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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -27 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 124 180 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.82% 8.35% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.87% 29.80% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 70 87 70
10th Percentile £36,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £39,120 £32,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,600 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £71,875 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,375 £84,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -1.27%

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 445 604 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.31% 28.01% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 358 370 649
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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
Northamptonshire +18 35 £70,000 +20.69% 44
Nottinghamshire -19 31 £42,500 -8.11% 57
Leicestershire -1 23 £42,500 -26.09% 54
Derbyshire -17 21 £62,500 +8.70% 56
Lincolnshire -6 12 £40,000 -38.46% 40
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 (1.61%) WordPress
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 57 (45.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.77%) Azure
2 54 (43.55%) Power Platform
3 39 (31.45%) AWS
4 36 (29.03%) Azure AI
5 17 (13.71%) Serverless
6 16 (12.90%) Amazon S3
6 16 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.23%) GCP
7 4 (3.23%) GitHub
7 4 (3.23%) SaaS
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.61%) Datadog
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.81%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) Broadband
1 2 (1.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) 4G
2 1 (0.81%) BGP
2 1 (0.81%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.81%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.81%) LTE
2 1 (0.81%) Modbus
2 1 (0.81%) MPLS
2 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (43.55%) Tableau
2 53 (42.74%) Power BI
3 8 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.84%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.23%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Looker
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Power Query
7 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Git
2 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.81%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.81%) JUnit
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
4 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 52 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.52%) Finance
3 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Marketing
5 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Law
5 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.42%) Local Government
6 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.61%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (45.97%) Analyst
2 53 (42.74%) Data Analyst
3 36 (29.03%) Junior
3 36 (29.03%) Junior Analyst
3 36 (29.03%) Junior Data Analyst
4 29 (23.39%) Developer
5 21 (16.94%) Senior
6 13 (10.48%) Python Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Software Engineer
8 11 (8.87%) Lead
8 11 (8.87%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Python Engineer
10 9 (7.26%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (7.26%) Software Developer
11 8 (6.45%) AWS Developer
11 8 (6.45%) Digital Analyst
11 8 (6.45%) Digital Analytics Analyst
11 8 (6.45%) Node.js Developer
11 8 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.35%) React
2 19 (15.32%) Node.js
3 18 (14.52%) HTML
4 12 (9.68%) CSS
5 7 (5.65%) Django
6 6 (4.84%) PySpark
7 4 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.23%) REST
8 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.61%) Flask
9 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.81%) Jinja
9 1 (0.81%) Middleware
9 1 (0.81%) NETCONF
9 1 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.81%) pytest
9 1 (0.81%) Spring
9 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.81%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.23%) Credit Risk
2 4 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.81%) Life Science
4 1 (0.81%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.03%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.74%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (34.68%) AI
3 26 (20.97%) Analytics
3 26 (20.97%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (17.74%) Software Engineering
5 21 (16.94%) Data Science
6 19 (15.32%) Decision-Making
7 17 (13.71%) CI/CD
7 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.71%) Visualisation
8 14 (11.29%) Computer Science
8 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (11.29%) Data Analytics
8 14 (11.29%) Economics
9 12 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
9 12 (9.68%) Statistical Analysis
9 12 (9.68%) Statistics
10 11 (8.87%) CRM
11 10 (8.06%) Data Analysis
11 10 (8.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (77.42%) SQL
2 27 (21.77%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.84%) R
4 5 (4.03%) Java
5 4 (3.23%) Bash
5 4 (3.23%) PHP
6 3 (2.42%) C
6 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.42%) VBA
7 2 (1.61%) Perl
7 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) Delphi
8 1 (0.81%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (31.45%) Azure Certification
2 30 (24.19%) Degree
3 11 (8.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.45%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.42%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.61%) HND
7 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.61%) PMP
8 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.03%) Terraform
2 4 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (1.61%) Argo
3 2 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.81%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (36.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.06%) Databricks
3 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.61%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (1.61%) Google
4 2 (1.61%) Siemens
4 2 (1.61%) Toshiba
4 2 (1.61%) Zoho
5 1 (0.81%) Atmel
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco
5 1 (0.81%) Civica
5 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.81%) Northgate
5 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) Orchard