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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 47 63
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 275 127 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.84% 5.55% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.19% 23.48% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 72 60 80
10th Percentile £32,625 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,688 £41,250 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +12.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 911 541 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.03% 23.66% 23.85%
Number of salaries quoted 567 392 704
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £63,875 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,375 £71,250
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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +3 85 £42,500 -32.00% 22
Nottinghamshire +12 77 £52,500 +5.00% 27
Derbyshire +2 43 £46,250 -28.85% 14
Northamptonshire +25 41 £70,000 +33.33% 10
Lincolnshire -5 25 £52,500 -8.70% 16
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 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.73%) WordPress
2 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 85 (30.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 170 (61.82%) Azure
2 120 (43.64%) Azure AI
3 100 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 56 (20.36%) AWS
5 18 (6.55%) GCP
6 12 (4.36%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.36%) Serverless
7 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.27%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.18%) GitHub
10 5 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.45%) Slack
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.09%) dbt
12 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.64%) Firewall
1 10 (3.64%) MQTT
2 7 (2.55%) DNS
2 7 (2.55%) Wireless
3 6 (2.18%) VPN
3 6 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (2.18%) ZigBee
4 4 (1.45%) Bluetooth
5 3 (1.09%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) DHCP
6 2 (0.73%) HTTP
6 2 (0.73%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.73%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.36%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.36%) RTSP
7 1 (0.36%) SCTP
7 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.36%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (36.36%) Power BI
2 91 (33.09%) Tableau
3 10 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.45%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.73%) Looker
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.36%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.36%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.36%) GIS
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.36%) Git
2 7 (2.55%) GitLab
2 7 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.18%) GDB
4 4 (1.45%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 143 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.91%) Finance
3 50 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.55%) Banking
5 11 (4.00%) Retail
6 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.45%) Law
10 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 111 (40.36%) Analyst
2 110 (40.00%) Data Analyst
3 85 (30.91%) Junior
4 84 (30.55%) Junior Analyst
4 84 (30.55%) Junior Data Analyst
5 57 (20.73%) Data Scientist
6 46 (16.73%) Developer
7 42 (15.27%) Senior
8 37 (13.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 32 (11.64%) Lead
10 24 (8.73%) Senior Data Scientist
11 23 (8.36%) Lead Data Scientist
12 18 (6.55%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (6.55%) Senior Data Analyst
13 14 (5.09%) Data Engineer
13 14 (5.09%) Statistician
14 13 (4.73%) Lead Developer
14 13 (4.73%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.27%) PyTorch
2 25 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 24 (8.73%) Hugging Face
4 10 (3.64%) Pandas
4 10 (3.64%) scikit-learn
5 9 (3.27%) HTML
6 8 (2.91%) CSS
7 6 (2.18%) Node.js
7 6 (2.18%) React
7 6 (2.18%) Yocto
8 4 (1.45%) JSON
8 4 (1.45%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (1.45%) pytest
8 4 (1.45%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (1.09%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.09%) Middleware
9 3 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.09%) REST
10 2 (0.73%) .NET
10 2 (0.73%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.36%) IoT
2 7 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (2.18%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (2.18%) Device Driver
4 3 (1.09%) Credit Risk
5 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.73%) Robotics
5 2 (0.73%) SCADA
5 2 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.36%) CUDA
6 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.36%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.36%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.36%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.18%) Linux
2 10 (3.64%) Windows
3 6 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Debian
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (57.82%) AI
2 101 (36.73%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (22.55%) Machine Learning
4 61 (22.18%) Actionable Insight
4 61 (22.18%) Roadmaps
5 60 (21.82%) Data Science
6 54 (19.64%) Analytics
7 49 (17.82%) Statistics
8 46 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (16.00%) Software Engineering
10 41 (14.91%) Mentoring
11 37 (13.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 36 (13.09%) Deep Learning
13 28 (10.18%) Decision-Making
14 27 (9.82%) Validation
15 26 (9.45%) Data Analysis
16 24 (8.73%) CI/CD
17 23 (8.36%) Project Management
18 22 (8.00%) Data Transformation
18 22 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 170 (61.82%) SQL
2 14 (5.09%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.36%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.00%) Bash
5 9 (3.27%) C#
5 9 (3.27%) C++
6 7 (2.55%) C
6 7 (2.55%) R
7 5 (1.82%) Java
8 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (45.09%) Azure Certification
2 22 (8.00%) Degree
3 11 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.91%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.45%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.09%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) CISSP
9 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.36%) CCNA
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.18%) JTAG
2 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.09%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.73%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Firmware
2 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.27%) Terraform
2 8 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.45%) Grafana
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
4 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 99 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.27%) Databricks
3 9 (3.27%) Google
4 3 (1.09%) VMware
5 2 (0.73%) AlienVault
6 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco
6 1 (0.36%) Civica
6 1 (0.36%) Cognos
6 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) ESRI
6 1 (0.36%) HP
6 1 (0.36%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.36%) Northgate
6 1 (0.36%) Orchard
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.36%) Splunk