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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 116 175 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.58% 7.01% 7.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.38% 26.44% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 64 94 56
10th Percentile £36,625 - £36,250
25th Percentile £38,410 £32,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +1.38% -5.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,188 £61,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £85,500 £76,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 457 662 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.06% 26.51% 41.74%
Number of salaries quoted 375 417 507
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,900 £73,750 £73,750
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 15 December 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 15 December 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
Nottinghamshire -16 33 £42,500 -19.05% 81
Leicestershire +6 27 £43,750 -23.91% 69
Derbyshire -14 22 £68,000 +18.26% 99
Northamptonshire +20 21 £70,000 +20.69% 70
Lincolnshire -8 11 £40,000 -38.46% 61
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 7 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.72%) WordPress
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 51 (43.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.00%) Azure
2 47 (40.52%) Power Platform
3 31 (26.72%) AWS
4 30 (25.86%) Azure AI
5 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.17%) GCP
5 6 (5.17%) GitHub
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.31%) SaaS
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.59%) Serverless
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.72%) Datadog
9 2 (1.72%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.86%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.86%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (43.10%) Tableau
2 46 (39.66%) Power BI
3 9 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.17%) BigQuery
4 6 (5.17%) Data Mining
4 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.31%) Big Data
6 4 (3.45%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.45%) Metadata
6 4 (3.45%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.86%) Looker
8 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.86%) Power Query
8 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Git
2 4 (3.45%) MLflow
3 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.86%) JUnit
5 1 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 50 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.90%) Marketing
5 7 (6.03%) Law
6 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Retail
7 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.72%) Local Government
8 2 (1.72%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.86%) Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Electronics
9 1 (0.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (45.69%) Analyst
2 49 (42.24%) Data Analyst
3 30 (25.86%) Junior
3 30 (25.86%) Junior Analyst
3 30 (25.86%) Junior Data Analyst
4 21 (18.10%) Senior
5 14 (12.07%) Developer
5 14 (12.07%) Python Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Python Software Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 11 (9.48%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Customer Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) Digital Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) Digital Analytics Analyst
9 7 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Python Developer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Digital Analytics Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.62%) PySpark
2 9 (7.76%) Django
2 9 (7.76%) React
3 5 (4.31%) Node.js
4 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.45%) CSS
4 4 (3.45%) Flask
4 4 (3.45%) HTML
4 4 (3.45%) Keras
4 4 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (3.45%) Metaflow
4 4 (3.45%) NumPy
4 4 (3.45%) Pandas
4 4 (3.45%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.45%) REST
4 4 (3.45%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.45%) TensorFlow
4 4 (3.45%) YAML
5 1 (0.86%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.17%) Virtual Team
2 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.86%) FPGA
5 1 (0.86%) IoT
5 1 (0.86%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Life Science
5 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.86%) Verilog
5 1 (0.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.45%) Unix
2 3 (2.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (39.66%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (36.21%) AI
3 29 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 27 (23.28%) Analytics
5 26 (22.41%) Data Science
6 24 (20.69%) Visualisation
7 19 (16.38%) Decision-Making
8 17 (14.66%) Machine Learning
9 16 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 15 (12.93%) Data Analytics
10 15 (12.93%) Data Modelling
11 14 (12.07%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (12.07%) Economics
11 14 (12.07%) Statistics
12 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.34%) Statistical Analysis
13 11 (9.48%) Data Analysis
13 11 (9.48%) Mathematics
13 11 (9.48%) Statistical Modelling
13 11 (9.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (75.86%) SQL
2 10 (8.62%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.03%) R
4 4 (3.45%) Java
4 4 (3.45%) PHP
5 3 (2.59%) Bash
5 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.59%) VBA
6 2 (1.72%) C
6 2 (1.72%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) Bicep
7 1 (0.86%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 33 (28.45%) Azure Certification
2 25 (21.55%) Degree
3 8 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (4.31%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.59%) HND
6 3 (2.59%) PhD
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Kubernetes
1 11 (9.48%) Terraform
2 4 (3.45%) Kubeflow
3 3 (2.59%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) Grafana
5 1 (0.86%) Argo
Vendors
1 39 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Databricks
3 8 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.72%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (1.72%) Siemens
4 2 (1.72%) Toshiba
4 2 (1.72%) Zoho
5 1 (0.86%) Civica
5 1 (0.86%) Google
5 1 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.86%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (0.86%) Northgate
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle
5 1 (0.86%) Orchard
5 1 (0.86%) Xilinx