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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 45 69
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 301 120 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.85% 5.42% 3.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.67% 23.39% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 86 51 95
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,625 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -4.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £77,500 £76,500
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 894 513 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.38% 23.19% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 549 363 973
10th Percentile £29,600 £28,750 £31,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,000
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 10 July 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 10 July 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 90 £42,500 -34.62% 23
Nottinghamshire +11 83 £52,500 +10.53% 21
Northamptonshire +27 48 £62,500 +19.05% 16
Derbyshire +10 47 £51,250 -14.58% 15
Lincolnshire -1 28 £51,250 -10.87% 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 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.66%) WordPress
2 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 98 (32.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 184 (61.13%) Azure
2 132 (43.85%) Azure AI
3 113 (37.54%) Power Platform
4 62 (20.60%) AWS
5 20 (6.64%) Amazon S3
5 20 (6.64%) Serverless
6 19 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (6.31%) GCP
7 12 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.99%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.33%) GitHub
10 5 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.33%) Slack
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.00%) Datadog
12 3 (1.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.65%) Wireless
2 10 (3.32%) Firewall
2 10 (3.32%) MQTT
2 10 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (2.66%) Bluetooth
4 6 (1.99%) DNS
4 6 (1.99%) VPN
4 6 (1.99%) ZigBee
5 4 (1.33%) LTE
5 4 (1.33%) Modbus
6 3 (1.00%) Broadband
7 2 (0.66%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) Internet
7 2 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.66%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) BGP
8 1 (0.33%) MPLS
8 1 (0.33%) RTP
8 1 (0.33%) RTSP
8 1 (0.33%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (37.54%) Power BI
2 102 (33.89%) Tableau
3 9 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.33%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.66%) Looker
8 2 (0.66%) Metadata
8 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (5.32%) Git
2 8 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.33%) GitLab
4 6 (1.99%) GDB
5 4 (1.33%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.33%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.33%) Subversion
6 1 (0.33%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) MLflow
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 156 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.27%) Finance
3 55 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.98%) Banking
5 9 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.99%) Retail
6 7 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.33%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.66%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Military
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (40.86%) Analyst
2 121 (40.20%) Data Analyst
3 97 (32.23%) Junior
4 96 (31.89%) Junior Analyst
4 96 (31.89%) Junior Data Analyst
5 59 (19.60%) Data Scientist
6 52 (17.28%) Developer
7 42 (13.95%) Senior
8 37 (12.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 35 (11.63%) Lead
10 25 (8.31%) Senior Data Scientist
11 24 (7.97%) Lead Data Scientist
12 18 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (5.98%) Senior Data Analyst
13 17 (5.65%) Software Engineer
14 15 (4.98%) Lead Developer
15 14 (4.65%) Statistician
16 13 (4.32%) Data Engineer
16 13 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (4.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.96%) PyTorch
2 27 (8.97%) TensorFlow
3 24 (7.97%) Hugging Face
4 15 (4.98%) HTML
4 15 (4.98%) React
5 14 (4.65%) Node.js
6 12 (3.99%) CSS
7 10 (3.32%) Pandas
7 10 (3.32%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.99%) Yocto
9 4 (1.33%) JSON
9 4 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.33%) pytest
9 4 (1.33%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (1.00%) Matplotlib
10 3 (1.00%) Middleware
10 3 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.66%) Django
11 2 (0.66%) jQuery
11 2 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.99%) IoT
2 7 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (1.99%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (1.99%) Device Driver
4 4 (1.33%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (1.00%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.66%) SCADA
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.33%) CUDA
7 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.33%) PKI
7 1 (0.33%) Robotics
7 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.32%) Linux
2 10 (3.32%) Windows
3 6 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (56.81%) AI
2 114 (37.87%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (20.93%) Data Science
3 63 (20.93%) Machine Learning
3 63 (20.93%) Roadmaps
4 62 (20.60%) Actionable Insight
5 55 (18.27%) Analytics
6 52 (17.28%) Software Engineering
7 50 (16.61%) Statistics
8 48 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (12.96%) Mentoring
10 37 (12.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 36 (11.96%) Deep Learning
12 30 (9.97%) Decision-Making
13 27 (8.97%) CI/CD
14 26 (8.64%) Validation
15 25 (8.31%) Data Analysis
16 23 (7.64%) Computer Science
16 23 (7.64%) Data Analytics
16 23 (7.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (63.12%) SQL
2 20 (6.64%) JavaScript
3 13 (4.32%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.65%) Bash
4 11 (3.65%) C
4 11 (3.65%) R
5 9 (2.99%) C++
6 8 (2.66%) C#
7 6 (1.99%) Java
7 6 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.33%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (0.66%) Bicep
10 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
11 1 (0.33%) Rust
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (45.18%) Azure Certification
2 26 (8.64%) Degree
3 15 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.66%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.99%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.66%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.66%) CISSP
10 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) CCNA
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.99%) Data Quality
1 6 (1.99%) JTAG
2 3 (1.00%) GDPR
3 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.66%) QA
3 2 (0.66%) SLA
4 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (2.33%) Docker
1 7 (2.33%) Firmware
2 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.32%) Terraform
2 6 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.33%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Ansible
4 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 112 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.98%) Databricks
3 9 (2.99%) Google
4 4 (1.33%) Atmel
5 3 (1.00%) VMware
6 2 (0.66%) AlienVault
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco
6 2 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.33%) Civica
7 1 (0.33%) Cognos
7 1 (0.33%) ESRI
7 1 (0.33%) HP
7 1 (0.33%) Northgate
7 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.33%) Orchard
7 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds