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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 220 101 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.97% 12.88% 4.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.13% 34.47% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 166 92 84
10th Percentile £32,625 £26,750 £33,080
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,622 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +14.64% -22.60%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,500 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 577 293 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.52% 37.37% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 421 242 518
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,913 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £69,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,974
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £59,738 £52,014
% change year-on-year +8.81% +14.85% -9.54%

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 10 May 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 11 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.73%) Apache
2 6 (2.73%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.82%) AWS
2 87 (39.55%) Azure
3 41 (18.64%) GitHub
4 31 (14.09%) Power Platform
5 29 (13.18%) Serverless
6 27 (12.27%) Azure AI
7 20 (9.09%) GCP
8 18 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.27%) dbt
14 5 (2.27%) OCI
15 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.91%) Internet
2 5 (2.27%) Firewall
2 5 (2.27%) NGFW
2 5 (2.27%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.36%) Tableau
2 31 (14.09%) Power BI
3 11 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 11 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.18%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.73%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.73%) Metadata
6 6 (2.73%) Spark SQL
7 4 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.91%) MySQL
9 2 (0.91%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.91%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) Looker
10 1 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (9.09%) Git
2 18 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.64%) GitLab
4 6 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.36%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 63 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.82%) Finance
4 16 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.91%) Multimedia
6 12 (5.45%) Retail
7 9 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.45%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (34.55%) Developer
2 42 (19.09%) Python Developer
3 39 (17.73%) Senior
4 35 (15.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (14.55%) Analyst
5 32 (14.55%) Data Analyst
6 30 (13.64%) Trainee
7 25 (11.36%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 24 (10.91%) Data Engineer
9 22 (10.00%) Junior
10 21 (9.55%) Junior Analyst
10 21 (9.55%) Junior Data Analyst
11 20 (9.09%) Software Developer
12 16 (7.27%) Lead
13 14 (6.36%) Senior Developer
13 14 (6.36%) Software Engineer
14 13 (5.91%) Architect
15 11 (5.00%) Trainee Analyst
15 11 (5.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 10 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.36%) CSS
1 25 (11.36%) HTML
2 19 (8.64%) Flask
2 19 (8.64%) React
3 16 (7.27%) Vue
4 13 (5.91%) PySpark
5 10 (4.55%) .NET
6 7 (3.18%) Web Services
7 6 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.73%) Flutter
7 6 (2.73%) Hugging Face
7 6 (2.73%) Matplotlib
7 6 (2.73%) NumPy
7 6 (2.73%) Pandas
7 6 (2.73%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.73%) Streamlit
8 5 (2.27%) Django
9 4 (1.82%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.36%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.64%) PKI
5 7 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.18%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.27%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.27%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.82%) NHS
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.91%) Social Media
10 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.64%) AI
2 54 (24.55%) CI/CD
3 53 (24.09%) Mentoring
4 43 (19.55%) Agile
5 42 (19.09%) Software Engineering
6 40 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (14.09%) DevOps
9 30 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (13.18%) Analytics
11 25 (11.36%) Machine Learning
11 25 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.91%) Data Analysis
12 24 (10.91%) Test Automation
13 21 (9.55%) Containerisation
13 21 (9.55%) Data Modelling
14 20 (9.09%) Computer Science
14 20 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (8.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (34.09%) SQL
2 49 (22.27%) JavaScript
3 47 (21.36%) Java
4 28 (12.73%) C#
5 16 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.55%) Groovy
6 10 (4.55%) R
7 9 (4.09%) Go
8 7 (3.18%) Bash
9 5 (2.27%) Scala
10 3 (1.36%) C
10 3 (1.36%) C++
10 3 (1.36%) Perl
10 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.91%) Ruby
11 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 53 (24.09%) Azure Certification
2 31 (14.09%) AWS Certification
3 25 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (10.91%) Degree
5 19 (8.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 18 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (7.27%) Security Cleared
8 12 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.45%) SC Cleared
8 12 (5.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.91%) CEH
9 2 (0.91%) CISA
9 2 (0.91%) CISSP
9 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.91%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.09%) QA
3 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (10.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (16.36%) Terraform
2 21 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.64%) Ansible
4 7 (3.18%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.36%) Argo
5 3 (1.36%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 70 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.91%) Databricks
3 5 (2.27%) Arista
3 5 (2.27%) Aruba
3 5 (2.27%) NetScout
4 4 (1.82%) Google
4 4 (1.82%) IBM
5 3 (1.36%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle
6 2 (0.91%) Palantir