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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 195 126 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.26% 13.49% 4.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.51% 43.45% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 146 116 82
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,375 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.42% -7.78%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% +20.45% -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 582 290 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.67% 31.05% 28.84%
Number of salaries quoted 434 241 524
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £64,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% +21.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £84,224
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +16.50% -8.04%

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 12 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 8 (4.10%) 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 79 (40.51%) AWS
2 65 (33.33%) Azure
3 37 (18.97%) GitHub
4 29 (14.87%) Power Platform
5 26 (13.33%) Azure AI
6 25 (12.82%) GCP
7 24 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (6.15%) Serverless
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 16 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.15%) BigQuery
5 11 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.08%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.56%) Big Data
7 5 (2.56%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.54%) Metadata
8 3 (1.54%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 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 55 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.28%) Finance
4 13 (6.67%) 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 63 (32.31%) Developer
2 41 (21.03%) Senior
3 39 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 35 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 25 (12.82%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 22 (11.28%) Analyst
6 22 (11.28%) Data Analyst
7 17 (8.72%) Lead
7 17 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (8.21%) Junior
8 16 (8.21%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (8.21%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.18%) Trainee
10 12 (6.15%) Software Developer
11 10 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (5.13%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.18%) Flask
2 13 (6.67%) React
2 13 (6.67%) Web Services
3 12 (6.15%) Vue
4 11 (5.64%) PySpark
5 10 (5.13%) CSS
5 10 (5.13%) HTML
6 7 (3.59%) .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 22 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.64%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.10%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.10%) PKI
5 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.08%) Educational Technology
7 5 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.05%) NHS
9 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Social Media
10 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.95%) AI
2 58 (29.74%) CI/CD
3 47 (24.10%) Agile
4 44 (22.56%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (18.46%) Mentoring
8 32 (16.41%) DevOps
9 28 (14.36%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (12.82%) Analytics
11 25 (12.82%) Containerisation
11 25 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (12.31%) Machine Learning
13 23 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (11.28%) Data Engineering
15 20 (10.26%) ETL
16 19 (9.74%) Data Analysis
17 18 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
17 18 (9.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.79%) SQL
2 32 (16.41%) Java
3 19 (9.74%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.21%) Groovy
5 14 (7.18%) C#
6 9 (4.62%) Go
7 7 (3.59%) Bash
8 6 (3.08%) Scala
9 5 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.54%) R
10 3 (1.54%) Ruby
11 2 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.82%) Azure Certification
3 20 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.64%) Degree
5 8 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.23%) 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%) Informatica
7 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.51%) VMware