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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 134 132 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.33% 7.37% 6.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.64% 23.28% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 110 59 102
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £34,063 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,144 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 356 567 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.46% 31.66% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 290 253 566
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,150 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £53,594 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.56% +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 30 January 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 3 (2.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.75%) nginx
2 1 (0.75%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 73 (54.48%) Azure
2 44 (32.84%) AWS
3 27 (20.15%) GitHub
4 20 (14.93%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.21%) Azure AI
6 10 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.72%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.73%) GCP
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.24%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.24%) dbt
9 3 (2.24%) SaaS
9 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.49%) PaaS
10 2 (1.49%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.15%) Internet
2 4 (2.99%) Firewall
2 4 (2.99%) FTP
3 3 (2.24%) DNS
3 3 (2.24%) HTTP
3 3 (2.24%) SMTP
3 3 (2.24%) SSH
4 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.75%) BGP
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.75%) IMAP
5 1 (0.75%) Network Security
5 1 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.75%) OSPF
5 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.16%) Tableau
2 20 (14.93%) Power BI
3 14 (10.45%) Data Mining
4 10 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (5.22%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.49%) Parquet
10 2 (1.49%) Power Query
10 2 (1.49%) Redis
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.75%) Big Data
11 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.75%) Metadata
11 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (22.39%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.24%) JIRA
3 3 (2.24%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.75%) JMeter
4 1 (0.75%) Locust
4 1 (0.75%) Maven
4 1 (0.75%) MLflow
4 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (20.15%) Multimedia
2 23 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.93%) Finance
3 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Automotive
5 5 (3.73%) Retail
6 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Marketing
7 3 (2.24%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.24%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Back Office
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (31.34%) Trainee
2 30 (22.39%) Developer
3 27 (20.15%) Analyst
4 22 (16.42%) Data Analyst
5 20 (14.93%) Data Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Software Developer
7 13 (9.70%) Trainee Analyst
7 13 (9.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (9.70%) Trainee Developer
7 13 (9.70%) Trainee Software Developer
8 11 (8.21%) Senior
9 10 (7.46%) Lead
9 10 (7.46%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Snowflake Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Architect
11 7 (5.22%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) CSS
1 27 (20.15%) HTML
2 11 (8.21%) PySpark
3 8 (5.97%) Django
4 7 (5.22%) Node.js
5 6 (4.48%) React
6 5 (3.73%) XML
7 3 (2.24%) Flask
8 2 (1.49%) EDI
8 2 (1.49%) JSON
8 2 (1.49%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.75%) .NET
9 1 (0.75%) EDIFACT
9 1 (0.75%) Kafka
9 1 (0.75%) LDAP
9 1 (0.75%) Matplotlib
9 1 (0.75%) Pandas
9 1 (0.75%) SOAP
9 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
2 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.49%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.72%) Linux
2 3 (2.24%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (2.24%) Unix
2 3 (2.24%) VMS
3 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.85%) Mentoring
2 39 (29.10%) AI
3 32 (23.88%) Analytics
4 30 (22.39%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (15.67%) ETL
7 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.18%) Agile
9 18 (13.43%) Data Analysis
10 17 (12.69%) Machine Learning
11 15 (11.19%) Data Analytics
12 14 (10.45%) Business Analysis
12 14 (10.45%) Data Engineering
12 14 (10.45%) Project Management
13 13 (9.70%) CI/CD
14 12 (8.96%) DevOps
15 11 (8.21%) Coaching
15 11 (8.21%) Creative Thinking
15 11 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
16 10 (7.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.78%) SQL
2 42 (31.34%) JavaScript
3 17 (12.69%) R
4 8 (5.97%) Java
5 6 (4.48%) Perl
6 4 (2.99%) Go
6 4 (2.99%) Groovy
7 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.75%) C#
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (25.37%) Azure Certification
2 30 (22.39%) AWS Certification
3 28 (20.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (20.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.97%) Degree
6 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) CEH
7 2 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.75%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.75%) Postfix
3 1 (0.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Terraform
2 6 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.99%) Grafana
4 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.75%) Nessus
5 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 72 (53.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.18%) Databricks
3 4 (2.99%) UiPath
4 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.49%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco
6 1 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.75%) Meraki
6 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle
6 1 (0.75%) Sonatype