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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 10 35
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 143 121 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.59% 13.08% 5.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.63% 50.00% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 99 109 51
10th Percentile £46,200 £46,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £77,500 £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% -7.69%

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 537 242 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.25% 26.16% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 383 204 313
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -7.60%

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 29 September 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 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.40%) nginx
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Trello
3 1 (0.70%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.76%) AWS
2 43 (30.07%) Azure
3 29 (20.28%) GitHub
4 24 (16.78%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (14.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (13.99%) GCP
8 15 (10.49%) Power Platform
9 14 (9.79%) Azure AI
10 13 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.50%) Serverless
14 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.80%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.80%) Kong
14 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) BIG-IP
2 2 (1.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (1.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (1.40%) Firewall
2 2 (1.40%) Network Security
2 2 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (9.79%) Power BI
3 10 (6.99%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.20%) Tableau
6 5 (3.50%) Big Data
6 5 (3.50%) Metadata
6 5 (3.50%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.10%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.40%) GIS
8 2 (1.40%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.70%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (18.88%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.09%) Git
3 7 (4.90%) GitLab
4 5 (3.50%) JIRA
5 3 (2.10%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.10%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.40%) Claude Code
General
1 48 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (6.99%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.59%) Finance
5 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.80%) Retail
6 3 (2.10%) Games
6 3 (2.10%) Marketing
7 2 (1.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Developer
2 27 (18.88%) Senior
3 23 (16.08%) Python Developer
4 22 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 21 (14.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (13.99%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (10.49%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 15 (10.49%) Lead
8 10 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Analyst
10 8 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.27%) Terraform
2 18 (12.59%) Web Services
3 8 (5.59%) PySpark
4 6 (4.20%) Flask
5 4 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.10%) JSON
6 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.10%) React
6 3 (2.10%) REST
6 3 (2.10%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (2.10%) YAML
7 2 (1.40%) ADO
7 2 (1.40%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.40%) CSS
7 2 (1.40%) Flutter
7 2 (1.40%) HTML
7 2 (1.40%) LangChain
7 2 (1.40%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.29%) AI Agents
2 9 (6.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.80%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.40%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.70%) FMCG
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.69%) Linux
2 3 (2.10%) Windows
2 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.97%) CI/CD
2 45 (31.47%) AI
3 41 (28.67%) Agile
3 41 (28.67%) Software Engineering
4 38 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (18.18%) DevOps
6 25 (17.48%) Analytics
6 25 (17.48%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (16.08%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 21 (14.69%) Containerisation
10 21 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (14.69%) Data Engineering
11 20 (13.99%) Decision-Making
11 20 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.29%) ETL
13 18 (12.59%) Machine Learning
14 17 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (11.89%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.57%) SQL
2 25 (17.48%) Java
3 21 (14.69%) Groovy
4 8 (5.59%) Scala
5 6 (4.20%) C#
5 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.80%) Bash
6 4 (2.80%) Go
7 3 (2.10%) Bicep
7 3 (2.10%) R
7 3 (2.10%) Ruby
8 2 (1.40%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.09%) Degree
4 10 (6.99%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.80%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) GCIA
7 1 (0.70%) GCIH
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.99%) QA
3 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (13.99%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.69%) Progress Chef
3 8 (5.59%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.10%) Packer
4 3 (2.10%) Puppet
5 2 (1.40%) Grafana
5 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.69%) Databricks
3 6 (4.20%) Foundry
4 4 (2.80%) Google
4 4 (2.80%) VMware
5 3 (2.10%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.10%) Cisco
5 3 (2.10%) IBM
5 3 (2.10%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.40%) ESRI
6 2 (1.40%) F5
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) Informatica
7 1 (0.70%) Palantir
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow