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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 43 40
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 153 68 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.07% 5.98% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.78% 20.12% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 118 44 128
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,875 £33,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +11.34% -4.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £74,625 £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 405 338 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.42% 29.73% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 311 276 718
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% -3.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 29 May 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 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.37%) Azure
2 50 (32.68%) AWS
3 44 (28.76%) Power Platform
4 25 (16.34%) Azure AI
5 20 (13.07%) Snowflake
6 12 (7.84%) GitHub
7 11 (7.19%) SaaS
8 9 (5.88%) dbt
9 7 (4.58%) Azure Stack
9 7 (4.58%) PaaS
10 6 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.92%) GCP
11 5 (3.27%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.27%) Serverless
12 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.84%) Internet
2 1 (0.65%) BGP
2 1 (0.65%) FTP
2 1 (0.65%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.65%) OSPF
2 1 (0.65%) SNMP
2 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.76%) Power BI
2 32 (20.92%) Tableau
3 16 (10.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.88%) Data Mining
5 7 (4.58%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.92%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.27%) Redis
8 4 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.96%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.31%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.65%) MySQL
11 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.96%) JMeter
4 2 (1.31%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.31%) Locust
4 2 (1.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) MLflow
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.69%) Finance
3 22 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.84%) Multimedia
5 10 (6.54%) Retail
6 9 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.96%) Marketing
8 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.31%) Automotive
9 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (24.18%) Data Engineer
2 36 (23.53%) Analyst
3 31 (20.26%) Data Analyst
4 27 (17.65%) Trainee
5 24 (15.69%) Senior
6 21 (13.73%) Junior
6 21 (13.73%) Junior Analyst
6 21 (13.73%) Junior Data Analyst
6 21 (13.73%) Python Engineer
7 18 (11.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 18 (11.76%) Snowflake Engineer
8 15 (9.80%) Azure Data Engineer
8 15 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (9.15%) Developer
9 14 (9.15%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (8.50%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (7.84%) Lead
12 10 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.50%) CSS
1 13 (8.50%) HTML
2 8 (5.23%) PySpark
3 7 (4.58%) NumPy
3 7 (4.58%) Pandas
3 7 (4.58%) scikit-learn
4 6 (3.92%) Hugging Face
4 6 (3.92%) Matplotlib
4 6 (3.92%) RESTful
4 6 (3.92%) Streamlit
5 5 (3.27%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.27%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (2.61%) React
6 4 (2.61%) REST
7 3 (1.96%) Node.js
8 2 (1.31%) EDI
8 2 (1.31%) Flask
8 2 (1.31%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.31%) JSON
8 2 (1.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.58%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.27%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.96%) iSeries
4 3 (1.96%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.31%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.31%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.31%) IoT
5 2 (1.31%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.31%) Social Media
6 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) NHS
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Windows
1 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.87%) AI
2 43 (28.10%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (20.26%) Analytics
4 22 (14.38%) ETL
5 21 (13.73%) LLM
5 21 (13.73%) Mentoring
6 20 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 16 (10.46%) CI/CD
8 16 (10.46%) Data Engineering
9 15 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (9.80%) Data Analysis
10 13 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 13 (8.50%) Data Modelling
10 13 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.84%) Agile
12 11 (7.19%) Data Analytics
12 11 (7.19%) Prompt Engineering
12 11 (7.19%) Software Engineering
13 10 (6.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 80 (52.29%) SQL
2 19 (12.42%) JavaScript
3 12 (7.84%) R
4 11 (7.19%) Java
5 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.61%) Go
7 3 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.31%) C#
8 2 (1.31%) C++
8 2 (1.31%) Groovy
8 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.65%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.65%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.65%) Bash
9 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (24.18%) Azure Certification
2 20 (13.07%) AWS Certification
3 18 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.88%) Degree
6 2 (1.31%) CEH
6 2 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.96%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.92%) Terraform
2 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) Nagios
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (39.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.15%) Databricks
3 6 (3.92%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.96%) Google
4 3 (1.96%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.65%) Informatica
5 1 (0.65%) New Relic
5 1 (0.65%) Sonatype