Python Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Python
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 69 26
Rank change year-on-year +21 -43 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 19 13 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.45% 1.43% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.27% 8.78% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £68,500 - £60,625
25th Percentile £70,000 - £85,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile £86,500 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £66,250 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +39.47% -5.00% -13.04%

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 104 148 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 18.91% 16.30% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 58 94 85
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,842 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,075 £74,375 £90,000
East Midlands median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Northamptonshire

Python
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Python

Python
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Northampton +8 7 £80,000 - 29
Towcester - 1 - -
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) TCP/IP
1 11 (57.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.26%) Metadata
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Power Query
1 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Cucumber
1 11 (57.89%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 15 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 11 (57.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (57.89%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Test Automation Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Test Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
1 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) Keras
2 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (5.26%) Metaflow
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) NumPy
2 1 (5.26%) Pandas
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Linux
2 11 (57.89%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 11 (57.89%) Coaching
3 11 (57.89%) Mentoring
3 11 (57.89%) System Testing
3 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
3 11 (57.89%) Test Management
4 3 (15.79%) Data Science
4 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) Change Management
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Bash
1 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
2 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) HND
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Allen-Bradley
1 2 (10.53%) Siemens
1 2 (10.53%) Toshiba
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft