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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 9 29
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 130 124 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.19% 13.05% 5.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.34% 49.21% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 88 112 49
10th Percentile £44,625 £46,250 £44,290
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,625 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -4.00%

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 513 252 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.54% 26.53% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 363 211 291
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% +13.85% -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 8 October 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 7 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.85%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.31%) nginx
5 2 (1.54%) Apache
5 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Trello
3 1 (0.77%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.00%) AWS
2 41 (31.54%) Azure
3 27 (20.77%) GitHub
4 22 (16.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (16.15%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (16.15%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (15.38%) GCP
7 13 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.69%) Azure AI
8 10 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.85%) Kong
11 4 (3.08%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.08%) SaaS
11 4 (3.08%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.31%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.08%) DNS
2 3 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.54%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (1.54%) Firewall
3 2 (1.54%) Network Security
3 2 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (9.23%) Power BI
3 10 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (6.92%) Metadata
5 7 (5.38%) Spark SQL
6 5 (3.85%) Big Data
7 4 (3.08%) Tableau
8 3 (2.31%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.54%) GIS
9 2 (1.54%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.77%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (1.54%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.46%) Finance
4 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.85%) Marketing
6 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.08%) Retail
7 3 (2.31%) Banking
7 3 (2.31%) Games
8 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 24 (18.46%) Senior
3 22 (16.92%) Developer
4 19 (14.62%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (11.54%) Python Developer
6 14 (10.77%) Lead
7 11 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.46%) Software Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Consultant
10 7 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Analyst
11 6 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.92%) Terraform
2 18 (13.85%) Web Services
3 9 (6.92%) PySpark
4 3 (2.31%) Flask
4 3 (2.31%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.54%) ADO
5 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.54%) CSS
5 2 (1.54%) JWT
5 2 (1.54%) LangChain
5 2 (1.54%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.54%) Middleware
5 2 (1.54%) OAuth
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.54%) REST
6 1 (0.77%) Flutter
6 1 (0.77%) Kafka
6 1 (0.77%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.77%) Node.js
6 1 (0.77%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) AI Agents
3 8 (6.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.08%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.54%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) FMCG
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.85%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (36.15%) CI/CD
2 43 (33.08%) AI
2 43 (33.08%) Software Engineering
3 35 (26.92%) Agile
4 34 (26.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (20.77%) Analytics
6 26 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (17.69%) Data Engineering
7 23 (17.69%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (16.92%) Decision-Making
9 21 (16.15%) DevOps
9 21 (16.15%) ETL
9 21 (16.15%) Mentoring
9 21 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.62%) Containerisation
10 19 (14.62%) Machine Learning
11 17 (13.08%) Data Science
11 17 (13.08%) Network Load Balancing
11 17 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.15%) SQL
2 21 (16.15%) Java
3 18 (13.85%) Groovy
4 8 (6.15%) Scala
5 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.85%) C#
7 4 (3.08%) Bash
7 4 (3.08%) Go
7 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.31%) Bicep
8 3 (2.31%) Ruby
9 2 (1.54%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.54%) R
9 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.00%) Degree
4 7 (5.38%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.08%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.77%) CISM
7 1 (0.77%) CISSP
7 1 (0.77%) GCIA
7 1 (0.77%) GCIH
7 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.62%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.62%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 18 (13.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.15%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.62%) Ansible
4 3 (2.31%) Grafana
4 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (8.46%) Databricks
1 11 (8.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.69%) Foundry
3 5 (3.85%) Google
3 5 (3.85%) Palantir
4 4 (3.08%) VMware
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco
5 3 (2.31%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.54%) ESRI
6 2 (1.54%) F5
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle
7 1 (0.77%) Informatica
7 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow