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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 213 99 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.12% 12.87% 4.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.98% 36.80% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 158 93 81
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +13.27% -15.76%

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 592 269 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.58% 34.98% 29.20%
Number of salaries quoted 434 222 529
10th Percentile £37,275 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,459 £42,500 £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 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,775 £85,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year +8.33% +16.44% -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 27 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 (3.29%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.82%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.35%) Apache
4 4 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (15.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.94%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 84 (39.44%) AWS
2 76 (35.68%) Azure
3 39 (18.31%) GitHub
4 31 (14.55%) Power Platform
5 25 (11.74%) Azure AI
6 23 (10.80%) Serverless
7 20 (9.39%) GCP
8 18 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.23%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.35%) OCI
16 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (1.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.69%) Internet
2 5 (2.35%) Firewall
2 5 (2.35%) NGFW
2 5 (2.35%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.55%) Power BI
1 31 (14.55%) Tableau
2 13 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.23%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.23%) Data Mining
4 8 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (2.82%) Spark SQL
6 5 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.88%) Big Data
7 4 (1.88%) Metadata
7 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
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 (8.92%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.98%) Git
3 8 (3.76%) GitLab
4 6 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.88%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.41%) JIRA
7 2 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.47%) JMeter
8 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 59 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.74%) Finance
4 12 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.69%) Multimedia
6 9 (4.23%) Retail
7 7 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.94%) Marketing
9 2 (0.94%) Public Speaking
9 2 (0.94%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (34.74%) Developer
2 43 (20.19%) Python Developer
3 38 (17.84%) Senior
4 35 (16.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (13.15%) Analyst
5 28 (13.15%) Data Analyst
6 25 (11.74%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 25 (11.74%) Trainee
7 23 (10.80%) Data Engineer
8 19 (8.92%) Junior
8 19 (8.92%) Junior Analyst
8 19 (8.92%) Junior Data Analyst
9 18 (8.45%) Software Developer
10 17 (7.98%) Lead
11 13 (6.10%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.63%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (4.23%) Architect
15 9 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.86%) CSS
1 21 (9.86%) HTML
2 18 (8.45%) Flask
3 17 (7.98%) React
4 15 (7.04%) Vue
5 12 (5.63%) PySpark
6 10 (4.69%) .NET
7 8 (3.76%) Web Services
8 6 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.82%) Flutter
8 6 (2.82%) Hugging Face
8 6 (2.82%) Matplotlib
8 6 (2.82%) NumPy
8 6 (2.82%) Pandas
8 6 (2.82%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.82%) Streamlit
9 4 (1.88%) Django
9 4 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.41%) JSON
10 3 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.76%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.76%) PKI
4 7 (3.29%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.29%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.88%) NHS
8 3 (1.41%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.94%) Social Media
10 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (35.21%) AI
2 50 (23.47%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.54%) Agile
4 47 (22.07%) Mentoring
5 42 (19.72%) Software Engineering
6 40 (18.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (14.55%) DevOps
9 30 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (13.62%) Analytics
11 26 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.27%) Data Analysis
13 23 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (10.33%) Machine Learning
14 22 (10.33%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.86%) Containerisation
15 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (8.45%) Data Engineering
16 18 (8.45%) OOP
17 17 (7.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.39%) SQL
2 44 (20.66%) Java
3 40 (18.78%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.21%) C#
5 11 (5.16%) Groovy
5 11 (5.16%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.23%) Go
7 8 (3.76%) R
8 7 (3.29%) Bash
9 5 (2.35%) Scala
10 4 (1.88%) Ruby
11 3 (1.41%) Perl
11 3 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.47%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (20.66%) Azure Certification
2 24 (11.27%) AWS Certification
3 22 (10.33%) Degree
4 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (8.45%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (6.57%) SC Cleared
7 13 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.88%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.94%) CEH
10 2 (0.94%) CISA
10 2 (0.94%) CISSP
10 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.94%) OSCP
11 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.16%) QA
3 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.41%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (10.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (17.84%) Terraform
2 21 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.76%) Ansible
3 8 (3.76%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.41%) Argo
4 3 (1.41%) Packer
5 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 58 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Databricks
3 5 (2.35%) Arista
3 5 (2.35%) Aruba
3 5 (2.35%) NetScout
4 4 (1.88%) Google
4 4 (1.88%) IBM
5 3 (1.41%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow