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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -28
Permanent jobs citing Python 214 97 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.40% 12.29% 4.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.46% 34.64% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 160 91 83
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £33,234
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,743 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.01% +15.70% -24.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -18.52%

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 587 280 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.05% 35.49% 29.37%
Number of salaries quoted 428 235 522
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.59% -10.39%

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 18 May 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 10 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.80%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.34%) Apache
3 5 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (15.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.12%) AWS
2 81 (37.85%) Azure
3 38 (17.76%) GitHub
4 31 (14.49%) Power Platform
5 26 (12.15%) Azure AI
6 25 (11.68%) Serverless
7 22 (10.28%) GCP
8 17 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.21%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.34%) dbt
13 5 (2.34%) OCI
14 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.14%) Internet
2 5 (2.34%) Firewall
2 5 (2.34%) NGFW
2 5 (2.34%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.89%) Tableau
2 31 (14.49%) Power BI
3 11 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.67%) Data Mining
5 9 (4.21%) BigQuery
6 8 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.80%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.34%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.87%) Metadata
9 4 (1.87%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.93%) MySQL
11 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.47%) Big Data
12 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.47%) Looker
12 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.74%) GitLab
4 6 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.40%) JIRA
7 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.47%) JMeter
7 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 61 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.68%) Finance
4 14 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.61%) Retail
6 11 (5.14%) Multimedia
7 9 (4.21%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Marketing
10 2 (0.93%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.47%) Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (34.58%) Developer
2 41 (19.16%) Python Developer
3 39 (18.22%) Senior
4 35 (16.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 30 (14.02%) Analyst
5 30 (14.02%) Data Analyst
6 27 (12.62%) Trainee
7 25 (11.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 22 (10.28%) Data Engineer
9 21 (9.81%) Junior
10 20 (9.35%) Junior Analyst
10 20 (9.35%) Junior Data Analyst
11 19 (8.88%) Software Developer
12 16 (7.48%) Lead
13 14 (6.54%) Senior Developer
13 14 (6.54%) Software Engineer
14 11 (5.14%) Architect
15 10 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.67%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.28%) CSS
1 22 (10.28%) HTML
2 18 (8.41%) Flask
3 17 (7.94%) React
4 15 (7.01%) Vue
5 11 (5.14%) PySpark
6 10 (4.67%) .NET
7 7 (3.27%) Web Services
8 6 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.80%) Flutter
8 6 (2.80%) Hugging Face
8 6 (2.80%) Matplotlib
8 6 (2.80%) NumPy
8 6 (2.80%) Pandas
8 6 (2.80%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.80%) Streamlit
9 4 (1.87%) Django
9 4 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.40%) JSON
10 3 (1.40%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.74%) PKI
4 7 (3.27%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.80%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.34%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.87%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.93%) Social Media
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.64%) AI
2 50 (23.36%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.43%) Mentoring
4 45 (21.03%) Agile
5 42 (19.63%) Software Engineering
6 40 (18.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (14.49%) DevOps
9 30 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (13.08%) Analytics
11 25 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.21%) Test Automation
13 23 (10.75%) Data Analysis
13 23 (10.75%) Machine Learning
14 21 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (9.35%) Containerisation
15 20 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (8.88%) Computer Science
16 19 (8.88%) Data Engineering
17 18 (8.41%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.64%) SQL
2 47 (21.96%) Java
3 44 (20.56%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.62%) C#
5 13 (6.07%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.67%) Groovy
7 9 (4.21%) Go
7 9 (4.21%) R
8 7 (3.27%) Bash
9 6 (2.80%) Scala
10 3 (1.40%) C
10 3 (1.40%) C++
10 3 (1.40%) Perl
10 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (22.43%) Azure Certification
2 27 (12.62%) AWS Certification
3 24 (11.21%) Degree
4 21 (9.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (7.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (7.48%) Security Cleared
7 12 (5.61%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.93%) CEH
10 2 (0.93%) CISA
10 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.67%) QA
3 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (10.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (16.36%) Terraform
2 20 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.74%) Ansible
4 7 (3.27%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.40%) Argo
5 3 (1.40%) Packer
6 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 62 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Databricks
3 5 (2.34%) Arista
3 5 (2.34%) Aruba
3 5 (2.34%) NetScout
4 4 (1.87%) Google
4 4 (1.87%) IBM
5 3 (1.40%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle
6 2 (0.93%) Palantir