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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 37 17
Rank change year-on-year +27 -20 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 125 90 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 13.68% 5.21% 11.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.02% 17.75% 28.01%
Number of salaries quoted 113 58 144
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -5.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +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 255 507 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.90% 29.36% 42.64%
Number of salaries quoted 209 353 547
10th Percentile £36,400 £36,250 £37,827
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +11.82% -7.60% +8.23%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Leeds

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (7.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.80%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 82 (65.60%) AWS
2 56 (44.80%) Azure
3 24 (19.20%) GCP
4 23 (18.40%) Serverless
5 18 (14.40%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (8.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
8 9 (7.20%) GitHub
9 7 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.80%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (4.80%) OCI
11 5 (4.00%) SaaS
12 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.40%) dbt
13 3 (2.40%) IaaS
13 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) Firewall
2 8 (6.40%) DNS
2 8 (6.40%) Network Security
2 8 (6.40%) VLAN
2 8 (6.40%) VPN
3 7 (5.60%) DHCP
3 7 (5.60%) LAN
3 7 (5.60%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.60%) WAN
4 6 (4.80%) BGP
4 6 (4.80%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (4.80%) OSPF
5 3 (2.40%) Internet
5 3 (2.40%) Wireless
6 1 (0.80%) Junos
6 1 (0.80%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.40%) Tableau
4 7 (5.60%) MySQL
5 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.00%) Big Data
6 5 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.20%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.40%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.40%) Power BI
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.80%) Git
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
3 5 (4.00%) JIRA
4 2 (1.60%) JUnit
4 2 (1.60%) Maven
4 2 (1.60%) Postman
4 2 (1.60%) Selenium
4 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.80%) Appium
5 1 (0.80%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.80%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.80%) MLflow
5 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.80%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (5.60%) Retail
4 6 (4.80%) Finance
4 6 (4.80%) Law
5 5 (4.00%) Marketing
5 5 (4.00%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (30.40%) Senior
2 24 (19.20%) Lead
3 18 (14.40%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Analyst
6 13 (10.40%) Data Manager
7 12 (9.60%) Engineering Manager
8 11 (8.80%) Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Network Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 6 (4.80%) Data Analyst
12 6 (4.80%) Lead Network Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Support Analyst
13 5 (4.00%) Architect
13 5 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 5 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) RESTful
2 4 (3.20%) .NET
2 4 (3.20%) Kafka
2 4 (3.20%) Pandas
2 4 (3.20%) React
2 4 (3.20%) Spring
2 4 (3.20%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.40%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.40%) CSS
3 3 (2.40%) Flutter
3 3 (2.40%) HTML
4 2 (1.60%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.60%) NumPy
4 2 (1.60%) PySpark
4 2 (1.60%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.60%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.80%) Dask
5 1 (0.80%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.80%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Linux
2 18 (14.40%) Windows
3 10 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.80%) Mac OS X
6 4 (3.20%) Unix
7 2 (1.60%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.40%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.00%) Mentoring
3 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (22.40%) Data Engineering
6 27 (21.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (21.60%) Roadmaps
7 24 (19.20%) DevOps
8 23 (18.40%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (17.60%) Data Modelling
10 20 (16.00%) Migration
11 17 (13.60%) Agile
11 17 (13.60%) Analytics
12 16 (12.80%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.00%) Data Governance
14 14 (11.20%) ETL
14 14 (11.20%) People Management
15 13 (10.40%) Software Engineering
15 13 (10.40%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.20%) SQL
2 20 (16.00%) Java
2 20 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.40%) TypeScript
4 12 (9.60%) Bash
4 12 (9.60%) C#
5 10 (8.00%) Go
6 5 (4.00%) Scala
7 2 (1.60%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.60%) R
8 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.80%) PHP
8 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) AWS Certification
2 14 (11.20%) Degree
3 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.60%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.60%) CCNP
7 2 (1.60%) CCSA
7 2 (1.60%) CCSE
7 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.60%) MCSA
7 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.60%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.80%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.80%) NIST
2 2 (1.60%) QA
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (15.20%) Docker
2 13 (10.40%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (22.40%) Ansible
2 25 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (19.20%) Terraform
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 7 (5.60%) SCCM
4 7 (5.60%) SCOM
4 7 (5.60%) WSUS
5 2 (1.60%) Argo
5 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.60%) Istio
5 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.80%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.80%) Nmap
6 1 (0.80%) QRadar
6 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (22.40%) Databricks
2 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.40%) Cisco
4 11 (8.80%) Oracle
5 9 (7.20%) Fortinet
5 9 (7.20%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.60%) Aruba
6 7 (5.60%) Mellanox
6 7 (5.60%) NVIDIA
6 7 (5.60%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.20%) Google
8 3 (2.40%) Palantir
8 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.60%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.60%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.60%) VMware
10 1 (0.80%) Avaya
10 1 (0.80%) ESRI
10 1 (0.80%) Juniper
10 1 (0.80%) OpenAI