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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 21 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 119 93 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.77% 7.49% 4.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.16% 25.62% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 92 72 118
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,925
25th Percentile £45,563 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,875 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 370 363 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.72% 29.25% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 279 307 631
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,263 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £73,908 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £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 17 July 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 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (5.04%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (46.22%) Azure
2 38 (31.93%) AWS
3 36 (30.25%) Power Platform
4 21 (17.65%) Azure AI
5 18 (15.13%) Snowflake
6 12 (10.08%) SaaS
7 9 (7.56%) dbt
8 7 (5.88%) Azure Stack
8 7 (5.88%) PaaS
9 6 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.20%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.20%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.20%) GCP
10 5 (4.20%) Serverless
11 3 (2.52%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.52%) Google Ads
11 3 (2.52%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) BGP
1 1 (0.84%) Internet
1 1 (0.84%) IPFIX
1 1 (0.84%) OSPF
1 1 (0.84%) SNMP
1 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.25%) Power BI
2 23 (19.33%) Tableau
3 13 (10.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (5.04%) Delta Lake
5 5 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.20%) Data Mining
5 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.20%) Redis
5 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.52%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.52%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.68%) MySQL
8 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.84%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Git
2 6 (5.04%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.52%) JMeter
4 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.68%) Locust
4 2 (1.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.84%) GitLab
5 1 (0.84%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.84%) Maven
5 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.97%) Finance
3 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.40%) Retail
5 8 (6.72%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.52%) Marketing
8 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Automotive
9 1 (0.84%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Games
9 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (31.09%) Data Engineer
2 25 (21.01%) Analyst
3 22 (18.49%) Data Analyst
3 22 (18.49%) Senior
4 20 (16.81%) Python Engineer
5 18 (15.13%) Junior
6 17 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
6 17 (14.29%) Junior Data Analyst
7 16 (13.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 16 (13.45%) Snowflake Engineer
8 15 (12.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Python Data Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Trainee
10 10 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (8.40%) Lead
11 9 (7.56%) Software Engineer
12 8 (6.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (6.72%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.72%) PySpark
2 7 (5.88%) NumPy
2 7 (5.88%) Pandas
2 7 (5.88%) RESTful
3 6 (5.04%) Hugging Face
3 6 (5.04%) Matplotlib
3 6 (5.04%) REST
3 6 (5.04%) scikit-learn
3 6 (5.04%) Streamlit
4 5 (4.20%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.20%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (3.36%) React
6 2 (1.68%) CSS
6 2 (1.68%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.68%) HTML
6 2 (1.68%) JSON
6 2 (1.68%) Node.js
7 1 (0.84%) jQuery
7 1 (0.84%) SOAP
7 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.20%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.52%) iSeries
4 3 (2.52%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.68%) IoT
5 2 (1.68%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.68%) Social Media
6 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
1 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.86%) AI
2 35 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (21.85%) Analytics
4 22 (18.49%) LLM
5 21 (17.65%) ETL
6 20 (16.81%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (15.13%) Data Engineering
8 14 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 14 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 13 (10.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 12 (10.08%) Machine Learning
10 12 (10.08%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.24%) Prompt Engineering
11 11 (9.24%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (8.40%) Data Analysis
12 10 (8.40%) Decision-Making
13 9 (7.56%) Innovative Thinking
13 9 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (7.56%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (56.30%) SQL
2 10 (8.40%) Java
3 6 (5.04%) R
4 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.68%) Bash
6 2 (1.68%) Go
6 2 (1.68%) Groovy
6 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.84%) C#
7 1 (0.84%) C++
7 1 (0.84%) PHP
7 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Azure Certification
2 8 (6.72%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (5.04%) Degree
5 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.84%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) WCAG
4 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) Terraform
2 4 (3.36%) Grafana
3 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.84%) Nagios
4 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (30.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) Databricks
3 5 (4.20%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.36%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) Informatica
5 3 (2.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.84%) New Relic
6 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.84%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.84%) Sonatype