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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 26 23
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 168 78 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 11.66% 7.69% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.00% 23.93% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 139 42 104
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,188 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -7.98%

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 400 326 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.76% 32.15% 37.13%
Number of salaries quoted 305 196 469
10th Percentile £28,450 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -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 25 January 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 18 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.95%) Apache
3 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (11.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (61.90%) AWS
2 95 (56.55%) Azure
3 50 (29.76%) Serverless
4 44 (26.19%) GitHub
5 14 (8.33%) GCP
6 10 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.36%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.17%) dbt
8 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.57%) Azure AI
9 6 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.38%) OCI
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.79%) Azure App Service
12 3 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.29%) Internet
2 5 (2.98%) Firewall
3 4 (2.38%) NGFW
3 4 (2.38%) VXLAN
3 4 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.38%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.88%) Tableau
2 12 (7.14%) Data Mining
3 10 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (5.95%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.95%) Power BI
4 8 (4.76%) Metadata
5 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.57%) MySQL
5 6 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.38%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.79%) Big Data
8 3 (1.79%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.79%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (16.07%) Git
2 6 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.38%) GitLab
4 3 (1.79%) JMeter
4 3 (1.79%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.79%) Selenium
4 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.29%) Multimedia
4 18 (10.71%) Finance
4 18 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.95%) Retail
6 5 (2.98%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.79%) Marketing
7 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.19%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (25.00%) Developer
2 36 (21.43%) Trainee
3 29 (17.26%) Architect
3 29 (17.26%) Senior
4 27 (16.07%) Data Engineer
5 22 (13.10%) Python Developer
6 21 (12.50%) Analyst
7 20 (11.90%) Data Analyst
8 17 (10.12%) Software Developer
9 14 (8.33%) Applications Architect
9 14 (8.33%) Lead
10 12 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
10 12 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 12 (7.14%) Trainee Developer
10 12 (7.14%) Trainee Software Developer
11 11 (6.55%) Software Architect
12 8 (4.76%) Junior
12 8 (4.76%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.62%) CSS
1 38 (22.62%) HTML
2 19 (11.31%) FastAPI
2 19 (11.31%) Flask
2 19 (11.31%) React
3 18 (10.71%) Django
4 14 (8.33%) Vue
5 11 (6.55%) PySpark
6 7 (4.17%) Kafka
7 4 (2.38%) .NET
7 4 (2.38%) Pandas
7 4 (2.38%) Spring
8 3 (1.79%) Middleware
8 3 (1.79%) RESTful
8 3 (1.79%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.19%) Grails
9 2 (1.19%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.19%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.19%) SQLAlchemy
9 2 (1.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.38%) PKI
5 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.19%) IoT
6 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.60%) NHS
7 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Windows
3 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (55.36%) Mentoring
2 49 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 42 (25.00%) Migration
4 35 (20.83%) Agile
4 35 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 35 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (19.64%) Analytics
6 30 (17.86%) Computer Science
6 30 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (17.86%) DevOps
6 30 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (17.86%) Microservices
7 29 (17.26%) Architectural Patterns
8 27 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (16.07%) Data Analysis
8 27 (16.07%) Data Engineering
9 26 (15.48%) AI
9 26 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
10 25 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 81 (48.21%) SQL
2 71 (42.26%) JavaScript
3 44 (26.19%) Java
4 32 (19.05%) C#
5 31 (18.45%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.33%) R
7 8 (4.76%) Bash
8 7 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.57%) Scala
10 4 (2.38%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.79%) C
11 3 (1.79%) C++
12 2 (1.19%) Go
12 2 (1.19%) Perl
12 2 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (32.74%) Azure Certification
2 53 (31.55%) AWS Certification
3 49 (29.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (20.24%) Degree
5 28 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (16.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 24 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.19%) CEH
8 2 (1.19%) CISA
8 2 (1.19%) CISSP
8 2 (1.19%) OSCP
8 2 (1.19%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.19%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (19.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (17.26%) Terraform
2 17 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.95%) Ansible
4 3 (1.79%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.60%) Grafana
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.50%) Databricks
3 8 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (2.98%) Palantir
5 4 (2.38%) Arista
5 4 (2.38%) Aruba
5 4 (2.38%) Google
5 4 (2.38%) NetScout
6 3 (1.79%) IBM
7 2 (1.19%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.19%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) Avaya
8 1 (0.60%) Genesys
8 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.60%) Verint