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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -32
Permanent jobs citing Python 242 129 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.92% 8.82% 4.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.00% 27.98% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 84 82 105
10th Percentile £34,125 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,313 £35,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -10.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,125 £85,375 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 654 461 1,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.01% 31.51% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 413 380 961
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +16 64 £41,250 -18.32% 39
Northamptonshire +12 56 £60,000 +6.19% 17
Nottinghamshire -15 55 £54,000 -1.82% 24
Derbyshire -9 34 £55,000 -2.22% 24
Lincolnshire -6 31 £45,000 -30.77% 16
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 4 (1.65%) WordPress
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 125 (51.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 177 (73.14%) Azure
2 138 (57.02%) Azure AI
3 133 (54.96%) Power Platform
4 61 (25.21%) AWS
5 26 (10.74%) Amazon S3
5 26 (10.74%) Serverless
6 25 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.13%) GCP
8 7 (2.89%) GitHub
9 6 (2.48%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.24%) Datadog
11 3 (1.24%) SaaS
12 2 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) Wireless
2 4 (1.65%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.65%) Broadband
2 4 (1.65%) Internet
2 4 (1.65%) LTE
2 4 (1.65%) Modbus
2 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.41%) 4G
3 1 (0.41%) BGP
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (54.96%) Power BI
2 126 (52.07%) Tableau
3 12 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.48%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.83%) Metadata
8 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.41%) Looker
9 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Git
2 4 (1.65%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.65%) Subversion
3 3 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.41%) JUnit
4 1 (0.41%) MLflow
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 159 (65.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.44%) Finance
4 8 (3.31%) Retail
5 6 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.07%) Marketing
7 4 (1.65%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.24%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.83%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Military
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (52.48%) Analyst
2 125 (51.65%) Data Analyst
3 115 (47.52%) Junior
4 114 (47.11%) Junior Analyst
4 114 (47.11%) Junior Data Analyst
5 37 (15.29%) Developer
6 24 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (9.50%) Senior
8 17 (7.02%) Python Developer
9 16 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (6.61%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.20%) Data Scientist
10 15 (6.20%) Lead
10 15 (6.20%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.79%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.96%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.96%) Node.js Developer
12 12 (4.96%) React Developer
12 12 (4.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.22%) React
2 27 (11.16%) Node.js
3 26 (10.74%) HTML
4 18 (7.44%) CSS
5 9 (3.72%) Pandas
5 9 (3.72%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.89%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.48%) Django
7 6 (2.48%) PySpark
8 5 (2.07%) REST
9 4 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.24%) JSON
10 3 (1.24%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.83%) Flask
11 2 (0.83%) jQuery
12 1 (0.41%) Jinja
12 1 (0.41%) Kafka
12 1 (0.41%) pytest
12 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (1.65%) Credit Risk
1 4 (1.65%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
2 2 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.41%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (62.40%) AI
2 128 (52.89%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (13.64%) Analytics
5 28 (11.57%) Data Science
6 26 (10.74%) Software Engineering
7 25 (10.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 23 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 22 (9.09%) Machine Learning
10 18 (7.44%) Visualisation
11 16 (6.61%) Mentoring
12 15 (6.20%) Decision-Making
12 15 (6.20%) Statistics
13 14 (5.79%) CI/CD
14 13 (5.37%) API Development
15 12 (4.96%) Data Visualisation
15 12 (4.96%) Economics
16 11 (4.55%) Data Analytics
16 11 (4.55%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 180 (74.38%) SQL
2 34 (14.05%) JavaScript
3 11 (4.55%) R
4 5 (2.07%) C
4 5 (2.07%) Java
5 4 (1.65%) Bash
5 4 (1.65%) Embedded C
5 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.24%) C#
6 3 (1.24%) PHP
7 2 (0.83%) Bicep
7 2 (0.83%) C++
7 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.41%) Delphi
8 1 (0.41%) Go
8 1 (0.41%) Rust
8 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (59.92%) Azure Certification
2 29 (11.98%) Degree
3 16 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.55%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) QA
3 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.07%) Firmware
2 4 (1.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.07%) Terraform
2 4 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Argo
5 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 132 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.85%) Databricks
3 9 (3.72%) Google
4 4 (1.65%) Atmel
4 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.83%) Civica
5 2 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (0.83%) Northgate
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle
5 2 (0.83%) Orchard
5 2 (0.83%) Zoho
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco
6 1 (0.41%) Cognos
6 1 (0.41%) HP
6 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds