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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 126 101 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.87% 8.12% 4.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.73% 27.75% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 79 97
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £46,813 £49,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.11% +0.71%
75th Percentile £73,987 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £76,500 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £64,750 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.47% +5.28% +4.24%

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 385 364 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.82% 29.26% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 287 312 519
10th Percentile £38,094 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £74,994 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 26 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.76%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (17.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.03%) Azure
2 40 (31.75%) AWS
3 37 (29.37%) Power Platform
4 21 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 17 (13.49%) Snowflake
6 12 (9.52%) SaaS
7 11 (8.73%) dbt
8 7 (5.56%) Azure Stack
8 7 (5.56%) GCP
8 7 (5.56%) PaaS
9 6 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.97%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.97%) Serverless
11 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.38%) Google Ads
12 3 (2.38%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.79%) OSPF
2 1 (0.79%) SNMP
2 1 (0.79%) SSH
2 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.37%) Power BI
2 23 (18.25%) Tableau
3 12 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 5 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.97%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.97%) Redis
5 5 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.38%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.38%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.59%) MySQL
8 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.73%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.38%) JMeter
4 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.59%) Locust
4 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) Ant
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Ivy
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.79%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Finance
3 16 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Retail
5 8 (6.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Automotive
10 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Games
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 26 (20.63%) Senior
3 25 (19.84%) Analyst
4 23 (18.25%) Python Engineer
5 22 (17.46%) Data Analyst
6 18 (14.29%) Junior
7 17 (13.49%) Junior Analyst
7 17 (13.49%) Junior Data Analyst
8 15 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (11.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 15 (11.90%) Snowflake Engineer
9 12 (9.52%) Trainee
10 11 (8.73%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (8.73%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (8.73%) Software Engineer
11 10 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (7.94%) Lead
12 8 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (6.35%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) PySpark
2 7 (5.56%) NumPy
2 7 (5.56%) Pandas
2 7 (5.56%) REST
2 7 (5.56%) RESTful
3 6 (4.76%) Hugging Face
3 6 (4.76%) Matplotlib
3 6 (4.76%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.76%) Streamlit
4 5 (3.97%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.97%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (3.17%) React
6 2 (1.59%) CSS
6 2 (1.59%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.59%) HTML
6 2 (1.59%) JSON
6 2 (1.59%) Node.js
6 2 (1.59%) XML
7 1 (0.79%) jQuery
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.38%) iSeries
5 3 (2.38%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.59%) IoT
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.59%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.59%) Social Media
7 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.79%) Solaris
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.06%) AI
2 36 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (22.22%) Analytics
4 22 (17.46%) ETL
4 22 (17.46%) LLM
5 19 (15.08%) Data Engineering
5 19 (15.08%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (13.49%) CI/CD
6 17 (13.49%) Data Modelling
6 17 (13.49%) Software Engineering
7 13 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 13 (10.32%) Machine Learning
8 11 (8.73%) Decision-Making
8 11 (8.73%) Prompt Engineering
8 11 (8.73%) Translating Business Requirements
9 10 (7.94%) Data Analysis
9 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (7.14%) Agile
10 9 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 68 (53.97%) SQL
2 10 (7.94%) Java
3 6 (4.76%) R
4 5 (3.97%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.59%) Bash
6 2 (1.59%) Go
6 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) Groovy
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
7 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) QA
3 2 (1.59%) SLA
3 2 (1.59%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.35%) Terraform
2 4 (3.17%) Grafana
3 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Nagios
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.73%) Databricks
3 5 (3.97%) Google
3 5 (3.97%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.38%) Informatica
4 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.79%) New Relic
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Virgin Media