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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 17 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 118 108 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.39% 8.59% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.50% 30.08% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 88 85 81
10th Percentile £35,850 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,762 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,232
% change year-on-year - -0.36% +13.45%

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 400 359 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.49% 28.54% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 288 305 425
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,400 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,704 £77,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%

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 22 August 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 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (49.15%) Azure
2 36 (30.51%) AWS
3 35 (29.66%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.41%) Azure AI
5 15 (12.71%) Snowflake
6 12 (10.17%) SaaS
7 11 (9.32%) dbt
8 10 (8.47%) GCP
8 10 (8.47%) PaaS
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Stack
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.24%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.24%) Serverless
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.54%) Google Ads
11 3 (2.54%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) BGP
1 4 (3.39%) OSPF
1 4 (3.39%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.39%) VLAN
2 3 (2.54%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (2.54%) LAN
2 3 (2.54%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.54%) WAN
3 2 (1.69%) MPLS
3 2 (1.69%) Network Security
3 2 (1.69%) SSH
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) HSRP
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.85%) IPFIX
4 1 (0.85%) VRRP
4 1 (0.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.66%) Power BI
2 17 (14.41%) Tableau
3 10 (8.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.93%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.08%) Delta Lake
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.24%) Redis
7 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.39%) Big Data
8 4 (3.39%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.54%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.54%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (2.54%) QlikView
9 3 (2.54%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.54%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Git
2 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.54%) JMeter
3 2 (1.69%) Ant
3 2 (1.69%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.69%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.69%) Locust
3 2 (1.69%) Maven
3 2 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (8.47%) Finance
3 7 (5.93%) Retail
4 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.08%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.08%) Marketing
4 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.24%) Legal
5 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Banking
7 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 29 (24.58%) Data Engineer
2 28 (23.73%) Senior
3 25 (21.19%) Python Engineer
4 16 (13.56%) Analyst
5 14 (11.86%) Junior
5 14 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Data Analyst
6 13 (11.02%) Junior Analyst
6 13 (11.02%) Junior Data Analyst
6 13 (11.02%) Lead
6 13 (11.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Snowflake Engineer
7 11 (9.32%) Software Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) Developer
9 9 (7.63%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Python Data Engineer
10 8 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) Terraform
2 8 (6.78%) PySpark
2 8 (6.78%) REST
3 7 (5.93%) FastAPI
3 7 (5.93%) RESTful
4 6 (5.08%) React
5 5 (4.24%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (3.39%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.39%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.54%) JSON
7 3 (2.54%) XML
8 2 (1.69%) CSS
8 2 (1.69%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.69%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.69%) HTML
8 2 (1.69%) Node.js
8 2 (1.69%) NumPy
8 2 (1.69%) Pandas
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.85%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.78%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.54%) iSeries
4 3 (2.54%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.54%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.69%) IoT
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.69%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.69%) PMI
6 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.85%) NHS
6 1 (0.85%) Social Media
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
1 7 (5.93%) Windows
2 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.69%) Solaris
3 2 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) AI
2 38 (32.20%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (22.88%) Analytics
4 22 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 22 (18.64%) ETL
4 22 (18.64%) Software Engineering
5 19 (16.10%) Data Engineering
5 19 (16.10%) Data Modelling
5 19 (16.10%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (14.41%) LLM
7 14 (11.86%) Translating Business Requirements
8 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
9 12 (10.17%) DevOps
9 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.32%) Agile
10 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (9.32%) Data Governance
10 11 (9.32%) Machine Learning
10 11 (9.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (46.61%) SQL
2 13 (11.02%) Java
3 8 (6.78%) R
4 7 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.69%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) Go
7 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) C++
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.85%) PHP
8 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (16.95%) Azure Certification
2 8 (6.78%) Degree
3 5 (4.24%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) SLA
4 2 (1.69%) QA
4 2 (1.69%) WCAG
5 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (6.78%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Grafana
1 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) Ansible
3 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.69%) Puppet
4 1 (0.85%) Nagios
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.47%) Databricks
3 6 (5.08%) Google
4 5 (4.24%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) Cisco
5 3 (2.54%) Informatica
5 3 (2.54%) SAP
5 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) New Relic
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media