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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -27
Permanent jobs citing Python 224 97 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.31% 12.53% 5.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.23% 33.11% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 169 88 84
10th Percentile £31,550 £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 £87,500 £75,500 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -18.26%

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 571 293 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.72% 37.86% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 415 241 513
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,480
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.59% -10.39%

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 4 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 12 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.68%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (15.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.41%) AWS
2 91 (40.63%) Azure
3 42 (18.75%) GitHub
4 30 (13.39%) Power Platform
4 30 (13.39%) Serverless
5 27 (12.05%) Azure AI
6 20 (8.93%) GCP
7 17 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.02%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.23%) OCI
14 4 (1.79%) dbt
14 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.70%) Internet
2 5 (2.23%) Firewall
2 5 (2.23%) NGFW
2 5 (2.23%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.52%) Tableau
2 30 (13.39%) Power BI
3 12 (5.36%) Data Mining
4 9 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (2.68%) Metadata
5 6 (2.68%) Spark SQL
6 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.79%) MySQL
7 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.45%) Looker
10 1 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (9.38%) Git
2 17 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.57%) GitLab
4 6 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.34%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 62 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.05%) Finance
4 18 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.70%) Multimedia
6 12 (5.36%) Retail
7 9 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.89%) Marketing
9 2 (0.89%) Public Speaking
9 2 (0.89%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.45%) Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (34.82%) Developer
2 43 (19.20%) Python Developer
3 38 (16.96%) Senior
4 35 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (15.18%) Analyst
5 34 (15.18%) Data Analyst
6 33 (14.73%) Trainee
7 25 (11.16%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 24 (10.71%) Data Engineer
9 23 (10.27%) Junior
10 21 (9.38%) Junior Analyst
10 21 (9.38%) Junior Data Analyst
10 21 (9.38%) Software Developer
11 16 (7.14%) Lead
12 15 (6.70%) Architect
13 14 (6.25%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.36%) Software Engineer
14 12 (5.36%) Trainee Analyst
14 12 (5.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 10 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.05%) CSS
1 27 (12.05%) HTML
2 20 (8.93%) Flask
2 20 (8.93%) React
3 16 (7.14%) Vue
4 13 (5.80%) PySpark
5 10 (4.46%) .NET
6 6 (2.68%) Django
6 6 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.68%) Flutter
6 6 (2.68%) Hugging Face
6 6 (2.68%) Matplotlib
6 6 (2.68%) NumPy
6 6 (2.68%) Pandas
6 6 (2.68%) scikit-learn
6 6 (2.68%) Streamlit
6 6 (2.68%) Web Services
7 5 (2.23%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.57%) PKI
4 7 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.23%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.23%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.79%) NHS
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Social Media
9 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.14%) AI
2 57 (25.45%) Mentoring
3 54 (24.11%) CI/CD
4 40 (17.86%) Agile
4 40 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 34 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (13.84%) DevOps
7 30 (13.39%) Analytics
8 29 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (11.61%) Machine Learning
9 26 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.61%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.71%) Data Analysis
11 23 (10.27%) Data Modelling
12 22 (9.82%) Computer Science
12 22 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (8.93%) Containerisation
13 20 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.38%) SQL
2 53 (23.66%) JavaScript
3 46 (20.54%) Java
4 29 (12.95%) C#
5 18 (8.04%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.91%) R
7 9 (4.02%) Go
7 9 (4.02%) Groovy
8 7 (3.13%) Bash
9 6 (2.68%) Scala
10 3 (1.34%) C
10 3 (1.34%) C++
10 3 (1.34%) Perl
10 3 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
11 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 57 (25.45%) Azure Certification
2 35 (15.63%) AWS Certification
3 29 (12.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (11.16%) Degree
5 21 (9.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 20 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (6.70%) Security Cleared
8 14 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (4.91%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.89%) CEH
10 2 (0.89%) CISA
10 2 (0.89%) CISSP
10 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.89%) OSCP
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.34%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (15.63%) Terraform
2 20 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.57%) Ansible
4 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.34%) Argo
5 3 (1.34%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 75 (33.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.70%) Databricks
3 5 (2.23%) Arista
3 5 (2.23%) Aruba
3 5 (2.23%) NetScout
4 4 (1.79%) IBM
4 4 (1.79%) Oracle
4 4 (1.79%) Palantir
5 3 (1.34%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.34%) Google
5 3 (1.34%) OpenAI