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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 20 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 -28
Permanent jobs citing Python 137 157 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 9.31% 7.36% 5.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.71% 24.53% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 118 81 59
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £42,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.60% -0.77%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,375 £87,500 £98,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%

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 345 640 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.44% 30.02% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 296 289 369
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £42,375 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,280 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.19%

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 30 November 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 18 (13.14%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.19%) nginx
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) PowerFactory
4 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (10.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.64%) Azure
2 52 (37.96%) AWS
3 19 (13.87%) Amazon ELB
3 19 (13.87%) Amazon S3
4 18 (13.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (13.14%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (13.14%) AWS KMS
4 18 (13.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (12.41%) GitHub
6 15 (10.95%) Amazon Glacier
6 15 (10.95%) Power Platform
7 12 (8.76%) Azure AI
8 10 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.57%) GCP
10 7 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.11%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.92%) SaaS
12 3 (2.19%) dbt
12 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.87%) Firewall
2 16 (11.68%) Internet
3 11 (8.03%) DNS
3 11 (8.03%) FTP
3 11 (8.03%) HTTP
3 11 (8.03%) SMTP
3 11 (8.03%) SSH
4 3 (2.19%) IMAP
4 3 (2.19%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.73%) BGP
6 1 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.73%) Network Security
6 1 (0.73%) OSPF
6 1 (0.73%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) Amazon RDS
1 20 (14.60%) Tableau
2 15 (10.95%) Power BI
3 14 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.57%) Data Mining
6 8 (5.84%) Delta Lake
7 7 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.19%) MySQL
9 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.19%) Parquet
10 2 (1.46%) Big Data
10 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.46%) Redis
10 2 (1.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (25.55%) Git
2 18 (13.14%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.14%) JIRA
2 18 (13.14%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.73%) JMeter
3 1 (0.73%) Locust
3 1 (0.73%) MLflow
3 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (18.98%) Public Sector
2 21 (15.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.87%) Finance
4 17 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (11.68%) Multimedia
6 11 (8.03%) Retail
7 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.38%) Marketing
8 5 (3.65%) Automotive
8 5 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.46%) Law
10 2 (1.46%) Legal
10 2 (1.46%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.73%) Back Office
11 1 (0.73%) Games
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (19.71%) Developer
2 25 (18.25%) Trainee
3 22 (16.06%) Data Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Analyst
5 16 (11.68%) Data Analyst
6 14 (10.22%) Azure Data Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Senior
8 12 (8.76%) Software Developer
9 11 (8.03%) Lead
10 10 (7.30%) Architect
11 9 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (6.57%) Python Developer
11 9 (6.57%) Support Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Trainee Analyst
12 8 (5.84%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 8 (5.84%) Trainee Developer
12 8 (5.84%) Trainee Software Developer
13 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.68%) CSS
1 16 (11.68%) HTML
2 12 (8.76%) PySpark
3 8 (5.84%) Django
4 6 (4.38%) Node.js
4 6 (4.38%) React
5 4 (2.92%) XML
6 3 (2.19%) LDAP
7 2 (1.46%) .NET
7 2 (1.46%) Kafka
7 2 (1.46%) RESTful
7 2 (1.46%) Spring
7 2 (1.46%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.46%) YAML
8 1 (0.73%) Flask
8 1 (0.73%) Keras
8 1 (0.73%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.73%) Pandas
8 1 (0.73%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.30%) Replication
2 7 (5.11%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.38%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.19%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.52%) Linux
2 18 (13.14%) VMS
3 11 (8.03%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.30%) Windows
5 5 (3.65%) Unix
6 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.47%) AI
2 29 (21.17%) Analytics
3 28 (20.44%) Mentoring
4 26 (18.98%) DevOps
5 22 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (14.60%) Agile
7 19 (13.87%) Change Management
7 19 (13.87%) Cloud Security
7 19 (13.87%) Machine Learning
8 18 (13.14%) Configuration Management
9 17 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (12.41%) Data Engineering
9 17 (12.41%) ETL
10 15 (10.95%) CI/CD
11 14 (10.22%) Data Analytics
11 14 (10.22%) Visualisation
12 13 (9.49%) Data Analysis
12 13 (9.49%) Decision-Making
12 13 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.72%) SQL
2 26 (18.98%) JavaScript
3 22 (16.06%) Java
4 19 (13.87%) R
5 18 (13.14%) Groovy
5 18 (13.14%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.76%) Perl
7 3 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.46%) Bash
8 2 (1.46%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) Go
8 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.46%) Scala
9 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.73%) JCL
9 1 (0.73%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.73%) REXX
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (17.52%) Azure Certification
1 24 (17.52%) SC Cleared
1 24 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.33%) AWS Certification
3 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (11.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 12 (8.76%) Degree
6 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.73%) CBAP
7 1 (0.73%) CCIE
7 1 (0.73%) CCNP
7 1 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.46%) QA
2 2 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) SLA
3 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (13.14%) Docker
2 15 (10.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.30%) DFS Replication
4 3 (2.19%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.19%) Postfix
4 3 (2.19%) Squid
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.73%) HDFS
5 1 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Terraform
2 19 (13.87%) Grafana
3 18 (13.14%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.84%) Ansible
5 4 (2.92%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.19%) Nessus
6 3 (2.19%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.73%) Kibana
7 1 (0.73%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.73%) logstash
7 1 (0.73%) Oozie
Vendors
1 49 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.87%) Databricks
3 18 (13.14%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.11%) Juniper
5 5 (3.65%) UiPath
6 4 (2.92%) Google
7 3 (2.19%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.46%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.46%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.73%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.73%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.73%) Cisco
9 1 (0.73%) Dell
9 1 (0.73%) IBM
9 1 (0.73%) Informatica
9 1 (0.73%) Meraki
9 1 (0.73%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.73%) Splunk