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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 146 102 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.68% 6.30% 5.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.33% 19.62% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 117 52 108
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -15.91% -13.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,450 £87,875
West Midlands median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% - -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 362 520 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.58% 32.10% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 296 267 610
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
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 £81,375
West Midlands median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +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 5 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 (4.11%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 29 (19.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (51.37%) Azure
2 44 (30.14%) AWS
3 29 (19.86%) Power Platform
4 25 (17.12%) GitHub
5 15 (10.27%) Azure AI
6 11 (7.53%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (4.79%) dbt
9 6 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.42%) PaaS
11 4 (2.74%) GCP
11 4 (2.74%) SaaS
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.37%) Datadog
12 2 (1.37%) Pulumi
13 1 (0.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
13 1 (0.68%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.12%) Internet
2 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.92%) Tableau
2 29 (19.86%) Power BI
3 17 (11.64%) Data Mining
4 11 (7.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.79%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.74%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.05%) Redis
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.37%) 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 25 (17.12%) Git
2 6 (4.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.37%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.37%) JMeter
3 2 (1.37%) Locust
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.68%) MLflow
4 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (19.18%) Finance
2 27 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (17.12%) Multimedia
4 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.48%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.48%) Retail
6 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.74%) Automotive
8 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.05%) Marketing
8 3 (2.05%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.37%) Law
9 2 (1.37%) Legal
9 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 48 (32.88%) Trainee
2 35 (23.97%) Analyst
3 31 (21.23%) Data Analyst
4 24 (16.44%) Data Engineer
5 22 (15.07%) Developer
6 16 (10.96%) Trainee Analyst
6 16 (10.96%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (8.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior
8 12 (8.22%) Junior
8 12 (8.22%) Junior Analyst
8 12 (8.22%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (8.22%) Lead
8 12 (8.22%) Software Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Trainee Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Trainee Software Developer
9 11 (7.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 11 (7.53%) Snowflake Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) CSS
1 25 (17.12%) HTML
2 8 (5.48%) Django
2 8 (5.48%) PySpark
3 7 (4.79%) Node.js
3 7 (4.79%) scikit-learn
4 6 (4.11%) Hugging Face
4 6 (4.11%) Matplotlib
4 6 (4.11%) NumPy
4 6 (4.11%) Pandas
4 6 (4.11%) React
4 6 (4.11%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.05%) Flask
6 2 (1.37%) EDI
6 2 (1.37%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.37%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.37%) JSON
7 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.68%) SLSA
7 1 (0.68%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.37%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.37%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.37%) Social Media
5 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
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%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.05%) Unix
2 2 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.56%) AI
2 38 (26.03%) Mentoring
3 36 (24.66%) Analytics
4 30 (20.55%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (19.86%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (14.38%) Data Analysis
7 20 (13.70%) ETL
7 20 (13.70%) Machine Learning
8 19 (13.01%) Agile
8 19 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.33%) Data Analytics
10 17 (11.64%) Business Analysis
10 17 (11.64%) Project Management
11 14 (9.59%) CI/CD
12 13 (8.90%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (8.22%) Coaching
13 12 (8.22%) Data Engineering
14 11 (7.53%) Creative Thinking
14 11 (7.53%) Visualisation
15 10 (6.85%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 70 (47.95%) SQL
2 36 (24.66%) JavaScript
3 15 (10.27%) R
4 7 (4.79%) Java
5 4 (2.74%) Go
6 2 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
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
Qualifications
1 37 (25.34%) Azure Certification
2 32 (21.92%) AWS Certification
3 31 (21.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 25 (17.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.79%) Degree
6 4 (2.74%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.74%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) CEH
7 2 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.05%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.37%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 80 (54.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.38%) Databricks
3 2 (1.37%) Google
3 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.37%) UiPath
4 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle
4 1 (0.68%) Sonatype