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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 26 18
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 162 95 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 14.44% 6.87% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.31% 22.46% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 143 51 123
10th Percentile £28,350 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,125 £77,542
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 322 423 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.70% 30.61% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 271 256 477
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,875 £39,350
25th Percentile £45,455 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.61% -7.50% +9.09%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 (10.49%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.17%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (67.28%) AWS
2 84 (51.85%) Azure
3 43 (26.54%) Serverless
4 32 (19.75%) GitHub
5 19 (11.73%) GCP
6 15 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.70%) dbt
10 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.09%) SaaS
12 4 (2.47%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.47%) OCI
12 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.26%) Internet
2 7 (4.32%) Firewall
3 6 (3.70%) DNS
3 6 (3.70%) Network Security
3 6 (3.70%) VLAN
3 6 (3.70%) VPN
4 5 (3.09%) DHCP
4 5 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.47%) BGP
5 4 (2.47%) OSPF
6 3 (1.85%) LAN
6 3 (1.85%) WAN
7 1 (0.62%) Junos
7 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.49%) Tableau
2 14 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (6.17%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.94%) Data Mining
4 8 (4.94%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.94%) MySQL
5 7 (4.32%) Metadata
6 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.47%) Big Data
7 4 (2.47%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.47%) Power BI
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.85%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.88%) Git
2 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.09%) GitLab
4 4 (2.47%) Selenium
5 3 (1.85%) JIRA
6 2 (1.23%) JMeter
6 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.23%) Postman
6 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.62%) Appium
7 1 (0.62%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.62%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.62%) MLflow
7 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
General
1 42 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.26%) Multimedia
5 10 (6.17%) Retail
6 9 (5.56%) Finance
7 6 (3.70%) Tech for Good
8 5 (3.09%) Marketing
9 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 36 (22.22%) Developer
2 34 (20.99%) Senior
3 28 (17.28%) Data Engineer
4 25 (15.43%) Lead
5 23 (14.20%) Python Developer
5 23 (14.20%) Trainee
6 19 (11.73%) Architect
7 16 (9.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (9.26%) Analyst
8 15 (9.26%) Software Developer
9 13 (8.02%) Data Analyst
10 12 (7.41%) Data Manager
11 10 (6.17%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (5.56%) Applications Architect
13 8 (4.94%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.94%) Trainee Analyst
13 8 (4.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 8 (4.94%) Trainee Developer
13 8 (4.94%) Trainee Software Developer
14 7 (4.32%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.05%) CSS
1 26 (16.05%) HTML
2 16 (9.88%) FastAPI
2 16 (9.88%) React
3 15 (9.26%) Django
3 15 (9.26%) Flask
4 11 (6.79%) Vue
5 10 (6.17%) PySpark
6 6 (3.70%) RESTful
7 5 (3.09%) Kafka
7 5 (3.09%) Pandas
8 4 (2.47%) Spring
8 4 (2.47%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.85%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.23%) .NET
10 2 (1.23%) Middleware
10 2 (1.23%) NumPy
10 2 (1.23%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (1.23%) Swagger
10 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.88%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.17%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.47%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) IoT
7 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.62%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.17%) Linux
1 10 (6.17%) Windows
2 6 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.23%) Check Point GAiA
4 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 62 (38.27%) CI/CD
3 38 (23.46%) Data Pipeline
4 36 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (21.60%) Data Engineering
6 34 (20.99%) Agile
6 34 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (20.99%) Migration
7 32 (19.75%) Analytics
8 31 (19.14%) Data Modelling
8 31 (19.14%) DevOps
9 28 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (14.20%) Roadmaps
12 22 (13.58%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (13.58%) Microservices
13 21 (12.96%) Containerisation
13 21 (12.96%) Data Analysis
14 19 (11.73%) Architectural Patterns
14 19 (11.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 81 (50.00%) SQL
2 49 (30.25%) JavaScript
3 32 (19.75%) Java
4 24 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 22 (13.58%) C#
6 17 (10.49%) PowerShell
7 12 (7.41%) Bash
8 8 (4.94%) R
9 6 (3.70%) Scala
10 4 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.85%) Go
12 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.62%) PHP
13 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (26.54%) AWS Certification
2 31 (19.14%) Azure Certification
3 30 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (12.96%) Degree
5 18 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (10.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (8.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.85%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.85%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.23%) CCSA
10 2 (1.23%) CCSE
11 1 (0.62%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.62%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.62%) OSCE
11 1 (0.62%) OSCP
11 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.47%) NIST
3 3 (1.85%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (19.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (17.90%) Terraform
2 23 (14.20%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.73%) Ansible
4 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 5 (3.09%) SCCM
4 5 (3.09%) SCOM
4 5 (3.09%) WSUS
5 2 (1.23%) Control-M
5 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.23%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.62%) Argo
6 1 (0.62%) Grafana
6 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.62%) Nmap
6 1 (0.62%) QRadar
6 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.75%) Databricks
3 12 (7.41%) Oracle
4 5 (3.09%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.09%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.47%) Google
5 4 (2.47%) Palantir
6 3 (1.85%) Aruba
6 3 (1.85%) Cisco
6 3 (1.85%) Mellanox
6 3 (1.85%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.23%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 2 (1.23%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.62%) Avaya
8 1 (0.62%) ESRI
8 1 (0.62%) Juniper