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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 48 37
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 164 69 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.44% 5.15% 5.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.93% 18.02% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 127 52 121
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,053 £68,750 £79,600
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,039 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%

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 382 383 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.01% 28.58% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 309 285 692
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,600
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% -3.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £75,000 £84,964
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 6 April 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 (3.66%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (20.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (52.44%) Azure
2 44 (26.83%) AWS
3 41 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 23 (14.02%) Azure AI
5 22 (13.41%) GitHub
6 15 (9.15%) Snowflake
7 11 (6.71%) dbt
8 9 (5.49%) PaaS
9 8 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.88%) SaaS
10 6 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.66%) GCP
11 3 (1.83%) Datadog
11 3 (1.83%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.22%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.41%) Internet
2 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.00%) Power BI
2 38 (23.17%) Tableau
3 15 (9.15%) Data Mining
3 15 (9.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.05%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.44%) Redis
8 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.22%) Power Query
9 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.61%) Metadata
9 1 (0.61%) MySQL
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (2.44%) JMeter
4 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.83%) Locust
5 2 (1.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) MLflow
6 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.07%) Finance
3 26 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.41%) Multimedia
5 8 (4.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.27%) Retail
7 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.44%) Automotive
8 4 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Marketing
9 3 (1.83%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.22%) Law
10 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (26.22%) Trainee
2 38 (23.17%) Analyst
3 36 (21.95%) Data Analyst
4 30 (18.29%) Data Engineer
5 23 (14.02%) Developer
6 19 (11.59%) Junior
6 19 (11.59%) Junior Analyst
6 19 (11.59%) Junior Data Analyst
7 17 (10.37%) Senior
8 16 (9.76%) Lead
9 14 (8.54%) Azure Data Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) Snowflake Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) Trainee Analyst
9 14 (8.54%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (6.71%) Software Developer
11 10 (6.10%) Python Engineer
11 10 (6.10%) Trainee Developer
11 10 (6.10%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.02%) CSS
1 23 (14.02%) HTML
2 10 (6.10%) PySpark
3 8 (4.88%) Django
3 8 (4.88%) React
4 7 (4.27%) Node.js
4 7 (4.27%) NumPy
4 7 (4.27%) Pandas
4 7 (4.27%) scikit-learn
5 6 (3.66%) Hugging Face
5 6 (3.66%) Matplotlib
5 6 (3.66%) Streamlit
6 3 (1.83%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.22%) EDI
7 2 (1.22%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.22%) Flask
7 2 (1.22%) JSON
7 2 (1.22%) RESTful
7 2 (1.22%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.22%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.22%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.22%) Social Media
5 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.61%) NHS
5 1 (0.61%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Linux
1 3 (1.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.37%) AI
2 40 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (21.34%) Mentoring
4 33 (20.12%) Analytics
5 26 (15.85%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (12.80%) Machine Learning
7 20 (12.20%) Data Analysis
7 20 (12.20%) ETL
8 19 (11.59%) Agile
9 16 (9.76%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.15%) Business Analysis
10 15 (9.15%) Data Analytics
10 15 (9.15%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (8.54%) Project Management
12 13 (7.93%) Data Engineering
12 13 (7.93%) DevOps
13 12 (7.32%) LLM
13 12 (7.32%) Visualisation
14 11 (6.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 79 (48.17%) SQL
2 33 (20.12%) JavaScript
3 14 (8.54%) R
4 11 (6.71%) Java
5 4 (2.44%) Go
6 3 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.22%) C#
7 2 (1.22%) C++
7 2 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.22%) Groovy
7 2 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.61%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.61%) PHP
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (26.22%) Azure Certification
2 30 (18.29%) AWS Certification
3 28 (17.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 22 (13.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (6.10%) Degree
6 4 (2.44%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.44%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.22%) CEH
8 2 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.44%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) WCAG
4 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.27%) Terraform
3 4 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 80 (48.78%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.80%) Databricks
3 3 (1.83%) Google
3 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.61%) Informatica
4 1 (0.61%) New Relic
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle
4 1 (0.61%) Sonatype
4 1 (0.61%) UiPath