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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 25 20
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 171 80 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.93% 7.38% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.42% 22.99% 24.86%
Number of salaries quoted 143 47 105
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,843 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,495 £78,088
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £63,940 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.66% +7.41% -4.76%

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 385 348 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.12% 32.10% 41.34%
Number of salaries quoted 298 219 409
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,950 £38,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -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 31 December 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 18 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.85%) Apache
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (61.99%) AWS
2 100 (58.48%) Azure
3 50 (29.24%) Serverless
4 44 (25.73%) GitHub
5 16 (9.36%) GCP
6 10 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.09%) dbt
8 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.92%) Azure AI
10 5 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.92%) SaaS
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.75%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.04%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.20%) Tableau
2 14 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (7.02%) Data Mining
4 11 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.85%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.26%) MySQL
6 9 (5.26%) Power BI
7 8 (4.68%) Metadata
8 6 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.92%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.34%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.75%) Big Data
11 3 (1.75%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (15.79%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) GitLab
3 4 (2.34%) Selenium
4 3 (1.75%) JMeter
4 3 (1.75%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.58%) Appium
5 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.58%) Postman
5 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 57 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (14.04%) Multimedia
3 16 (9.36%) Finance
3 16 (9.36%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.36%) Retail
4 6 (3.51%) Marketing
4 6 (3.51%) Tech for Good
5 3 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.17%) Public Speaking
7 1 (0.58%) Back Office
7 1 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (25.73%) Developer
2 36 (21.05%) Trainee
3 32 (18.71%) Senior
4 30 (17.54%) Data Engineer
5 29 (16.96%) Architect
6 24 (14.04%) Python Developer
7 22 (12.87%) Analyst
8 21 (12.28%) Data Analyst
9 20 (11.70%) Software Developer
10 18 (10.53%) Lead
11 16 (9.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 14 (8.19%) Applications Architect
13 12 (7.02%) Trainee Analyst
13 12 (7.02%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 12 (7.02%) Trainee Developer
13 12 (7.02%) Trainee Software Developer
14 11 (6.43%) Software Architect
15 9 (5.26%) Senior Developer
16 8 (4.68%) Data Manager
17 7 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.22%) CSS
1 38 (22.22%) HTML
2 19 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 19 (11.11%) React
3 18 (10.53%) Django
3 18 (10.53%) Flask
4 14 (8.19%) Vue
5 10 (5.85%) PySpark
6 7 (4.09%) Kafka
7 6 (3.51%) Spring
8 5 (2.92%) RESTful
8 5 (2.92%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.34%) Pandas
10 3 (1.75%) Middleware
11 2 (1.17%) .NET
11 2 (1.17%) Grails
11 2 (1.17%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.17%) OpenAPI
11 2 (1.17%) SQLAlchemy
11 2 (1.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.20%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.34%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.17%) IoT
6 2 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.68%) Linux
2 5 (2.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 56 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 45 (26.32%) Migration
4 39 (22.81%) Agile
4 39 (22.81%) Data Modelling
5 36 (21.05%) Analytics
6 33 (19.30%) Data Pipeline
6 33 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (18.71%) Microservices
8 31 (18.13%) DevOps
9 30 (17.54%) Computer Science
9 30 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (16.96%) Architectural Patterns
10 29 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (16.37%) Data Engineering
12 27 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (15.79%) Data Analysis
13 26 (15.20%) Enterprise Architecture
14 25 (14.62%) AI
14 25 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 87 (50.88%) SQL
2 72 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 46 (26.90%) Java
4 34 (19.88%) TypeScript
5 33 (19.30%) C#
6 14 (8.19%) R
7 8 (4.68%) Bash
7 8 (4.68%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.68%) Scala
8 4 (2.34%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.34%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.75%) C
9 3 (1.75%) C++
10 2 (1.17%) Go
10 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.17%) Perl
10 2 (1.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (31.58%) AWS Certification
1 54 (31.58%) Azure Certification
2 49 (28.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 34 (19.88%) Degree
4 28 (16.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (14.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 24 (14.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.75%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.75%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.17%) CEH
8 2 (1.17%) CISA
8 2 (1.17%) CISSP
8 2 (1.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (20.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (14.62%) Terraform
2 17 (9.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.51%) Ansible
4 3 (1.75%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.17%) Control-M
6 1 (0.58%) Grafana
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (46.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.45%) Databricks
3 8 (4.68%) Oracle
4 5 (2.92%) Palantir
5 4 (2.34%) Google
6 3 (1.75%) IBM
7 2 (1.17%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.17%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) Avaya
8 1 (0.58%) Genesys
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.58%) Verint