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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 108 160 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.88% 4.64% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.23% 20.20% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 58 62 48
10th Percentile £37,500 - £39,054
25th Percentile £39,151 £32,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £51,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -4.19% -9.66%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £74,875 £72,375 £68,875
England median annual salary £71,346 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% +3.45% +2.11%

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 465 792 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.03% 22.98% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 367 454 540
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 3 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
Derbyshire +5 44 £68,000 +36.00% 32
Nottinghamshire -24 30 £40,000 -20.00% 50
Leicestershire +16 20 £65,000 +6.12% 26
Northamptonshire +17 8 £80,000 - 26
Lincolnshire -6 4 £41,750 - 17
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 8 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.78%) Apache
2 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.22%) Azure
2 23 (21.30%) AWS
3 22 (20.37%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.26%) GCP
5 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (4.63%) SaaS
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.78%) GitHub
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.85%) Datadog
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.93%) dbt
9 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (7.41%) VPN
2 4 (3.70%) Modbus
3 3 (2.78%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.78%) Internet
3 3 (2.78%) MQTT
4 1 (0.93%) LTE
4 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) Power BI
2 20 (18.52%) Tableau
3 10 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.41%) Big Data
4 8 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.48%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.63%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.70%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.70%) Metadata
7 4 (3.70%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.85%) Looker
9 2 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.93%) Power Query
10 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.70%) MLflow
3 2 (1.85%) GitLab
3 2 (1.85%) Selenium
4 1 (0.93%) Appium
4 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.93%) JMeter
4 1 (0.93%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.93%) Maven
4 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.93%) Subversion
4 1 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 22 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Finance
3 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (9.26%) Marketing
6 9 (8.33%) Law
7 6 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Retail
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.93%) Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (20.37%) Analyst
2 18 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 16 (14.81%) Senior
4 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Developer
7 10 (9.26%) Customer Analyst
7 10 (9.26%) Digital Analyst
7 10 (9.26%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 10 (9.26%) Python Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Analyst Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Analytics Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Digital Analytics Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Digital Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) HTML
2 8 (7.41%) Django
2 8 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.48%) Flask
4 6 (5.56%) PySpark
5 5 (4.63%) CSS
6 4 (3.70%) .NET
6 4 (3.70%) Keras
6 4 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (3.70%) Metaflow
6 4 (3.70%) NumPy
6 4 (3.70%) Pandas
6 4 (3.70%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.70%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.70%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.70%) YAML
7 3 (2.78%) Kafka
7 3 (2.78%) REST
7 3 (2.78%) Yocto
8 2 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) IoT
2 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.41%) Cyberattack
3 7 (6.48%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.70%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.78%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.78%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (2.78%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.78%) SCADA
6 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Verilog
8 1 (0.93%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.89%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Android
2 8 (7.41%) Windows
3 4 (3.70%) Unix
4 3 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 28 (25.93%) Machine Learning
3 26 (24.07%) AI
3 26 (24.07%) Analytics
3 26 (24.07%) Visualisation
4 24 (22.22%) Data Science
5 23 (21.30%) Computer Science
5 23 (21.30%) Decision-Making
6 21 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (18.52%) Agile
8 19 (17.59%) DevOps
8 19 (17.59%) Mathematics
9 18 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 18 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (14.81%) Statistics
11 15 (13.89%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.96%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (63.89%) SQL
2 21 (19.44%) Java
2 21 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 19 (17.59%) C
3 19 (17.59%) C#
3 19 (17.59%) R
4 17 (15.74%) C++
5 16 (14.81%) PHP
6 13 (12.04%) MATLAB
6 13 (12.04%) TypeScript
7 12 (11.11%) Dart
7 12 (11.11%) Ruby
7 12 (11.11%) Rust
8 10 (9.26%) Bash
8 10 (9.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.78%) VBA
10 2 (1.85%) Perl
11 1 (0.93%) Bicep
11 1 (0.93%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (38.89%) Degree
2 15 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (10.19%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.26%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.48%) HND
6 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) HNC
7 3 (2.78%) PhD
8 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.85%) PMP
9 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 19 (17.59%) Docker
2 8 (7.41%) Hyper-V
2 8 (7.41%) VMware NSX
2 8 (7.41%) vSphere
3 3 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (20.37%) Terraform
2 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.26%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) Kubeflow
5 3 (2.78%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.93%) Argo
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (12.04%) Databricks
2 10 (9.26%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.41%) 3PAR
3 8 (7.41%) Cisco
3 8 (7.41%) Juniper
3 8 (7.41%) Splunk
4 5 (4.63%) Siemens
5 4 (3.70%) Atmel
6 3 (2.78%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.78%) Rockwell
6 3 (2.78%) VMware
7 2 (1.85%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (1.85%) Toshiba
8 1 (0.93%) Cognos
8 1 (0.93%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.93%) Mentor Graphics
8 1 (0.93%) Xilinx