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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 47 55
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 255 127 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.24% 5.47% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.99% 23.30% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66 59 79
10th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,000
England median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -

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 911 545 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.16% 23.48% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 578 395 687
10th Percentile £28,275 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -12.73%
75th Percentile £64,938 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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
Leicestershire -1 78 £42,500 -34.62% 23
Nottinghamshire +11 76 £52,500 +5.00% 32
Derbyshire 0 39 £42,500 -34.62% 19
Northamptonshire +14 38 £70,000 +12.00% 14
Lincolnshire -6 21 £52,500 -8.70% 18
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 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.78%) WordPress
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 66 (25.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 150 (58.82%) Azure
2 102 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 79 (30.98%) Power Platform
4 56 (21.96%) AWS
5 18 (7.06%) GCP
6 10 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.92%) Serverless
7 9 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.53%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (1.96%) GitHub
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.57%) Slack
10 3 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.18%) dbt
10 3 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.71%) Firewall
2 10 (3.92%) DNS
2 10 (3.92%) MQTT
3 7 (2.75%) Wireless
4 6 (2.35%) VPN
4 6 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.35%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.57%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.57%) DHCP
6 3 (1.18%) Internet
6 3 (1.18%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.78%) HTTP
7 2 (0.78%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.78%) SSL
7 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.78%) VLAN
8 1 (0.39%) FTP
8 1 (0.39%) RTSP
8 1 (0.39%) SCTP
8 1 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (30.98%) Power BI
2 72 (28.24%) Tableau
3 10 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.78%) Looker
7 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.39%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.39%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Git
2 9 (3.53%) GitLab
3 6 (2.35%) GDB
3 6 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.18%) JIRA
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (48.63%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.31%) Finance
3 45 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.06%) Banking
5 12 (4.71%) Retail
6 10 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.35%) Law
9 5 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Electronics
11 2 (0.78%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (35.69%) Analyst
1 91 (35.69%) Data Analyst
2 67 (26.27%) Junior
3 66 (25.88%) Junior Analyst
3 66 (25.88%) Junior Data Analyst
4 55 (21.57%) Data Scientist
5 45 (17.65%) Developer
5 45 (17.65%) Senior
6 37 (14.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 31 (12.16%) Lead
8 24 (9.41%) Senior Data Scientist
9 23 (9.02%) Lead Data Scientist
10 18 (7.06%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (7.06%) Senior Data Analyst
11 14 (5.49%) Data Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) Statistician
12 13 (5.10%) Lead Developer
12 13 (5.10%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.71%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.76%) PyTorch
2 24 (9.41%) Hugging Face
2 24 (9.41%) TensorFlow
3 10 (3.92%) scikit-learn
3 10 (3.92%) Terraform
4 8 (3.14%) Pandas
5 7 (2.75%) HTML
6 6 (2.35%) CSS
6 6 (2.35%) Node.js
6 6 (2.35%) Yocto
7 5 (1.96%) React
8 4 (1.57%) JSON
8 4 (1.57%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (1.57%) pytest
8 4 (1.57%) REST
8 4 (1.57%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (1.18%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.18%) Middleware
9 3 (1.18%) PySpark
9 3 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.71%) IoT
2 7 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (2.35%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (2.35%) Device Driver
4 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.18%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.18%) PKI
6 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.78%) Robotics
6 2 (0.78%) SCADA
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.39%) CUDA
7 1 (0.39%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.67%) Linux
2 12 (4.71%) Windows
3 6 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.57%) VMS
5 2 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Debian
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (55.29%) AI
2 80 (31.37%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (23.92%) Machine Learning
4 60 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
4 60 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 57 (22.35%) Data Science
6 53 (20.78%) Analytics
7 48 (18.82%) Statistics
8 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (17.25%) Software Engineering
9 41 (16.08%) Mentoring
10 37 (14.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 36 (14.12%) Deep Learning
12 27 (10.59%) Decision-Making
13 25 (9.80%) Data Analysis
13 25 (9.80%) Project Management
13 25 (9.80%) Validation
14 24 (9.41%) CI/CD
15 22 (8.63%) Data Transformation
15 22 (8.63%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 147 (57.65%) SQL
2 16 (6.27%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.71%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.92%) Bash
5 9 (3.53%) C#
5 9 (3.53%) C++
6 7 (2.75%) C
7 6 (2.35%) Java
8 5 (1.96%) R
8 5 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.18%) PHP
10 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.39%) Ruby
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 104 (40.78%) Azure Certification
2 22 (8.63%) Degree
3 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.75%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.57%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.18%) CCNA
7 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.18%) MCSE
7 3 (1.18%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) CISSP
8 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.35%) JTAG
2 4 (1.57%) SLA
3 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 9 (3.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.18%) Firmware
3 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.18%) vSphere
4 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.57%) Grafana
3 3 (1.18%) Ansible
3 3 (1.18%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.84%) Databricks
3 8 (3.14%) Google
4 5 (1.96%) VMware
5 3 (1.18%) Cisco
6 2 (0.78%) AlienVault
6 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.78%) FIS
6 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.39%) ESRI
7 1 (0.39%) HP
7 1 (0.39%) Splunk