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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 43 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -31
Permanent jobs citing Python 118 171 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.08% 4.28% 4.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.96% 18.00% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55 61 42
10th Percentile £37,500 - £30,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £80,875
England median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% - +4.75%

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 514 950 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.14% 23.80% 36.88%
Number of salaries quoted 377 552 523
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 19 September 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 19 September 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
Derbyshire +9 43 £68,000 +70.00% 21
Nottinghamshire -28 26 £50,000 +11.11% 41
Leicestershire +35 22 £65,000 +13.04% 22
Northamptonshire +16 19 £80,000 - 35
Lincolnshire 0 6 £37,500 - 10
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.54%) Apache
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.03%) Azure
2 24 (20.34%) AWS
3 17 (14.41%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.32%) GCP
5 6 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.24%) SaaS
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.54%) GitHub
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.69%) Datadog
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.85%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.64%) VPN
2 13 (11.02%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.78%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (4.24%) Modbus
5 3 (2.54%) Ethernet
5 3 (2.54%) Internet
5 3 (2.54%) MQTT
6 2 (1.69%) LTE
6 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.69%) Wireless
7 1 (0.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) Power BI
1 16 (13.56%) Tableau
2 10 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.63%) Big Data
4 8 (6.78%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.93%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.39%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.39%) Metadata
7 4 (3.39%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.69%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.69%) Looker
9 2 (1.69%) Power Query
9 2 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Cucumber
2 13 (11.02%) Robot Framework
3 9 (7.63%) Git
4 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.39%) MLflow
5 2 (1.69%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) Selenium
5 2 (1.69%) Subversion
6 1 (0.85%) Appium
6 1 (0.85%) JMeter
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.85%) TestNG
General
1 34 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.56%) Finance
5 13 (11.02%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.93%) Law
7 6 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.08%) Marketing
7 6 (5.08%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.69%) Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.85%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (15.25%) Analyst
2 15 (12.71%) Senior
3 14 (11.86%) Data Analyst
3 14 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) Test Automation Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) Test Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.32%) Developer
7 9 (7.63%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Data Manager
8 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Customer Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Data Quality Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Digital Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Digital Analytics Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Embedded Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.17%) HTML
2 8 (6.78%) Django
2 8 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.93%) Flask
3 7 (5.93%) PySpark
4 6 (5.08%) .NET
4 6 (5.08%) CSS
5 5 (4.24%) Pandas
6 4 (3.39%) Keras
6 4 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (3.39%) Metaflow
6 4 (3.39%) NumPy
6 4 (3.39%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.39%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.39%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.39%) YAML
7 3 (2.54%) Kafka
7 3 (2.54%) REST
7 3 (2.54%) Yocto
8 2 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.41%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (8.47%) Cyberattack
2 10 (8.47%) IoT
3 8 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.93%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.08%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.39%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.39%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.39%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.54%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.54%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (2.54%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.54%) SCADA
7 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.69%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.58%) Linux
2 21 (17.80%) Windows
3 10 (8.47%) Android
4 4 (3.39%) Unix
5 3 (2.54%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.27%) DevOps
2 30 (25.42%) CI/CD
3 29 (24.58%) Machine Learning
4 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (22.88%) Test Automation
6 26 (22.03%) Artificial Intelligence
7 25 (21.19%) Mentoring
8 23 (19.49%) Agile
8 23 (19.49%) Computer Science
9 22 (18.64%) Visualisation
10 21 (17.80%) Analytics
10 21 (17.80%) Mathematics
11 18 (15.25%) Data Modelling
11 18 (15.25%) Data Science
12 16 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (13.56%) Coaching
12 16 (13.56%) Decision-Making
12 16 (13.56%) System Testing
13 15 (12.71%) Data Visualisation
13 15 (12.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.08%) SQL
2 34 (28.81%) JavaScript
3 24 (20.34%) Java
4 23 (19.49%) Bash
4 23 (19.49%) PowerShell
5 20 (16.95%) C
5 20 (16.95%) C#
5 20 (16.95%) C++
6 19 (16.10%) R
7 15 (12.71%) PHP
8 13 (11.02%) MATLAB
8 13 (11.02%) Rust
8 13 (11.02%) TypeScript
9 12 (10.17%) Dart
9 12 (10.17%) Ruby
10 2 (1.69%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.69%) Go
10 2 (1.69%) Perl
10 2 (1.69%) VBA
11 1 (0.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 49 (41.53%) Degree
2 15 (12.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.93%) HND
6 6 (5.08%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (4.24%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.54%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (2.54%) HNC
8 3 (2.54%) PhD
9 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.71%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 21 (17.80%) Docker
2 8 (6.78%) Hyper-V
2 8 (6.78%) VMware NSX
2 8 (6.78%) vSphere
3 3 (2.54%) Firmware
3 3 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (18.64%) Terraform
2 12 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.32%) Ansible
4 4 (3.39%) Kubeflow
5 3 (2.54%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Databricks
2 8 (6.78%) 3PAR
2 8 (6.78%) Cisco
2 8 (6.78%) Juniper
2 8 (6.78%) Splunk
3 6 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.24%) Atmel
4 5 (4.24%) Siemens
5 3 (2.54%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.54%) Rockwell
5 3 (2.54%) VMware
6 2 (1.69%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (1.69%) Toshiba
7 1 (0.85%) Cognos
7 1 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.85%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.85%) Xilinx