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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 170 136 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.74% 14.12% 4.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.25% 47.39% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 119 127 62
10th Percentile £36,400 £29,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £63,940
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.66% -8.66%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,246
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +20.45% -15.84%

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 562 287 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 18.97% 29.80% 28.04%
Number of salaries quoted 408 241 409
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -9.47%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -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 14 August 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 5 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.76%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (11.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.41%) AWS
2 57 (33.53%) Azure
3 36 (21.18%) GitHub
4 23 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (12.94%) Azure AI
5 22 (12.94%) GCP
5 22 (12.94%) Power Platform
6 21 (12.35%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (7.06%) Serverless
10 11 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (4.12%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.35%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.76%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (1.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) DNS
1 2 (1.18%) Internet
1 2 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.35%) Power BI
2 17 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.41%) Tableau
4 11 (6.47%) BigQuery
5 10 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.94%) Big Data
7 4 (2.35%) Data Mining
7 4 (2.35%) Metadata
7 4 (2.35%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.18%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.59%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.47%) Git
3 6 (3.53%) GitLab
4 3 (1.76%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.76%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.76%) JIRA
4 3 (1.76%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.18%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.65%) Finance
4 7 (4.12%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (1.76%) Games
7 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.76%) Marketing
8 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.18%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.18%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.59%) Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (32.35%) Developer
2 36 (21.18%) Python Developer
3 34 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (20.00%) Senior
4 24 (14.12%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 22 (12.94%) Data Engineer
6 19 (11.18%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) Analyst
8 15 (8.82%) Data Analyst
9 14 (8.24%) Lead
10 12 (7.06%) Junior
10 12 (7.06%) Junior Analyst
10 12 (7.06%) Junior Data Analyst
11 9 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.41%) Web Services
2 13 (7.65%) Flask
3 11 (6.47%) React
3 11 (6.47%) Vue
4 10 (5.88%) CSS
4 10 (5.88%) HTML
4 10 (5.88%) PySpark
5 5 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.35%) Flutter
6 4 (2.35%) Pandas
7 3 (1.76%) .NET
7 3 (1.76%) JSON
7 3 (1.76%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.76%) NumPy
7 3 (1.76%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.76%) OpenID
7 3 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.76%) REST
7 3 (1.76%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (1.76%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.71%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.94%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.76%) NHS
6 3 (1.76%) PKI
7 2 (1.18%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Social Media
8 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.59%) FMCG
8 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (35.88%) AI
2 54 (31.76%) CI/CD
3 45 (26.47%) Agile
4 43 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (22.94%) Software Engineering
6 36 (21.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (17.65%) DevOps
8 28 (16.47%) Mentoring
9 25 (14.71%) Containerisation
10 24 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (13.53%) Analytics
11 23 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (11.76%) Machine Learning
14 19 (11.18%) Data Engineering
14 19 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (10.59%) Data Analysis
15 18 (10.59%) ETL
16 17 (10.00%) Test Automation
17 16 (9.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.12%) SQL
2 27 (15.88%) Java
3 19 (11.18%) Groovy
4 13 (7.65%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.29%) C#
6 8 (4.71%) Scala
7 6 (3.53%) Go
7 6 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.94%) Bash
9 3 (1.76%) Bicep
9 3 (1.76%) R
9 3 (1.76%) Ruby
9 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.35%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.47%) Degree
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (24.12%) Terraform
2 26 (15.29%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.35%) Ansible
5 3 (1.76%) Packer
6 2 (1.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.59%) Istio
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.06%) Databricks
3 5 (2.94%) Foundry
4 4 (2.35%) Google
5 3 (1.76%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.76%) IBM
5 3 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.18%) VMware
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco
7 1 (0.59%) Informatica
7 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow