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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 136 126 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.37% 13.25% 5.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.15% 49.41% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 93 113 49
10th Percentile £45,300 £46,250 £44,738
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £93,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -4.00%

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 520 255 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.70% 26.81% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 369 214 304
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +16.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 5 October 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 6 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) nginx
4 2 (1.47%) Apache
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.47%) Trello
3 1 (0.74%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 51 (37.50%) AWS
2 42 (30.88%) Azure
3 27 (19.85%) GitHub
4 22 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (15.44%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.97%) GCP
7 14 (10.29%) Power Platform
8 13 (9.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (8.82%) Azure AI
10 10 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.68%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.68%) Kong
13 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.94%) SaaS
13 4 (2.94%) Snowflake
14 3 (2.21%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) DNS
2 3 (2.21%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.47%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (1.47%) Firewall
3 2 (1.47%) Network Security
3 2 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (9.56%) Power BI
3 10 (7.35%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.41%) Metadata
5 6 (4.41%) Spark SQL
6 5 (3.68%) Big Data
6 5 (3.68%) Tableau
7 3 (2.21%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.47%) GIS
8 2 (1.47%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (16.91%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.09%) Git
3 5 (3.68%) GitLab
4 2 (1.47%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 43 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Finance
4 10 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.68%) Marketing
6 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Games
8 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (21.32%) Developer
2 24 (17.65%) Senior
3 23 (16.91%) Data Engineer
4 21 (15.44%) Python Developer
5 19 (13.97%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (10.29%) Lead
8 13 (9.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 11 (8.09%) Software Engineer
10 10 (7.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Consultant
12 7 (5.15%) Analyst
12 7 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Python Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.74%) Terraform
2 18 (13.24%) Web Services
3 8 (5.88%) PySpark
4 5 (3.68%) Flask
5 3 (2.21%) CSS
5 3 (2.21%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.47%) ADO
6 2 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.47%) JWT
6 2 (1.47%) LangChain
6 2 (1.47%) LangGraph
6 2 (1.47%) Middleware
6 2 (1.47%) OAuth
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.47%) REST
7 1 (0.74%) Flutter
7 1 (0.74%) Kafka
7 1 (0.74%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.74%) Node.js
7 1 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) AI Agents
3 8 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.94%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.47%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.74%) FMCG
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Linux
2 3 (2.21%) Windows
2 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.82%) CI/CD
2 45 (33.09%) AI
3 42 (30.88%) Software Engineering
4 37 (27.21%) Agile
5 34 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (19.12%) Analytics
7 25 (18.38%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (16.91%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (16.18%) Data Engineering
10 21 (15.44%) Decision-Making
10 21 (15.44%) DevOps
10 21 (15.44%) Mentoring
11 20 (14.71%) ETL
11 20 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.97%) Containerisation
13 18 (13.24%) Machine Learning
14 17 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing
14 17 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.82%) SQL
2 22 (16.18%) Java
3 18 (13.24%) Groovy
4 8 (5.88%) Scala
5 6 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.68%) C#
7 4 (2.94%) Bash
7 4 (2.94%) Go
7 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.21%) Bicep
8 3 (2.21%) Ruby
9 2 (1.47%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.47%) R
9 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Degree
4 9 (6.62%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) CISM
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) GCIA
7 1 (0.74%) GCIH
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.41%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 18 (13.24%) Docker
2 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (15.44%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.41%) Ansible
4 3 (2.21%) Grafana
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.09%) Databricks
3 7 (5.15%) Foundry
4 5 (3.68%) Google
5 4 (2.94%) VMware
6 3 (2.21%) Cisco
6 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.47%) ESRI
7 2 (1.47%) F5
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle
7 2 (1.47%) Palantir
8 1 (0.74%) Informatica
8 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow