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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 10 34
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 138 124 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.43% 13.16% 5.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.14% 50.20% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 96 111 51
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £93,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £73,750 £67,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.86% +12.92% -7.69%

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 528 247 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.93% 26.22% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 377 207 309
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 2 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 6 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.17%) nginx
4 2 (1.45%) Apache
4 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Trello
3 1 (0.72%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.68%) AWS
2 43 (31.16%) Azure
3 28 (20.29%) GitHub
4 22 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (15.22%) GCP
5 21 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 13 (9.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.70%) Azure AI
9 10 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.62%) Kong
12 4 (2.90%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.90%) SaaS
12 4 (2.90%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) DNS
2 3 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.45%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (1.45%) Firewall
3 2 (1.45%) Network Security
3 2 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (9.42%) Power BI
3 10 (7.25%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.35%) Metadata
5 6 (4.35%) Spark SQL
6 5 (3.62%) Big Data
6 5 (3.62%) Tableau
7 3 (2.17%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.45%) GIS
8 2 (1.45%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.72%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.97%) Git
3 5 (3.62%) GitLab
4 2 (1.45%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 43 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.97%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.25%) Finance
5 4 (2.90%) Marketing
5 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.90%) Retail
6 3 (2.17%) Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Games
7 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (21.74%) Developer
2 27 (19.57%) Senior
3 23 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 21 (15.22%) Python Developer
5 19 (13.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (13.77%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (10.14%) Lead
7 13 (9.42%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Analyst
11 7 (5.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Consultant
11 7 (5.07%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Python Software Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (26.09%) Terraform
2 18 (13.04%) Web Services
3 9 (6.52%) PySpark
4 5 (3.62%) Flask
5 3 (2.17%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.45%) ADO
6 2 (1.45%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.45%) CSS
6 2 (1.45%) LangChain
6 2 (1.45%) LangGraph
6 2 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.45%) React
7 1 (0.72%) Flutter
7 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.72%) JWT
7 1 (0.72%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.72%) Pandas
7 1 (0.72%) React Native
7 1 (0.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.52%) AI Agents
3 8 (5.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.90%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.45%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) FMCG
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.72%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.04%) Linux
2 3 (2.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.06%) CI/CD
2 44 (31.88%) AI
3 42 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 37 (26.81%) Agile
5 35 (25.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (18.84%) Analytics
6 26 (18.84%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (16.67%) DevOps
7 23 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (15.94%) Data Engineering
8 22 (15.94%) Mentoring
9 21 (15.22%) Decision-Making
9 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (14.49%) Containerisation
10 20 (14.49%) ETL
10 20 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (13.04%) Machine Learning
12 17 (12.32%) Network Load Balancing
12 17 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.06%) SQL
2 22 (15.94%) Java
3 18 (13.04%) Groovy
4 8 (5.80%) Scala
5 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.62%) C#
7 4 (2.90%) Bash
7 4 (2.90%) Go
8 3 (2.17%) Bicep
8 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.17%) R
8 3 (2.17%) Ruby
8 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.45%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.42%) Degree
4 9 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.90%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.90%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) CISM
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) GCIA
7 1 (0.72%) GCIH
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 18 (13.04%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 21 (15.22%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.35%) Ansible
4 3 (2.17%) Grafana
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.97%) Databricks
3 7 (5.07%) Foundry
4 5 (3.62%) Google
5 4 (2.90%) VMware
6 3 (2.17%) Cisco
6 3 (2.17%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.45%) ESRI
7 2 (1.45%) F5
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle
7 2 (1.45%) Palantir
8 1 (0.72%) Informatica
8 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow