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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 31 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 106 188 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.60% 5.88% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.30% 23.56% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 66 95 55
10th Percentile £37,500 - £39,832
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,625 £85,250 £77,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 455 798 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.75% 24.97% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 387 476 528
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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
Derbyshire -7 31 £68,000 +26.51% 21
Nottinghamshire -22 27 £42,500 -22.73% 38
Leicestershire +14 22 £50,295 -12.53% 32
Northamptonshire +25 18 £70,000 +3.70% 23
Lincolnshire -11 6 £41,750 -35.77% 9
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 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) WordPress
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (28.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.51%) Azure
2 36 (33.96%) AWS
3 32 (30.19%) Power Platform
4 12 (11.32%) Azure AI
4 12 (11.32%) GCP
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.66%) GitHub
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.83%) SaaS
8 3 (2.83%) Serverless
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.89%) Datadog
9 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.94%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Internet
2 3 (2.83%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.83%) Modbus
2 3 (2.83%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.25%) Power BI
2 30 (28.30%) Tableau
3 9 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.55%) Big Data
4 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.60%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.77%) Metadata
6 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.77%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.89%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.89%) Looker
8 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.94%) Power Query
9 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
2 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.77%) MLflow
3 3 (2.83%) GitLab
4 2 (1.89%) Selenium
5 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.94%) JUnit
5 1 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
General
1 34 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.15%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Marketing
4 7 (6.60%) Law
5 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Retail
6 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.89%) Local Government
7 2 (1.89%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Electronics
8 1 (0.94%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 33 (31.13%) Analyst
2 29 (27.36%) Data Analyst
3 24 (22.64%) Senior
4 16 (15.09%) Developer
5 13 (12.26%) Junior
6 12 (11.32%) Data Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Junior Analyst
6 12 (11.32%) Junior Data Analyst
6 12 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.38%) Python Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Customer Analyst
8 9 (8.49%) Digital Analyst
8 9 (8.49%) Digital Analytics Analyst
8 9 (8.49%) Python Software Engineer
9 8 (7.55%) Python Developer
9 8 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (7.55%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.60%) Data Scientist
11 6 (5.66%) Data Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) Django
2 9 (8.49%) React
3 8 (7.55%) Flask
4 7 (6.60%) CSS
5 6 (5.66%) PySpark
5 6 (5.66%) REST
6 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.72%) Node.js
7 4 (3.77%) .NET
7 4 (3.77%) HTML
7 4 (3.77%) Keras
7 4 (3.77%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (3.77%) Metaflow
7 4 (3.77%) NumPy
7 4 (3.77%) Pandas
7 4 (3.77%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.77%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.77%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.77%) YAML
8 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) IoT
3 6 (5.66%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.72%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.77%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.83%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (2.83%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.83%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.83%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (2.83%) SCADA
6 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.94%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
2 31 (29.25%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (24.53%) Data Science
3 26 (24.53%) Visualisation
4 25 (23.58%) AI
4 25 (23.58%) Analytics
5 23 (21.70%) Decision-Making
6 18 (16.98%) Machine Learning
7 17 (16.04%) Software Engineering
8 16 (15.09%) Data Modelling
8 16 (15.09%) Data Visualisation
8 16 (15.09%) Mentoring
9 15 (14.15%) Agile
9 15 (14.15%) Test Automation
10 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.21%) Economics
10 14 (13.21%) Statistical Analysis
10 14 (13.21%) Statistics
11 12 (11.32%) CRM
12 11 (10.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 70 (66.04%) SQL
2 15 (14.15%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.55%) Java
3 8 (7.55%) R
4 6 (5.66%) C#
5 4 (3.77%) C
5 4 (3.77%) PHP
6 3 (2.83%) C++
6 3 (2.83%) VBA
7 2 (1.89%) Bash
7 2 (1.89%) Perl
7 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.94%) Bicep
8 1 (0.94%) Delphi
8 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (28.30%) Degree
2 15 (14.15%) Azure Certification
3 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.49%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (6.60%) HND
7 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.83%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.83%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.83%) HNC
9 3 (2.83%) PhD
10 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.89%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.89%) GDPR
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 12 (11.32%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (13.21%) Terraform
2 13 (12.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.77%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.83%) Functional Safety
5 2 (1.89%) Ansible
5 2 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.21%) Databricks
3 9 (8.49%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.72%) Siemens
5 3 (2.83%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.83%) Rockwell
5 3 (2.83%) VMware
6 2 (1.89%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (1.89%) Atmel
6 2 (1.89%) Google
6 2 (1.89%) Toshiba
6 2 (1.89%) Zoho
7 1 (0.94%) Civica
7 1 (0.94%) Cognos
7 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.94%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.94%) Northgate
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.94%) Orchard
7 1 (0.94%) Xilinx