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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 20 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 125 108 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.63% 8.53% 4.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.86% 29.59% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 95 85 83
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £76,500 £86,188
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +10.17%

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 405 365 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.76% 28.83% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 294 312 436
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £89,444 £76,125 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +0.92%

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 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 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (47.20%) Azure
2 38 (30.40%) AWS
3 36 (28.80%) Power Platform
4 18 (14.40%) Azure AI
5 16 (12.80%) Snowflake
6 12 (9.60%) SaaS
7 11 (8.80%) dbt
8 10 (8.00%) GCP
9 9 (7.20%) PaaS
10 7 (5.60%) Azure Stack
11 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.00%) Serverless
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.40%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) BGP
1 3 (2.40%) OSPF
1 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.40%) VLAN
2 2 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.60%) LAN
2 2 (1.60%) MPLS
2 2 (1.60%) Network Security
2 2 (1.60%) SSH
2 2 (1.60%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.80%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (28.80%) Power BI
2 19 (15.20%) Tableau
3 11 (8.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.80%) Delta Lake
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.00%) Redis
6 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.20%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.20%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.40%) Big Data
8 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.40%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.60%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.40%) JMeter
2 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.60%) Ant
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.60%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.60%) Locust
3 2 (1.60%) Maven
3 2 (1.60%) Selenium
4 1 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.00%) Finance
3 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.40%) Retail
5 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
6 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.20%) Legal
7 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Banking
10 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Games
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Data Engineer
2 27 (21.60%) Senior
3 26 (20.80%) Python Engineer
4 19 (15.20%) Analyst
5 16 (12.80%) Data Analyst
6 15 (12.00%) Junior
7 14 (11.20%) Junior Analyst
7 14 (11.20%) Junior Data Analyst
7 14 (11.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (11.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 14 (11.20%) Snowflake Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Lead
9 11 (8.80%) Software Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Developer
10 10 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (6.40%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) PySpark
1 8 (6.40%) REST
2 7 (5.60%) FastAPI
2 7 (5.60%) RESTful
3 6 (4.80%) React
4 5 (4.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (3.20%) NumPy
5 4 (3.20%) Pandas
6 3 (2.40%) Hugging Face
6 3 (2.40%) JSON
6 3 (2.40%) Matplotlib
6 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.40%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.40%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.40%) XML
7 2 (1.60%) CSS
7 2 (1.60%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.60%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.40%) iSeries
5 3 (2.40%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.60%) IoT
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.60%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.60%) PMI
6 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.60%) Social Media
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.60%) Linux
1 7 (5.60%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.60%) Solaris
3 2 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.60%) AI
2 38 (30.40%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (23.20%) Analytics
4 23 (18.40%) ETL
5 22 (17.60%) Software Engineering
6 21 (16.80%) CI/CD
7 20 (16.00%) Data Engineering
7 20 (16.00%) Data Modelling
7 20 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (15.20%) LLM
9 14 (11.20%) Translating Business Requirements
10 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.60%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.60%) DevOps
11 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (9.60%) Machine Learning
12 11 (8.80%) Agile
12 11 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.00%) Data Governance
13 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (48.80%) SQL
2 12 (9.60%) Java
3 7 (5.60%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.60%) R
4 6 (4.80%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.60%) Bash
6 2 (1.60%) Go
6 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.80%) C++
7 1 (0.80%) Groovy
7 1 (0.80%) PHP
7 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.60%) AWS Certification
2 7 (5.60%) Degree
3 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.40%) SLA
4 2 (1.60%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) WCAG
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (8.00%) Terraform
2 4 (3.20%) Grafana
2 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.60%) Ansible
3 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.60%) Puppet
4 1 (0.80%) Nagios
4 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.00%) Databricks
3 6 (4.80%) Google
4 5 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.40%) Informatica
5 3 (2.40%) SAP
5 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.60%) Cisco
6 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.80%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.80%) New Relic
7 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media