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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 27 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 171 75 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.06% 7.33% 8.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.75% 22.94% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 142 40 101
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,563 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +9.20% -7.98%

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 400 327 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.21% 31.96% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 305 199 451
10th Percentile £28,450 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £56,409
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.50% -1.90%

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 21 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.43%) Apache
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (60.82%) AWS
2 95 (55.56%) Azure
3 51 (29.82%) Serverless
4 43 (25.15%) GitHub
5 14 (8.19%) GCP
6 10 (5.85%) Amazon S3
6 10 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.09%) dbt
8 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.51%) Azure AI
10 5 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.75%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.75%) SaaS
12 2 (1.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.04%) Internet
2 3 (1.75%) Firewall
3 2 (1.17%) NGFW
3 2 (1.17%) VXLAN
3 2 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.17%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.62%) Tableau
2 12 (7.02%) Data Mining
2 12 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (6.43%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.85%) Power BI
5 8 (4.68%) Metadata
6 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.51%) MySQL
6 6 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.34%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.75%) Big Data
9 3 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.75%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (15.79%) Git
2 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) GitLab
4 3 (1.75%) JMeter
4 3 (1.75%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.75%) Selenium
4 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.04%) Multimedia
4 18 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.94%) Finance
6 11 (6.43%) Retail
7 6 (3.51%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.75%) Marketing
8 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.17%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (25.73%) Developer
2 36 (21.05%) Trainee
3 33 (19.30%) Senior
4 29 (16.96%) Architect
4 29 (16.96%) Data Engineer
5 22 (12.87%) Python Developer
6 21 (12.28%) Analyst
7 20 (11.70%) Data Analyst
8 19 (11.11%) Software Developer
9 15 (8.77%) Lead
10 14 (8.19%) Applications Architect
10 14 (8.19%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (7.02%) Trainee Analyst
11 12 (7.02%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 12 (7.02%) Trainee Developer
11 12 (7.02%) Trainee Software Developer
12 11 (6.43%) Software Architect
13 10 (5.85%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.68%) Junior
14 8 (4.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.22%) CSS
1 38 (22.22%) HTML
2 19 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 19 (11.11%) Flask
2 19 (11.11%) React
3 18 (10.53%) Django
4 14 (8.19%) Vue
5 11 (6.43%) PySpark
6 7 (4.09%) Kafka
7 6 (3.51%) Spring
8 5 (2.92%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.34%) .NET
9 4 (2.34%) Pandas
10 3 (1.75%) Middleware
10 3 (1.75%) RESTful
11 2 (1.17%) Grails
11 2 (1.17%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.17%) OpenAPI
11 2 (1.17%) SQLAlchemy
11 2 (1.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.20%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.75%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.17%) IoT
5 2 (1.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.17%) PKI
5 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
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%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.58%) NHS
6 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.68%) Linux
2 5 (2.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (54.39%) Mentoring
2 52 (30.41%) CI/CD
3 43 (25.15%) Migration
4 37 (21.64%) Agile
4 37 (21.64%) Data Modelling
5 34 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (19.30%) Analytics
7 32 (18.71%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (17.54%) Computer Science
8 30 (17.54%) DevOps
8 30 (17.54%) Microservices
9 29 (16.96%) Architectural Patterns
9 29 (16.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (16.37%) Data Engineering
11 27 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (15.79%) Data Analysis
12 26 (15.20%) AI
12 26 (15.20%) Enterprise Architecture
13 25 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (49.12%) SQL
2 73 (42.69%) JavaScript
3 47 (27.49%) Java
4 34 (19.88%) C#
4 34 (19.88%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.19%) R
6 8 (4.68%) Bash
6 8 (4.68%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.68%) Scala
7 4 (2.34%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.34%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.75%) C
8 3 (1.75%) C++
9 2 (1.17%) Go
9 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.17%) Perl
9 2 (1.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (32.16%) Azure Certification
2 54 (31.58%) AWS Certification
3 49 (28.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (19.88%) Degree
5 28 (16.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (14.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 24 (14.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.34%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.75%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.17%) CEH
10 2 (1.17%) CISA
10 2 (1.17%) CISSP
10 2 (1.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.17%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (18.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (15.20%) Terraform
2 17 (9.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.68%) Ansible
4 3 (1.75%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.17%) 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 80 (46.78%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.87%) Databricks
3 8 (4.68%) Oracle
4 5 (2.92%) Palantir
5 4 (2.34%) Google
6 3 (1.75%) IBM
7 2 (1.17%) Arista
7 2 (1.17%) Aruba
7 2 (1.17%) NetScout
7 2 (1.17%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.17%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) Avaya
8 1 (0.58%) Genesys
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.58%) Verint