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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -26
Permanent jobs citing Python 223 98 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.16% 12.61% 5.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.85% 33.45% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 168 89 84
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £33,080
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,743 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.01% +13.01% -22.60%
75th Percentile £89,236 £75,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -18.52%

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 574 293 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.58% 37.71% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 418 241 514
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,239
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.59% -10.39%

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 7 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 10 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.69%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.24%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.60%) AWS
2 89 (39.91%) Azure
3 43 (19.28%) GitHub
4 30 (13.45%) Power Platform
4 30 (13.45%) Serverless
5 27 (12.11%) Azure AI
6 19 (8.52%) GCP
7 18 (8.07%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.48%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.24%) OCI
14 4 (1.79%) dbt
14 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.73%) Internet
2 5 (2.24%) Firewall
2 5 (2.24%) NGFW
2 5 (2.24%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.59%) Tableau
2 30 (13.45%) Power BI
3 12 (5.38%) Data Mining
4 10 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.69%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.69%) Metadata
6 6 (2.69%) Spark SQL
7 5 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.90%) MySQL
10 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.45%) Looker
11 1 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (9.42%) Git
2 18 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.59%) GitLab
4 6 (2.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 62 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.11%) Finance
4 16 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.73%) Multimedia
6 12 (5.38%) Retail
7 9 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.90%) Marketing
9 2 (0.90%) Public Speaking
9 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.45%) Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (34.53%) Developer
2 42 (18.83%) Python Developer
3 37 (16.59%) Senior
4 35 (15.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (15.25%) Analyst
5 34 (15.25%) Data Analyst
6 33 (14.80%) Trainee
7 25 (11.21%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 23 (10.31%) Data Engineer
9 22 (9.87%) Junior
10 21 (9.42%) Junior Analyst
10 21 (9.42%) Junior Data Analyst
10 21 (9.42%) Software Developer
11 17 (7.62%) Lead
12 14 (6.28%) Architect
12 14 (6.28%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.83%) Software Engineer
14 12 (5.38%) Trainee Analyst
14 12 (5.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 10 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.11%) CSS
1 27 (12.11%) HTML
2 20 (8.97%) Flask
2 20 (8.97%) React
3 16 (7.17%) Vue
4 13 (5.83%) PySpark
5 10 (4.48%) .NET
6 7 (3.14%) Web Services
7 6 (2.69%) Django
7 6 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.69%) Flutter
7 6 (2.69%) Hugging Face
7 6 (2.69%) Matplotlib
7 6 (2.69%) NumPy
7 6 (2.69%) Pandas
7 6 (2.69%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.69%) Streamlit
8 5 (2.24%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.59%) PKI
5 7 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.24%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.79%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.90%) Social Media
10 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.18%) AI
2 57 (25.56%) Mentoring
3 55 (24.66%) CI/CD
4 42 (18.83%) Agile
5 41 (18.39%) Software Engineering
6 40 (17.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (16.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (13.90%) DevOps
9 29 (13.00%) Analytics
9 29 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (11.21%) Machine Learning
11 24 (10.76%) Data Analysis
11 24 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (10.76%) Test Automation
12 22 (9.87%) Data Modelling
13 21 (9.42%) Computer Science
13 21 (9.42%) Containerisation
13 21 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.52%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 76 (34.08%) SQL
2 52 (23.32%) JavaScript
3 46 (20.63%) Java
4 28 (12.56%) C#
5 17 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.93%) R
7 10 (4.48%) Groovy
8 9 (4.04%) Go
9 7 (3.14%) Bash
10 5 (2.24%) Scala
11 3 (1.35%) C
11 3 (1.35%) C++
11 3 (1.35%) Perl
11 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.90%) Ruby
12 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 56 (25.11%) Azure Certification
2 34 (15.25%) AWS Certification
3 28 (12.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (10.76%) Degree
5 21 (9.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 19 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (7.17%) Security Cleared
8 13 (5.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (5.38%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.90%) CEH
10 2 (0.90%) CISA
10 2 (0.90%) CISSP
10 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.90%) OSCP
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.59%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.35%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (11.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (16.59%) Terraform
2 21 (9.42%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.59%) Ansible
4 7 (3.14%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.35%) Argo
5 3 (1.35%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 74 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.83%) Databricks
3 5 (2.24%) Arista
3 5 (2.24%) Aruba
3 5 (2.24%) NetScout
4 4 (1.79%) IBM
5 3 (1.35%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.35%) Google
5 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle
6 2 (0.90%) Palantir