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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -26
Permanent jobs citing Python 172 143 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.14% 8.96% 4.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.73% 29.18% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 82 89 106
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,410 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £84,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 542 490 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.19% 30.70% 30.20%
Number of salaries quoted 392 365 931
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +19 45 £60,000 +6.19% 25
Leicestershire +10 41 £41,250 -15.82% 46
Nottinghamshire -23 39 £54,000 -1.82% 29
Derbyshire -16 24 £55,000 -4.35% 18
Lincolnshire -10 20 £43,000 -33.85% 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 4 (2.33%) WordPress
2 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Applications
1 94 (54.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 105 (61.05%) Azure
2 94 (54.65%) Power Platform
3 78 (45.35%) Azure AI
4 51 (29.65%) AWS
5 25 (14.53%) Amazon S3
6 24 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (13.95%) Serverless
7 7 (4.07%) GitHub
8 4 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.33%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.74%) Datadog
9 3 (1.74%) GCP
9 3 (1.74%) SaaS
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Bluetooth
1 4 (2.33%) Broadband
1 4 (2.33%) Internet
1 4 (2.33%) LTE
1 4 (2.33%) Modbus
1 4 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.33%) Wireless
2 1 (0.58%) 4G
2 1 (0.58%) BGP
2 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.58%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (54.65%) Power BI
2 91 (52.91%) Tableau
3 12 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.49%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.16%) Metadata
6 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Git
2 4 (2.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.33%) Subversion
3 3 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.58%) JUnit
4 1 (0.58%) MLflow
4 1 (0.58%) Selenium
4 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (56.40%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.47%) Finance
4 6 (3.49%) Marketing
5 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.33%) Multimedia
7 3 (1.74%) Law
7 3 (1.74%) Local Government
8 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.58%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (53.49%) Analyst
2 90 (52.33%) Data Analyst
3 79 (45.93%) Junior
4 78 (45.35%) Junior Analyst
4 78 (45.35%) Junior Data Analyst
5 36 (20.93%) Developer
6 22 (12.79%) Senior
7 16 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (9.30%) Python Developer
8 15 (8.72%) Senior Developer
9 14 (8.14%) Lead
9 14 (8.14%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.56%) Software Developer
11 12 (6.98%) AWS Developer
11 12 (6.98%) Node.js Developer
11 12 (6.98%) React Developer
11 12 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.65%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.65%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.60%) React
2 27 (15.70%) Node.js
3 26 (15.12%) HTML
4 16 (9.30%) CSS
5 6 (3.49%) Django
5 6 (3.49%) PySpark
6 4 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.33%) REST
7 3 (1.74%) Pandas
7 3 (1.74%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.74%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.16%) Flask
9 1 (0.58%) Jinja
9 1 (0.58%) JSON
9 1 (0.58%) Matplotlib
9 1 (0.58%) NumPy
9 1 (0.58%) pytest
9 1 (0.58%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.33%) Credit Risk
1 4 (2.33%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (54.65%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (50.58%) AI
3 34 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (15.70%) Analytics
5 25 (14.53%) Software Engineering
6 24 (13.95%) Data Science
7 21 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (11.05%) Decision-Making
9 14 (8.14%) Computer Science
9 14 (8.14%) Machine Learning
10 13 (7.56%) API Development
10 13 (7.56%) CI/CD
10 13 (7.56%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.56%) Visualisation
11 12 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (6.98%) Data Analytics
12 11 (6.40%) Statistics
13 10 (5.81%) Statistical Analysis
14 9 (5.23%) A/B Testing
14 9 (5.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 135 (78.49%) SQL
2 35 (20.35%) JavaScript
3 11 (6.40%) R
4 5 (2.91%) C
5 4 (2.33%) Bash
5 4 (2.33%) Embedded C
6 3 (1.74%) Java
6 3 (1.74%) PHP
6 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.16%) Bicep
7 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.16%) VBA
8 1 (0.58%) Delphi
8 1 (0.58%) Go
8 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (49.42%) Azure Certification
2 25 (14.53%) Degree
3 14 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.49%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.33%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.16%) PMP
9 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.91%) Firmware
2 4 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.91%) Terraform
2 4 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.74%) Ansible
3 3 (1.74%) Grafana
4 2 (1.16%) Argo
4 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 93 (54.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.40%) Databricks
3 6 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.33%) Atmel
5 3 (1.74%) Google
6 2 (1.16%) Civica
6 2 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.16%) Northgate
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle
6 2 (1.16%) Orchard
6 2 (1.16%) Zoho
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco
7 1 (0.58%) Cognos
7 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds