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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 173 138 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.97% 14.44% 4.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.35% 47.42% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 124 129 64
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +3.37% -9.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £86,739
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -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 570 291 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 19.66% 30.44% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 418 247 421
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £48,404 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,762 £62,733 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% +14.06% -8.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +10.60% -5.65%

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 8 August 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 6 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.31%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.73%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.16%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.88%) AWS
2 58 (33.53%) Azure
3 35 (20.23%) GitHub
4 24 (13.87%) Power Platform
5 23 (13.29%) Azure AI
5 23 (13.29%) GCP
6 22 (12.72%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (11.56%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (8.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (6.94%) Serverless
11 8 (4.62%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (2.31%) dbt
15 4 (2.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) DNS
1 2 (1.16%) Internet
1 2 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.29%) Power BI
2 19 (10.98%) Tableau
3 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.94%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.89%) Big Data
7 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.31%) Data Mining
7 4 (2.31%) Metadata
7 4 (2.31%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (13.29%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.36%) Git
3 6 (3.47%) GitLab
4 4 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.73%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.73%) JIRA
5 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.16%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.09%) Finance
4 8 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.47%) Retail
6 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.73%) Games
7 3 (1.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.16%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (32.95%) Developer
2 37 (21.39%) Python Developer
3 36 (20.81%) Senior
4 34 (19.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (13.87%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 22 (12.72%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (9.83%) Analyst
8 17 (9.83%) Data Analyst
9 15 (8.67%) Lead
10 13 (7.51%) Junior
10 13 (7.51%) Junior Analyst
10 13 (7.51%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (5.78%) Trainee
12 9 (5.20%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Java Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.09%) Flask
1 14 (8.09%) Web Services
2 11 (6.36%) React
2 11 (6.36%) Vue
3 10 (5.78%) CSS
3 10 (5.78%) HTML
3 10 (5.78%) PySpark
4 6 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.89%) Pandas
6 4 (2.31%) .NET
6 4 (2.31%) Flutter
6 4 (2.31%) Hugging Face
6 4 (2.31%) Matplotlib
6 4 (2.31%) NumPy
6 4 (2.31%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.31%) Streamlit
7 3 (1.73%) JSON
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth
7 3 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (1.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.62%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.05%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.47%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.73%) NHS
7 3 (1.73%) PKI
8 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Social Media
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) FMCG
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.99%) AI
2 53 (30.64%) CI/CD
3 45 (26.01%) Agile
4 41 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (21.97%) Software Engineering
6 36 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (16.76%) DevOps
7 29 (16.76%) Mentoring
8 25 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (13.87%) Analytics
9 24 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (13.29%) Containerisation
11 22 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning
13 20 (11.56%) Data Engineering
14 19 (10.98%) ETL
15 18 (10.40%) Data Analysis
15 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineering
16 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (9.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.10%) SQL
2 28 (16.18%) Java
3 17 (9.83%) Groovy
4 14 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.78%) C#
6 7 (4.05%) Scala
7 6 (3.47%) Bash
7 6 (3.47%) Go
7 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.31%) R
9 3 (1.73%) Ruby
10 2 (1.16%) Bicep
10 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.72%) Azure Certification
3 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.36%) Degree
5 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.78%) QA
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.73%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (13.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (22.54%) Terraform
2 25 (14.45%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.67%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.31%) Ansible
5 3 (1.73%) Argo
5 3 (1.73%) Packer
6 1 (0.58%) Istio
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.94%) Databricks
3 5 (2.89%) Foundry
3 5 (2.89%) Google
4 3 (1.73%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.73%) IBM
4 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.16%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco
6 1 (0.58%) Informatica
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow