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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 44 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -42
Permanent jobs citing Python 283 114 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.09% 6.09% 3.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.94% 24.84% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 85 47 96
10th Percentile £34,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £61,563
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,000 £75,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 746 459 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.05% 24.53% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 438 313 965
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% -4.76%
75th Percentile £64,563 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +13 81 £42,500 -22.73% 28
Nottinghamshire +1 67 £52,500 +23.53% 37
Northamptonshire +34 57 £60,000 +14.29% 14
Derbyshire +4 43 £53,750 +41.45% 11
Lincolnshire +3 33 £45,000 -21.74% 13
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 (0.71%) WordPress
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 120 (42.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 198 (69.96%) Azure
2 150 (53.00%) Azure AI
3 129 (45.58%) Power Platform
4 63 (22.26%) AWS
5 28 (9.89%) Amazon S3
5 28 (9.89%) Serverless
6 27 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (4.95%) GCP
8 9 (3.18%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.77%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.41%) GitHub
11 4 (1.41%) Slack
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.06%) Datadog
12 3 (1.06%) SaaS
13 2 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.18%) Wireless
2 8 (2.83%) Bluetooth
2 8 (2.83%) MQTT
2 8 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.47%) Firewall
4 5 (1.77%) DNS
5 4 (1.41%) Broadband
5 4 (1.41%) LTE
5 4 (1.41%) Modbus
5 4 (1.41%) VPN
5 4 (1.41%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.71%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) 4G
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.35%) DHCP
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (45.58%) Power BI
2 122 (43.11%) Tableau
3 13 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.77%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.71%) Looker
9 2 (0.71%) Metadata
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.35%) GIS
10 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Git
2 6 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.41%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.41%) GDB
3 4 (1.41%) GitLab
3 4 (1.41%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.41%) Subversion
4 1 (0.35%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.35%) MLflow
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 175 (61.84%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (11.66%) Finance
4 9 (3.18%) Retail
5 7 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (2.12%) Banking
7 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.71%) Law
8 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.71%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.71%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.35%) Advertising
9 1 (0.35%) Local Government
9 1 (0.35%) Marketing
9 1 (0.35%) Military
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (45.94%) Analyst
2 128 (45.23%) Data Analyst
3 115 (40.64%) Junior
4 114 (40.28%) Junior Analyst
4 114 (40.28%) Junior Data Analyst
5 37 (13.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 33 (11.66%) Developer
7 30 (10.60%) Data Scientist
8 28 (9.89%) Senior
9 24 (8.48%) Lead
10 19 (6.71%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.59%) Senior Data Scientist
11 13 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.24%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.24%) Lead Data Scientist
13 11 (3.89%) Python Developer
14 10 (3.53%) AWS Developer
14 10 (3.53%) Node.js Developer
14 10 (3.53%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.48%) React
2 23 (8.13%) Node.js
3 22 (7.77%) HTML
4 19 (6.71%) PyTorch
5 16 (5.65%) CSS
6 13 (4.59%) TensorFlow
7 11 (3.89%) Hugging Face
8 9 (3.18%) Pandas
9 7 (2.47%) PySpark
9 7 (2.47%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (1.41%) pytest
10 4 (1.41%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (1.41%) Yocto
11 3 (1.06%) JSON
12 2 (0.71%) jQuery
13 1 (0.35%) Django
13 1 (0.35%) NumPy
13 1 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
13 1 (0.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.83%) IoT
2 5 (1.77%) Credit Risk
2 5 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.41%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (1.41%) Device Driver
3 4 (1.41%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.24%) Linux
2 7 (2.47%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) VMS
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (62.54%) AI
2 127 (44.88%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (14.49%) Analytics
3 41 (14.49%) Software Engineering
4 38 (13.43%) Data Science
4 38 (13.43%) Machine Learning
5 37 (13.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 34 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (11.66%) Roadmaps
8 26 (9.19%) Statistics
9 25 (8.83%) Computer Science
10 24 (8.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (8.13%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (8.13%) Mentoring
12 21 (7.42%) CI/CD
13 16 (5.65%) DevOps
14 15 (5.30%) Data Analytics
15 14 (4.95%) Decision-Making
15 14 (4.95%) Deep Learning
16 13 (4.59%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 189 (66.78%) SQL
2 30 (10.60%) JavaScript
3 10 (3.53%) Bash
3 10 (3.53%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.18%) C
5 8 (2.83%) R
6 7 (2.47%) Java
7 6 (2.12%) C#
7 6 (2.12%) C++
7 6 (2.12%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.41%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.71%) Bicep
9 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
10 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (54.42%) Azure Certification
2 29 (10.25%) Degree
3 19 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.53%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.77%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.41%) GDPR
2 4 (1.41%) JTAG
3 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.35%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.12%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.18%) Terraform
2 6 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Ansible
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
3 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Argo
4 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 133 (47.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.13%) Databricks
3 8 (2.83%) Google
4 4 (1.41%) Atmel
5 2 (0.71%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.71%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco
6 1 (0.35%) Civica
6 1 (0.35%) Cognos
6 1 (0.35%) ESRI
6 1 (0.35%) HP
6 1 (0.35%) Northgate
6 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle
6 1 (0.35%) Orchard
6 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds