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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 21 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 134 162 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 9.75% 7.34% 5.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.76% 24.36% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 116 84 65
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £43,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,690 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% +0.30% -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £93,750 £89,950
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%

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 337 665 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.53% 30.13% 37.78%
Number of salaries quoted 289 303 394
10th Percentile £30,800 £31,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,225 £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 16 November 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 24 (17.91%) Confluence
2 4 (2.99%) nginx
3 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.49%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.99%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (45.52%) Azure
2 58 (43.28%) AWS
3 25 (18.66%) Amazon ELB
3 25 (18.66%) Amazon S3
4 24 (17.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (17.91%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (17.91%) AWS KMS
4 24 (17.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (14.93%) Amazon Glacier
6 15 (11.19%) GitHub
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (6.72%) Azure AI
7 9 (6.72%) GCP
8 8 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (5.97%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.48%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.99%) Route 53
10 4 (2.99%) SaaS
11 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.66%) Firewall
2 14 (10.45%) HTTP
2 14 (10.45%) Internet
3 13 (9.70%) DNS
3 13 (9.70%) FTP
3 13 (9.70%) SMTP
3 13 (9.70%) SSH
4 4 (2.99%) IMAP
4 4 (2.99%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.75%) BGP
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) OSPF
6 1 (0.75%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.40%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.45%) Tableau
3 13 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.97%) Data Mining
4 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.97%) Power BI
4 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.22%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.24%) MySQL
7 3 (2.24%) Parquet
8 2 (1.49%) Big Data
8 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.49%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.49%) Redis
8 2 (1.49%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (29.10%) Git
2 24 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.91%) JIRA
2 24 (17.91%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.75%) JMeter
3 1 (0.75%) Locust
3 1 (0.75%) MLflow
3 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (23.88%) Public Sector
2 19 (14.18%) Finance
2 19 (14.18%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.45%) Multimedia
5 13 (9.70%) Retail
6 6 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.99%) Automotive
8 4 (2.99%) Marketing
9 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.24%) Legal
10 2 (1.49%) Games
10 2 (1.49%) Law
10 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 28 (20.90%) Developer
2 22 (16.42%) Trainee
3 18 (13.43%) Data Engineer
4 15 (11.19%) Analyst
4 15 (11.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) Support Engineer
6 12 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (8.96%) Senior
7 11 (8.21%) Azure Data Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Lead
7 11 (8.21%) Software Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Architect
8 10 (7.46%) Data Analyst
8 10 (7.46%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.22%) Trainee Analyst
9 7 (5.22%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) CSS
1 14 (10.45%) HTML
2 10 (7.46%) PySpark
3 8 (5.97%) Django
3 8 (5.97%) React
4 6 (4.48%) Node.js
5 4 (2.99%) LDAP
5 4 (2.99%) XML
6 3 (2.24%) .NET
7 2 (1.49%) Kafka
7 2 (1.49%) RESTful
7 2 (1.49%) Spring
7 2 (1.49%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.49%) YAML
8 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.75%) Keras
8 1 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.19%) Replication
2 7 (5.22%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.24%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.39%) Linux
2 24 (17.91%) VMS
3 15 (11.19%) Windows
4 13 (9.70%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (3.73%) Unix
6 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.37%) AI
2 32 (23.88%) DevOps
3 26 (19.40%) Analytics
3 26 (19.40%) Mentoring
4 25 (18.66%) Change Management
4 25 (18.66%) Cloud Security
5 24 (17.91%) Configuration Management
6 20 (14.93%) Agile
6 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (12.69%) Machine Learning
8 16 (11.94%) Data Engineering
9 15 (11.19%) CI/CD
9 15 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (10.45%) Data Science
11 13 (9.70%) Data Analytics
11 13 (9.70%) ETL
11 13 (9.70%) Patch Management
11 13 (9.70%) Visualisation
12 12 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (43.28%) SQL
2 25 (18.66%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.91%) Groovy
3 24 (17.91%) Java
3 24 (17.91%) PowerShell
4 18 (13.43%) R
5 13 (9.70%) Perl
6 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.49%) Bash
7 2 (1.49%) C#
7 2 (1.49%) Go
7 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.49%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.75%) JCL
8 1 (0.75%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.75%) REXX
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (22.39%) SC Cleared
1 30 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.93%) AWS Certification
2 20 (14.93%) Azure Certification
3 15 (11.19%) Degree
3 15 (11.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (10.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.49%) PhD
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) CBAP
7 1 (0.75%) CCIE
7 1 (0.75%) CCNP
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.49%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (14.93%) Active Directory
1 20 (14.93%) Docker
2 15 (11.19%) DFS Replication
3 4 (2.99%) Dovecot
3 4 (2.99%) Postfix
3 4 (2.99%) Squid
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.75%) HDFS
4 1 (0.75%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 30 (22.39%) Terraform
2 25 (18.66%) Grafana
3 24 (17.91%) Prometheus
4 12 (8.96%) Ansible
5 4 (2.99%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.99%) Nessus
5 4 (2.99%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
6 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.75%) logstash
6 1 (0.75%) Oozie
Vendors
1 43 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.91%) ServiceNow
3 17 (12.69%) Databricks
4 11 (8.21%) Juniper
5 5 (3.73%) UiPath
6 4 (2.99%) Google
6 4 (2.99%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.49%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.75%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.75%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.75%) Dell
9 1 (0.75%) Informatica
9 1 (0.75%) Meraki
9 1 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle
9 1 (0.75%) SAP
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk