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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 190 123 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.09% 13.28% 4.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.99% 43.01% 17.08%
Number of salaries quoted 142 115 83
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,100 £41,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 576 286 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.49% 30.89% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 430 239 526
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £64,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% +21.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +16.50% -6.44%

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 15 July 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 (3.16%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.16%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (13.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.05%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.00%) AWS
2 63 (33.16%) Azure
3 37 (19.47%) GitHub
4 28 (14.74%) Power Platform
5 26 (13.68%) Azure AI
6 24 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (12.11%) GCP
8 19 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (6.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (5.79%) Serverless
12 8 (4.21%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.63%) dbt
16 4 (2.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) Firewall
1 4 (2.11%) NGFW
1 4 (2.11%) VXLAN
1 4 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.11%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.21%) Power BI
2 24 (12.63%) Tableau
3 15 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.79%) BigQuery
5 10 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.16%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.63%) Big Data
7 5 (2.63%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.58%) Metadata
9 3 (1.58%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.53%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.26%) Git
3 8 (4.21%) GitLab
4 6 (3.16%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.58%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.58%) JIRA
5 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.05%) Claude Code
General
1 54 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.05%) Finance
4 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.68%) Retail
6 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.53%) Games
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing
8 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (33.16%) Developer
2 39 (20.53%) Python Developer
3 38 (20.00%) Senior
4 35 (18.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (13.16%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 23 (12.11%) Data Engineer
7 22 (11.58%) Analyst
7 22 (11.58%) Data Analyst
8 17 (8.95%) Lead
8 17 (8.95%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.42%) Junior
9 16 (8.42%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (8.42%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (7.37%) Trainee
11 12 (6.32%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.26%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.37%) Flask
2 13 (6.84%) React
2 13 (6.84%) Web Services
3 12 (6.32%) Vue
4 10 (5.26%) CSS
4 10 (5.26%) HTML
4 10 (5.26%) PySpark
5 7 (3.68%) .NET
5 7 (3.68%) Pandas
6 6 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.16%) Hugging Face
6 6 (3.16%) Matplotlib
6 6 (3.16%) NumPy
6 6 (3.16%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.16%) Streamlit
7 5 (2.63%) Flutter
8 4 (2.11%) LangChain
8 4 (2.11%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.58%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.21%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.68%) PKI
6 6 (3.16%) Educational Technology
7 5 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.58%) NHS
10 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Social Media
11 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.42%) AI
2 57 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 46 (24.21%) Agile
4 42 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (22.11%) Software Engineering
5 38 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (17.89%) Mentoring
7 31 (16.32%) DevOps
8 27 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (12.63%) Analytics
10 24 (12.63%) Containerisation
10 24 (12.63%) Machine Learning
11 22 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (10.53%) Data Engineering
14 19 (10.00%) Data Analysis
15 18 (9.47%) ETL
15 18 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (8.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.05%) SQL
2 31 (16.32%) Java
3 19 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.42%) Groovy
5 14 (7.37%) C#
6 9 (4.74%) Go
7 7 (3.68%) Bash
8 6 (3.16%) Scala
9 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.58%) R
10 3 (1.58%) Ruby
11 2 (1.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (13.16%) Azure Certification
1 25 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.79%) Degree
4 8 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.11%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.26%) QA
3 5 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.58%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (12.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (23.16%) Terraform
2 27 (14.21%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.84%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.68%) Ansible
5 3 (1.58%) Argo
5 3 (1.58%) Packer
6 1 (0.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.32%) Databricks
3 5 (2.63%) Google
3 5 (2.63%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.11%) Arista
4 4 (2.11%) Aruba
4 4 (2.11%) Foundry
4 4 (2.11%) NetScout
5 3 (1.58%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.58%) IBM
6 1 (0.53%) Informatica
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.53%) VMware