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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 140 168 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.98% 8.37% 5.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.72% 29.79% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 77 84 86
10th Percentile £36,250 - £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 471 564 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.74% 28.12% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 368 351 840
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 February 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 February 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
Northamptonshire +22 42 £65,000 +12.07% 22
Nottinghamshire -15 34 £54,000 +8.00% 29
Leicestershire -2 26 £45,000 -21.74% 21
Derbyshire -18 21 £62,500 +8.70% 15
Lincolnshire -1 14 £40,000 -38.46% 24
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 (1.43%) WordPress
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 66 (47.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (50.71%) Azure
2 63 (45.00%) Power Platform
3 48 (34.29%) AWS
3 48 (34.29%) Azure AI
4 24 (17.14%) Serverless
5 23 (16.43%) Amazon S3
5 23 (16.43%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.57%) GitHub
7 4 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.86%) GCP
7 4 (2.86%) SaaS
8 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.14%) Datadog
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.43%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Bluetooth
1 4 (2.86%) LTE
1 4 (2.86%) Modbus
1 4 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.86%) Wireless
2 3 (2.14%) Broadband
3 2 (1.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.71%) 4G
4 1 (0.71%) BGP
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.71%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.71%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (45.00%) Power BI
1 63 (45.00%) Tableau
2 11 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.00%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.71%) Looker
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Git
2 4 (2.86%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.86%) Subversion
3 2 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.71%) JUnit
4 1 (0.71%) MLflow
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 66 (47.14%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.86%) Finance
4 8 (5.71%) Marketing
5 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.14%) Law
6 3 (2.14%) Local Government
6 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.43%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.43%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.71%) Advertising
8 1 (0.71%) Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (44.29%) Analyst
2 61 (43.57%) Data Analyst
3 48 (34.29%) Junior
3 48 (34.29%) Junior Analyst
3 48 (34.29%) Junior Data Analyst
4 36 (25.71%) Developer
5 20 (14.29%) Senior
6 17 (12.14%) Python Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Software Engineer
8 14 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 13 (9.29%) Lead
9 13 (9.29%) Software Developer
10 12 (8.57%) AWS Developer
10 12 (8.57%) Node.js Developer
10 12 (8.57%) React Developer
11 11 (7.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (7.14%) Python Engineer
13 9 (6.43%) Python Software Engineer
14 8 (5.71%) Customer Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.14%) React
2 26 (18.57%) Node.js
3 23 (16.43%) HTML
4 15 (10.71%) CSS
5 7 (5.00%) Django
5 7 (5.00%) PySpark
6 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.86%) REST
7 2 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.43%) Flask
7 2 (1.43%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.43%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.71%) Jinja
8 1 (0.71%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.71%) pytest
8 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.71%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.86%) Credit Risk
1 4 (2.86%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.71%) Social Media
3 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.00%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (40.00%) AI
3 33 (23.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (19.29%) Analytics
4 27 (19.29%) Software Engineering
5 26 (18.57%) Data Science
6 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 16 (11.43%) Computer Science
9 15 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (10.00%) Data Analytics
10 14 (10.00%) Machine Learning
10 14 (10.00%) Visualisation
11 13 (9.29%) API Development
11 13 (9.29%) Statistics
12 12 (8.57%) Statistical Analysis
13 10 (7.14%) A/B Testing
13 10 (7.14%) CRM
13 10 (7.14%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 105 (75.00%) SQL
2 32 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 10 (7.14%) R
4 6 (4.29%) C
4 6 (4.29%) Java
5 5 (3.57%) Bash
6 4 (2.86%) Embedded C
6 4 (2.86%) PHP
6 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.14%) VBA
8 2 (1.43%) Bicep
8 2 (1.43%) Perl
8 2 (1.43%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.71%) Delphi
9 1 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 53 (37.86%) Azure Certification
2 29 (20.71%) Degree
3 14 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.71%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.14%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.43%) HND
8 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.14%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Terraform
2 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.86%) Ansible
4 3 (2.14%) Grafana
5 2 (1.43%) Argo
5 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 59 (42.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.14%) Databricks
3 8 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.86%) Atmel
5 3 (2.14%) Google
6 2 (1.43%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (1.43%) Civica
6 2 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.43%) Northgate
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle
6 2 (1.43%) Orchard
6 2 (1.43%) Siemens
6 2 (1.43%) Toshiba
6 2 (1.43%) Zoho
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco
7 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds