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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 110 176 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.34% 7.65% 7.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.82% 27.85% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 63 89 58
10th Percentile £36,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £38,410 £32,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,375
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,250 £76,125
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 426 632 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.81% 27.48% 38.75%
Number of salaries quoted 348 382 534
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,525
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 29 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 29 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 -12 32 £42,500 -8.11% 97
Northamptonshire +11 24 £70,000 +20.69% 97
Leicestershire +6 24 £43,750 -23.91% 92
Derbyshire -17 18 £68,000 +18.26% 155
Lincolnshire -12 10 £40,000 -38.46% 83
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 (1.82%) WordPress
2 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 51 (46.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 53 (48.18%) Azure
2 47 (42.73%) Power Platform
3 30 (27.27%) Azure AI
4 28 (25.45%) AWS
5 7 (6.36%) Serverless
6 6 (5.45%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.64%) GitHub
7 4 (3.64%) SaaS
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.73%) GCP
9 2 (1.82%) Datadog
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.91%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.91%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (45.45%) Tableau
2 46 (41.82%) Power BI
3 8 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.45%) BigQuery
4 6 (5.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.91%) Looker
6 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.91%) Power Query
6 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Git
1 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.82%) GitLab
3 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.91%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.91%) JUnit
3 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 45 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 11 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.27%) Marketing
5 6 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Retail
6 4 (3.64%) Law
7 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.82%) Local Government
8 2 (1.82%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.91%) Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (48.18%) Analyst
2 49 (44.55%) Data Analyst
3 30 (27.27%) Junior
3 30 (27.27%) Junior Analyst
3 30 (27.27%) Junior Data Analyst
4 21 (19.09%) Senior
5 18 (16.36%) Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Python Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Python Software Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Customer Analyst
8 8 (7.27%) Digital Analyst
8 8 (7.27%) Digital Analytics Analyst
8 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Analytics Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Digital Analytics Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.82%) React
2 9 (8.18%) Node.js
3 8 (7.27%) HTML
4 6 (5.45%) CSS
4 6 (5.45%) Django
4 6 (5.45%) PySpark
5 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.64%) REST
6 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.91%) Flask
7 1 (0.91%) Middleware
7 1 (0.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.91%) pytest
7 1 (0.91%) Spring
7 1 (0.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 5 (4.55%) Virtual Team
2 4 (3.64%) Credit Risk
3 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.91%) Life Science
4 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (32.73%) AI
3 25 (22.73%) Analytics
4 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 20 (18.18%) Data Science
5 18 (16.36%) Decision-Making
5 18 (16.36%) Visualisation
6 15 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 14 (12.73%) Data Visualisation
7 14 (12.73%) Economics
8 13 (11.82%) Data Analytics
9 12 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (10.91%) Statistical Analysis
9 12 (10.91%) Statistics
10 11 (10.00%) CRM
10 11 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 11 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (9.09%) Data Analysis
12 9 (8.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (77.27%) SQL
2 15 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.55%) Java
3 5 (4.55%) R
4 4 (3.64%) Bash
4 4 (3.64%) PHP
5 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.73%) VBA
6 2 (1.82%) C
6 2 (1.82%) Perl
7 1 (0.91%) Bicep
7 1 (0.91%) Delphi
7 1 (0.91%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 24 (21.82%) Degree
3 8 (7.27%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.64%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.82%) HND
7 2 (1.82%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.82%) PMP
8 1 (0.91%) PhD
8 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.55%) Terraform
2 4 (3.64%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Argo
3 2 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (35.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Databricks
3 8 (7.27%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.82%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (1.82%) Google
4 2 (1.82%) Siemens
4 2 (1.82%) Toshiba
4 2 (1.82%) Zoho
5 1 (0.91%) Civica
5 1 (0.91%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.91%) Northgate
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle
5 1 (0.91%) Orchard