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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 39
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -29
Permanent jobs citing Python 214 100 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.21% 12.97% 4.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.91% 36.76% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 160 94 81
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% -20.80%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £78,088
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £63,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -16.61%

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 596 272 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.85% 35.28% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 434 225 527
10th Percentile £35,375 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,767 £85,000
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 24 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 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.80%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.34%) Apache
3 5 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.80%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.93%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.12%) AWS
2 79 (36.92%) Azure
3 40 (18.69%) GitHub
4 30 (14.02%) Power Platform
5 25 (11.68%) Azure AI
5 25 (11.68%) Serverless
6 22 (10.28%) GCP
7 18 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.21%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.34%) dbt
13 5 (2.34%) OCI
14 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.14%) Internet
2 5 (2.34%) Firewall
2 5 (2.34%) NGFW
2 5 (2.34%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.95%) Tableau
2 30 (14.02%) Power BI
3 11 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.21%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.21%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.80%) Spark SQL
7 5 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.87%) Metadata
8 4 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.93%) Big Data
10 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.93%) MySQL
10 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Looker
11 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.41%) Git
3 8 (3.74%) GitLab
4 6 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.40%) JIRA
7 2 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.47%) JMeter
8 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 60 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.21%) Finance
4 14 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.14%) Multimedia
6 10 (4.67%) Retail
7 8 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing
9 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.93%) Public Speaking
9 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (35.05%) Developer
2 43 (20.09%) Python Developer
3 39 (18.22%) Senior
4 35 (16.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 28 (13.08%) Analyst
5 28 (13.08%) Data Analyst
6 26 (12.15%) Trainee
7 25 (11.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 22 (10.28%) Data Engineer
9 20 (9.35%) Junior
10 19 (8.88%) Junior Analyst
10 19 (8.88%) Junior Data Analyst
10 19 (8.88%) Software Developer
11 16 (7.48%) Lead
12 13 (6.07%) Senior Developer
12 13 (6.07%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.14%) Architect
13 11 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (4.21%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.28%) CSS
1 22 (10.28%) HTML
2 18 (8.41%) Flask
3 17 (7.94%) React
4 15 (7.01%) Vue
5 11 (5.14%) PySpark
6 10 (4.67%) .NET
7 8 (3.74%) Web Services
8 6 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.80%) Flutter
8 6 (2.80%) Hugging Face
8 6 (2.80%) Matplotlib
8 6 (2.80%) NumPy
8 6 (2.80%) Pandas
8 6 (2.80%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.80%) Streamlit
9 4 (1.87%) Django
9 4 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.40%) JSON
10 3 (1.40%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.74%) PKI
4 7 (3.27%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.27%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.87%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.93%) Social Media
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.11%) AI
2 49 (22.90%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.43%) Mentoring
4 47 (21.96%) Agile
5 42 (19.63%) Software Engineering
6 40 (18.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (14.02%) DevOps
9 29 (13.55%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (13.08%) Analytics
11 26 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.21%) Test Automation
13 22 (10.28%) Data Analysis
13 22 (10.28%) Machine Learning
14 21 (9.81%) Containerisation
14 21 (9.81%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (8.88%) Data Engineering
17 18 (8.41%) Computer Science
17 18 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.78%) SQL
2 45 (21.03%) Java
3 43 (20.09%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.62%) C#
5 13 (6.07%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.14%) Groovy
7 9 (4.21%) Go
8 8 (3.74%) R
9 7 (3.27%) Bash
10 6 (2.80%) Scala
11 4 (1.87%) Ruby
12 3 (1.40%) Perl
12 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.93%) C
13 2 (0.93%) C++
13 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (21.96%) Azure Certification
2 27 (12.62%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.75%) Degree
4 21 (9.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (7.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (7.94%) Security Cleared
6 16 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.93%) CEH
10 2 (0.93%) CISA
10 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.67%) QA
3 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (10.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (16.82%) Terraform
2 20 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.74%) Ansible
3 8 (3.74%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.40%) Argo
4 3 (1.40%) Packer
5 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 60 (28.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Databricks
3 5 (2.34%) Arista
3 5 (2.34%) Aruba
3 5 (2.34%) NetScout
4 4 (1.87%) Google
4 4 (1.87%) IBM
5 3 (1.40%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle
6 2 (0.93%) Palantir