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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 8 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 157 131 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.17% 13.85% 4.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.40% 48.34% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 108 121 60
10th Percentile £42,625 £29,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £45,872
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £63,940
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +5.57% -8.66%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - £85,000 £88,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £73,750 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.26% +22.73% -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 534 271 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.58% 28.65% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 390 224 388
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,125 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 1 September 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 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.13%) AWS
2 54 (34.39%) Azure
3 35 (22.29%) GitHub
4 22 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (14.01%) GCP
4 22 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (12.10%) Azure AI
5 19 (12.10%) Power Platform
6 18 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (8.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (6.37%) Serverless
10 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.55%) SaaS
12 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.91%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) Internet
1 2 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) Power BI
2 17 (10.83%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.01%) BigQuery
4 10 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (6.37%) Tableau
5 5 (3.18%) Big Data
6 4 (2.55%) Metadata
6 4 (2.55%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.91%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.64%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.64%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (15.29%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.64%) Git
3 4 (2.55%) GitLab
4 3 (1.91%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.91%) JIRA
4 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.27%) Claude Code
General
1 48 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.10%) Finance
4 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.91%) Games
6 3 (1.91%) Marketing
7 2 (1.27%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.27%) Retail
7 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.64%) Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (33.12%) Developer
2 34 (21.66%) Python Developer
3 32 (20.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (20.38%) Senior
4 22 (14.01%) Data Engineer
4 22 (14.01%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 20 (12.74%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (8.28%) Lead
7 10 (6.37%) Analyst
8 9 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.73%) Junior
8 9 (5.73%) Junior Analyst
8 9 (5.73%) Junior Data Analyst
8 9 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.75%) Terraform
2 17 (10.83%) Web Services
3 13 (8.28%) Flask
4 10 (6.37%) CSS
4 10 (6.37%) HTML
4 10 (6.37%) PySpark
5 9 (5.73%) Vue
6 8 (5.10%) React
7 5 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.91%) Flutter
8 3 (1.91%) JSON
8 3 (1.91%) LangChain
8 3 (1.91%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.91%) OAuth
8 3 (1.91%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.91%) OpenID
8 3 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.91%) REST
8 3 (1.91%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.10%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.73%) AI Agents
2 9 (5.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.18%) Educational Technology
4 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.91%) PKI
5 2 (1.27%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.64%) FMCG
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) NHS
6 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.74%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
2 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.12%) AI
2 51 (32.48%) CI/CD
3 43 (27.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (26.75%) Agile
5 40 (25.48%) Software Engineering
6 33 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (17.83%) Mentoring
8 27 (17.20%) DevOps
9 24 (15.29%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (14.65%) Containerisation
10 23 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (12.74%) Analytics
11 20 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (12.10%) Data Engineering
13 18 (11.46%) ETL
14 17 (10.83%) Machine Learning
15 16 (10.19%) Decision-Making
15 16 (10.19%) Network Load Balancing
15 16 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.76%) SQL
2 25 (15.92%) Java
3 20 (12.74%) Groovy
4 10 (6.37%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.10%) Scala
6 7 (4.46%) C#
7 6 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.18%) Go
9 4 (2.55%) Bash
10 3 (1.91%) Bicep
10 3 (1.91%) R
10 3 (1.91%) Ruby
10 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.46%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.01%) Degree
5 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.55%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.37%) QA
3 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (15.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (16.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.10%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.18%) Ansible
4 3 (1.91%) Packer
5 2 (1.27%) Argo
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.27%) Puppet
6 1 (0.64%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.64%) Databricks
3 5 (3.18%) Foundry
4 4 (2.55%) Google
4 4 (2.55%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.91%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.91%) IBM
5 3 (1.91%) VMware
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (0.64%) Informatica
7 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow