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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 19 34
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 134 177 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.00% 8.46% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.65% 29.95% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 73 86 82
10th Percentile £36,250 - £33,425
25th Percentile £38,410 £32,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £70,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 452 591 908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.86% 28.26% 34.03%
Number of salaries quoted 357 359 790
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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
Northamptonshire +22 41 £67,500 +16.38% 19
Nottinghamshire -13 33 £54,000 +8.00% 35
Leicestershire -3 23 £42,500 -26.09% 26
Derbyshire -18 21 £62,500 +8.70% 14
Lincolnshire -6 14 £40,000 -38.46% 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 (1.49%) WordPress
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 64 (47.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 63 (47.01%) Azure
2 61 (45.52%) Power Platform
3 44 (32.84%) AWS
4 42 (31.34%) Azure AI
5 22 (16.42%) Serverless
6 21 (15.67%) Amazon S3
6 21 (15.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.99%) GCP
7 4 (2.99%) GitHub
7 4 (2.99%) SaaS
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.49%) Datadog
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.75%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Bluetooth
1 4 (2.99%) LTE
1 4 (2.99%) Modbus
1 4 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.99%) Wireless
2 3 (2.24%) Broadband
3 2 (1.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.75%) 4G
4 1 (0.75%) BGP
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.75%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (44.78%) Power BI
2 56 (41.79%) Tableau
3 9 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.48%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Looker
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Power Query
6 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.99%) Subversion
3 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 60 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.43%) Finance
4 8 (5.97%) Marketing
5 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.24%) Law
6 3 (2.24%) Local Government
6 3 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.49%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.75%) Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (44.78%) Analyst
2 55 (41.04%) Data Analyst
3 42 (31.34%) Junior
3 42 (31.34%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (31.34%) Junior Data Analyst
4 34 (25.37%) Developer
5 19 (14.18%) Senior
6 17 (12.69%) Python Developer
7 15 (11.19%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (9.70%) Software Developer
9 12 (8.96%) AWS Developer
9 12 (8.96%) Lead
9 12 (8.96%) Node.js Developer
9 12 (8.96%) React Developer
9 12 (8.96%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.46%) Python Engineer
11 9 (6.72%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (6.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Digital Analytics Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.64%) React
2 24 (17.91%) Node.js
3 21 (15.67%) HTML
4 13 (9.70%) CSS
5 7 (5.22%) Django
6 6 (4.48%) PySpark
7 4 (2.99%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.99%) REST
8 2 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.49%) Flask
9 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.75%) Jinja
9 1 (0.75%) Middleware
9 1 (0.75%) NETCONF
9 1 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.75%) pytest
9 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.75%) Spring
9 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.99%) Credit Risk
2 4 (2.99%) Raspberry Pi
3 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.75%) Social Media
5 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (44.78%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (37.31%) AI
3 31 (23.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (20.15%) Analytics
4 27 (20.15%) Software Engineering
5 23 (17.16%) Data Science
6 20 (14.93%) Decision-Making
6 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (11.19%) CI/CD
7 15 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.45%) Computer Science
8 14 (10.45%) Economics
9 13 (9.70%) Data Analytics
9 13 (9.70%) Statistics
9 13 (9.70%) Visualisation
10 11 (8.21%) API Development
10 11 (8.21%) CRM
10 11 (8.21%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.21%) Statistical Analysis
11 10 (7.46%) A/B Testing
Programming Languages
1 100 (74.63%) SQL
2 30 (22.39%) JavaScript
3 8 (5.97%) R
4 6 (4.48%) C
4 6 (4.48%) Java
5 4 (2.99%) Bash
5 4 (2.99%) Embedded C
5 4 (2.99%) PHP
6 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.24%) VBA
7 2 (1.49%) Perl
7 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) Bicep
8 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.75%) Delphi
8 1 (0.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (33.58%) Azure Certification
2 31 (23.13%) Degree
3 12 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.97%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (2.99%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.24%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.49%) HND
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.24%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Docker
2 4 (2.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.73%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.73%) Terraform
2 4 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (1.49%) Argo
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Databricks
3 8 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.99%) Atmel
5 2 (1.49%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (1.49%) Google
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle
5 2 (1.49%) Siemens
5 2 (1.49%) Toshiba
5 2 (1.49%) Zoho
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco
6 1 (0.75%) Civica
6 1 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.75%) Northgate
6 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.75%) Orchard