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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 25 20
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 149 89 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 14.00% 6.21% 10.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.67% 20.99% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 132 48 122
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,796 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £79,385
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £92,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £63,940 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.57% -1.63% +8.33%

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 300 424 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.20% 29.59% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 253 259 485
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,950 £39,150
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -3.39% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £76,250
90th Percentile £84,750 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%

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 3 November 2025.

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 17 (11.41%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.05%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (69.13%) AWS
2 74 (49.66%) Azure
3 40 (26.85%) Serverless
4 25 (16.78%) GitHub
5 20 (13.42%) GCP
6 18 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.03%) dbt
9 6 (4.03%) OCI
10 5 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.36%) SaaS
11 4 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.68%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.71%) Internet
2 9 (6.04%) Firewall
3 8 (5.37%) Network Security
3 8 (5.37%) VLAN
3 8 (5.37%) VPN
4 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.03%) BGP
5 6 (4.03%) DNS
5 6 (4.03%) OSPF
6 5 (3.36%) DHCP
7 4 (2.68%) LAN
7 4 (2.68%) WAN
8 1 (0.67%) Junos
8 1 (0.67%) MQTT
8 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (9.40%) Tableau
3 12 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (8.05%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.70%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.03%) Data Mining
5 6 (4.03%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.03%) MySQL
5 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.36%) Metadata
7 4 (2.68%) Big Data
7 4 (2.68%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.01%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.01%) Power BI
8 3 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) Git
2 9 (6.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.36%) GitLab
4 4 (2.68%) Selenium
5 3 (2.01%) JIRA
6 2 (1.34%) JMeter
6 2 (1.34%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.34%) Postman
6 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) Appium
7 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.67%) MLflow
7 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.71%) Multimedia
4 10 (6.71%) Retail
5 7 (4.70%) Finance
5 7 (4.70%) Tech for Good
6 5 (3.36%) Marketing
7 4 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 39 (26.17%) Senior
2 30 (20.13%) Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Data Engineer
4 25 (16.78%) Lead
5 19 (12.75%) Python Developer
6 17 (11.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (10.74%) Trainee
8 15 (10.07%) Architect
9 13 (8.72%) Software Developer
10 12 (8.05%) Analyst
11 11 (7.38%) Data Manager
12 10 (6.71%) Data Analyst
12 10 (6.71%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (6.04%) Network Engineer
13 9 (6.04%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.70%) Applications Architect
15 6 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 6 (4.03%) Lead Developer
15 6 (4.03%) Senior Python Developer
15 6 (4.03%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) CSS
1 19 (12.75%) HTML
2 13 (8.72%) FastAPI
2 13 (8.72%) React
3 12 (8.05%) Django
3 12 (8.05%) Flask
4 9 (6.04%) Vue
5 8 (5.37%) PySpark
6 6 (4.03%) Kafka
6 6 (4.03%) RESTful
7 5 (3.36%) Pandas
8 4 (2.68%) Spring
8 4 (2.68%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.01%) .NET
9 3 (2.01%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.34%) Middleware
10 2 (1.34%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.34%) PyTorch
10 2 (1.34%) Swagger
10 2 (1.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Cloud Native
1 12 (8.05%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.37%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.71%) Linux
1 10 (6.71%) Windows
2 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.34%) Check Point GAiA
4 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) Mentoring
2 61 (40.94%) CI/CD
3 38 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (24.83%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (21.48%) Agile
6 32 (21.48%) DevOps
7 31 (20.81%) Data Engineering
8 30 (20.13%) Migration
9 29 (19.46%) Data Modelling
10 28 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (18.12%) Analytics
11 27 (18.12%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (15.44%) Roadmaps
13 20 (13.42%) Containerisation
14 18 (12.08%) Microservices
15 17 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (11.41%) Data Analysis
15 17 (11.41%) ETL
16 15 (10.07%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 74 (49.66%) SQL
2 39 (26.17%) JavaScript
3 28 (18.79%) Java
4 20 (13.42%) TypeScript
5 19 (12.75%) C#
6 18 (12.08%) PowerShell
7 12 (8.05%) Bash
8 6 (4.03%) R
9 5 (3.36%) Go
10 4 (2.68%) Scala
11 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.67%) PHP
13 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (23.49%) AWS Certification
2 22 (14.77%) Azure Certification
3 21 (14.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (11.41%) Degree
5 13 (8.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 13 (8.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (2.01%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.01%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.34%) CCSA
9 2 (1.34%) CCSE
10 1 (0.67%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.67%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.67%) OSCE
10 1 (0.67%) OSCP
10 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.68%) NIST
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (20.13%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (20.13%) Terraform
2 25 (16.78%) Kubernetes
3 23 (15.44%) Ansible
4 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 5 (3.36%) SCCM
4 5 (3.36%) SCOM
4 5 (3.36%) WSUS
5 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.34%) Argo
6 2 (1.34%) Control-M
6 2 (1.34%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.67%) Grafana
7 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.67%) Nmap
7 1 (0.67%) QRadar
7 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (29.53%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.46%) Databricks
3 10 (6.71%) Oracle
4 6 (4.03%) Fortinet
4 6 (4.03%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.68%) Aruba
6 4 (2.68%) Cisco
6 4 (2.68%) Google
6 4 (2.68%) Mellanox
6 4 (2.68%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.34%) IBM
8 2 (1.34%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.34%) Palantir
8 2 (1.34%) VMware
9 1 (0.67%) Avaya
9 1 (0.67%) ESRI
9 1 (0.67%) Juniper