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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 138 150 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 8.43% 7.87% 5.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.20% 25.91% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 117 74 57
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £47,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £79,880 £102,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% +3.64%

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 352 579 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.50% 30.38% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 301 262 359
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
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 16 December 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 11 (7.97%) Confluence
2 3 (2.17%) nginx
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 18 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 70 (50.72%) Azure
2 47 (34.06%) AWS
3 19 (13.77%) GitHub
4 17 (12.32%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.14%) Azure AI
6 12 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
6 12 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (7.97%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.97%) AWS KMS
7 11 (7.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.52%) GCP
10 8 (5.80%) Amazon Glacier
11 7 (5.07%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.90%) SaaS
14 3 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (2.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.77%) Internet
2 12 (8.70%) Firewall
3 9 (6.52%) DNS
3 9 (6.52%) FTP
3 9 (6.52%) HTTP
3 9 (6.52%) SMTP
3 9 (6.52%) SSH
4 3 (2.17%) IMAP
4 3 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.72%) BGP
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.72%) Network Security
6 1 (0.72%) OSPF
6 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.39%) Tableau
2 17 (12.32%) Power BI
3 13 (9.42%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.97%) Data Mining
5 9 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.80%) Delta Lake
7 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.17%) Parquet
10 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.45%) MySQL
10 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.45%) Redis
11 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (21.74%) Git
2 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.97%) JIRA
2 11 (7.97%) Vagrant
3 2 (1.45%) MLflow
4 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.72%) JMeter
4 1 (0.72%) Locust
4 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Finance
3 19 (13.77%) Multimedia
4 18 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.52%) Retail
6 7 (5.07%) Marketing
7 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Automotive
8 5 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.17%) Law
9 3 (2.17%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.45%) Legal
10 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.72%) Back Office
11 1 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (21.74%) Trainee
2 28 (20.29%) Developer
3 26 (18.84%) Analyst
4 21 (15.22%) Data Analyst
4 21 (15.22%) Data Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) Azure Data Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) Senior
6 13 (9.42%) Software Developer
7 11 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) Lead
8 10 (7.25%) Architect
8 10 (7.25%) Trainee Analyst
8 10 (7.25%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 9 (6.52%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Trainee Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Trainee Software Developer
10 6 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Lead Python Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) CSS
1 19 (13.77%) HTML
2 11 (7.97%) PySpark
3 8 (5.80%) Django
4 7 (5.07%) Node.js
5 6 (4.35%) React
6 4 (2.90%) XML
7 3 (2.17%) LDAP
8 2 (1.45%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.45%) RESTful
8 2 (1.45%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.45%) Spring
8 2 (1.45%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.45%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.45%) YAML
9 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.72%) Keras
9 1 (0.72%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.72%) Metaflow
9 1 (0.72%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.07%) AI Agents
2 6 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.62%) Replication
4 3 (2.17%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.32%) Linux
2 11 (7.97%) VMS
3 9 (6.52%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (3.62%) Windows
5 4 (2.90%) Unix
6 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.43%) AI
2 32 (23.19%) Analytics
3 30 (21.74%) Mentoring
4 24 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (14.49%) Machine Learning
6 19 (13.77%) Agile
6 19 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (13.77%) DevOps
7 16 (11.59%) Data Analytics
7 16 (11.59%) Data Engineering
7 16 (11.59%) ETL
8 15 (10.87%) CI/CD
8 15 (10.87%) Data Analysis
9 13 (9.42%) Decision-Making
9 13 (9.42%) Visualisation
10 12 (8.70%) Change Management
10 12 (8.70%) Cloud Security
10 12 (8.70%) Data Science
10 12 (8.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.10%) SQL
2 32 (23.19%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.49%) R
4 19 (13.77%) Java
5 11 (7.97%) Groovy
5 11 (7.97%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.25%) Perl
7 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.17%) C#
9 2 (1.45%) Go
9 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) Bash
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.72%) JCL
10 1 (0.72%) REXX
10 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Azure Certification
2 24 (17.39%) AWS Certification
3 20 (14.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (13.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (12.32%) SC Cleared
5 17 (12.32%) Security Cleared
6 13 (9.42%) Degree
7 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.72%) CBAP
9 1 (0.72%) CCIE
9 1 (0.72%) CCNP
9 1 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.72%) GDPR
2 1 (0.72%) QA
2 1 (0.72%) SLA
2 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.32%) Docker
2 8 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.62%) DFS Replication
4 3 (2.17%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.17%) Postfix
4 3 (2.17%) Squid
5 1 (0.72%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 17 (12.32%) Terraform
2 12 (8.70%) Grafana
3 11 (7.97%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.17%) Ansible
5 3 (2.17%) Nessus
5 3 (2.17%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.72%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 55 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.04%) Databricks
3 11 (7.97%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.62%) UiPath
5 4 (2.90%) Google
6 3 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.45%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.45%) Juniper
7 2 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.72%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.72%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco
8 1 (0.72%) Dell
8 1 (0.72%) IBM
8 1 (0.72%) Meraki
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Splunk