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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 19 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 119 161 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 9.92% 7.39% 5.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.66% 24.58% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 100 84 60
10th Percentile £34,625 £31,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,625 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,879 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +0.61% -4.80%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,625 £78,125
90th Percentile £77,581 £93,750 £88,950
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.04% +3.64%

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 316 655 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.33% 30.06% 37.11%
Number of salaries quoted 271 310 389
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £39,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% -7.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,510 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 26 October 2025.

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 29 (24.37%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) nginx
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.68%) PowerFactory
4 1 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (53.78%) AWS
2 54 (45.38%) Azure
3 30 (25.21%) Amazon ELB
3 30 (25.21%) Amazon S3
4 29 (24.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 29 (24.37%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (24.37%) AWS KMS
4 29 (24.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (20.17%) Amazon Glacier
6 14 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (9.24%) GCP
8 10 (8.40%) GitHub
9 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.88%) Azure AI
9 7 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.88%) Serverless
9 7 (5.88%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (25.21%) Firewall
2 17 (14.29%) HTTP
3 16 (13.45%) DNS
3 16 (13.45%) FTP
3 16 (13.45%) SMTP
3 16 (13.45%) SSH
4 8 (6.72%) Internet
5 5 (4.20%) IMAP
5 5 (4.20%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.84%) BGP
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.84%) Network Security
7 1 (0.84%) OSPF
7 1 (0.84%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.05%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.08%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.24%) Tableau
4 9 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.04%) Delta Lake
6 6 (5.04%) Power BI
7 5 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (4.20%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.36%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.52%) Big Data
9 3 (2.52%) MySQL
9 3 (2.52%) Parquet
10 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.68%) Metadata
10 2 (1.68%) Redis
10 2 (1.68%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 38 (31.93%) Git
2 29 (24.37%) Jenkins
2 29 (24.37%) JIRA
2 29 (24.37%) Vagrant
3 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.84%) JMeter
4 1 (0.84%) Locust
4 1 (0.84%) MLflow
General
1 36 (30.25%) Public Sector
2 21 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.45%) Retail
4 14 (11.76%) Finance
5 13 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.72%) Multimedia
7 7 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.36%) Automotive
9 4 (3.36%) Marketing
10 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.52%) Legal
11 2 (1.68%) Games
11 2 (1.68%) Law
11 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.84%) Back Office
12 1 (0.84%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (16.81%) Developer
2 18 (15.13%) Support Engineer
3 17 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 17 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Trainee
6 12 (10.08%) Analyst
6 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Support
6 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Applications Support
7 10 (8.40%) Senior
8 9 (7.56%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Data Analyst
10 7 (5.88%) Lead
11 6 (5.04%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.40%) PySpark
2 8 (6.72%) CSS
2 8 (6.72%) HTML
3 7 (5.88%) .NET
4 5 (4.20%) LDAP
5 4 (3.36%) XML
6 3 (2.52%) Django
6 3 (2.52%) NumPy
6 3 (2.52%) Pandas
6 3 (2.52%) React
7 2 (1.68%) Kafka
7 2 (1.68%) Node.js
7 2 (1.68%) RESTful
7 2 (1.68%) Spring
7 2 (1.68%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.68%) YAML
8 1 (0.84%) EDI
8 1 (0.84%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.84%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Replication
2 7 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.04%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.52%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.84%) Clustering
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.25%) Linux
2 29 (24.37%) VMS
3 18 (15.13%) Windows
4 16 (13.45%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (4.20%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.84%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.25%) DevOps
2 30 (25.21%) Change Management
2 30 (25.21%) Cloud Security
3 29 (24.37%) Configuration Management
4 27 (22.69%) AI
5 23 (19.33%) Analytics
6 18 (15.13%) Agile
6 18 (15.13%) Mentoring
6 18 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.45%) Patch Management
9 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
10 14 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.76%) Data Engineering
10 14 (11.76%) Data Science
10 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (11.76%) Machine Learning
11 13 (10.92%) ETL
11 13 (10.92%) Visualisation
12 10 (8.40%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (46.22%) SQL
2 31 (26.05%) Java
3 29 (24.37%) Groovy
3 29 (24.37%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.61%) Perl
5 15 (12.61%) R
6 3 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.68%) Bash
7 2 (1.68%) C#
7 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.68%) Scala
8 1 (0.84%) Go
8 1 (0.84%) JCL
8 1 (0.84%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.84%) REXX
8 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 35 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.61%) AWS Certification
2 15 (12.61%) Azure Certification
2 15 (12.61%) Degree
3 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.84%) CBAP
7 1 (0.84%) CCIE
7 1 (0.84%) CCNP
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 7 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) QA
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) SLA
4 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (20.17%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.49%) Docker
3 18 (15.13%) DFS Replication
4 5 (4.20%) Dovecot
4 5 (4.20%) Postfix
4 5 (4.20%) Squid
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.84%) HDFS
5 1 (0.84%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 36 (30.25%) Terraform
2 31 (26.05%) Grafana
3 30 (25.21%) Prometheus
4 14 (11.76%) Ansible
5 5 (4.20%) Nessus
5 5 (4.20%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.84%) Kibana
7 1 (0.84%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.84%) logstash
7 1 (0.84%) Oozie
Vendors
1 33 (27.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (24.37%) ServiceNow
3 16 (13.45%) Databricks
4 13 (10.92%) Juniper
5 5 (4.20%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (3.36%) Google
6 4 (3.36%) UiPath
7 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.68%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.68%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.68%) IBM
9 1 (0.84%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.84%) Cisco
9 1 (0.84%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (0.84%) Informatica
9 1 (0.84%) Meraki
9 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle
9 1 (0.84%) SAP
9 1 (0.84%) Splunk