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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 226 120 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.39% 5.13% 4.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.97% 23.21% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 76 56 61
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +44.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £71,746 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -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 905 517 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.57% 22.08% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 596 378 525
10th Percentile £29,875 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £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 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £74,000
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +11 69 £52,500 +23.53% 73
Leicestershire -2 65 £42,500 -34.62% 52
Derbyshire -4 42 £45,000 -33.82% 16
Northamptonshire +4 35 £70,000 -12.50% 22
Lincolnshire -9 12 £67,500 +80.00% 20
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 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 34 (15.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 105 (46.46%) Azure
2 60 (26.55%) Azure AI
3 51 (22.57%) AWS
4 42 (18.58%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.19%) GCP
6 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.87%) Serverless
7 10 (4.42%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.21%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.77%) Slack
10 3 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.33%) dbt
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.31%) Firewall
2 10 (4.42%) DNS
2 10 (4.42%) MQTT
3 7 (3.10%) Wireless
4 6 (2.65%) VPN
4 6 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.65%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.77%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.77%) DHCP
6 3 (1.33%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.88%) HTTP
7 2 (0.88%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.88%) SSL
7 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.88%) VLAN
8 1 (0.44%) FTP
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) RTP
8 1 (0.44%) SS7
8 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (18.58%) Power BI
2 36 (15.93%) Tableau
3 10 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.54%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.77%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.88%) Looker
8 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.44%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (5.75%) Git
2 9 (3.98%) GitLab
3 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.65%) GDB
5 4 (1.77%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 85 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.43%) Finance
3 45 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.96%) Banking
5 10 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.10%) Retail
7 4 (1.77%) Law
7 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.33%) Marketing
9 2 (0.88%) Electronics
9 2 (0.88%) Games
9 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (23.89%) Analyst
1 54 (23.89%) Data Analyst
1 54 (23.89%) Data Scientist
2 48 (21.24%) Developer
3 46 (20.35%) Senior
4 32 (14.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 30 (13.27%) Junior
5 30 (13.27%) Junior Analyst
5 30 (13.27%) Junior Data Analyst
5 30 (13.27%) Lead
6 25 (11.06%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (10.62%) Software Engineer
8 22 (9.73%) Lead Data Scientist
9 17 (7.52%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (7.52%) Senior Data Analyst
10 15 (6.64%) Python Engineer
11 14 (6.19%) Python Developer
11 14 (6.19%) Statistician
12 13 (5.75%) Lead Developer
12 13 (5.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.95%) PyTorch
2 24 (10.62%) TensorFlow
3 23 (10.18%) Hugging Face
4 13 (5.75%) Terraform
5 9 (3.98%) Node.js
6 7 (3.10%) React
6 7 (3.10%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.65%) Yocto
8 5 (2.21%) HTML
8 5 (2.21%) Pandas
8 5 (2.21%) PySpark
8 5 (2.21%) REST
9 4 (1.77%) .NET
9 4 (1.77%) Django
9 4 (1.77%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.77%) pytest
9 4 (1.77%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (1.33%) Blazor
10 3 (1.33%) CSS
10 3 (1.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.75%) IoT
2 6 (2.65%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (2.65%) Device Driver
2 6 (2.65%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.77%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.33%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.33%) PKI
5 3 (1.33%) Robotics
6 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.88%) SCADA
7 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.29%) Linux
2 12 (5.31%) Windows
3 6 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.77%) VMS
5 2 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Debian
6 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (44.25%) AI
2 61 (26.99%) Actionable Insight
2 61 (26.99%) Roadmaps
3 60 (26.55%) Machine Learning
4 57 (25.22%) Data Science
5 56 (24.78%) Software Engineering
6 49 (21.68%) Analytics
7 47 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (20.35%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (20.35%) Statistics
9 42 (18.58%) Mentoring
10 36 (15.93%) Deep Learning
11 33 (14.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 29 (12.83%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.95%) Decision-Making
13 27 (11.95%) Project Management
13 27 (11.95%) Validation
14 25 (11.06%) Data Analysis
15 22 (9.73%) Data Analytics
15 22 (9.73%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 111 (49.12%) SQL
2 16 (7.08%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.31%) Bash
4 11 (4.87%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.42%) C#
6 8 (3.54%) C++
7 6 (2.65%) C
7 6 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.21%) Java
9 3 (1.33%) R
10 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.88%) PHP
11 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (26.55%) Azure Certification
2 21 (9.29%) Degree
3 8 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.10%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.21%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.77%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) CCNA
7 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.33%) MCSE
7 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) CISSP
8 2 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.44%) ACCA
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.65%) JTAG
2 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.77%) GDPR
3 4 (1.77%) SLA
4 3 (1.33%) QA
5 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 14 (6.19%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.33%) vSphere
4 2 (0.88%) Firmware
4 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.21%) Ansible
2 5 (2.21%) Grafana
3 3 (1.33%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.19%) Databricks
3 5 (2.21%) Google
3 5 (2.21%) VMware
4 3 (1.33%) Cisco
5 2 (0.88%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.88%) FIS
5 2 (0.88%) SAP
5 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.44%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.44%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.44%) ESRI
6 1 (0.44%) HP
6 1 (0.44%) Mistral
6 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle
6 1 (0.44%) Splunk