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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 38
Rank change year-on-year -17 +29 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 146 124 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.75% 13.66% 5.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.34% 48.25% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 99 112 59
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.48% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - £85,000 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +22.73% -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 534 257 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.39% 28.30% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 382 210 360
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 13 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 5 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 57 (39.04%) AWS
2 49 (33.56%) Azure
3 31 (21.23%) GitHub
4 22 (15.07%) GCP
5 21 (14.38%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (12.33%) Azure AI
7 17 (11.64%) Power Platform
8 13 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.48%) Serverless
11 5 (3.42%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.74%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.96%) Power BI
2 15 (10.27%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.53%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (6.16%) Tableau
5 5 (3.42%) Big Data
6 4 (2.74%) Metadata
6 4 (2.74%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.37%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.53%) Git
3 4 (2.74%) GitLab
4 3 (2.05%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.05%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.05%) JIRA
4 3 (2.05%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.37%) Claude Code
General
1 46 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.79%) Finance
4 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.05%) Games
6 3 (2.05%) Marketing
7 2 (1.37%) Retail
7 2 (1.37%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.68%) Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (32.88%) Developer
2 31 (21.23%) Full-Stack Developer
2 31 (21.23%) Python Developer
3 29 (19.86%) Senior
4 21 (14.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 20 (13.70%) Data Engineer
6 19 (13.01%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Lead
8 9 (6.16%) Analyst
8 9 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.48%) Junior
9 8 (5.48%) Junior Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Junior Data Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.03%) Terraform
2 17 (11.64%) Web Services
3 10 (6.85%) Flask
4 8 (5.48%) PySpark
4 8 (5.48%) Vue
5 7 (4.79%) CSS
5 7 (4.79%) HTML
6 5 (3.42%) React
7 4 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.05%) JSON
8 3 (2.05%) OAuth
8 3 (2.05%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.05%) OpenID
8 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.05%) REST
8 3 (2.05%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (2.05%) YAML
9 2 (1.37%) Flutter
9 2 (1.37%) LangChain
9 2 (1.37%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.16%) AI Agents
2 9 (6.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.05%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.05%) PKI
6 2 (1.37%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) FMCG
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.25%) AI
2 47 (32.19%) CI/CD
3 40 (27.40%) Agile
3 40 (27.40%) Software Engineering
4 39 (26.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (22.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (17.12%) DevOps
6 25 (17.12%) Mentoring
7 22 (15.07%) Containerisation
7 22 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.01%) Data Engineering
9 19 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (12.33%) Analytics
11 17 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (10.96%) Decision-Making
12 16 (10.96%) ETL
12 16 (10.96%) Machine Learning
12 16 (10.96%) Network Load Balancing
12 16 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.25%) SQL
2 25 (17.12%) Java
3 20 (13.70%) Groovy
4 8 (5.48%) Scala
5 7 (4.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.11%) C#
7 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.74%) Go
9 3 (2.05%) Bicep
9 3 (2.05%) Ruby
9 3 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.37%) Bash
10 2 (1.37%) R
11 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.27%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.53%) Degree
5 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.74%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.59%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.85%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (15.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.01%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Packer
5 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.53%) Databricks
3 5 (3.42%) Foundry
4 4 (2.74%) Google
5 3 (2.05%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.05%) IBM
5 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.05%) VMware
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Informatica
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow