Python Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 16 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 177 158 127
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.21% 10.54% 5.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.36% 45.01% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 114 131 78
10th Percentile £44,125 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £76,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £68,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.62% +13.04% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 647 351 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.39% 23.42% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 461 281 441
10th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Python job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Python
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -17 149 £81,250 +20.37% 176
Bradford -5 16 £85,000 +73.47% 21
Halifax - 6 £65,000 - 3
Wakefield - 4 £57,000 - 8
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.16%) AWS
1 64 (36.16%) Azure
2 31 (17.51%) GitHub
3 30 (16.95%) Azure AI
4 25 (14.12%) GCP
5 23 (12.99%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (12.99%) Power Platform
6 22 (12.43%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (10.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (5.08%) Serverless
11 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.26%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
14 3 (1.69%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) 5G
1 2 (1.13%) DNS
1 2 (1.13%) HTTP
1 2 (1.13%) VPN
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.43%) Power BI
2 18 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.47%) Tableau
4 11 (6.21%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.95%) Metadata
7 5 (2.82%) Big Data
8 4 (2.26%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.13%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.13%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.21%) Git
3 5 (2.82%) GitLab
4 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.69%) JIRA
4 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.13%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.56%) Appium
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 61 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.52%) Finance
3 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.69%) Games
5 3 (1.69%) Local Government
5 3 (1.69%) Marketing
6 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.13%) Retail
6 2 (1.13%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (26.55%) Developer
2 31 (17.51%) Senior
3 30 (16.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (16.95%) Python Developer
4 22 (12.43%) Data Engineer
5 20 (11.30%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 20 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.60%) Analyst
7 15 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (7.91%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.91%) Junior
8 14 (7.91%) Junior Analyst
8 14 (7.91%) Junior Data Analyst
9 13 (7.34%) Lead
10 10 (5.65%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.08%) Consultant
12 8 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.52%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.16%) Terraform
2 18 (10.17%) Web Services
3 11 (6.21%) Flask
4 8 (4.52%) CSS
4 8 (4.52%) HTML
4 8 (4.52%) PySpark
4 8 (4.52%) Vue
5 5 (2.82%) React
6 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.69%) JSON
7 3 (1.69%) OAuth
7 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.69%) OpenID
7 3 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.69%) REST
7 3 (1.69%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (1.69%) YAML
8 2 (1.13%) Flutter
8 2 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.08%) AI Agents
2 9 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.26%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.69%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.69%) PKI
5 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) FMCG
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Windows
3 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.46%) AI
2 50 (28.25%) CI/CD
3 47 (26.55%) Software Engineering
4 44 (24.86%) Agile
5 41 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (18.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (16.95%) Mentoring
8 28 (15.82%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (15.82%) DevOps
9 26 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (12.43%) Analytics
10 22 (12.43%) Containerisation
10 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.43%) Decision-Making
11 21 (11.86%) Data Engineering
11 21 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (11.30%) ETL
12 20 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (9.60%) Data Analysis
13 17 (9.60%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.03%) SQL
2 31 (17.51%) Java
3 21 (11.86%) Groovy
4 9 (5.08%) Bash
5 8 (4.52%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.52%) Scala
6 7 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.39%) C#
8 4 (2.26%) Go
9 3 (1.69%) Bicep
9 3 (1.69%) Ruby
9 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.13%) R
10 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.69%) Azure Certification
4 17 (9.60%) Degree
5 5 (2.82%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.13%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) CISM
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) GCIA
9 1 (0.56%) GCIH
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.17%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.65%) QA
3 4 (2.26%) GDPR
4 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (12.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.30%) Progress Chef
3 6 (3.39%) Ansible
4 3 (1.69%) Packer
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) Argo
6 1 (0.56%) Istio
6 1 (0.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) Databricks
3 7 (3.95%) Google
4 5 (2.82%) Foundry
5 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.69%) IBM
5 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.69%) VMware
6 2 (1.13%) Cisco
6 2 (1.13%) Informatica
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow