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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 17 42
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 124 108 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.63% 8.61% 4.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.69% 29.67% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 97 85 84
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,825
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.11% +0.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,750 £87,196
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +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 404 364 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.83% 29.00% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 295 313 448
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 7 August 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 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.23%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (14.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.77%) Azure
2 39 (31.45%) AWS
3 35 (28.23%) Power Platform
4 19 (15.32%) Azure AI
5 16 (12.90%) Snowflake
6 12 (9.68%) SaaS
7 11 (8.87%) dbt
8 9 (7.26%) GCP
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Stack
9 7 (5.65%) PaaS
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.03%) Serverless
11 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.42%) Google Ads
12 3 (2.42%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.61%) SSH
3 1 (0.81%) BGP
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.81%) OSPF
3 1 (0.81%) SNMP
3 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.23%) Power BI
2 19 (15.32%) Tableau
3 11 (8.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.84%) Delta Lake
6 5 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.03%) Redis
6 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.42%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.42%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.42%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.42%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.61%) MySQL
9 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.42%) JMeter
4 2 (1.61%) Ant
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.61%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.61%) Locust
4 2 (1.61%) Maven
4 2 (1.61%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
General
1 37 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.71%) Finance
3 14 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.65%) Retail
6 6 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Marketing
9 2 (1.61%) Legal
9 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Games
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 32 (25.81%) Data Engineer
2 27 (21.77%) Senior
3 25 (20.16%) Python Engineer
4 21 (16.94%) Analyst
5 18 (14.52%) Data Analyst
6 16 (12.90%) Junior
7 15 (12.10%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (12.10%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (11.29%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (11.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 14 (11.29%) Snowflake Engineer
9 11 (8.87%) Software Engineer
10 10 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (8.06%) Azure Data Engineer
10 10 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (8.06%) Lead
10 10 (8.06%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (7.26%) Developer
12 8 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (6.45%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) PySpark
1 8 (6.45%) REST
2 7 (5.65%) RESTful
3 6 (4.84%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.03%) NumPy
4 5 (4.03%) Pandas
4 5 (4.03%) React
4 5 (4.03%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (3.23%) Hugging Face
5 4 (3.23%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.23%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.42%) JSON
6 3 (2.42%) XML
7 2 (1.61%) CSS
7 2 (1.61%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.61%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.61%) HTML
7 2 (1.61%) Node.js
8 1 (0.81%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.03%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.42%) iSeries
3 3 (2.42%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.61%) IoT
4 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.61%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.61%) PMI
4 2 (1.61%) Social Media
5 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.81%) NHS
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.65%) Linux
1 7 (5.65%) Windows
2 5 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.61%) Solaris
3 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.13%) AI
2 35 (28.23%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (21.77%) Analytics
4 21 (16.94%) ETL
4 21 (16.94%) Software Engineering
5 20 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 20 (16.13%) Data Engineering
5 20 (16.13%) LLM
6 19 (15.32%) Data Modelling
6 19 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (10.48%) Translating Business Requirements
8 12 (9.68%) Decision-Making
8 12 (9.68%) DevOps
8 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (8.87%) Agile
9 11 (8.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (8.87%) Machine Learning
9 11 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (7.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (51.61%) SQL
2 10 (8.06%) Java
3 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.84%) R
5 5 (4.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (4.03%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.61%) Bash
6 2 (1.61%) Go
6 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Groovy
7 1 (0.81%) PHP
7 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Azure Certification
2 8 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.84%) Degree
4 5 (4.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.42%) SLA
4 2 (1.61%) QA
4 2 (1.61%) WCAG
5 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) Docker
2 5 (4.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (8.06%) Terraform
2 4 (3.23%) Grafana
2 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.61%) Ansible
3 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.61%) Puppet
4 1 (0.81%) Nagios
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Databricks
3 6 (4.84%) Google
4 5 (4.03%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.42%) Informatica
5 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.61%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.81%) New Relic
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media