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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 49 63
Rank change year-on-year +31 +14 -31
Permanent jobs citing Python 310 112 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.59% 5.81% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.14% 23.58% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 85 43 94
10th Percentile £34,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -3.16% -12.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,250 £77,375
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 792 475 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.84% 24.64% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 458 324 1,002
10th Percentile £28,850 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £62,913 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £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 3 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 3 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 +14 92 £42,500 -29.17% 26
Nottinghamshire +11 80 £52,500 +31.25% 37
Northamptonshire +34 55 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Derbyshire +5 49 £53,750 +31.10% 10
Lincolnshire +5 31 £50,000 -13.04% 14
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 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.65%) WordPress
2 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 112 (36.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 190 (61.29%) Azure
2 144 (46.45%) Azure AI
3 123 (39.68%) Power Platform
4 64 (20.65%) AWS
5 28 (9.03%) Amazon S3
5 28 (9.03%) Serverless
6 27 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (4.84%) GCP
8 9 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.29%) GitHub
11 4 (1.29%) Slack
12 3 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.97%) Datadog
12 3 (0.97%) dbt
13 2 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.90%) Wireless
2 8 (2.58%) Bluetooth
2 8 (2.58%) MQTT
2 8 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.26%) Firewall
4 5 (1.61%) DNS
5 4 (1.29%) Broadband
5 4 (1.29%) LTE
5 4 (1.29%) Modbus
5 4 (1.29%) VPN
5 4 (1.29%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.65%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) BGP
7 1 (0.32%) DHCP
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) HTTP
7 1 (0.32%) MPLS
7 1 (0.32%) RTP
7 1 (0.32%) SS7
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (39.68%) Power BI
2 114 (36.77%) Tableau
3 13 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.97%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.65%) Looker
8 2 (0.65%) Metadata
8 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.87%) Git
2 6 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.29%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.29%) GDB
3 4 (1.29%) GitLab
3 4 (1.29%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.29%) Subversion
4 1 (0.32%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.32%) MLflow
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 168 (54.19%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (19.35%) Finance
4 16 (5.16%) Banking
5 10 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.90%) Retail
7 7 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (0.97%) Law
9 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.65%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.65%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.32%) Games
10 1 (0.32%) Local Government
10 1 (0.32%) Marketing
10 1 (0.32%) Military
10 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 136 (43.87%) Analyst
2 134 (43.23%) Data Analyst
3 109 (35.16%) Junior
4 108 (34.84%) Junior Analyst
4 108 (34.84%) Junior Data Analyst
5 54 (17.42%) Developer
6 53 (17.10%) Data Scientist
7 40 (12.90%) Lead
8 37 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 37 (11.94%) Senior
9 23 (7.42%) Senior Data Scientist
10 22 (7.10%) Lead Data Scientist
11 19 (6.13%) Lead Developer
12 18 (5.81%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (5.81%) Senior Data Analyst
13 16 (5.16%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.52%) Software Developer
14 14 (4.52%) Statistician
15 13 (4.19%) Data Engineer
16 12 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.35%) PyTorch
2 23 (7.42%) HTML
2 23 (7.42%) React
2 23 (7.42%) TensorFlow
3 22 (7.10%) Hugging Face
3 22 (7.10%) Node.js
4 16 (5.16%) CSS
5 10 (3.23%) Pandas
6 8 (2.58%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.29%) JSON
7 4 (1.29%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (1.29%) pytest
7 4 (1.29%) Unity DI Container
7 4 (1.29%) Yocto
8 3 (0.97%) PySpark
9 2 (0.65%) jQuery
9 2 (0.65%) NumPy
10 1 (0.32%) Laravel
10 1 (0.32%) Matplotlib
10 1 (0.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.90%) IoT
2 5 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.29%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (1.29%) Device Driver
3 4 (1.29%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (0.97%) Credit Risk
4 3 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.32%) CUDA
6 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.32%) Social Media
6 1 (0.32%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.87%) Linux
2 7 (2.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.29%) VMS
3 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (58.71%) AI
2 123 (39.68%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (20.32%) Roadmaps
4 60 (19.35%) Machine Learning
5 59 (19.03%) Actionable Insight
6 58 (18.71%) Data Science
7 54 (17.42%) Analytics
8 49 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (15.48%) Software Engineering
10 46 (14.84%) Statistics
11 41 (13.23%) Mentoring
12 37 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 34 (10.97%) Deep Learning
14 30 (9.68%) Decision-Making
15 26 (8.39%) Data Analysis
16 25 (8.06%) Computer Science
16 25 (8.06%) Data Analytics
17 24 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
18 22 (7.10%) Data Transformation
18 22 (7.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 208 (67.10%) SQL
2 29 (9.35%) JavaScript
3 9 (2.90%) Bash
3 9 (2.90%) C
3 9 (2.90%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.90%) R
4 7 (2.26%) C#
4 7 (2.26%) C++
4 7 (2.26%) Java
5 6 (1.94%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.29%) Embedded C
7 2 (0.65%) Bicep
7 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.65%) PHP
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.32%) Rust
8 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (47.74%) Azure Certification
2 27 (8.71%) Degree
3 19 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.58%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.61%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.29%) GDPR
2 4 (1.29%) JTAG
3 2 (0.65%) QA
4 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.94%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.58%) Terraform
2 5 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
3 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Argo
4 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 125 (40.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.77%) Databricks
3 8 (2.58%) Google
4 4 (1.29%) Atmel
5 2 (0.65%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.65%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.32%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco
6 1 (0.32%) Civica
6 1 (0.32%) Cognos
6 1 (0.32%) ESRI
6 1 (0.32%) HP
6 1 (0.32%) Northgate
6 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle
6 1 (0.32%) Orchard
6 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds