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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 48 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 239 118 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.70% 5.09% 4.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.35% 22.91% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 68 55 61
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,250 £77,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £71,500 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.67% -

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 907 515 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.02% 22.23% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 589 378 549
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -9.22% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,300 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Nottinghamshire +11 72 £52,500 +5.00% 76
Leicestershire 0 66 £42,500 -34.62% 48
Derbyshire 0 44 £45,000 -33.82% 24
Northamptonshire +13 38 £70,000 -12.50% 28
Lincolnshire -5 16 £58,750 +56.67% 27
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 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 43 (17.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 125 (52.30%) Azure
2 78 (32.64%) Azure AI
3 55 (23.01%) Power Platform
4 54 (22.59%) AWS
5 18 (7.53%) GCP
6 12 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.60%) Serverless
8 10 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.09%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.09%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.67%) Slack
11 3 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.26%) dbt
11 3 (1.26%) GitHub
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) Firewall
2 10 (4.18%) DNS
2 10 (4.18%) MQTT
3 7 (2.93%) Wireless
4 6 (2.51%) VPN
4 6 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.51%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.67%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.67%) DHCP
6 3 (1.26%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.84%) HTTP
7 2 (0.84%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.84%) SSL
7 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.84%) VLAN
8 1 (0.42%) Internet
8 1 (0.42%) RTP
8 1 (0.42%) RTSP
8 1 (0.42%) SCTP
8 1 (0.42%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.01%) Power BI
2 48 (20.08%) Tableau
3 10 (4.18%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.18%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.26%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.84%) Looker
7 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.42%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.02%) Git
2 9 (3.77%) GitLab
3 7 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.51%) GDB
5 4 (1.67%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.26%) JIRA
General
1 101 (42.26%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.52%) Finance
3 46 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.53%) Banking
5 10 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.18%) Retail
6 7 (2.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.09%) Law
8 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.26%) Marketing
9 2 (0.84%) Electronics
9 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 66 (27.62%) Analyst
1 66 (27.62%) Data Analyst
2 54 (22.59%) Data Scientist
3 46 (19.25%) Developer
4 45 (18.83%) Senior
5 42 (17.57%) Junior
5 42 (17.57%) Junior Analyst
5 42 (17.57%) Junior Data Analyst
6 37 (15.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 30 (12.55%) Lead
8 23 (9.62%) Senior Data Scientist
9 22 (9.21%) Lead Data Scientist
10 21 (8.79%) Software Engineer
11 17 (7.11%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (7.11%) Senior Data Analyst
12 14 (5.86%) Statistician
13 13 (5.44%) Lead Developer
13 13 (5.44%) Python Engineer
13 13 (5.44%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.55%) PyTorch
2 24 (10.04%) TensorFlow
3 23 (9.62%) Hugging Face
4 12 (5.02%) Terraform
5 10 (4.18%) scikit-learn
6 9 (3.77%) Node.js
7 8 (3.35%) Pandas
8 7 (2.93%) React
9 6 (2.51%) Yocto
10 5 (2.09%) HTML
10 5 (2.09%) PySpark
10 5 (2.09%) REST
11 4 (1.67%) CSS
11 4 (1.67%) Django
11 4 (1.67%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (1.67%) pytest
11 4 (1.67%) Unity DI Container
12 3 (1.26%) Blazor
12 3 (1.26%) JSON
12 3 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.44%) IoT
2 6 (2.51%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (2.51%) Device Driver
2 6 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.26%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.26%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.26%) PKI
4 3 (1.26%) Robotics
5 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.84%) SCADA
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.42%) CUDA
6 1 (0.42%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.37%) Linux
2 12 (5.02%) Windows
3 6 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.67%) VMS
5 2 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Debian
6 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.95%) AI
2 61 (25.52%) Actionable Insight
2 61 (25.52%) Machine Learning
2 61 (25.52%) Roadmaps
3 57 (23.85%) Data Science
4 56 (23.43%) Business Intelligence
5 54 (22.59%) Software Engineering
6 50 (20.92%) Analytics
7 49 (20.50%) Statistics
8 45 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (17.57%) Mentoring
10 38 (15.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 36 (15.06%) Deep Learning
12 29 (12.13%) CI/CD
13 26 (10.88%) Decision-Making
13 26 (10.88%) Project Management
13 26 (10.88%) Validation
14 25 (10.46%) Data Analysis
15 22 (9.21%) Data Transformation
15 22 (9.21%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 123 (51.46%) SQL
2 16 (6.69%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.60%) Bash
3 11 (4.60%) C#
3 11 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.77%) C++
5 6 (2.51%) C
5 6 (2.51%) Java
5 6 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.26%) PHP
6 3 (1.26%) R
7 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (32.64%) Azure Certification
2 24 (10.04%) Degree
3 9 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.93%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.93%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.09%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.26%) CCNA
7 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.26%) MCSE
7 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.84%) CISSP
8 2 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.51%) JTAG
2 5 (2.09%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.67%) SLA
4 3 (1.26%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.84%) QA
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (5.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.26%) vSphere
4 2 (0.84%) Firmware
4 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.09%) Grafana
3 4 (1.67%) Ansible
4 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.53%) Databricks
3 8 (3.35%) Google
4 5 (2.09%) VMware
5 3 (1.26%) Cisco
6 2 (0.84%) AlienVault
6 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.84%) FIS
6 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.42%) ESRI
7 1 (0.42%) HP
7 1 (0.42%) Mistral
7 1 (0.42%) Splunk