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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 160 97 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 14.13% 7.13% 10.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.54% 23.04% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 140 52 120
10th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,063 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,500 £77,542
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,125 £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 323 421 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.53% 30.96% 42.60%
Number of salaries quoted 272 260 468
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,975 £37,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,059 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -3.24% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.45% -8.33% +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 24 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 (10.63%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.88%) Apache
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 105 (65.63%) AWS
2 82 (51.25%) Azure
3 42 (26.25%) Serverless
4 32 (20.00%) GitHub
5 16 (10.00%) GCP
6 14 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.75%) dbt
9 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.13%) SaaS
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.88%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.38%) Internet
2 6 (3.75%) DNS
3 5 (3.13%) DHCP
3 5 (3.13%) Firewall
4 4 (2.50%) Network Security
4 4 (2.50%) VLAN
4 4 (2.50%) VPN
5 3 (1.88%) LAN
5 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.88%) WAN
6 2 (1.25%) BGP
6 2 (1.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.63%) Junos
7 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.88%) Tableau
2 15 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (6.88%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.63%) Data Mining
5 7 (4.38%) Metadata
5 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.38%) MySQL
6 5 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.13%) Power BI
6 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.50%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.88%) Big Data
8 3 (1.88%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.88%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Git
2 8 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.13%) GitLab
4 3 (1.88%) Selenium
5 2 (1.25%) JIRA
5 2 (1.25%) JMeter
5 2 (1.25%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Appium
6 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.63%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.63%) MLflow
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 45 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.38%) Multimedia
4 14 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.50%) Retail
6 10 (6.25%) Finance
7 7 (4.38%) Tech for Good
8 5 (3.13%) Marketing
9 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (22.50%) Developer
2 34 (21.25%) Senior
3 28 (17.50%) Data Engineer
4 24 (15.00%) Trainee
5 23 (14.38%) Lead
6 22 (13.75%) Python Developer
7 19 (11.88%) Architect
8 17 (10.63%) Analyst
9 16 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (9.38%) Data Analyst
10 15 (9.38%) Software Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Data Manager
12 9 (5.63%) Applications Architect
12 9 (5.63%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (5.63%) Trainee Analyst
12 9 (5.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 8 (5.00%) Senior Developer
13 8 (5.00%) Trainee Developer
13 8 (5.00%) Trainee Software Developer
14 6 (3.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.25%) CSS
1 26 (16.25%) HTML
2 16 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 16 (10.00%) React
3 15 (9.38%) Django
3 15 (9.38%) Flask
4 11 (6.88%) Vue
5 9 (5.63%) PySpark
6 5 (3.13%) Kafka
6 5 (3.13%) Pandas
6 5 (3.13%) RESTful
6 5 (3.13%) Spring
6 5 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.88%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.25%) .NET
8 2 (1.25%) Grails
8 2 (1.25%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.25%) Middleware
8 2 (1.25%) NumPy
8 2 (1.25%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.25%) IoT
7 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.88%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Windows
3 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.25%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.63%) Mentoring
2 62 (38.75%) CI/CD
3 37 (23.13%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (21.88%) Migration
5 34 (21.25%) Agile
5 34 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (20.00%) Analytics
7 32 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 31 (19.38%) Data Modelling
8 31 (19.38%) DevOps
9 27 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (13.75%) Data Analysis
11 22 (13.75%) Roadmaps
12 21 (13.13%) Containerisation
12 21 (13.13%) Microservices
13 19 (11.88%) AI
13 19 (11.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 83 (51.88%) SQL
2 50 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 33 (20.63%) Java
4 24 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 22 (13.75%) C#
6 17 (10.63%) PowerShell
7 12 (7.50%) Bash
8 9 (5.63%) R
9 5 (3.13%) Scala
10 4 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.25%) Go
11 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 43 (26.88%) AWS Certification
2 33 (20.63%) Azure Certification
3 30 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (13.13%) Degree
5 18 (11.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (10.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (8.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.88%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.25%) CCSA
10 2 (1.25%) CCSE
11 1 (0.63%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.63%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.63%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.63%) OSCE
11 1 (0.63%) OSCP
11 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.88%) NIST
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (20.63%) Docker
2 6 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (17.50%) Terraform
2 24 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.63%) Ansible
4 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 5 (3.13%) SCCM
4 5 (3.13%) SCOM
4 5 (3.13%) WSUS
5 2 (1.25%) Control-M
5 2 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.25%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) Grafana
6 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.63%) Nmap
6 1 (0.63%) QRadar
6 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (36.88%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.13%) Databricks
3 11 (6.88%) Oracle
4 5 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.50%) Google
6 3 (1.88%) Aruba
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco
6 3 (1.88%) Mellanox
6 3 (1.88%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.88%) Palantir
6 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.25%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.25%) IBM
7 2 (1.25%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.25%) VMware
8 1 (0.63%) Avaya
8 1 (0.63%) ESRI
8 1 (0.63%) Juniper