.61%) Google
5 1 (0.61%) Informatica
5 1 (0.61%) New Relic
5 1 (0.61%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.61%) UiPath