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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 43 67
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -30
Permanent jobs citing Python 305 119 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.32% 5.98% 3.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.48% 24.14% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 90 50 105
10th Percentile £33,625 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,842 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £66,875 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £71,250
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 836 493 1,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.33% 24.79% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 506 342 1,068
10th Percentile £29,000 £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 £62,913 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +16 88 £42,500 -32.00% 16
Nottinghamshire +11 83 £52,500 +23.53% 19
Northamptonshire +32 53 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Derbyshire +11 48 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Lincolnshire +3 28 £51,250 -10.87% 19
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 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.66%) WordPress
2 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 98 (32.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 181 (59.34%) Azure
2 132 (43.28%) Azure AI
3 112 (36.72%) Power Platform
4 65 (21.31%) AWS
5 28 (9.18%) Amazon S3
5 28 (9.18%) Serverless
6 27 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.25%) GCP
8 10 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.95%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.30%) GitHub
11 5 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.31%) Slack
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.98%) Datadog
13 3 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.28%) Firewall
2 9 (2.95%) Wireless
3 8 (2.62%) Bluetooth
3 8 (2.62%) MQTT
3 8 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.97%) DNS
4 6 (1.97%) VPN
5 4 (1.31%) Broadband
5 4 (1.31%) LTE
5 4 (1.31%) Modbus
5 4 (1.31%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.66%) DHCP
6 2 (0.66%) Internet
6 2 (0.66%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) FTP
7 1 (0.33%) HTTP
7 1 (0.33%) MPLS
7 1 (0.33%) RTP
7 1 (0.33%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (36.72%) Power BI
2 101 (33.11%) Tableau
3 13 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.95%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.31%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.66%) Looker
7 2 (0.66%) Metadata
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.33%) GIS
8 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.59%) Git
2 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
4 4 (1.31%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.31%) GDB
4 4 (1.31%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.31%) Subversion
5 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.33%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
5 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 156 (51.15%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (20.00%) Finance
3 18 (5.90%) Banking
4 10 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.95%) Retail
6 7 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.31%) Law
9 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.66%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Military
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 123 (40.33%) Analyst
2 121 (39.67%) Data Analyst
3 97 (31.80%) Junior
4 96 (31.48%) Junior Analyst
4 96 (31.48%) Junior Data Analyst
5 58 (19.02%) Data Scientist
6 57 (18.69%) Developer
7 42 (13.77%) Lead
8 38 (12.46%) Senior
9 37 (12.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 25 (8.20%) Senior Data Scientist
11 24 (7.87%) Lead Data Scientist
12 21 (6.89%) Lead Developer
13 18 (5.90%) Senior Analyst
13 18 (5.90%) Senior Data Analyst
14 15 (4.92%) Software Developer
14 15 (4.92%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.59%) Statistician
16 13 (4.26%) Data Engineer
17 12 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.49%) PyTorch
2 26 (8.52%) TensorFlow
3 24 (7.87%) Hugging Face
4 23 (7.54%) HTML
4 23 (7.54%) React
5 22 (7.21%) Node.js
6 16 (5.25%) CSS
7 10 (3.28%) Pandas
8 9 (2.95%) scikit-learn
9 4 (1.31%) JSON
9 4 (1.31%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.31%) pytest
9 4 (1.31%) Unity DI Container
9 4 (1.31%) Yocto
10 3 (0.98%) Middleware
10 3 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.66%) Django
11 2 (0.66%) jQuery
11 2 (0.66%) Matplotlib
11 2 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.28%) IoT
2 5 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.31%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (1.31%) Device Driver
3 4 (1.31%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (0.98%) Credit Risk
4 3 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.66%) SCADA
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.33%) CUDA
6 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.33%) Social Media
6 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.92%) Linux
2 10 (3.28%) Windows
3 6 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Debian
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (55.74%) AI
2 113 (37.05%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (21.97%) Roadmaps
4 62 (20.33%) Actionable Insight
4 62 (20.33%) Data Science
4 62 (20.33%) Machine Learning
5 54 (17.70%) Analytics
5 54 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (17.05%) Software Engineering
7 49 (16.07%) Statistics
8 43 (14.10%) Mentoring
9 37 (12.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 36 (11.80%) Deep Learning
11 31 (10.16%) Decision-Making
12 26 (8.52%) Computer Science
13 25 (8.20%) CI/CD
13 25 (8.20%) Data Analysis
14 24 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (7.54%) Data Analytics
15 23 (7.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 198 (64.92%) SQL
2 29 (9.51%) JavaScript
3 13 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.93%) Bash
5 10 (3.28%) R
6 9 (2.95%) C
7 8 (2.62%) C#
8 7 (2.30%) C++
8 7 (2.30%) Java
9 6 (1.97%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.31%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.98%) PHP
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.33%) Go
13 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (44.59%) Azure Certification
2 29 (9.51%) Degree
3 19 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.62%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.97%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.30%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.31%) GDPR
2 4 (1.31%) JTAG
3 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.66%) QA
3 2 (0.66%) SLA
4 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (2.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.64%) Firmware
3 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (3.61%) Terraform
2 7 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.31%) Ansible
3 4 (1.31%) Grafana
3 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 112 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.21%) Databricks
3 8 (2.62%) Google
4 4 (1.31%) Atmel
5 3 (0.98%) VMware
6 2 (0.66%) AlienVault
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco
6 2 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.33%) Civica
7 1 (0.33%) Cognos
7 1 (0.33%) ESRI
7 1 (0.33%) HP
7 1 (0.33%) Northgate
7 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.33%) Orchard
7 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds