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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 47 36
Rank change year-on-year +27 -11 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 153 71 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.40% 5.29% 5.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.46% 18.07% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 121 53 119
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £31,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,829 £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 369 393 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.44% 29.26% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 301 282 678
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £33,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,563 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 27 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 (3.92%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.31%) Apache
2 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (20.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 81 (52.94%) Azure
2 44 (28.76%) AWS
3 36 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 24 (15.69%) GitHub
5 19 (12.42%) Azure AI
6 12 (7.84%) Snowflake
7 10 (6.54%) dbt
8 8 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (5.23%) PaaS
9 7 (4.58%) SaaS
10 6 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.61%) GCP
12 3 (1.96%) Datadog
13 2 (1.31%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.31%) Pulumi
14 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.65%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.69%) Internet
2 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (23.53%) Power BI
1 36 (23.53%) Tableau
2 16 (10.46%) Data Mining
3 13 (8.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.58%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.27%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.61%) Redis
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.31%) Power Query
8 1 (0.65%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (16.99%) Git
2 6 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.96%) JMeter
3 3 (1.96%) Locust
4 2 (1.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) MLflow
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 27 (17.65%) Finance
2 25 (16.34%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.69%) Multimedia
4 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.58%) Retail
5 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.61%) Automotive
7 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Marketing
7 3 (1.96%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.31%) Law
8 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (30.07%) Trainee
2 36 (23.53%) Analyst
3 34 (22.22%) Data Analyst
4 27 (17.65%) Data Engineer
5 22 (14.38%) Developer
6 16 (10.46%) Junior
6 16 (10.46%) Junior Analyst
6 16 (10.46%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (9.80%) Lead
7 15 (9.80%) Senior
7 15 (9.80%) Trainee Analyst
7 15 (9.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 14 (9.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (7.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 12 (7.84%) Snowflake Engineer
10 11 (7.19%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.19%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (7.19%) Trainee Software Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.34%) HTML
2 24 (15.69%) CSS
3 9 (5.88%) PySpark
4 8 (5.23%) Django
5 7 (4.58%) Node.js
5 7 (4.58%) NumPy
5 7 (4.58%) Pandas
5 7 (4.58%) React
5 7 (4.58%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.92%) Hugging Face
6 6 (3.92%) Matplotlib
6 6 (3.92%) Streamlit
7 3 (1.96%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.96%) Flask
7 3 (1.96%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.31%) JSON
8 2 (1.31%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.31%) RESTful
8 2 (1.31%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (1.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.31%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.31%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.31%) Social Media
5 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Linux
1 3 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.64%) AI
2 36 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 35 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (22.22%) Analytics
5 28 (18.30%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (13.07%) Data Analysis
6 20 (13.07%) Machine Learning
7 19 (12.42%) Agile
7 19 (12.42%) ETL
8 16 (10.46%) Business Analysis
8 16 (10.46%) CI/CD
8 16 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.80%) Data Analytics
9 15 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (9.80%) Project Management
10 12 (7.84%) Data Engineering
10 12 (7.84%) DevOps
11 11 (7.19%) Coaching
11 11 (7.19%) Visualisation
12 10 (6.54%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (47.06%) SQL
2 35 (22.88%) JavaScript
3 14 (9.15%) R
4 9 (5.88%) Java
5 4 (2.61%) Go
6 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.31%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.65%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.65%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.65%) C#
7 1 (0.65%) C++
7 1 (0.65%) Groovy
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (26.80%) Azure Certification
2 32 (20.92%) AWS Certification
3 30 (19.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 24 (15.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.58%) Degree
6 4 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.61%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.31%) CEH
7 2 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) QA
3 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.92%) Terraform
3 3 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 81 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.38%) Databricks
3 3 (1.96%) Google
3 3 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.65%) Informatica
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype
4 1 (0.65%) UiPath