Python Job Trends in Leeds

Python
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds citing Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	30	9	28
Rank change year-on-year	-21	+19	-8
Permanent jobs citing Python	123	134	89
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	4.03%	13.60%	6.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category	24.65%	49.45%	20.51%
Number of salaries quoted	82	119	49
10^th Percentile	£41,550	£41,250	£45,948
25^th Percentile	£50,313	£57,500	£51,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£70,000	£67,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+3.70%	+3.85%	-
75^th Percentile	£91,875	£75,000	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£86,000	£93,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£68,000	£67,500	£62,879
% change year-on-year	+0.74%	+7.35%	-1.37%

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 citing coding skills in Leeds.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	499	271	434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	16.34%	27.51%	29.40%
Number of salaries quoted	358	228	269
10^th Percentile	£39,700	£35,000	£34,600
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£50,188	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£66,805	£66,250	£58,500
Median % change year-on-year	+0.84%	+13.25%	-2.50%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£75,000	£71,991
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£85,000	£85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£65,000	£65,000	£55,000
% change year-on-year	-	+18.18%	-8.33%

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 Salary Trend in Leeds

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 23 October 2026.

Python Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, job vacancies citing Python also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region citing Python.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	41.5%	51
2	AWS	40.7%	50
3	CI/CD	37.4%	46
4	AI	34.1%	42
4	Azure	34.1%	42
6	Software Engineering	32.5%	40
7	Terraform	28.5%	35
8	Agile	24.4%	30
8	Analytics	24.4%	30
8	Infrastructure as Code	24.4%	30
11	Data Pipeline	22.8%	28
12	Problem-Solving	22.0%	27
13	Security Cleared	21.1%	26
14	Continuous Improvement	20.3%	25
14	Decision-Making	20.3%	25
16	Data Engineering	19.5%	24
16	GitHub	19.5%	24
16	Machine Learning	19.5%	24
19	DevOps	17.9%	22
19	Jenkins	17.9%	22
19	SC Cleared	17.9%	22
22	Kubernetes	17.1%	21
22	Platform Engineering	17.1%	21
24	GCP	16.3%	20
24	Mentoring	16.3%	20
26	Data Science	15.4%	19
26	Java	15.4%	19
28	Amazon EC2	14.6%	18
28	AWS CloudFormation	14.6%	18
28	ETL	14.6%	18

Python Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	41.5%	51
2	Java	15.4%	19
3	Groovy	11.4%	14
4	Scala	6.5%	8
5	JavaScript	5.7%	7
6	C#	4.9%	6
6	Go	4.9%	6
6	PowerShell	4.9%	6
6	TypeScript	4.9%	6
10	T-SQL	4.1%	5
11	Bash	3.3%	4
11	Bicep	3.3%	4
11	R	3.3%	4
14	Kotlin	2.4%	3
14	Ruby	2.4%	3
14	Rust	2.4%	3
17	ActionScript	1.6%	2
17	Shell Script	1.6%	2
19	Kusto Query Language	0.8%	1