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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 114 181 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.58% 8.20% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.76% 29.67% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 66 88 71
10th Percentile £36,875 - £35,000
25th Percentile £39,120 £32,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £84,500 £66,250
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 426 610 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.12% 27.65% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 347 369 607
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 January 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 12 January 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
Northamptonshire +19 32 £70,000 +20.69% 54
Nottinghamshire -16 30 £42,500 -8.11% 65
Leicestershire 0 22 £43,750 -23.91% 59
Derbyshire -22 17 £68,000 +18.26% 68
Lincolnshire -5 11 £40,000 -38.46% 58
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 (1.75%) WordPress
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 51 (44.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) Azure
2 47 (41.23%) Power Platform
3 36 (31.58%) AWS
4 30 (26.32%) Azure AI
5 15 (13.16%) Serverless
6 14 (12.28%) Amazon S3
6 14 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.51%) GitHub
7 4 (3.51%) SaaS
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.63%) GCP
9 2 (1.75%) Datadog
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.88%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Broadband
1 2 (1.75%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) 4G
2 1 (0.88%) BGP
2 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.88%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.88%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (42.11%) Tableau
2 46 (40.35%) Power BI
3 6 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 6 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.51%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.88%) Looker
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Power Query
5 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Git
2 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.88%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 46 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.02%) Marketing
5 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.51%) Law
5 4 (3.51%) Retail
6 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Local Government
7 2 (1.75%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (44.74%) Analyst
2 47 (41.23%) Data Analyst
3 30 (26.32%) Junior
3 30 (26.32%) Junior Analyst
3 30 (26.32%) Junior Data Analyst
4 26 (22.81%) Developer
5 21 (18.42%) Senior
6 13 (11.40%) Python Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Python Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Lead
8 9 (7.89%) Python Software Engineer
8 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) AWS Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Customer Analyst
9 8 (7.02%) Data Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Digital Analyst
9 8 (7.02%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) React
2 17 (14.91%) Node.js
3 16 (14.04%) HTML
4 10 (8.77%) CSS
5 6 (5.26%) Django
5 6 (5.26%) PySpark
6 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.51%) REST
7 2 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.88%) Flask
8 1 (0.88%) Jinja
8 1 (0.88%) Middleware
8 1 (0.88%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.88%) pytest
8 1 (0.88%) Spring
8 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.88%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.51%) Credit Risk
2 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Life Science
4 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.35%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (31.58%) AI
3 25 (21.93%) Analytics
4 23 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (18.42%) Data Science
6 19 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 18 (15.79%) Decision-Making
8 17 (14.91%) CI/CD
9 16 (14.04%) Visualisation
10 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.28%) Economics
12 13 (11.40%) Data Analytics
13 12 (10.53%) Computer Science
13 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
13 12 (10.53%) Statistical Analysis
13 12 (10.53%) Statistics
14 11 (9.65%) CRM
15 10 (8.77%) Data Analysis
16 9 (7.89%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 88 (77.19%) SQL
2 23 (20.18%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.39%) Java
3 5 (4.39%) R
4 4 (3.51%) Bash
4 4 (3.51%) PHP
5 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.63%) VBA
6 2 (1.75%) C
6 2 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
7 1 (0.88%) Delphi
7 1 (0.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (28.95%) Azure Certification
2 28 (24.56%) Degree
3 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.02%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (3.51%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.75%) HND
7 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.88%) PhD
8 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.39%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.39%) Terraform
2 4 (3.51%) Ansible
3 2 (1.75%) Argo
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.77%) Databricks
3 8 (7.02%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.75%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (1.75%) Google
4 2 (1.75%) Siemens
4 2 (1.75%) Toshiba
4 2 (1.75%) Zoho
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco
5 1 (0.88%) Civica
5 1 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.88%) Northgate
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle
5 1 (0.88%) Orchard