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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 55
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 257 123 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.17% 5.24% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.40% 22.69% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 73 57 78
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +33.33% -11.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £76,750 £71,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -

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 905 542 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.67% 23.08% 23.89%
Number of salaries quoted 577 395 682
10th Percentile £28,414 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.66% -13.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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
Nottinghamshire +18 78 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Leicestershire -4 76 £42,500 -32.00% 30
Derbyshire +4 42 £45,000 -30.77% 22
Northamptonshire +12 38 £70,000 - 21
Lincolnshire -5 20 £52,500 -8.70% 24
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 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.78%) WordPress
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 60 (23.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 146 (56.81%) Azure
2 96 (37.35%) Azure AI
3 74 (28.79%) Power Platform
4 59 (22.96%) AWS
5 18 (7.00%) GCP
6 11 (4.28%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.28%) Serverless
7 10 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.50%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (1.95%) GitHub
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.56%) Slack
11 3 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.17%) dbt
11 3 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.67%) Firewall
2 10 (3.89%) DNS
2 10 (3.89%) MQTT
3 7 (2.72%) Wireless
4 6 (2.33%) VPN
4 6 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.33%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.56%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.56%) DHCP
6 3 (1.17%) Internet
6 3 (1.17%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.78%) HTTP
7 2 (0.78%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.78%) SSL
7 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.78%) VLAN
8 1 (0.39%) FTP
8 1 (0.39%) RTP
8 1 (0.39%) SS7
8 1 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (28.79%) Power BI
2 66 (25.68%) Tableau
3 10 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.89%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.78%) Looker
6 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.39%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (5.45%) Git
2 9 (3.50%) GitLab
3 7 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.33%) GDB
5 4 (1.56%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.17%) JIRA
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (46.69%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.12%) Finance
3 45 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.00%) Banking
5 12 (4.67%) Retail
6 10 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.33%) Law
9 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Electronics
11 2 (0.78%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (33.07%) Analyst
1 85 (33.07%) Data Analyst
2 61 (23.74%) Junior
3 60 (23.35%) Junior Analyst
3 60 (23.35%) Junior Data Analyst
4 55 (21.40%) Data Scientist
5 47 (18.29%) Developer
6 46 (17.90%) Senior
7 37 (14.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 31 (12.06%) Lead
9 24 (9.34%) Senior Data Scientist
10 23 (8.95%) Lead Data Scientist
11 18 (7.00%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (7.00%) Senior Data Analyst
12 16 (6.23%) Software Engineer
13 14 (5.45%) Data Engineer
13 14 (5.45%) Statistician
14 13 (5.06%) Lead Developer
14 13 (5.06%) Senior Developer
15 12 (4.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.67%) PyTorch
2 24 (9.34%) Hugging Face
2 24 (9.34%) TensorFlow
3 12 (4.67%) Terraform
4 11 (4.28%) scikit-learn
5 9 (3.50%) Pandas
6 7 (2.72%) HTML
6 7 (2.72%) Node.js
7 6 (2.33%) CSS
7 6 (2.33%) React
7 6 (2.33%) Yocto
8 5 (1.95%) REST
9 4 (1.56%) Django
9 4 (1.56%) JSON
9 4 (1.56%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.56%) pytest
9 4 (1.56%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (1.17%) Matplotlib
10 3 (1.17%) NumPy
10 3 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.67%) IoT
2 7 (2.72%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (2.33%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (2.33%) Device Driver
4 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.17%) PKI
5 3 (1.17%) Robotics
6 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.78%) SCADA
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.39%) CUDA
7 1 (0.39%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.39%) Linux
2 12 (4.67%) Windows
3 6 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.56%) VMS
5 2 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Debian
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (52.53%) AI
2 75 (29.18%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (24.12%) Machine Learning
4 61 (23.74%) Actionable Insight
5 60 (23.35%) Roadmaps
6 58 (22.57%) Data Science
7 53 (20.62%) Analytics
8 49 (19.07%) Software Engineering
8 49 (19.07%) Statistics
9 46 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (16.73%) Mentoring
11 37 (14.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 36 (14.01%) Deep Learning
13 27 (10.51%) Decision-Making
14 26 (10.12%) CI/CD
14 26 (10.12%) Validation
15 25 (9.73%) Data Analysis
15 25 (9.73%) Project Management
16 22 (8.56%) Data Transformation
16 22 (8.56%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 143 (55.64%) SQL
2 16 (6.23%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.67%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.28%) Bash
5 10 (3.89%) C#
6 9 (3.50%) C++
7 7 (2.72%) C
8 6 (2.33%) Java
8 6 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.95%) R
10 3 (1.17%) PHP
11 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 98 (38.13%) Azure Certification
2 23 (8.95%) Degree
3 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.72%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.72%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.95%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.56%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.17%) CCNA
7 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.17%) MCSE
8 2 (0.78%) CISSP
8 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.33%) JTAG
2 4 (1.56%) SLA
3 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 11 (4.28%) Docker
2 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.17%) Firmware
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.17%) vSphere
4 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.56%) Ansible
2 4 (1.56%) Grafana
3 3 (1.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.78%) Databricks
3 8 (3.11%) Google
4 5 (1.95%) VMware
5 3 (1.17%) Cisco
6 2 (0.78%) AlienVault
6 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.78%) FIS
6 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.39%) ESRI
7 1 (0.39%) HP
7 1 (0.39%) Splunk