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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 43 62
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 -43
Permanent jobs citing Python 286 117 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.29% 6.39% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.54% 23.40% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 87 70 99
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,625 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £79,000
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 742 500 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.32% 27.29% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 442 373 942
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +11 81 £42,500 -26.09% 30
Nottinghamshire -5 64 £54,000 +8.00% 37
Northamptonshire +35 62 £62,500 +10.62% 17
Derbyshire +14 42 £53,750 -6.52% 13
Lincolnshire +3 35 £45,000 -30.77% 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 (0.70%) WordPress
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 132 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 211 (73.78%) Azure
2 162 (56.64%) Azure AI
3 142 (49.65%) Power Platform
4 67 (23.43%) AWS
5 27 (9.44%) Amazon S3
5 27 (9.44%) Serverless
6 26 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (4.55%) GCP
8 8 (2.80%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.40%) GitHub
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.05%) Datadog
11 3 (1.05%) SaaS
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.45%) Firewall
1 7 (2.45%) Wireless
2 6 (2.10%) Bluetooth
2 6 (2.10%) MQTT
2 6 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.75%) DNS
4 4 (1.40%) Broadband
4 4 (1.40%) LTE
4 4 (1.40%) Modbus
4 4 (1.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.70%) Internet
5 2 (0.70%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.35%) 4G
6 1 (0.35%) BGP
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (49.65%) Power BI
2 135 (47.20%) Tableau
3 13 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.10%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.70%) Looker
9 2 (0.70%) Metadata
9 2 (0.70%) 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%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.35%) GIS
10 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Git
2 4 (1.40%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.40%) Subversion
3 2 (0.70%) GDB
3 2 (0.70%) GitLab
3 2 (0.70%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.35%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.35%) MLflow
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (65.03%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (9.09%) Finance
4 9 (3.15%) Retail
5 7 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.40%) Banking
8 3 (1.05%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.70%) Law
9 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.70%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.70%) 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
1 139 (48.60%) Analyst
2 137 (47.90%) Data Analyst
3 127 (44.41%) Junior
4 126 (44.06%) Junior Analyst
4 126 (44.06%) Junior Data Analyst
5 36 (12.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 36 (12.59%) Developer
6 31 (10.84%) Senior
7 24 (8.39%) Data Scientist
8 21 (7.34%) Lead
9 17 (5.94%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 15 (5.24%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.90%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.20%) AWS Developer
13 12 (4.20%) Node.js Developer
13 12 (4.20%) React Developer
13 12 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.19%) React
2 27 (9.44%) Node.js
3 24 (8.39%) HTML
4 16 (5.59%) CSS
4 16 (5.59%) PyTorch
5 10 (3.50%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.15%) Pandas
7 8 (2.80%) Hugging Face
8 7 (2.45%) PySpark
8 7 (2.45%) scikit-learn
9 5 (1.75%) Django
9 5 (1.75%) REST
10 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.05%) JSON
12 2 (0.70%) jQuery
12 2 (0.70%) pytest
12 2 (0.70%) Unity DI Container
12 2 (0.70%) Yocto
13 1 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.35%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.10%) IoT
2 5 (1.75%) Credit Risk
3 4 (1.40%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.70%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (0.70%) Device Driver
5 2 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.70%) 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 10 (3.50%) Linux
2 7 (2.45%) Windows
3 4 (1.40%) VMS
3 4 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (63.99%) AI
2 138 (48.25%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (12.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 36 (12.59%) Analytics
4 36 (12.59%) Software Engineering
5 32 (11.19%) Data Science
5 32 (11.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (10.84%) Machine Learning
7 30 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (8.39%) Roadmaps
9 23 (8.04%) Computer Science
10 22 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 21 (7.34%) Statistics
12 19 (6.64%) CI/CD
13 15 (5.24%) Actionable Insight
14 13 (4.55%) Data Analytics
14 13 (4.55%) DevOps
14 13 (4.55%) Visualisation
15 12 (4.20%) Agile
15 12 (4.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 199 (69.58%) SQL
2 35 (12.24%) JavaScript
3 10 (3.50%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.15%) R
5 8 (2.80%) Bash
6 7 (2.45%) C
7 6 (2.10%) Java
8 5 (1.75%) C#
8 5 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.40%) C++
9 4 (1.40%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.70%) Bicep
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Go
11 1 (0.35%) Rust
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (58.39%) Azure Certification
2 27 (9.44%) Degree
3 17 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.85%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.75%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.75%) GDPR
3 2 (0.70%) JTAG
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) QA
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.75%) Docker
1 5 (1.75%) Firmware
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.10%) Terraform
2 5 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
3 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Argo
4 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 146 (51.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.69%) Databricks
3 9 (3.15%) Google
4 4 (1.40%) Atmel
5 2 (0.70%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.70%) Civica
5 2 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (0.70%) Northgate
5 2 (0.70%) 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