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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 173 72 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.67% 7.09% 9.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.13% 22.15% 23.55%
Number of salaries quoted 145 39 107
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,750 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,695 £88,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,743 £59,526
% change year-on-year +7.01% +2.04% -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 392 325 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.72% 31.99% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 302 199 424
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,250 £38,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -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 14 January 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 19 (10.98%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.36%) Apache
3 5 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 105 (60.69%) AWS
2 97 (56.07%) Azure
3 50 (28.90%) Serverless
4 44 (25.43%) GitHub
5 17 (9.83%) GCP
6 10 (5.78%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.20%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.62%) dbt
9 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.89%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.89%) SaaS
12 3 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.73%) Azure App Service
12 3 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.87%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.03%) Tableau
2 14 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (6.94%) Data Mining
4 11 (6.36%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.78%) Power BI
6 8 (4.62%) Metadata
6 8 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.62%) MySQL
7 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.89%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.89%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.31%) Data Vault
9 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.73%) Big Data
10 3 (1.73%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) Git
2 7 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.31%) GitLab
3 4 (2.31%) Selenium
4 3 (1.73%) JMeter
4 3 (1.73%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.73%) 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 58 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.87%) Multimedia
4 16 (9.25%) Finance
4 16 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.09%) Retail
6 6 (3.47%) Tech for Good
7 5 (2.89%) Marketing
8 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 46 (26.59%) Developer
2 36 (20.81%) Senior
2 36 (20.81%) Trainee
3 30 (17.34%) Data Engineer
4 29 (16.76%) Architect
5 24 (13.87%) Python Developer
6 21 (12.14%) Analyst
6 21 (12.14%) Software Developer
7 20 (11.56%) Data Analyst
8 17 (9.83%) Lead
9 16 (9.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (8.09%) Applications Architect
11 12 (6.94%) Trainee Analyst
11 12 (6.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 12 (6.94%) Trainee Developer
11 12 (6.94%) Trainee Software Developer
12 11 (6.36%) Software Architect
13 10 (5.78%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
15 7 (4.05%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.97%) CSS
1 38 (21.97%) HTML
2 19 (10.98%) FastAPI
2 19 (10.98%) Flask
2 19 (10.98%) React
3 18 (10.40%) Django
4 14 (8.09%) Vue
5 10 (5.78%) PySpark
6 7 (4.05%) Kafka
7 6 (3.47%) Spring
8 5 (2.89%) RESTful
8 5 (2.89%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.31%) .NET
9 4 (2.31%) Pandas
10 3 (1.73%) Middleware
11 2 (1.16%) Grails
11 2 (1.16%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.16%) OpenAPI
11 2 (1.16%) SQLAlchemy
11 2 (1.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.03%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.36%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.73%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.73%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.16%) IoT
5 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.62%) Linux
2 5 (2.89%) Windows
3 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (53.76%) Mentoring
2 54 (31.21%) CI/CD
3 44 (25.43%) Migration
4 39 (22.54%) Agile
5 37 (21.39%) Data Modelling
6 35 (20.23%) Analytics
7 34 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (18.50%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (18.50%) Microservices
9 31 (17.92%) DevOps
10 30 (17.34%) Computer Science
11 29 (16.76%) Architectural Patterns
11 29 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (15.61%) AI
13 27 (15.61%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (15.61%) Data Analysis
13 27 (15.61%) Data Engineering
14 26 (15.03%) Enterprise Architecture
15 25 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.13%) SQL
2 74 (42.77%) JavaScript
3 49 (28.32%) Java
4 35 (20.23%) C#
5 34 (19.65%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.09%) R
7 8 (4.62%) Bash
7 8 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.62%) Scala
8 4 (2.31%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.31%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.73%) C
9 3 (1.73%) C++
10 2 (1.16%) Go
10 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.16%) Perl
10 2 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (31.21%) AWS Certification
1 54 (31.21%) Azure Certification
2 49 (28.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 34 (19.65%) Degree
4 28 (16.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (15.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (13.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 24 (13.87%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.73%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.73%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.16%) CEH
8 2 (1.16%) CISA
8 2 (1.16%) CISSP
8 2 (1.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.73%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (19.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (13.87%) Terraform
2 17 (9.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.47%) Ansible
4 3 (1.73%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.16%) 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 (45.66%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.14%) Databricks
3 8 (4.62%) Oracle
4 5 (2.89%) Google
4 5 (2.89%) Palantir
5 3 (1.73%) IBM
6 2 (1.16%) Nexthink
6 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.16%) VMware
7 1 (0.58%) Avaya
7 1 (0.58%) Genesys
7 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.58%) Verint