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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 36 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 141 108 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.76% 6.47% 6.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.50% 20.11% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 113 54 105
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,281 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £77,350 £88,250
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 357 537 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.11% 32.19% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 292 263 587
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,750
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £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 26 February 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 5 (3.55%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 29 (20.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.77%) Azure
2 45 (31.91%) AWS
3 27 (19.15%) GitHub
4 26 (18.44%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.93%) Azure AI
6 10 (7.09%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.84%) dbt
9 4 (2.84%) GCP
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.42%) PaaS
10 2 (1.42%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.42%) SaaS
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.71%) Datadog
11 1 (0.71%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.15%) Internet
2 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) Tableau
2 26 (18.44%) Power BI
3 18 (12.77%) Data Mining
4 9 (6.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.96%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.84%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.42%) Power Query
8 2 (1.42%) Redis
9 1 (0.71%) Big Data
9 1 (0.71%) MySQL
9 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (19.15%) Git
2 5 (3.55%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) JMeter
3 1 (0.71%) Locust
3 1 (0.71%) Maven
3 1 (0.71%) MLflow
3 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (19.86%) Finance
2 27 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (19.15%) Multimedia
3 20 (14.18%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.96%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.96%) Retail
5 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.84%) Automotive
7 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Law
7 3 (2.13%) Marketing
7 3 (2.13%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.42%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (35.46%) Trainee
2 35 (24.82%) Analyst
3 31 (21.99%) Data Analyst
4 23 (16.31%) Data Engineer
4 23 (16.31%) Developer
5 17 (12.06%) Trainee Analyst
5 17 (12.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 13 (9.22%) Senior
6 13 (9.22%) Software Developer
6 13 (9.22%) Trainee Developer
6 13 (9.22%) Trainee Software Developer
7 12 (8.51%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Junior
8 11 (7.80%) Junior Analyst
8 11 (7.80%) Junior Data Analyst
9 10 (7.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Lead
11 8 (5.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.15%) CSS
1 27 (19.15%) HTML
2 8 (5.67%) Django
2 8 (5.67%) PySpark
3 7 (4.96%) Node.js
4 6 (4.26%) React
4 6 (4.26%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.55%) Hugging Face
5 5 (3.55%) Matplotlib
5 5 (3.55%) NumPy
5 5 (3.55%) Pandas
5 5 (3.55%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.13%) Flask
7 2 (1.42%) EDI
7 2 (1.42%) JSON
8 1 (0.71%) .NET
8 1 (0.71%) EDIFACT
8 1 (0.71%) SOAP
8 1 (0.71%) Web Services
8 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.26%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.42%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.13%) Unix
2 2 (1.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.62%) AI
2 40 (28.37%) Mentoring
3 37 (26.24%) Analytics
4 30 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (15.60%) Data Analysis
7 20 (14.18%) ETL
8 19 (13.48%) Agile
8 19 (13.48%) Data Analytics
8 19 (13.48%) Machine Learning
8 19 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.77%) Business Analysis
9 18 (12.77%) Project Management
10 13 (9.22%) CI/CD
10 13 (9.22%) Data Engineering
10 13 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (8.51%) Coaching
12 11 (7.80%) Creative Thinking
13 10 (7.09%) Data Architecture
13 10 (7.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.94%) SQL
2 38 (26.95%) JavaScript
3 16 (11.35%) R
4 4 (2.84%) Go
4 4 (2.84%) Java
5 2 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.71%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.71%) C#
6 1 (0.71%) C++
6 1 (0.71%) Groovy
6 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (26.95%) Azure Certification
2 33 (23.40%) AWS Certification
3 32 (22.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (19.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.96%) Degree
6 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) CEH
7 2 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.42%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.84%) Terraform
3 1 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 81 (57.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.89%) Databricks
3 2 (1.42%) Google
3 2 (1.42%) UiPath
4 1 (0.71%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle
4 1 (0.71%) Sonatype