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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Python 105 105 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.87% 8.82% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.60% 33.65% 24.00%
Number of salaries quoted 74 88 78
10th Percentile £40,824 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - +0.78%
75th Percentile £79,375 £73,750 £79,225
90th Percentile £88,104 £77,500 £93,750
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%

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 445 312 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.17% 26.20% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 293 269 318
10th Percentile £39,570 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,125
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

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 7 October 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 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) SAS
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.00%) Azure
2 29 (27.62%) AWS
3 24 (22.86%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.57%) GCP
5 8 (7.62%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.67%) Azure Stack
7 6 (5.71%) Azure AI
7 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.76%) PaaS
8 5 (4.76%) SaaS
8 5 (4.76%) Serverless
9 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.81%) dbt
9 4 (3.81%) GitHub
9 4 (3.81%) Google Ads
9 4 (3.81%) Meta Ads
9 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) BGP
1 7 (6.67%) OSPF
1 7 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 7 (6.67%) VLAN
2 6 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (5.71%) LAN
2 6 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (5.71%) WAN
3 5 (4.76%) Firewall
4 4 (3.81%) DHCP
4 4 (3.81%) DNS
4 4 (3.81%) EIGRP
4 4 (3.81%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (3.81%) HSRP
4 4 (3.81%) VRRP
4 4 (3.81%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.90%) MPLS
5 2 (1.90%) Network Security
5 2 (1.90%) SSH
6 1 (0.95%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) Power BI
2 11 (10.48%) Data Lake
3 10 (9.52%) Delta Lake
4 9 (8.57%) Tableau
5 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.71%) Big Data
7 5 (4.76%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.76%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (4.76%) QlikView
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.81%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.81%) Parquet
8 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.81%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Git
2 4 (3.81%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.90%) Ant
4 2 (1.90%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.90%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.90%) Maven
5 1 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Marketing
4 13 (12.38%) Finance
5 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 9 (8.57%) Retail
7 8 (7.62%) Telecoms
8 7 (6.67%) Legal
9 6 (5.71%) Banking
9 6 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.86%) Automotive
11 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.95%) Games
12 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Senior
2 26 (24.76%) Data Engineer
3 21 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 14 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Analyst
6 10 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) Lead
6 10 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Architect
8 8 (7.62%) AWS Data Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Data Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Network Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Site Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.33%) REST
2 13 (12.38%) PySpark
3 12 (11.43%) Terraform
4 6 (5.71%) FastAPI
4 6 (5.71%) React
5 5 (4.76%) .NET
5 5 (4.76%) PyTorch
5 5 (4.76%) RESTful
5 5 (4.76%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.81%) YAML
7 3 (2.86%) Django
7 3 (2.86%) JSON
7 3 (2.86%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (2.86%) Web Services
7 3 (2.86%) XML
8 2 (1.90%) CSS
8 2 (1.90%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.90%) JWT
8 2 (1.90%) Middleware
8 2 (1.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.62%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.76%) IoT
4 5 (4.76%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.86%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.86%) iSeries
6 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.86%) Robotics
6 3 (2.86%) SCADA
7 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.90%) PMI
7 2 (1.90%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Linux
1 8 (7.62%) Windows
2 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Unix
4 2 (1.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.95%) AI
2 34 (32.38%) Analytics
3 32 (30.48%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (29.52%) CI/CD
5 28 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 26 (24.76%) Software Engineering
7 24 (22.86%) Data Engineering
8 22 (20.95%) ETL
9 20 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (16.19%) Data Science
10 17 (16.19%) Decision-Making
11 16 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (15.24%) DevOps
11 16 (15.24%) Validation
12 15 (14.29%) Data Governance
13 14 (13.33%) ERP
13 14 (13.33%) Machine Learning
13 14 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
14 13 (12.38%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (48.57%) SQL
2 12 (11.43%) R
3 8 (7.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.67%) Java
5 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.81%) C#
7 3 (2.86%) Bash
7 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.90%) Go
9 1 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.67%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.86%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.90%) Puppet
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Nagios
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Databricks
3 8 (7.62%) Google
4 6 (5.71%) Cisco
5 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.81%) SAP
7 3 (2.86%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.90%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.90%) Informatica
9 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.95%) Virgin Media