Python Job Trends in the East Midlands

Python
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 47 58
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 302 118 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.35% 6.00% 3.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.19% 24.33% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 87 47 106
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 812 485 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.06% 24.64% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 482 333 1,048
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,025 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Python job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Python
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +13 88 £42,500 -32.00% 23
Nottinghamshire +13 81 £52,500 +31.25% 34
Northamptonshire +32 53 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Derbyshire +13 48 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Lincolnshire +4 28 £51,250 -10.87% 17
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.66%) WordPress
2 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 98 (32.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 180 (59.60%) Azure
2 132 (43.71%) Azure AI
3 112 (37.09%) Power Platform
4 65 (21.52%) AWS
5 28 (9.27%) Amazon S3
5 28 (9.27%) Serverless
6 27 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.30%) GCP
8 9 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.98%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (1.66%) GitHub
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.32%) Slack
11 3 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.99%) Datadog
11 3 (0.99%) dbt
11 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.98%) Wireless
2 8 (2.65%) Bluetooth
2 8 (2.65%) Firewall
2 8 (2.65%) MQTT
2 8 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.66%) DNS
3 5 (1.66%) VPN
4 4 (1.32%) Broadband
4 4 (1.32%) LTE
4 4 (1.32%) Modbus
4 4 (1.32%) ZigBee
5 2 (0.66%) Internet
6 1 (0.33%) BGP
6 1 (0.33%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) FTP
6 1 (0.33%) HTTP
6 1 (0.33%) MPLS
6 1 (0.33%) RTP
6 1 (0.33%) SS7
6 1 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (37.09%) Power BI
2 101 (33.44%) Tableau
3 13 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.98%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.98%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.66%) Looker
6 2 (0.66%) Metadata
6 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.33%) GIS
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (4.30%) Git
2 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.32%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.32%) GDB
3 4 (1.32%) GitLab
3 4 (1.32%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.32%) Subversion
4 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.33%) MLflow
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 156 (51.66%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (20.20%) Finance
3 18 (5.96%) Banking
4 10 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.98%) Retail
6 7 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (0.99%) Law
7 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.66%) Marketing
8 2 (0.66%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.66%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.33%) Advertising
9 1 (0.33%) Games
9 1 (0.33%) Local Government
9 1 (0.33%) Military
9 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 123 (40.73%) Analyst
2 121 (40.07%) Data Analyst
3 97 (32.12%) Junior
4 96 (31.79%) Junior Analyst
4 96 (31.79%) Junior Data Analyst
5 58 (19.21%) Data Scientist
6 56 (18.54%) Developer
7 42 (13.91%) Lead
8 37 (12.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 37 (12.25%) Senior
9 25 (8.28%) Senior Data Scientist
10 24 (7.95%) Lead Data Scientist
11 21 (6.95%) Lead Developer
12 18 (5.96%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (5.96%) Senior Data Analyst
13 15 (4.97%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.64%) Software Developer
14 14 (4.64%) Statistician
15 13 (4.30%) Data Engineer
16 12 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.60%) PyTorch
2 26 (8.61%) TensorFlow
3 24 (7.95%) Hugging Face
4 23 (7.62%) HTML
4 23 (7.62%) React
5 22 (7.28%) Node.js
6 16 (5.30%) CSS
7 10 (3.31%) Pandas
8 9 (2.98%) scikit-learn
9 4 (1.32%) JSON
9 4 (1.32%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.32%) pytest
9 4 (1.32%) Unity DI Container
9 4 (1.32%) Yocto
10 2 (0.66%) jQuery
10 2 (0.66%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.66%) Middleware
10 2 (0.66%) NumPy
10 2 (0.66%) PySpark
10 2 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.98%) IoT
2 5 (1.66%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.32%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (1.32%) Device Driver
3 4 (1.32%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (0.99%) Credit Risk
4 3 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.33%) CUDA
6 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.33%) SCADA
6 1 (0.33%) Social Media
6 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.64%) Linux
2 8 (2.65%) Windows
3 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Debian
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (56.29%) AI
2 113 (37.42%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (21.85%) Roadmaps
4 62 (20.53%) Actionable Insight
4 62 (20.53%) Data Science
4 62 (20.53%) Machine Learning
5 54 (17.88%) Analytics
6 52 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (16.56%) Software Engineering
8 49 (16.23%) Statistics
9 43 (14.24%) Mentoring
10 37 (12.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 36 (11.92%) Deep Learning
12 30 (9.93%) Decision-Making
13 26 (8.61%) Computer Science
14 25 (8.28%) Data Analysis
15 24 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (7.62%) Data Analytics
16 23 (7.62%) Validation
17 22 (7.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 198 (65.56%) SQL
2 29 (9.60%) JavaScript
3 11 (3.64%) Bash
3 11 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.98%) C
4 9 (2.98%) R
5 7 (2.32%) C#
5 7 (2.32%) C++
5 7 (2.32%) Java
6 6 (1.99%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.32%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.99%) PHP
9 2 (0.66%) Bicep
9 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.33%) Go
10 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.33%) Ruby
10 1 (0.33%) Rust
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (45.03%) Azure Certification
2 28 (9.27%) Degree
3 19 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.65%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.99%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.66%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.32%) GDPR
2 4 (1.32%) JTAG
3 2 (0.66%) QA
4 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.98%) Terraform
2 6 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.99%) Ansible
3 3 (0.99%) Grafana
3 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 111 (36.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.28%) Databricks
3 8 (2.65%) Google
4 4 (1.32%) Atmel
5 2 (0.66%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco
6 1 (0.33%) Civica
6 1 (0.33%) Cognos
6 1 (0.33%) ESRI
6 1 (0.33%) HP
6 1 (0.33%) Northgate
6 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle
6 1 (0.33%) Orchard
6 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.33%) VMware