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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 192 129 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.04% 13.86% 5.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.16% 45.10% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 142 121 75
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,459 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -6.81%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £86,485
West Yorkshire median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +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 579 286 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.22% 30.72% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 431 241 475
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £83,978
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -8.70%

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 24 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 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.13%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.04%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 76 (39.58%) AWS
2 64 (33.33%) Azure
3 36 (18.75%) GitHub
4 27 (14.06%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.02%) Azure AI
5 25 (13.02%) GCP
6 23 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (6.25%) Serverless
10 8 (4.17%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.60%) dbt
14 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) DNS
1 2 (1.04%) Firewall
1 2 (1.04%) Internet
1 2 (1.04%) NGFW
1 2 (1.04%) VPN
1 2 (1.04%) VXLAN
1 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.54%) Power BI
2 23 (11.98%) Tableau
3 18 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 11 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.13%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.60%) Big Data
7 5 (2.60%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.08%) Metadata
9 3 (1.56%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.73%) Git
3 7 (3.65%) GitLab
4 6 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.56%) JIRA
5 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.04%) Claude Code
General
1 55 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.42%) Finance
4 10 (5.21%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.17%) Retail
6 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Games
7 3 (1.56%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.04%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.52%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (32.81%) Developer
2 39 (20.31%) Python Developer
2 39 (20.31%) Senior
3 35 (18.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (13.02%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 24 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 21 (10.94%) Analyst
6 21 (10.94%) Data Analyst
7 17 (8.85%) Lead
7 17 (8.85%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Junior
8 15 (7.81%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (7.81%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.29%) Trainee
10 12 (6.25%) Software Developer
11 10 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (5.21%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.29%) Flask
2 13 (6.77%) React
2 13 (6.77%) Web Services
3 12 (6.25%) Vue
4 10 (5.21%) CSS
4 10 (5.21%) HTML
4 10 (5.21%) PySpark
5 7 (3.65%) .NET
5 7 (3.65%) Pandas
6 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.13%) Hugging Face
6 6 (3.13%) Matplotlib
6 6 (3.13%) NumPy
6 6 (3.13%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.13%) Streamlit
7 5 (2.60%) Flutter
8 4 (2.08%) LangChain
8 4 (2.08%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.56%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (5.21%) AI Agents
3 10 (5.21%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.13%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.60%) PKI
7 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.56%) NHS
8 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Social Media
9 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.52%) FMCG
9 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.58%) AI
2 58 (30.21%) CI/CD
3 47 (24.48%) Agile
4 42 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (21.88%) Software Engineering
5 38 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 31 (16.15%) DevOps
8 28 (14.58%) Analytics
9 27 (14.06%) Machine Learning
10 26 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (13.54%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 24 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.94%) Data Engineering
12 21 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (10.42%) Data Analysis
13 20 (10.42%) ETL
14 17 (8.85%) LLM
14 17 (8.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.33%) SQL
2 32 (16.67%) Java
3 19 (9.90%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.33%) Groovy
5 14 (7.29%) C#
6 9 (4.69%) Go
7 7 (3.65%) Scala
8 6 (3.13%) Bash
8 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.08%) R
10 3 (1.56%) Ruby
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
11 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 20 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.73%) Degree
5 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.08%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.73%) QA
3 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (11.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (21.88%) Terraform
2 26 (13.54%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.29%) Progress Chef
4 6 (3.13%) Ansible
5 3 (1.56%) Argo
5 3 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.77%) Databricks
3 5 (2.60%) Foundry
3 5 (2.60%) Google
3 5 (2.60%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.56%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.56%) IBM
5 2 (1.04%) Arista
5 2 (1.04%) Aruba
5 2 (1.04%) NetScout
5 2 (1.04%) VMware
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco
6 1 (0.52%) Informatica
6 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow