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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 23 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +27 -31
Permanent jobs citing Python 276 126 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.28% 8.04% 4.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.55% 27.21% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 86 78 105
10th Percentile £34,375 £32,500 £33,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year - +10.02% -9.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,375 £86,250 £78,750
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 716 463 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.29% 29.55% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 429 380 953
10th Percentile £28,125 £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 £70,125 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +13 77 £42,500 -22.73% 31
Nottinghamshire -11 63 £54,000 -1.82% 19
Northamptonshire +16 60 £60,000 +6.19% 13
Derbyshire 0 39 £55,000 -2.22% 19
Lincolnshire -2 35 £45,000 -30.77% 8
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 4 (1.45%) WordPress
2 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 134 (48.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 205 (74.28%) Azure
2 162 (58.70%) Azure AI
3 144 (52.17%) Power Platform
4 62 (22.46%) AWS
5 26 (9.42%) Amazon S3
5 26 (9.42%) Serverless
6 25 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.62%) GCP
8 7 (2.54%) GitHub
8 7 (2.54%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.09%) Datadog
10 3 (1.09%) SaaS
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.72%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Wireless
2 4 (1.45%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.45%) Broadband
2 4 (1.45%) Internet
2 4 (1.45%) LTE
2 4 (1.45%) Modbus
2 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.09%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) MQTT
4 2 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) 4G
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.36%) DHCP
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.36%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (52.17%) Power BI
2 137 (49.64%) Tableau
3 12 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.17%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.72%) Looker
8 2 (0.72%) Metadata
8 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.36%) GIS
9 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.62%) Git
2 4 (1.45%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.45%) Subversion
3 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.36%) JUnit
4 1 (0.36%) MLflow
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.33%) Finance
4 9 (3.26%) Retail
5 7 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.45%) Banking
6 4 (1.45%) Multimedia
7 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.09%) Marketing
7 3 (1.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.72%) Law
8 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.72%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.36%) Advertising
9 1 (0.36%) Local Government
9 1 (0.36%) Military
9 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 140 (50.72%) Analyst
2 138 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 127 (46.01%) Junior
4 126 (45.65%) Junior Analyst
4 126 (45.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 37 (13.41%) Developer
6 36 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 28 (10.14%) Senior
8 22 (7.97%) Data Scientist
9 18 (6.52%) Lead
10 17 (6.16%) Python Developer
11 16 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.80%) Software Developer
12 15 (5.43%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.71%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.35%) AWS Developer
14 12 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
14 12 (4.35%) React Developer
14 12 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.26%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.59%) React
2 27 (9.78%) Node.js
3 26 (9.42%) HTML
4 18 (6.52%) CSS
5 12 (4.35%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.26%) Pandas
7 7 (2.54%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.17%) Django
8 6 (2.17%) PySpark
8 6 (2.17%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.81%) REST
10 4 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.45%) Hugging Face
11 3 (1.09%) JSON
12 2 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.72%) Flask
12 2 (0.72%) jQuery
13 1 (0.36%) Lambda Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) pytest
13 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (1.45%) Credit Risk
1 4 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
2 2 (0.72%) IoT
2 2 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.45%) Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) VMS
3 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (65.22%) AI
2 140 (50.72%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 35 (12.68%) Analytics
5 34 (12.32%) Data Science
5 34 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (10.14%) Machine Learning
6 28 (10.14%) Software Engineering
7 27 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (7.61%) Computer Science
9 19 (6.88%) Mentoring
9 19 (6.88%) Statistics
10 17 (6.16%) Visualisation
11 15 (5.43%) Decision-Making
11 15 (5.43%) Roadmaps
12 14 (5.07%) CI/CD
13 13 (4.71%) API Development
14 12 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (4.35%) Data Analytics
15 11 (3.99%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 199 (72.10%) SQL
2 34 (12.32%) JavaScript
3 11 (3.99%) R
4 6 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.81%) C
5 5 (1.81%) Java
6 4 (1.45%) Bash
6 4 (1.45%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.09%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) Bicep
8 2 (0.72%) C++
8 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.72%) PHP
8 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.36%) Delphi
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) Rust
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (61.23%) Azure Certification
2 27 (9.78%) Degree
3 15 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.99%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.72%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.36%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.81%) Firmware
2 4 (1.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.81%) Terraform
2 4 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (0.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 146 (52.90%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.61%) Databricks
3 9 (3.26%) Google
4 4 (1.45%) Atmel
5 2 (0.72%) Civica
5 2 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (0.72%) Northgate
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle
5 2 (0.72%) Orchard
5 2 (0.72%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.72%) Zoho
6 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco
6 1 (0.36%) Cognos
6 1 (0.36%) ESRI
6 1 (0.36%) HP
6 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds