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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 112 194 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.72% 6.54% 7.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.62% 25.53% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 68 101 56
10th Percentile £37,500 - £38,000
25th Percentile £39,603 £32,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,875
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 455 760 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.18% 25.62% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 384 464 519
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,695 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,150
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 4 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 4 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 -16 31 £42,500 -22.73% 62
Derbyshire -9 28 £66,500 +23.72% 76
Leicestershire +9 24 £45,195 -21.40% 54
Northamptonshire +25 19 £70,000 +20.69% 44
Lincolnshire -9 8 £40,000 -38.46% 34
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 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.79%) WordPress
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 38 (33.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 50 (44.64%) Azure
2 37 (33.04%) Power Platform
3 36 (32.14%) AWS
4 18 (16.07%) Azure AI
5 12 (10.71%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.36%) GitHub
7 5 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (3.57%) SaaS
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.68%) Serverless
10 2 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.79%) Datadog
10 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Internet
2 2 (1.79%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.79%) Modbus
2 2 (1.79%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (33.93%) Tableau
2 36 (32.14%) Power BI
3 9 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.14%) Big Data
4 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.57%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.57%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.57%) Metadata
6 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.57%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.79%) Looker
8 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.89%) Power Query
9 1 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.57%) MLflow
3 3 (2.68%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.89%) JUnit
5 1 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
General
1 39 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.04%) Marketing
4 7 (6.25%) Law
5 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Retail
6 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.79%) Local Government
7 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.79%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.89%) Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Electronics
8 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.89%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) Analyst
2 37 (33.04%) Data Analyst
3 23 (20.54%) Senior
4 19 (16.96%) Junior
5 18 (16.07%) Junior Analyst
5 18 (16.07%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (13.39%) Developer
7 13 (11.61%) Python Engineer
7 13 (11.61%) Software Engineer
8 11 (9.82%) Data Engineer
8 11 (9.82%) Python Software Engineer
9 9 (8.04%) Customer Analyst
9 9 (8.04%) Digital Analyst
9 9 (8.04%) Digital Analytics Analyst
10 8 (7.14%) Python Developer
11 7 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Developer
12 6 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 6 (5.36%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) Django
2 9 (8.04%) PySpark
2 9 (8.04%) React
3 8 (7.14%) Flask
4 6 (5.36%) CSS
5 5 (4.46%) Node.js
5 5 (4.46%) REST
6 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.57%) HTML
6 4 (3.57%) Keras
6 4 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (3.57%) Metaflow
6 4 (3.57%) NumPy
6 4 (3.57%) Pandas
6 4 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.57%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.57%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.57%) YAML
7 2 (1.79%) .NET
7 2 (1.79%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.46%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.46%) IoT
4 4 (3.57%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.79%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.79%) SCADA
6 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.89%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Linux
1 4 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (30.36%) CI/CD
3 30 (26.79%) AI
4 28 (25.00%) Analytics
5 27 (24.11%) Data Science
6 26 (23.21%) Visualisation
7 21 (18.75%) Decision-Making
8 18 (16.07%) Machine Learning
8 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
9 16 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 16 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 15 (13.39%) Economics
10 15 (13.39%) Statistics
11 14 (12.50%) Agile
11 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (12.50%) Data Analytics
11 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.50%) Statistical Analysis
11 14 (12.50%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.71%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 76 (67.86%) SQL
2 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.14%) R
4 6 (5.36%) Java
5 4 (3.57%) PHP
6 3 (2.68%) Bash
6 3 (2.68%) C
6 3 (2.68%) C#
6 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.68%) VBA
7 2 (1.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.89%) Bicep
8 1 (0.89%) C++
8 1 (0.89%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (25.89%) Degree
2 21 (18.75%) Azure Certification
3 9 (8.04%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.46%) HND
4 5 (4.46%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.68%) PhD
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.79%) HNC
7 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (13.39%) Terraform
2 14 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.57%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.68%) Ansible
5 2 (1.79%) Functional Safety
5 2 (1.79%) Grafana
6 1 (0.89%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.39%) Databricks
3 9 (8.04%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.57%) Siemens
5 2 (1.79%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (1.79%) AVEVA
5 2 (1.79%) Google
5 2 (1.79%) Rockwell
5 2 (1.79%) Toshiba
5 2 (1.79%) VMware
5 2 (1.79%) Zoho
6 1 (0.89%) Atmel
6 1 (0.89%) Civica
6 1 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.89%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (0.89%) Northgate
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) Orchard
6 1 (0.89%) Xilinx