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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 192 126 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.11% 13.65% 5.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.28% 44.37% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 143 118 78
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,925 £38,625
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,250 £44,803
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.42% -7.19%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.84%

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 577 284 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.36% 30.77% 29.08%
Number of salaries quoted 432 238 485
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +21.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -8.10%

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 21 July 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 6 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.13%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.04%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.10%) AWS
2 64 (33.33%) Azure
3 37 (19.27%) GitHub
4 27 (14.06%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.02%) Azure AI
6 24 (12.50%) GCP
6 24 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.25%) Serverless
11 11 (5.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.17%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.60%) dbt
16 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Firewall
1 3 (1.56%) NGFW
1 3 (1.56%) VXLAN
1 3 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.56%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.04%) DNS
2 2 (1.04%) Internet
2 2 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.54%) Power BI
2 23 (11.98%) Tableau
3 17 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.73%) BigQuery
5 10 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.13%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.60%) Big Data
7 5 (2.60%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.08%) Metadata
9 3 (1.56%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (13.02%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.73%) Git
3 8 (4.17%) GitLab
4 6 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.56%) JIRA
5 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.04%) Claude Code
General
1 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.94%) Finance
4 11 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.17%) Retail
6 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Games
7 2 (1.04%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.04%) Marketing
7 2 (1.04%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.52%) Banking
8 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (32.81%) Developer
2 39 (20.31%) Python Developer
3 38 (19.79%) Senior
4 35 (18.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (13.02%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 23 (11.98%) Data Engineer
7 21 (10.94%) Analyst
7 21 (10.94%) Data Analyst
8 17 (8.85%) Lead
8 17 (8.85%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.81%) Junior
9 15 (7.81%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (7.81%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (7.29%) Trainee
11 12 (6.25%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.21%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.29%) Flask
2 13 (6.77%) React
2 13 (6.77%) Web Services
3 12 (6.25%) Vue
4 10 (5.21%) CSS
4 10 (5.21%) HTML
4 10 (5.21%) PySpark
5 7 (3.65%) .NET
5 7 (3.65%) Pandas
6 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.13%) Hugging Face
6 6 (3.13%) Matplotlib
6 6 (3.13%) NumPy
6 6 (3.13%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.13%) Streamlit
7 5 (2.60%) Flutter
8 4 (2.08%) LangChain
8 4 (2.08%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.56%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (5.21%) AI Agents
4 9 (4.69%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Educational Technology
6 6 (3.13%) PKI
7 5 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.56%) NHS
9 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Social Media
10 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.52%) FMCG
10 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.54%) AI
2 58 (30.21%) CI/CD
3 47 (24.48%) Agile
4 42 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (21.88%) Software Engineering
5 38 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (17.19%) Mentoring
7 31 (16.15%) DevOps
8 26 (13.54%) Analytics
8 26 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (13.54%) Machine Learning
9 25 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 23 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (10.42%) Data Analysis
13 20 (10.42%) Data Engineering
14 19 (9.90%) ETL
15 18 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (8.85%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.29%) SQL
2 31 (16.15%) Java
3 19 (9.90%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.33%) Groovy
5 14 (7.29%) C#
6 9 (4.69%) Go
7 7 (3.65%) Bash
8 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.13%) Scala
9 4 (2.08%) R
10 3 (1.56%) Ruby
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
11 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 20 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.73%) Degree
5 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.08%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.73%) QA
3 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (22.92%) Terraform
2 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.29%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.65%) Ansible
5 3 (1.56%) Argo
5 3 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.77%) Databricks
3 5 (2.60%) Foundry
3 5 (2.60%) Google
3 5 (2.60%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.56%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.56%) Arista
4 3 (1.56%) Aruba
4 3 (1.56%) IBM
4 3 (1.56%) NetScout
5 2 (1.04%) VMware
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco
6 1 (0.52%) Informatica
6 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow