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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 35
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 161 132 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.31% 13.71% 4.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.76% 47.65% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 111 122 61
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +7.35% -10.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +22.73% -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 541 277 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.83% 28.76% 28.30%
Number of salaries quoted 395 228 392
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 29 August 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 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 64 (39.75%) AWS
2 55 (34.16%) Azure
3 36 (22.36%) GitHub
4 23 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (13.66%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (13.66%) GCP
6 20 (12.42%) Azure AI
6 20 (12.42%) Power Platform
7 18 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (6.83%) Serverless
10 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.48%) SaaS
13 4 (2.48%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) DNS
1 2 (1.24%) Internet
1 2 (1.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.80%) Power BI
2 17 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.83%) BigQuery
3 11 (6.83%) Tableau
4 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.11%) Big Data
6 4 (2.48%) Metadata
6 4 (2.48%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.86%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.86%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.62%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.62%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.45%) Git
3 5 (3.11%) GitLab
4 3 (1.86%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.86%) JIRA
4 3 (1.86%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.24%) Claude Code
General
1 50 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.97%) Finance
4 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.86%) Games
6 3 (1.86%) Marketing
7 2 (1.24%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.24%) Retail
7 2 (1.24%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.62%) Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (32.92%) Developer
2 35 (21.74%) Python Developer
3 33 (20.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 33 (20.50%) Senior
4 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 22 (13.66%) Data Engineer
6 20 (12.42%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.70%) Lead
8 11 (6.83%) Analyst
9 10 (6.21%) Data Analyst
9 10 (6.21%) Junior
9 10 (6.21%) Junior Analyst
9 10 (6.21%) Junior Data Analyst
10 9 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.09%) Terraform
2 17 (10.56%) Web Services
3 13 (8.07%) Flask
4 10 (6.21%) CSS
4 10 (6.21%) HTML
4 10 (6.21%) PySpark
4 10 (6.21%) React
4 10 (6.21%) Vue
5 5 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.48%) Flutter
7 3 (1.86%) JSON
7 3 (1.86%) LangChain
7 3 (1.86%) LangGraph
7 3 (1.86%) OAuth
7 3 (1.86%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.86%) OpenID
7 3 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.86%) REST
7 3 (1.86%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (1.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.59%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.11%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.86%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.86%) PKI
6 2 (1.24%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.24%) NHS
6 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.62%) FMCG
7 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.62%) Social Media
7 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Windows
2 2 (1.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.16%) AI
2 53 (32.92%) CI/CD
3 44 (27.33%) Agile
4 43 (26.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (24.84%) Software Engineering
6 35 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (17.39%) DevOps
7 28 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 24 (14.91%) Containerisation
8 24 (14.91%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.42%) Analytics
10 20 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (12.42%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (11.80%) Data Engineering
12 18 (11.18%) ETL
12 18 (11.18%) Machine Learning
13 16 (9.94%) Decision-Making
13 16 (9.94%) Network Load Balancing
13 16 (9.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (33.54%) SQL
2 26 (16.15%) Java
3 20 (12.42%) Groovy
4 11 (6.83%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.97%) C#
5 8 (4.97%) Scala
6 6 (3.73%) Go
6 6 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.48%) Bash
8 3 (1.86%) Bicep
8 3 (1.86%) R
8 3 (1.86%) Ruby
8 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.80%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.83%) Degree
5 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.83%) QA
3 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (15.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.80%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.11%) Ansible
4 3 (1.86%) Packer
5 2 (1.24%) Argo
5 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.62%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.45%) Databricks
3 5 (3.11%) Foundry
4 4 (2.48%) Google
4 4 (2.48%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.86%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.86%) IBM
5 3 (1.86%) VMware
6 2 (1.24%) Cisco
7 1 (0.62%) Informatica
7 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow