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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 44 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 148 80 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.37% 5.55% 5.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.23% 18.48% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 118 54 115
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,375 £30,400
25th Percentile £34,063 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -11.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £71,080 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £75,618 £87,500
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 359 433 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.45% 30.05% 29.98%
Number of salaries quoted 293 281 654
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 20 March 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 (4.05%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (20.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (52.03%) Azure
2 44 (29.73%) AWS
3 34 (22.97%) Power Platform
4 24 (16.22%) GitHub
5 16 (10.81%) Azure AI
6 13 (8.78%) Snowflake
7 10 (6.76%) dbt
8 8 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (5.41%) PaaS
9 7 (4.73%) SaaS
10 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.70%) GCP
12 3 (2.03%) Datadog
13 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.35%) Pulumi
14 1 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
14 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.68%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.22%) Internet
2 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.97%) Power BI
2 33 (22.30%) Tableau
3 16 (10.81%) Data Mining
4 13 (8.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.38%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.03%) Redis
9 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.35%) Power Query
10 1 (0.68%) Big Data
10 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.68%) Metadata
10 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.68%) MySQL
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (17.57%) Git
2 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.03%) JMeter
3 3 (2.03%) Locust
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.68%) MLflow
4 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (18.24%) Finance
2 26 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.22%) Multimedia
4 23 (15.54%) Social Skills
5 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.73%) Retail
6 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.70%) Automotive
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Marketing
8 3 (2.03%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (31.08%) Trainee
2 34 (22.97%) Analyst
3 32 (21.62%) Data Analyst
4 27 (18.24%) Data Engineer
5 21 (14.19%) Developer
6 15 (10.14%) Lead
6 15 (10.14%) Trainee Analyst
6 15 (10.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 14 (9.46%) Azure Data Engineer
7 14 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (9.46%) Junior
7 14 (9.46%) Junior Analyst
7 14 (9.46%) Junior Data Analyst
8 13 (8.78%) Senior
8 13 (8.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Snowflake Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Software Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Trainee Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Trainee Software Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.22%) CSS
1 24 (16.22%) HTML
2 9 (6.08%) PySpark
3 8 (5.41%) Django
4 7 (4.73%) Node.js
4 7 (4.73%) NumPy
4 7 (4.73%) Pandas
4 7 (4.73%) scikit-learn
5 6 (4.05%) Hugging Face
5 6 (4.05%) Matplotlib
5 6 (4.05%) React
5 6 (4.05%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.03%) Flask
6 3 (2.03%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.35%) EDI
7 2 (1.35%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.35%) JSON
7 2 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.35%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.68%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.41%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.35%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.35%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.35%) Social Media
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Linux
1 3 (2.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.11%) AI
2 37 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 34 (22.97%) Analytics
4 33 (22.30%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (13.51%) Agile
6 20 (13.51%) Data Analysis
6 20 (13.51%) Machine Learning
7 19 (12.84%) ETL
8 17 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.81%) Business Analysis
9 16 (10.81%) CI/CD
10 15 (10.14%) Data Analytics
10 15 (10.14%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (10.14%) Project Management
11 12 (8.11%) Coaching
12 11 (7.43%) Creative Thinking
12 11 (7.43%) Data Engineering
12 11 (7.43%) DevOps
12 11 (7.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.97%) SQL
2 35 (23.65%) JavaScript
3 14 (9.46%) R
4 9 (6.08%) Java
5 4 (2.70%) Go
6 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.68%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) C++
7 1 (0.68%) Groovy
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (25.68%) Azure Certification
2 32 (21.62%) AWS Certification
3 30 (20.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 24 (16.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.73%) Degree
6 4 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.70%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) CEH
7 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.70%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.05%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 80 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.54%) Databricks
3 2 (1.35%) Google
3 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.68%) Informatica
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle
4 1 (0.68%) Sonatype
4 1 (0.68%) UiPath