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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 56 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 202 107 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.02% 4.63% 4.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.75% 21.49% 19.72%
Number of salaries quoted 87 56 60
10th Percentile £38,438 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +44.44% -16.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £66,625
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

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 888 498 872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.27% 21.53% 23.50%
Number of salaries quoted 596 373 475
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £29,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,683
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.63% -13.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 12 October 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 12 October 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
Nottinghamshire +12 67 £55,000 +29.41% 37
Leicestershire -6 58 £55,000 -15.38% 27
Derbyshire -12 35 £45,000 -33.82% 9
Northamptonshire +13 34 £70,000 -12.50% 21
Lincolnshire -11 5 £67,500 +61.68% 11
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 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 65 (32.18%) Azure
2 47 (23.27%) AWS
3 26 (12.87%) Power Platform
4 24 (11.88%) Azure AI
5 11 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.45%) GCP
6 10 (4.95%) Amazon S3
6 10 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.95%) Serverless
7 6 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.97%) iPaaS
8 5 (2.48%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.98%) GitHub
9 4 (1.98%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) Firewall
2 10 (4.95%) MQTT
3 9 (4.46%) DNS
4 6 (2.97%) VPN
4 6 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.97%) Wireless
4 6 (2.97%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.98%) Bluetooth
6 3 (1.49%) DHCP
6 3 (1.49%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.99%) HTTP
7 2 (0.99%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.99%) SSL
7 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.99%) VLAN
8 1 (0.50%) FTP
8 1 (0.50%) Internet
8 1 (0.50%) RTP
8 1 (0.50%) RTSP
8 1 (0.50%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.87%) Power BI
2 17 (8.42%) Tableau
3 9 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.49%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.50%) GIS
9 1 (0.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (6.93%) Git
2 10 (4.95%) GitLab
3 8 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.97%) GDB
5 4 (1.98%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 72 (35.64%) Finance
2 53 (26.24%) Social Skills
3 45 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.91%) Banking
5 15 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.46%) Marketing
7 4 (1.98%) Law
7 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Games
9 2 (0.99%) Electronics
9 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (26.24%) Developer
2 52 (25.74%) Data Scientist
3 47 (23.27%) Senior
4 37 (18.32%) Analyst
5 35 (17.33%) Data Analyst
6 30 (14.85%) Lead
7 27 (13.37%) Senior Data Scientist
8 26 (12.87%) Software Engineer
9 22 (10.89%) Lead Data Scientist
10 17 (8.42%) Python Developer
10 17 (8.42%) Python Engineer
11 16 (7.92%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (7.92%) Senior Data Analyst
12 15 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (6.93%) Statistician
14 13 (6.44%) Lead Developer
14 13 (6.44%) Senior Developer
15 12 (5.94%) Junior
15 12 (5.94%) Junior Analyst
15 12 (5.94%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.88%) PyTorch
1 24 (11.88%) TensorFlow
2 23 (11.39%) Hugging Face
3 13 (6.44%) Terraform
4 10 (4.95%) REST
5 9 (4.46%) Node.js
6 8 (3.96%) CSS
6 8 (3.96%) Middleware
7 7 (3.47%) .NET
7 7 (3.47%) React
8 6 (2.97%) Django
8 6 (2.97%) JWT
8 6 (2.97%) OAuth
8 6 (2.97%) Yocto
9 5 (2.48%) Blazor
9 5 (2.48%) HTML
9 5 (2.48%) PySpark
10 4 (1.98%) pytest
10 4 (1.98%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.98%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.44%) IoT
2 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.97%) ARM Cortex
4 6 (2.97%) Device Driver
4 6 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.97%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (2.48%) Robotics
6 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.49%) PKI
8 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.99%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.39%) Linux
2 11 (5.45%) Windows
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.98%) VMS
5 2 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Debian
6 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.63%) AI
2 61 (30.20%) Actionable Insight
2 61 (30.20%) Roadmaps
3 59 (29.21%) Machine Learning
4 58 (28.71%) Software Engineering
5 55 (27.23%) Data Science
6 50 (24.75%) Analytics
7 48 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (21.78%) Mentoring
9 43 (21.29%) Statistics
10 36 (17.82%) Deep Learning
11 32 (15.84%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (15.84%) CI/CD
11 32 (15.84%) Decision-Making
12 29 (14.36%) Validation
13 27 (13.37%) Data Analytics
13 27 (13.37%) Project Management
13 27 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (12.38%) Data Analysis
15 24 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 94 (46.53%) SQL
2 17 (8.42%) JavaScript
3 15 (7.43%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.94%) Bash
4 12 (5.94%) C#
5 7 (3.47%) C++
6 6 (2.97%) C
6 6 (2.97%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.98%) Java
8 3 (1.49%) R
9 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (11.88%) Azure Certification
2 16 (7.92%) Degree
3 7 (3.47%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.97%) ACCA
4 6 (2.97%) CIMA
4 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.98%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.49%) CCNA
7 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.49%) MCSE
7 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.99%) CISSP
8 2 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.97%) JTAG
3 3 (1.49%) GDPR
3 3 (1.49%) QA
3 3 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (8.42%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.49%) vSphere
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
4 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.48%) Ansible
2 5 (2.48%) Grafana
3 3 (1.49%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.46%) Databricks
3 7 (3.47%) SAP
4 6 (2.97%) Adaptive Insights
4 6 (2.97%) Anaplan
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle
5 5 (2.48%) VMware
6 3 (1.49%) Cisco
7 2 (0.99%) AlienVault
7 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.99%) FIS
7 2 (0.99%) Google
7 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.50%) ESRI
8 1 (0.50%) Mistral
8 1 (0.50%) Splunk