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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 198 112 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.48% 13.79% 4.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.67% 40.29% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 147 104 87
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £50,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -17.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £89,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £66,720 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% +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 588 278 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.21% 34.24% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 436 233 563
10th Percentile £39,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,860 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.16%

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 20 June 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 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.03%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.53%) Apache
3 5 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.01%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.39%) AWS
2 63 (31.82%) Azure
3 36 (18.18%) GitHub
4 29 (14.65%) Power Platform
5 24 (12.12%) Azure AI
6 21 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (10.10%) GCP
8 18 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (8.08%) Serverless
10 14 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (3.03%) dbt
15 5 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.53%) OCI
16 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) Firewall
1 5 (2.53%) NGFW
1 5 (2.53%) VXLAN
1 5 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (2.53%) Wireshark
2 4 (2.02%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.14%) Power BI
2 25 (12.63%) Tableau
3 13 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.03%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.53%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.02%) Big Data
8 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.52%) Metadata
9 3 (1.52%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.56%) Git
3 8 (4.04%) GitLab
4 6 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.52%) JIRA
5 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.01%) Claude Code
General
1 54 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.11%) Finance
4 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.54%) Retail
6 6 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.02%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.01%) Games
8 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.01%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (34.85%) Developer
2 41 (20.71%) Senior
3 40 (20.20%) Python Developer
4 35 (17.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (12.63%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 23 (11.62%) Data Engineer
7 22 (11.11%) Analyst
7 22 (11.11%) Data Analyst
8 16 (8.08%) Junior
8 16 (8.08%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (8.08%) Junior Data Analyst
8 16 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (8.08%) Software Developer
8 16 (8.08%) Trainee
9 14 (7.07%) Lead
10 12 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.58%) Flask
2 13 (6.57%) React
3 12 (6.06%) CSS
3 12 (6.06%) HTML
3 12 (6.06%) Vue
3 12 (6.06%) Web Services
4 10 (5.05%) .NET
4 10 (5.05%) PySpark
5 7 (3.54%) Pandas
6 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.03%) Hugging Face
6 6 (3.03%) Matplotlib
6 6 (3.03%) NumPy
6 6 (3.03%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.03%) Streamlit
7 5 (2.53%) Flutter
8 4 (2.02%) LangChain
8 4 (2.02%) LangGraph
8 4 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.52%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.10%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.04%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.04%) PKI
4 7 (3.54%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.54%) Educational Technology
5 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.02%) NHS
7 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Social Media
7 2 (1.01%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.87%) AI
2 52 (26.26%) CI/CD
3 44 (22.22%) Agile
3 44 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 39 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (17.17%) Mentoring
6 31 (15.66%) DevOps
7 27 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (12.12%) Analytics
9 23 (11.62%) Containerisation
9 23 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 22 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.60%) Data Analysis
12 19 (9.60%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.09%) Data Engineering
14 17 (8.59%) ETL
14 17 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.80%) SQL
2 38 (19.19%) Java
3 26 (13.13%) JavaScript
4 21 (10.61%) C#
5 15 (7.58%) Groovy
6 7 (3.54%) Bash
6 7 (3.54%) Go
6 7 (3.54%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.53%) Scala
8 4 (2.02%) R
9 2 (1.01%) Bicep
9 2 (1.01%) Ruby
9 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (15.66%) Azure Certification
2 24 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.58%) Degree
5 14 (7.07%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.02%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.05%) QA
3 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.52%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.01%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (21.21%) Terraform
2 24 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.06%) Progress Chef
4 8 (4.04%) Ansible
5 3 (1.52%) Argo
5 3 (1.52%) Packer
6 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 42 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.05%) Databricks
3 5 (2.53%) Arista
3 5 (2.53%) Aruba
3 5 (2.53%) Google
3 5 (2.53%) NetScout
3 5 (2.53%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.52%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.52%) IBM
5 2 (1.01%) Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.51%) VMware