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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 33
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 195 124 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.37% 13.92% 4.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.80% 43.06% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 146 114 83
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £79,375
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 577 288 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.81% 32.32% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 431 240 540
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +26.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.94%

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 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 7 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.56%) Apache
3 5 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.08%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.03%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.00%) AWS
2 63 (32.31%) Azure
3 37 (18.97%) GitHub
4 29 (14.87%) Power Platform
5 26 (13.33%) Azure AI
6 24 (12.31%) GCP
6 24 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.15%) Serverless
11 11 (5.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (4.62%) Amazon S3
13 8 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (3.08%) dbt
16 5 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) Firewall
1 5 (2.56%) NGFW
1 5 (2.56%) VXLAN
1 5 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (2.56%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.03%) Internet
2 2 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.36%) Power BI
2 25 (12.82%) Tableau
3 15 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.64%) BigQuery
5 10 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.08%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.56%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.05%) Big Data
9 3 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.54%) Metadata
9 3 (1.54%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.13%) Git
3 8 (4.10%) GitLab
4 6 (3.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.54%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.54%) JIRA
5 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.03%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.28%) Finance
4 12 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.59%) Retail
6 6 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.03%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.03%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.51%) Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (33.33%) Developer
2 42 (21.54%) Senior
3 40 (20.51%) Python Developer
4 35 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (12.82%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 24 (12.31%) Data Engineer
7 22 (11.28%) Analyst
7 22 (11.28%) Data Analyst
8 17 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) Junior
9 16 (8.21%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (8.21%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (8.21%) Lead
10 14 (7.18%) Trainee
11 13 (6.67%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.64%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.64%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.69%) Flask
2 13 (6.67%) React
2 13 (6.67%) Web Services
3 12 (6.15%) Vue
4 10 (5.13%) CSS
4 10 (5.13%) HTML
4 10 (5.13%) PySpark
5 8 (4.10%) .NET
6 7 (3.59%) Pandas
7 6 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.08%) Hugging Face
7 6 (3.08%) Matplotlib
7 6 (3.08%) NumPy
7 6 (3.08%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.08%) Streamlit
8 5 (2.56%) Flutter
9 4 (2.05%) LangChain
9 4 (2.05%) LangGraph
10 3 (1.54%) OpenID
10 3 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.64%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.10%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.10%) PKI
5 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.59%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.05%) NHS
8 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Social Media
9 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.46%) AI
2 57 (29.23%) CI/CD
3 45 (23.08%) Agile
4 44 (22.56%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (16.92%) Mentoring
8 32 (16.41%) DevOps
9 28 (14.36%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (12.82%) Containerisation
10 25 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (12.31%) Analytics
11 24 (12.31%) Machine Learning
12 21 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.26%) Data Engineering
14 19 (9.74%) Data Analysis
15 18 (9.23%) ETL
15 18 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (9.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (30.77%) SQL
2 32 (16.41%) Java
3 20 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.21%) Groovy
5 15 (7.69%) C#
6 9 (4.62%) Go
7 7 (3.59%) Bash
8 5 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.56%) Scala
9 3 (1.54%) R
10 2 (1.03%) Bicep
10 2 (1.03%) Ruby
10 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (12.82%) Azure Certification
1 25 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.64%) Degree
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.13%) QA
3 5 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.54%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (23.08%) Terraform
2 27 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 8 (4.10%) Ansible
5 3 (1.54%) Argo
5 3 (1.54%) Packer
6 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.67%) Databricks
3 6 (3.08%) Google
4 5 (2.56%) Arista
4 5 (2.56%) Aruba
4 5 (2.56%) NetScout
4 5 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.05%) Foundry
6 3 (1.54%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.54%) IBM
7 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.51%) VMware