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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 9 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 173 136 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.86% 14.30% 4.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.35% 47.22% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 123 127 62
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £63,940
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +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 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -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 570 288 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 19.32% 30.28% 28.09%
Number of salaries quoted 417 246 415
10th Percentile £38,800 £31,250 £34,850
25th Percentile £48,289 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +13.85% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -5.98%

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 11 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 6 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.31%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.73%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.16%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.88%) AWS
2 58 (33.53%) Azure
3 35 (20.23%) GitHub
4 24 (13.87%) Power Platform
5 23 (13.29%) Azure AI
5 23 (13.29%) GCP
6 22 (12.72%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (11.56%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (9.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (8.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (6.94%) Serverless
11 7 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.31%) dbt
13 4 (2.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) DNS
1 2 (1.16%) Internet
1 2 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.29%) Power BI
2 19 (10.98%) Tableau
3 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.94%) BigQuery
5 11 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.89%) Big Data
7 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.31%) Data Mining
7 4 (2.31%) Metadata
7 4 (2.31%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (13.87%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.36%) Git
3 6 (3.47%) GitLab
4 4 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.73%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.73%) JIRA
5 3 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.16%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.09%) Finance
4 8 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.47%) Retail
6 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.73%) Games
7 3 (1.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.16%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (32.95%) Developer
2 37 (21.39%) Python Developer
3 35 (20.23%) Senior
4 34 (19.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (13.87%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 22 (12.72%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (9.83%) Analyst
8 17 (9.83%) Data Analyst
9 15 (8.67%) Lead
10 13 (7.51%) Junior
10 13 (7.51%) Junior Analyst
10 13 (7.51%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (5.78%) Trainee
12 9 (5.20%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) Java Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.67%) Web Services
2 14 (8.09%) Flask
3 11 (6.36%) React
3 11 (6.36%) Vue
4 10 (5.78%) CSS
4 10 (5.78%) HTML
4 10 (5.78%) PySpark
5 5 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.89%) Pandas
6 4 (2.31%) .NET
6 4 (2.31%) Flutter
6 4 (2.31%) Hugging Face
6 4 (2.31%) Matplotlib
6 4 (2.31%) NumPy
6 4 (2.31%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.31%) Streamlit
7 3 (1.73%) JSON
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth
7 3 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (1.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.62%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.05%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.47%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.73%) NHS
7 3 (1.73%) PKI
8 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Social Media
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) FMCG
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.99%) AI
2 52 (30.06%) CI/CD
3 45 (26.01%) Agile
4 41 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (22.54%) Software Engineering
6 36 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (16.76%) Mentoring
8 28 (16.18%) DevOps
9 25 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (13.87%) Analytics
10 24 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (13.87%) Containerisation
11 22 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning
13 20 (11.56%) Data Engineering
14 19 (10.98%) ETL
15 18 (10.40%) Data Analysis
15 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineering
16 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (9.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.10%) SQL
2 28 (16.18%) Java
3 18 (10.40%) Groovy
4 14 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.78%) C#
6 7 (4.05%) Scala
7 6 (3.47%) Go
7 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.89%) Bash
9 4 (2.31%) R
10 3 (1.73%) Ruby
11 2 (1.16%) Bicep
11 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.72%) Azure Certification
2 22 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.36%) Degree
4 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.31%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.78%) QA
3 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (13.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (22.54%) Terraform
2 25 (14.45%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.25%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.31%) Ansible
5 3 (1.73%) Packer
6 2 (1.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.58%) Istio
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.94%) Databricks
3 5 (2.89%) Foundry
3 5 (2.89%) Google
4 3 (1.73%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.73%) IBM
4 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.16%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco
6 1 (0.58%) Informatica
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow