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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 210 96 114
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.63% 12.55% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.18% 31.68% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 166 83 91
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -20.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,443 £77,794
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 536 303 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.14% 39.61% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 403 242 496
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,638 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,014
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +5.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,813
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £84,357
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 3 April 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 12 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.33%) Apache
3 6 (2.86%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 111 (52.86%) AWS
2 92 (43.81%) Azure
3 52 (24.76%) GitHub
4 47 (22.38%) Serverless
5 23 (10.95%) Power Platform
6 19 (9.05%) Azure AI
7 18 (8.57%) GCP
8 12 (5.71%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.86%) dbt
12 5 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.38%) OCI
13 4 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (1.43%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.00%) Internet
2 5 (2.38%) Firewall
2 5 (2.38%) NGFW
2 5 (2.38%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.62%) Tableau
2 23 (10.95%) Power BI
3 15 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 9 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (3.81%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.33%) Metadata
7 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.90%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.90%) MySQL
8 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.43%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.95%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.48%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (12.38%) Git
2 10 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.33%) GitLab
4 6 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.43%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.43%) JIRA
7 2 (0.95%) JMeter
7 2 (0.95%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 65 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.29%) Finance
4 22 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 21 (10.00%) Multimedia
6 14 (6.67%) Retail
7 9 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.90%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.48%) Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (33.33%) Developer
2 42 (20.00%) Trainee
3 40 (19.05%) Senior
4 39 (18.57%) Python Developer
5 33 (15.71%) Analyst
5 33 (15.71%) Data Analyst
6 26 (12.38%) Data Engineer
7 20 (9.52%) Architect
7 20 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.05%) Junior
9 18 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (8.57%) Senior Developer
10 17 (8.10%) Junior Analyst
10 17 (8.10%) Junior Data Analyst
11 16 (7.62%) Lead
12 15 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
12 15 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 13 (6.19%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 12 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
15 10 (4.76%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.00%) CSS
1 42 (20.00%) HTML
2 32 (15.24%) React
3 28 (13.33%) Flask
4 25 (11.90%) Vue
5 19 (9.05%) Django
6 18 (8.57%) FastAPI
7 13 (6.19%) PySpark
8 10 (4.76%) .NET
9 7 (3.33%) Pandas
10 6 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.86%) Flutter
10 6 (2.86%) Hugging Face
10 6 (2.86%) Matplotlib
10 6 (2.86%) NumPy
10 6 (2.86%) scikit-learn
10 6 (2.86%) Streamlit
11 4 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.90%) Spring
12 3 (1.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.10%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.81%) PKI
5 7 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.38%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.90%) NHS
9 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.95%) Social Media
11 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.05%) Mentoring
2 62 (29.52%) AI
3 59 (28.10%) CI/CD
4 44 (20.95%) Agile
5 39 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (16.67%) Analytics
7 35 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 33 (15.71%) DevOps
9 32 (15.24%) Software Engineering
10 30 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (13.81%) Test Automation
12 28 (13.33%) Machine Learning
13 27 (12.86%) Data Modelling
14 26 (12.38%) Migration
15 24 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (10.95%) Computer Science
16 23 (10.95%) Microservices
16 23 (10.95%) OOP
16 23 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 87 (41.43%) SQL
2 72 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 45 (21.43%) Java
4 31 (14.76%) C#
5 21 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.14%) R
7 9 (4.29%) Go
8 6 (2.86%) Bash
9 5 (2.38%) Scala
10 4 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.43%) C
11 3 (1.43%) C++
11 3 (1.43%) Groovy
11 3 (1.43%) Perl
11 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.95%) Ruby
13 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 58 (27.62%) Azure Certification
2 44 (20.95%) AWS Certification
3 38 (18.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (12.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 25 (11.90%) Degree
6 21 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (8.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (8.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (3.33%) Security Cleared
9 5 (2.38%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.95%) CEH
10 2 (0.95%) CISA
10 2 (0.95%) CISSP
10 2 (0.95%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.81%) Data Quality
1 8 (3.81%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.43%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (15.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (20.48%) Terraform
2 18 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.81%) Ansible
4 3 (1.43%) Argo
4 3 (1.43%) Packer
5 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.48%) Control-M
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) Istio
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.10%) Databricks
3 5 (2.38%) Arista
3 5 (2.38%) Aruba
3 5 (2.38%) IBM
3 5 (2.38%) NetScout
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle
4 4 (1.90%) Palantir
5 3 (1.43%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.43%) Google
5 3 (1.43%) OpenAI