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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 48 55
Rank change year-on-year +30 +7 -36
Permanent jobs citing Python 283 122 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.14% 6.22% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.78% 24.35% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 85 56 98
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,125 £60,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,875 £73,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

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 749 501 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.25% 25.56% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 446 357 945
10th Percentile £29,875 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +15 81 £42,500 -22.73% 33
Nottinghamshire -6 64 £52,500 +23.53% 42
Northamptonshire +33 59 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Derbyshire +4 43 £53,750 -2.27% 14
Lincolnshire +4 34 £45,000 -26.53% 15
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 (0.71%) WordPress
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 126 (44.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 203 (71.73%) Azure
2 156 (55.12%) Azure AI
3 136 (48.06%) Power Platform
4 64 (22.61%) AWS
5 28 (9.89%) Amazon S3
5 28 (9.89%) Serverless
6 27 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (4.59%) GCP
8 9 (3.18%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.41%) GitHub
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.06%) Datadog
11 3 (1.06%) SaaS
11 3 (1.06%) Slack
12 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.83%) Wireless
2 7 (2.47%) Bluetooth
2 7 (2.47%) Firewall
2 7 (2.47%) MQTT
2 7 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.77%) DNS
4 4 (1.41%) Broadband
4 4 (1.41%) LTE
4 4 (1.41%) Modbus
4 4 (1.41%) VPN
5 3 (1.06%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.71%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) 4G
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.35%) DHCP
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (48.06%) Power BI
2 129 (45.58%) Tableau
3 13 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.12%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.71%) Looker
9 2 (0.71%) Metadata
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.35%) GIS
10 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.53%) Git
2 5 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.41%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.41%) Subversion
4 3 (1.06%) GDB
4 3 (1.06%) GitLab
4 3 (1.06%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.35%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.35%) MLflow
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 180 (63.60%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.60%) Finance
4 9 (3.18%) Retail
5 7 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.41%) Banking
8 3 (1.06%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.71%) Law
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (47.70%) Analyst
2 133 (47.00%) Data Analyst
3 121 (42.76%) Junior
4 120 (42.40%) Junior Analyst
4 120 (42.40%) Junior Data Analyst
5 36 (12.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 31 (10.95%) Developer
7 28 (9.89%) Senior
8 27 (9.54%) Data Scientist
9 23 (8.13%) Lead
10 18 (6.36%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.24%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.24%) Python Developer
12 12 (4.24%) Senior Data Scientist
13 11 (3.89%) AWS Developer
13 11 (3.89%) Lead Data Scientist
13 11 (3.89%) Node.js Developer
13 11 (3.89%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.19%) React
2 25 (8.83%) Node.js
3 23 (8.13%) HTML
4 18 (6.36%) PyTorch
5 16 (5.65%) CSS
6 12 (4.24%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.53%) Hugging Face
8 9 (3.18%) Pandas
9 7 (2.47%) PySpark
9 7 (2.47%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.06%) JSON
10 3 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.06%) pytest
10 3 (1.06%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (1.06%) Yocto
11 2 (0.71%) jQuery
12 1 (0.35%) Django
12 1 (0.35%) Flask
12 1 (0.35%) Matplotlib
12 1 (0.35%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.47%) IoT
2 5 (1.77%) Credit Risk
3 4 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.41%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (1.06%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (1.06%) Device Driver
5 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.89%) Linux
2 7 (2.47%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) VMS
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (63.25%) AI
2 133 (47.00%) Business Intelligence
3 40 (14.13%) Analytics
4 39 (13.78%) Software Engineering
5 37 (13.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 35 (12.37%) Data Science
6 35 (12.37%) Machine Learning
7 32 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (9.89%) Roadmaps
9 26 (9.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (8.48%) Computer Science
11 23 (8.13%) Mentoring
11 23 (8.13%) Statistics
12 19 (6.71%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (6.36%) CI/CD
14 15 (5.30%) Data Analytics
15 14 (4.95%) Decision-Making
15 14 (4.95%) DevOps
16 13 (4.59%) Visualisation
17 12 (4.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 195 (68.90%) SQL
2 30 (10.60%) JavaScript
3 10 (3.53%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.18%) Bash
4 9 (3.18%) R
5 8 (2.83%) C
6 6 (2.12%) Java
7 5 (1.77%) C#
7 5 (1.77%) C++
7 5 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.41%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.71%) Bicep
9 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) Go
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
10 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (56.89%) Azure Certification
2 28 (9.89%) Degree
3 18 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.89%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.18%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.77%) GDPR
3 3 (1.06%) JTAG
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) QA
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.77%) Docker
1 5 (1.77%) Firmware
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.83%) Terraform
2 5 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Ansible
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
3 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Argo
4 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 140 (49.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.13%) Databricks
3 9 (3.18%) Google
4 4 (1.41%) Atmel
5 2 (0.71%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.71%) Civica
5 2 (0.71%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (0.71%) Northgate
5 2 (0.71%) Orchard
6 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco
6 1 (0.35%) Cognos
6 1 (0.35%) ESRI
6 1 (0.35%) HP
6 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle
6 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds