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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 212 102 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.57% 13.16% 4.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.93% 35.79% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 158 94 83
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £32,984
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +21.90% -24.40%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,375 £74,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £63,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -18.00%

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 574 285 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.21% 36.77% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 417 238 517
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,138 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,978
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £59,738 £51,528
% change year-on-year +8.81% +15.93% -10.39%

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 13 May 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 11 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.83%) Apache
2 6 (2.83%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (15.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.51%) AWS
2 81 (38.21%) Azure
3 37 (17.45%) GitHub
4 31 (14.62%) Power Platform
5 27 (12.74%) Azure AI
5 27 (12.74%) Serverless
6 20 (9.43%) GCP
7 17 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.72%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.36%) dbt
14 5 (2.36%) OCI
15 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.19%) Internet
2 5 (2.36%) Firewall
2 5 (2.36%) NGFW
2 5 (2.36%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.51%) Tableau
2 31 (14.62%) Power BI
3 11 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.72%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.83%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.83%) Spark SQL
8 4 (1.89%) Metadata
8 4 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.94%) MySQL
10 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.94%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Looker
11 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (8.49%) Git
1 18 (8.49%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.77%) GitLab
3 6 (2.83%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (1.89%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.42%) JIRA
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 61 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.79%) Finance
4 14 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.66%) Retail
6 11 (5.19%) Multimedia
7 9 (4.25%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing
10 2 (0.94%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.47%) Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (34.43%) Developer
2 40 (18.87%) Python Developer
3 39 (18.40%) Senior
4 35 (16.51%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (14.62%) Analyst
5 31 (14.62%) Data Analyst
6 27 (12.74%) Trainee
7 25 (11.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 22 (10.38%) Data Engineer
8 22 (10.38%) Junior
9 21 (9.91%) Junior Analyst
9 21 (9.91%) Junior Data Analyst
10 19 (8.96%) Software Developer
11 15 (7.08%) Lead
12 14 (6.60%) Senior Developer
12 14 (6.60%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.66%) Architect
14 10 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.72%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.38%) CSS
1 22 (10.38%) HTML
2 18 (8.49%) Flask
3 17 (8.02%) React
4 15 (7.08%) Vue
5 11 (5.19%) PySpark
6 10 (4.72%) .NET
7 7 (3.30%) Web Services
8 6 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.83%) Flutter
8 6 (2.83%) Hugging Face
8 6 (2.83%) Matplotlib
8 6 (2.83%) NumPy
8 6 (2.83%) Pandas
8 6 (2.83%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.83%) Streamlit
9 4 (1.89%) Django
9 4 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.42%) JSON
10 3 (1.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.77%) PKI
5 7 (3.30%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.36%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.36%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.89%) NHS
9 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.94%) Social Media
10 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (33.49%) AI
2 51 (24.06%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.64%) Mentoring
4 41 (19.34%) Agile
4 41 (19.34%) Software Engineering
5 40 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (14.15%) DevOps
8 26 (12.26%) Analytics
9 25 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (11.32%) Test Automation
11 23 (10.85%) Machine Learning
12 22 (10.38%) Data Analysis
13 20 (9.43%) Containerisation
13 20 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (9.43%) Data Modelling
14 19 (8.96%) Computer Science
14 19 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (8.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.96%) SQL
2 46 (21.70%) Java
3 45 (21.23%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.74%) C#
5 14 (6.60%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.72%) Groovy
7 9 (4.25%) Go
7 9 (4.25%) R
8 7 (3.30%) Bash
9 5 (2.36%) Scala
10 3 (1.42%) C
10 3 (1.42%) C++
10 3 (1.42%) Perl
10 3 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.94%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (23.58%) Azure Certification
2 28 (13.21%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.85%) Degree
4 22 (10.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (8.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (7.55%) Security Cleared
7 12 (5.66%) SC Cleared
8 11 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CEH
9 2 (0.94%) CISA
9 2 (0.94%) CISSP
9 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.25%) QA
3 4 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.94%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (10.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (16.51%) Terraform
2 20 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.77%) Ansible
4 7 (3.30%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.42%) Argo
5 3 (1.42%) Packer
6 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 64 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.19%) Databricks
3 5 (2.36%) Arista
3 5 (2.36%) Aruba
3 5 (2.36%) NetScout
4 4 (1.89%) Google
4 4 (1.89%) IBM
5 3 (1.42%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.94%) Oracle
6 2 (0.94%) Palantir