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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 39 38
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 150 91 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.58% 5.98% 5.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.32% 19.08% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 121 57 117
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,550 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -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 363 477 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.92% 31.36% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 298 286 650
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £84,967
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 12 March 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 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.33%) Azure
2 46 (30.67%) AWS
3 31 (20.67%) Power Platform
4 26 (17.33%) GitHub
5 15 (10.00%) Azure AI
6 12 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 10 (6.67%) dbt
8 8 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (5.33%) PaaS
9 7 (4.67%) SaaS
10 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.67%) GCP
12 3 (2.00%) Datadog
13 2 (1.33%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.33%) Pulumi
14 1 (0.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.67%) Anthropic Claude
14 1 (0.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.33%) Internet
2 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.00%) Tableau
2 31 (20.67%) Power BI
3 17 (11.33%) Data Mining
4 12 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.67%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.00%) Redis
9 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.33%) Power Query
10 1 (0.67%) Big Data
10 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.67%) Metadata
10 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.67%) MySQL
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Git
2 6 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.00%) JMeter
3 3 (2.00%) Locust
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.67%) MLflow
4 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (18.67%) Finance
2 27 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.33%) Multimedia
4 22 (14.67%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.67%) Retail
7 5 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.67%) Automotive
9 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.00%) Marketing
9 3 (2.00%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.33%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (32.67%) Trainee
2 36 (24.00%) Analyst
3 32 (21.33%) Data Analyst
4 25 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 21 (14.00%) Developer
6 16 (10.67%) Trainee Analyst
6 16 (10.67%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 15 (10.00%) Lead
8 14 (9.33%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (8.67%) Junior
9 13 (8.67%) Junior Analyst
9 13 (8.67%) Junior Data Analyst
9 13 (8.67%) Senior
10 12 (8.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 12 (8.00%) Snowflake Engineer
10 12 (8.00%) Software Developer
10 12 (8.00%) Trainee Developer
10 12 (8.00%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (5.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.33%) CSS
1 26 (17.33%) HTML
2 8 (5.33%) Django
2 8 (5.33%) PySpark
3 7 (4.67%) Node.js
3 7 (4.67%) scikit-learn
4 6 (4.00%) Hugging Face
4 6 (4.00%) Matplotlib
4 6 (4.00%) NumPy
4 6 (4.00%) Pandas
4 6 (4.00%) React
4 6 (4.00%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.00%) Flask
5 3 (2.00%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.33%) EDI
6 2 (1.33%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.33%) JSON
7 1 (0.67%) EDIFACT
7 1 (0.67%) SLSA
7 1 (0.67%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.67%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.33%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.33%) Social Media
5 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Unix
2 2 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.67%) AI
2 38 (25.33%) Mentoring
3 36 (24.00%) Analytics
4 32 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (14.00%) Data Analysis
6 21 (14.00%) ETL
7 20 (13.33%) Agile
7 20 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 19 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.00%) Data Analytics
10 17 (11.33%) Business Analysis
11 16 (10.67%) Project Management
12 15 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 14 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (8.00%) Coaching
14 12 (8.00%) Data Engineering
15 11 (7.33%) Creative Thinking
15 11 (7.33%) Decision-Making
15 11 (7.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.33%) SQL
2 37 (24.67%) JavaScript
3 15 (10.00%) R
4 9 (6.00%) Java
5 4 (2.67%) Go
6 2 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.67%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.67%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.67%) C#
7 1 (0.67%) C++
7 1 (0.67%) Groovy
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (26.00%) Azure Certification
2 33 (22.00%) AWS Certification
3 32 (21.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 26 (17.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.00%) Degree
6 4 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.33%) CEH
7 2 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.67%) QA
3 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.00%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.00%) Terraform
3 3 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 82 (54.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.00%) Databricks
3 2 (1.33%) Google
3 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle
4 1 (0.67%) Sonatype
4 1 (0.67%) UiPath