Python Job Trends in Leeds

Python
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 35
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 150 126 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.81% 13.77% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.73% 50.00% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 103 114 54
10th Percentile £45,300 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,813 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £73,310
90th Percentile - £90,000 £91,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +22.73% -15.38%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 541 252 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.33% 27.54% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 383 211 330
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £36,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +20.54% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% +12.73% -8.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Python job vacancy trend in Leeds

Python
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Leeds over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Leeds

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.33%) Apache
3 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.33%) Trello
3 1 (0.67%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 58 (38.67%) AWS
2 46 (30.67%) Azure
3 32 (21.33%) GitHub
4 23 (15.33%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (14.67%) GCP
5 22 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.67%) Azure AI
7 16 (10.67%) Power Platform
8 13 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.33%) Serverless
11 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.67%) Snowflake
14 3 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.00%) Power BI
2 14 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.33%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.67%) Tableau
6 5 (3.33%) Big Data
7 4 (2.67%) Metadata
7 4 (2.67%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.00%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.33%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.67%) GIS
10 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.33%) Git
3 6 (4.00%) GitLab
4 4 (2.67%) JIRA
5 3 (2.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.33%) Claude Code
General
1 48 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.33%) Finance
5 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.00%) Games
6 3 (2.00%) Marketing
6 3 (2.00%) Retail
7 2 (1.33%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.67%) Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (28.67%) Developer
2 29 (19.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (18.67%) Python Developer
3 28 (18.67%) Senior
4 21 (14.00%) Data Engineer
5 20 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (12.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 14 (9.33%) Lead
8 10 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Analyst
9 9 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.67%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (27.33%) Terraform
2 18 (12.00%) Web Services
3 9 (6.00%) Flask
4 7 (4.67%) CSS
4 7 (4.67%) HTML
4 7 (4.67%) PySpark
4 7 (4.67%) Vue
5 4 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.67%) React
6 3 (2.00%) JSON
6 3 (2.00%) OAuth
6 3 (2.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.00%) OpenID
6 3 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.00%) REST
6 3 (2.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (2.00%) YAML
7 2 (1.33%) Flutter
7 2 (1.33%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.00%) AI Agents
2 9 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.67%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.00%) PKI
5 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) FMCG
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.33%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 47 (31.33%) AI
3 43 (28.67%) Agile
4 42 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (27.33%) Software Engineering
6 32 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (18.67%) DevOps
8 26 (17.33%) Mentoring
9 24 (16.00%) Analytics
9 24 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (14.67%) Containerisation
10 22 (14.67%) Decision-Making
10 22 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (14.00%) Data Engineering
12 19 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (12.00%) ETL
14 17 (11.33%) Network Load Balancing
14 17 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.00%) SQL
2 26 (17.33%) Java
3 21 (14.00%) Groovy
4 8 (5.33%) Scala
5 6 (4.00%) C#
5 6 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.67%) Go
7 3 (2.00%) Bash
7 3 (2.00%) Bicep
7 3 (2.00%) R
7 3 (2.00%) Ruby
7 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.67%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) Degree
4 12 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.67%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.67%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) GCIA
8 1 (0.67%) GCIH
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (15.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (2.00%) Packer
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.67%) Argo
6 1 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.67%) Istio
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.33%) Databricks
3 5 (3.33%) Foundry
4 4 (2.67%) Google
5 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.00%) IBM
5 3 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.00%) VMware
6 2 (1.33%) Cisco
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.67%) ESRI
7 1 (0.67%) F5
7 1 (0.67%) Informatica
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow