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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Python 225 94 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.56% 12.34% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.93% 32.08% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 170 84 87
10th Percentile £28,975 £26,750 £33,367
25th Percentile £36,750 £44,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,122 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% +7.49% -20.80%
75th Percentile £84,688 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £61,622 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.48% +12.04% -18.00%

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 578 293 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 24.56% 38.45% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 422 240 517
10th Percentile £33,875 £28,738 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,318 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.59% -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 26 April 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 12 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.67%) Apache
2 6 (2.67%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (15.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.44%) AWS
2 93 (41.33%) Azure
3 46 (20.44%) GitHub
4 35 (15.56%) Serverless
5 29 (12.89%) Power Platform
6 27 (12.00%) Azure AI
7 21 (9.33%) GCP
8 16 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.89%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.22%) dbt
14 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.56%) Internet
2 5 (2.22%) Firewall
2 5 (2.22%) NGFW
2 5 (2.22%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.89%) Tableau
2 29 (12.89%) Power BI
3 13 (5.78%) Data Mining
4 10 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.11%) Metadata
6 6 (2.67%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.22%) Spark SQL
8 4 (1.78%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.78%) MySQL
8 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.89%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.44%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (9.33%) Git
2 14 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.11%) GitLab
4 6 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.78%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.33%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) JMeter
7 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 65 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.44%) Finance
4 17 (7.56%) Multimedia
4 17 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.33%) Retail
6 9 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.33%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.89%) Marketing
8 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (35.11%) Developer
2 45 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 38 (16.89%) Senior
4 36 (16.00%) Trainee
5 35 (15.56%) Analyst
5 35 (15.56%) Data Analyst
6 32 (14.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (11.11%) Data Engineer
8 23 (10.22%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 23 (10.22%) Junior
9 21 (9.33%) Junior Analyst
9 21 (9.33%) Junior Data Analyst
9 21 (9.33%) Software Developer
10 16 (7.11%) Lead
11 15 (6.67%) Architect
11 15 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 13 (5.78%) Trainee Analyst
12 13 (5.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 11 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (4.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.78%) CSS
1 31 (13.78%) HTML
2 24 (10.67%) Flask
2 24 (10.67%) React
3 19 (8.44%) Vue
4 13 (5.78%) PySpark
5 11 (4.89%) Django
6 10 (4.44%) .NET
6 10 (4.44%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.11%) Pandas
8 6 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.67%) Flutter
8 6 (2.67%) Hugging Face
8 6 (2.67%) Matplotlib
8 6 (2.67%) NumPy
8 6 (2.67%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.67%) Streamlit
9 4 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.78%) Web Services
10 3 (1.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.56%) PKI
5 7 (3.11%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.22%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.22%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.78%) NHS
9 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.89%) Social Media
11 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.56%) AI
2 63 (28.00%) Mentoring
3 56 (24.89%) CI/CD
4 41 (18.22%) Agile
5 39 (17.33%) Software Engineering
6 37 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (15.11%) DevOps
9 32 (14.22%) Analytics
10 29 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (11.56%) Data Analysis
11 26 (11.56%) Machine Learning
11 26 (11.56%) Test Automation
12 25 (11.11%) Data Modelling
13 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (9.78%) Computer Science
15 21 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (8.89%) Microservices
16 20 (8.89%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 82 (36.44%) SQL
2 57 (25.33%) JavaScript
3 45 (20.00%) Java
4 28 (12.44%) C#
5 18 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.33%) R
7 9 (4.00%) Go
8 7 (3.11%) Groovy
9 6 (2.67%) Bash
9 6 (2.67%) Scala
10 3 (1.33%) C
10 3 (1.33%) C++
10 3 (1.33%) Perl
10 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
11 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 59 (26.22%) Azure Certification
2 37 (16.44%) AWS Certification
3 31 (13.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (10.67%) Degree
5 23 (10.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 20 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 13 (5.78%) Security Cleared
9 10 (4.44%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.89%) CEH
10 2 (0.89%) CISA
10 2 (0.89%) CISSP
10 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.56%) QA
3 5 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (17.33%) Terraform
2 19 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.56%) Ansible
4 4 (1.78%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.33%) Argo
5 3 (1.33%) Packer
6 1 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.44%) Istio
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.67%) Databricks
3 5 (2.22%) Arista
3 5 (2.22%) Aruba
3 5 (2.22%) NetScout
4 4 (1.78%) IBM
4 4 (1.78%) Oracle
4 4 (1.78%) Palantir
5 3 (1.33%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.33%) Google
5 3 (1.33%) OpenAI