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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -27
Permanent jobs citing Python 211 105 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.02% 13.51% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.34% 38.04% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 157 98 80
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £64,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +17.27% -20.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% -16.61%

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 597 276 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.68% 35.52% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 441 227 532
10th Percentile £38,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £69,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,761 £85,000
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 30 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 7 (3.32%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.84%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.37%) Apache
3 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (14.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.84%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.95%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 84 (39.81%) AWS
2 74 (35.07%) Azure
3 38 (18.01%) GitHub
4 30 (14.22%) Power Platform
5 24 (11.37%) Azure AI
6 23 (10.90%) Serverless
7 20 (9.48%) GCP
8 18 (8.53%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.37%) dbt
15 5 (2.37%) OCI
16 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.27%) Internet
2 5 (2.37%) Firewall
2 5 (2.37%) NGFW
2 5 (2.37%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.22%) Power BI
1 30 (14.22%) Tableau
2 13 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.27%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.27%) Data Mining
4 8 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (2.84%) Spark SQL
6 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.90%) Big Data
7 4 (1.90%) Metadata
7 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (9.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.58%) Git
3 8 (3.79%) GitLab
4 6 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.42%) JIRA
5 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.95%) Claude Code
General
1 58 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.85%) Finance
4 12 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.27%) Multimedia
5 9 (4.27%) Retail
6 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Games
8 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing
8 2 (0.95%) Public Speaking
8 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.47%) Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (35.07%) Developer
2 43 (20.38%) Python Developer
3 39 (18.48%) Senior
4 35 (16.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (12.80%) Analyst
5 27 (12.80%) Data Analyst
6 25 (11.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 24 (11.37%) Data Engineer
7 24 (11.37%) Trainee
8 18 (8.53%) Junior
8 18 (8.53%) Junior Analyst
8 18 (8.53%) Junior Data Analyst
8 18 (8.53%) Software Developer
9 16 (7.58%) Lead
10 13 (6.16%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.69%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 9 (4.27%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.48%) CSS
1 20 (9.48%) HTML
2 18 (8.53%) Flask
3 17 (8.06%) React
4 15 (7.11%) Vue
5 12 (5.69%) PySpark
6 10 (4.74%) .NET
7 8 (3.79%) Web Services
8 6 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.84%) Flutter
8 6 (2.84%) Hugging Face
8 6 (2.84%) Matplotlib
8 6 (2.84%) NumPy
8 6 (2.84%) Pandas
8 6 (2.84%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.84%) Streamlit
9 4 (1.90%) Django
9 4 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.42%) OAuth
10 3 (1.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.79%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.79%) PKI
4 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.32%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.90%) NHS
8 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) Social Media
9 2 (0.95%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.07%) AI
2 50 (23.70%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.75%) Agile
4 46 (21.80%) Mentoring
5 42 (19.91%) Software Engineering
6 40 (18.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (14.22%) DevOps
9 29 (13.74%) Analytics
9 29 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (11.37%) Data Analysis
11 24 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (10.43%) Machine Learning
13 21 (9.95%) Containerisation
13 21 (9.95%) Test Automation
14 20 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (9.00%) Data Engineering
16 18 (8.53%) OOP
17 17 (8.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.70%) SQL
2 44 (20.85%) Java
3 38 (18.01%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.32%) C#
5 11 (5.21%) Groovy
5 11 (5.21%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.27%) Go
7 7 (3.32%) Bash
7 7 (3.32%) R
8 5 (2.37%) Scala
9 4 (1.90%) Ruby
10 3 (1.42%) Perl
10 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (19.91%) Azure Certification
2 23 (10.90%) AWS Certification
3 22 (10.43%) Degree
4 18 (8.53%) Security Cleared
5 17 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (7.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
8 13 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.95%) CEH
11 2 (0.95%) CISA
11 2 (0.95%) CISSP
11 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.95%) OSCP
12 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.21%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (18.01%) Terraform
2 21 (9.95%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.79%) Ansible
3 8 (3.79%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.42%) Argo
4 3 (1.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 56 (26.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.21%) Databricks
3 5 (2.37%) Arista
3 5 (2.37%) Aruba
3 5 (2.37%) NetScout
4 4 (1.90%) Google
5 3 (1.42%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.42%) IBM
5 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow