Python Job Trends in Leicestershire

Python
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 22 29 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 3.85% 6.62% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.35% 25.00% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 16
10th Percentile £34,475 £35,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £36,563 £41,250 £47,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +7.48% +10.31%
75th Percentile £55,375 £72,500 £60,688
90th Percentile £68,750 £95,400 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% +10.00% -13.04%

All Programming Languages
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 68 116 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 11.91% 26.48% 39.37%
Number of salaries quoted 54 70 160
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,975
25th Percentile £41,563 £34,250 £39,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,500 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +1.01% +11.10%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,675 £68,875 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Python job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Python
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Leicestershire

Python
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Leicester -15 15 £42,500 -26.09% 35
Loughborough - 5 - -
Coalville - 1 £45,390 -
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (4.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 10 (45.45%) Azure AI
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) Tableau
2 12 (54.55%) Power BI
3 3 (13.64%) Data Mining
3 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Looker
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
2 13 (59.09%) Data Analyst
3 10 (45.45%) Junior
3 10 (45.45%) Junior Analyst
3 10 (45.45%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Trainee
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Data Quality Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Quality Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
7 1 (4.55%) Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Statistician
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Data Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) Django
1 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.55%) Flask
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) pytest
1 1 (4.55%) Spring
1 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) AI
1 12 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
2 4 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
2 4 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (13.64%) Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) Data Science
3 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
3 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
3 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analysis
4 2 (9.09%) Data Validation
4 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (9.09%) Statistical Analysis
4 2 (9.09%) Statistics
4 2 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) R
3 1 (4.55%) Delphi
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Civica
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Northgate
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Orchard