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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 202 109 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.61% 13.56% 4.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.89% 39.93% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 150 101 88
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -17.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £82,178
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £88,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,860 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.32% +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 596 273 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.47% 33.96% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 442 228 559
10th Percentile £39,000 £29,488 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,966 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,860 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -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 June 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 7 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.97%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.48%) Apache
3 5 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (13.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.97%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.99%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.60%) AWS
2 66 (32.67%) Azure
3 39 (19.31%) GitHub
4 28 (13.86%) Power Platform
5 23 (11.39%) Azure AI
6 21 (10.40%) GCP
6 21 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (8.42%) Serverless
8 13 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.46%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.48%) dbt
13 5 (2.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) Internet
2 5 (2.48%) Firewall
2 5 (2.48%) NGFW
2 5 (2.48%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.86%) Power BI
2 26 (12.87%) Tableau
3 13 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.46%) BigQuery
5 8 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.47%) Data Mining
7 6 (2.97%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.98%) Big Data
9 4 (1.98%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.49%) Metadata
10 3 (1.49%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (10.89%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.44%) Git
3 8 (3.96%) GitLab
4 6 (2.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.49%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.99%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.89%) Finance
4 11 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.96%) Retail
6 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.97%) Multimedia
6 6 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.99%) Games
7 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.99%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.50%) Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (35.15%) Developer
2 41 (20.30%) Python Developer
3 39 (19.31%) Senior
4 35 (17.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (12.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 23 (11.39%) Analyst
6 23 (11.39%) Data Analyst
6 23 (11.39%) Data Engineer
7 19 (9.41%) Trainee
8 17 (8.42%) Software Developer
9 16 (7.92%) Junior
9 16 (7.92%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (7.92%) Junior Data Analyst
10 15 (7.43%) Lead
10 15 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.94%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.92%) Flask
2 15 (7.43%) CSS
2 15 (7.43%) HTML
2 15 (7.43%) React
3 13 (6.44%) Vue
4 11 (5.45%) PySpark
4 11 (5.45%) Web Services
5 10 (4.95%) .NET
6 6 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.97%) Flutter
6 6 (2.97%) Hugging Face
6 6 (2.97%) Matplotlib
6 6 (2.97%) NumPy
6 6 (2.97%) Pandas
6 6 (2.97%) scikit-learn
6 6 (2.97%) Streamlit
7 4 (1.98%) LangChain
7 4 (1.98%) LangGraph
7 4 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.96%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.96%) PKI
4 7 (3.47%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.97%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.98%) NHS
8 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Social Media
8 2 (0.99%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.14%) AI
2 54 (26.73%) CI/CD
3 46 (22.77%) Agile
4 45 (22.28%) Software Engineering
5 40 (19.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (18.81%) Mentoring
7 32 (15.84%) DevOps
8 27 (13.37%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (12.87%) Analytics
10 24 (11.88%) Containerisation
10 24 (11.88%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (11.39%) Machine Learning
12 22 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (10.40%) Data Analysis
13 21 (10.40%) Test Automation
14 18 (8.91%) Data Engineering
15 17 (8.42%) ETL
15 17 (8.42%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.69%) SQL
2 39 (19.31%) Java
3 30 (14.85%) JavaScript
4 22 (10.89%) C#
5 14 (6.93%) Groovy
6 9 (4.46%) Go
7 7 (3.47%) Bash
7 7 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.48%) R
8 5 (2.48%) Scala
9 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (16.34%) Azure Certification
2 22 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.92%) AWS Certification
5 15 (7.43%) Degree
6 12 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.45%) QA
3 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (11.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (20.79%) Terraform
2 24 (11.88%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.45%) Progress Chef
4 8 (3.96%) Ansible
5 3 (1.49%) Argo
5 3 (1.49%) Packer
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 44 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.45%) Databricks
3 5 (2.48%) Arista
3 5 (2.48%) Aruba
3 5 (2.48%) Google
3 5 (2.48%) NetScout
4 4 (1.98%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.50%) VMware