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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 49 44
Rank change year-on-year +20 -5 +15
Permanent jobs citing Python 245 116 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.81% 4.99% 4.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.04% 22.57% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 71 54 62
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +40.54% -9.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,750 £63,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% - -

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 906 514 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.10% 22.13% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 589 378 562
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,450 £77,500 £74,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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
Nottinghamshire +15 73 £52,500 +5.00% 36
Leicestershire +1 70 £42,500 -34.62% 38
Derbyshire +1 44 £45,000 -33.82% 21
Northamptonshire +12 37 £70,000 -6.67% 30
Lincolnshire -9 18 £52,500 +40.00% 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 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 49 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 131 (53.47%) Azure
2 84 (34.29%) Azure AI
3 61 (24.90%) Power Platform
4 55 (22.45%) AWS
5 18 (7.35%) GCP
6 11 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.49%) Serverless
7 10 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.45%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.63%) Slack
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.22%) dbt
11 3 (1.22%) GitHub
11 3 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) Firewall
2 10 (4.08%) DNS
2 10 (4.08%) MQTT
3 7 (2.86%) Wireless
4 6 (2.45%) VPN
4 6 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.45%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.63%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.63%) DHCP
6 3 (1.22%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.82%) HTTP
7 2 (0.82%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.82%) SSL
7 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.82%) VLAN
8 1 (0.41%) FTP
8 1 (0.41%) Internet
8 1 (0.41%) RTP
8 1 (0.41%) SS7
8 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.90%) Power BI
2 54 (22.04%) Tableau
3 10 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.82%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.82%) Looker
7 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (4.90%) Git
2 9 (3.67%) GitLab
3 7 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.45%) GDB
5 4 (1.63%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 107 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.90%) Finance
3 46 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.35%) Banking
5 11 (4.49%) Retail
6 10 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.45%) Law
9 4 (1.63%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Electronics
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 72 (29.39%) Analyst
1 72 (29.39%) Data Analyst
2 55 (22.45%) Data Scientist
3 48 (19.59%) Junior
3 48 (19.59%) Junior Analyst
3 48 (19.59%) Junior Data Analyst
4 46 (18.78%) Developer
5 45 (18.37%) Senior
6 37 (15.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 31 (12.65%) Lead
8 24 (9.80%) Senior Data Scientist
9 23 (9.39%) Lead Data Scientist
10 20 (8.16%) Software Engineer
11 17 (6.94%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (6.94%) Senior Data Analyst
12 14 (5.71%) Statistician
13 13 (5.31%) Data Engineer
13 13 (5.31%) Lead Developer
13 13 (5.31%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.24%) PyTorch
2 24 (9.80%) TensorFlow
3 23 (9.39%) Hugging Face
4 12 (4.90%) Terraform
5 10 (4.08%) scikit-learn
6 8 (3.27%) Node.js
6 8 (3.27%) Pandas
7 6 (2.45%) React
7 6 (2.45%) Yocto
8 5 (2.04%) HTML
8 5 (2.04%) REST
9 4 (1.63%) CSS
9 4 (1.63%) Django
9 4 (1.63%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.63%) PySpark
9 4 (1.63%) pytest
9 4 (1.63%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (1.22%) Blazor
10 3 (1.22%) Middleware
10 3 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.90%) IoT
2 6 (2.45%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (2.45%) Device Driver
2 6 (2.45%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.22%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.22%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.22%) PKI
4 3 (1.22%) Robotics
5 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.82%) SCADA
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.41%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.41%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.41%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.76%) Linux
2 12 (4.90%) Windows
3 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.63%) VMS
5 2 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Debian
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (50.20%) AI
2 62 (25.31%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (24.90%) Actionable Insight
3 61 (24.90%) Machine Learning
3 61 (24.90%) Roadmaps
4 58 (23.67%) Data Science
5 53 (21.63%) Software Engineering
6 51 (20.82%) Analytics
7 49 (20.00%) Statistics
8 46 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (17.55%) Mentoring
10 37 (15.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 36 (14.69%) Deep Learning
12 27 (11.02%) CI/CD
13 26 (10.61%) Decision-Making
13 26 (10.61%) Project Management
13 26 (10.61%) Validation
14 25 (10.20%) Data Analysis
15 22 (8.98%) Data Transformation
15 22 (8.98%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 129 (52.65%) SQL
2 16 (6.53%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.49%) Bash
4 10 (4.08%) C#
4 10 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.67%) C++
6 6 (2.45%) C
6 6 (2.45%) Java
6 6 (2.45%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.22%) PHP
7 3 (1.22%) R
8 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 84 (34.29%) Azure Certification
2 24 (9.80%) Degree
3 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.04%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.63%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.22%) CCNA
7 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.22%) MCSE
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) CISSP
8 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.45%) JTAG
2 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.63%) SLA
3 3 (1.22%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (4.49%) Docker
2 5 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.82%) Firmware
4 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.63%) Ansible
2 4 (1.63%) Grafana
3 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.76%) Databricks
3 8 (3.27%) Google
4 5 (2.04%) VMware
5 3 (1.22%) Cisco
6 2 (0.82%) AlienVault
6 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.82%) FIS
6 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.41%) ESRI
7 1 (0.41%) HP
7 1 (0.41%) Mistral
7 1 (0.41%) Splunk