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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 210 105 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.88% 13.27% 4.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.65% 38.75% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 156 98 85
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
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 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £66,720 £65,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +2.65% +15.04% -13.54%

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 606 271 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.74% 34.26% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 447 224 540
10th Percentile £39,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £79,063 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,625 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.13%

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 5 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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.86%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.38%) Apache
3 5 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (13.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.86%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.95%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.00%) AWS
2 69 (32.86%) Azure
3 41 (19.52%) GitHub
4 29 (13.81%) Power Platform
5 23 (10.95%) Azure AI
6 21 (10.00%) GCP
6 21 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (10.00%) Serverless
7 17 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.29%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.38%) dbt
13 5 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) Internet
2 5 (2.38%) Firewall
2 5 (2.38%) NGFW
2 5 (2.38%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.81%) Power BI
2 28 (13.33%) Tableau
3 13 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.29%) BigQuery
5 8 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (3.81%) Data Mining
6 6 (2.86%) Spark SQL
7 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.90%) Big Data
8 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.43%) Metadata
9 3 (1.43%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (10.48%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.67%) Git
3 8 (3.81%) GitLab
4 6 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.43%) JIRA
5 3 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.95%) Claude Code
General
1 56 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.43%) Finance
4 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.29%) Retail
6 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.33%) Multimedia
7 6 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Games
8 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.48%) Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (34.76%) Developer
2 43 (20.48%) Python Developer
3 40 (19.05%) Senior
4 35 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (11.90%) Analyst
5 25 (11.90%) Data Analyst
5 25 (11.90%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 23 (10.95%) Data Engineer
7 21 (10.00%) Trainee
8 17 (8.10%) Junior
8 17 (8.10%) Junior Analyst
8 17 (8.10%) Junior Data Analyst
8 17 (8.10%) Software Developer
9 15 (7.14%) Lead
9 15 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.19%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.57%) CSS
1 18 (8.57%) Flask
1 18 (8.57%) HTML
2 17 (8.10%) React
3 15 (7.14%) Vue
4 11 (5.24%) PySpark
4 11 (5.24%) Web Services
5 10 (4.76%) .NET
6 6 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.86%) Flutter
6 6 (2.86%) Hugging Face
6 6 (2.86%) Matplotlib
6 6 (2.86%) NumPy
6 6 (2.86%) Pandas
6 6 (2.86%) scikit-learn
6 6 (2.86%) Streamlit
7 4 (1.90%) Django
7 4 (1.90%) LangChain
7 4 (1.90%) LangGraph
7 4 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.81%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.81%) PKI
4 7 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.33%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.90%) NHS
8 3 (1.43%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Social Media
9 2 (0.95%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.76%) AI
2 55 (26.19%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.86%) Agile
4 45 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 42 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 41 (19.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (15.24%) DevOps
9 28 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (12.86%) Analytics
11 26 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.43%) Containerisation
12 24 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (10.95%) Data Analysis
14 22 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.48%) Machine Learning
15 21 (10.00%) Test Automation
16 18 (8.57%) Data Engineering
16 18 (8.57%) OOP
17 17 (8.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 66 (31.43%) SQL
2 42 (20.00%) Java
3 34 (16.19%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.43%) C#
5 14 (6.67%) Groovy
6 9 (4.29%) Go
6 9 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.33%) Bash
8 6 (2.86%) R
9 5 (2.38%) Scala
10 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.43%) Ruby
12 2 (0.95%) Bicep
12 2 (0.95%) Perl
12 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (17.62%) Azure Certification
2 22 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) AWS Certification
3 19 (9.05%) Degree
4 18 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) CEH
10 1 (0.48%) CISA
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
10 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.24%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.43%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (12.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (20.95%) Terraform
2 24 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.24%) Progress Chef
4 8 (3.81%) Ansible
5 3 (1.43%) Argo
5 3 (1.43%) Packer
6 1 (0.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.76%) Databricks
3 5 (2.38%) Arista
3 5 (2.38%) Aruba
3 5 (2.38%) Google
3 5 (2.38%) NetScout
4 4 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.43%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.48%) VMware