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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 44 41
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 165 68 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.21% 5.20% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.75% 17.85% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 129 50 123
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,904 £79,600
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,050 £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 386 381 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.52% 29.13% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 313 292 703
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 14 April 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 (3.64%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (21.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (50.30%) Azure
2 43 (26.06%) AWS
2 43 (26.06%) Power Platform
3 25 (15.15%) Azure AI
4 22 (13.33%) GitHub
5 15 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.06%) dbt
7 9 (5.45%) SaaS
8 8 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.85%) PaaS
9 6 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.03%) GCP
11 3 (1.82%) Datadog
12 2 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.21%) Pulumi
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECR
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.61%) Dagster
13 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (0.61%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) FTP
2 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.06%) Power BI
2 40 (24.24%) Tableau
3 15 (9.09%) Data Mining
3 15 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.82%) Redis
8 2 (1.21%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.21%) Power Query
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.61%) Big Data
9 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.61%) Metadata
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (14.55%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (2.42%) JMeter
4 3 (1.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.82%) Locust
5 2 (1.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) MLflow
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.58%) Finance
3 26 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.33%) Multimedia
5 9 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.85%) Retail
7 4 (2.42%) Automotive
7 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Marketing
8 3 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.82%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (26.06%) Trainee
2 41 (24.85%) Analyst
3 38 (23.03%) Data Analyst
4 30 (18.18%) Data Engineer
5 24 (14.55%) Developer
6 21 (12.73%) Junior
6 21 (12.73%) Junior Analyst
6 21 (12.73%) Junior Data Analyst
7 16 (9.70%) Lead
7 16 (9.70%) Senior
8 14 (8.48%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Snowflake Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Trainee Analyst
8 14 (8.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 11 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.06%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.06%) Trainee Developer
10 10 (6.06%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.94%) CSS
1 23 (13.94%) HTML
2 10 (6.06%) PySpark
3 7 (4.24%) NumPy
3 7 (4.24%) Pandas
3 7 (4.24%) React
3 7 (4.24%) scikit-learn
4 6 (3.64%) Django
4 6 (3.64%) Hugging Face
4 6 (3.64%) Matplotlib
4 6 (3.64%) Node.js
4 6 (3.64%) Streamlit
5 3 (1.82%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.21%) EDI
6 2 (1.21%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.21%) Flask
6 2 (1.21%) JSON
6 2 (1.21%) RESTful
6 2 (1.21%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (1.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.24%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.21%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.21%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.21%) Social Media
5 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) iSeries
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.61%) NHS
5 1 (0.61%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.21%) Linux
1 2 (1.21%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.76%) AI
2 42 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (18.79%) Mentoring
4 29 (17.58%) Analytics
5 26 (15.76%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (13.33%) Machine Learning
7 20 (12.12%) Data Analysis
7 20 (12.12%) ETL
8 16 (9.70%) Data Analytics
9 15 (9.09%) Agile
9 15 (9.09%) Business Analysis
9 15 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 15 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (8.48%) LLM
10 14 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.48%) Project Management
11 13 (7.88%) Data Engineering
12 12 (7.27%) DevOps
12 12 (7.27%) Visualisation
13 11 (6.67%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.88%) SQL
2 33 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (8.48%) R
4 11 (6.67%) Java
5 4 (2.42%) Go
6 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.21%) C#
7 2 (1.21%) C++
7 2 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.21%) Groovy
7 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.61%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.61%) PHP
8 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 30 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 28 (16.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 22 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (6.06%) Degree
6 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.21%) CEH
7 2 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.21%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.21%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.42%) QA
4 3 (1.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.64%) Terraform
3 4 (2.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (47.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.91%) Databricks
3 3 (1.82%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.21%) Google
5 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.61%) Informatica
5 1 (0.61%) New Relic
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.61%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.61%) UiPath