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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 194 126 208
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 11.75% 7.52% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.79% 25.35% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 160 68 175
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,275 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,940 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +2.30% +2.16%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,500 £77,815
90th Percentile £83,500 £93,778 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,879 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.58% +5.63% -4.76%

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 443 497 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.83% 29.65% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 344 310 638
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,339
25th Percentile £40,844 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.97% +8.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,675 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +18 169 £67,500 +3.85% 67
Bradford -19 10 £75,000 +130.77% 42
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Huddersfield +8 2 £40,000 -17.94% 6
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 20 (10.31%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.67%) Apache
3 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (61.86%) AWS
2 101 (52.06%) Azure
3 44 (22.68%) Serverless
4 37 (19.07%) GitHub
5 21 (10.82%) GCP
6 14 (7.22%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.12%) Azure AI
12 7 (3.61%) dbt
12 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.09%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.58%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.58%) SaaS
15 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.79%) Internet
2 6 (3.09%) DNS
3 5 (2.58%) DHCP
4 3 (1.55%) Firewall
5 2 (1.03%) Network Security
5 2 (1.03%) VLAN
5 2 (1.03%) VPN
6 1 (0.52%) Junos
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.95%) Tableau
2 15 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.22%) Power BI
4 13 (6.70%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.19%) Data Mining
6 11 (5.67%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.64%) Metadata
7 9 (4.64%) MySQL
7 9 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.61%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.58%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.06%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.55%) Big Data
11 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.55%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (11.34%) Git
2 15 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.61%) GitLab
4 4 (2.06%) Selenium
5 3 (1.55%) JMeter
5 3 (1.55%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.03%) JIRA
7 1 (0.52%) Appium
7 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.52%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 59 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.79%) Multimedia
4 16 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.73%) Finance
6 13 (6.70%) Retail
7 7 (3.61%) Tech for Good
8 6 (3.09%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 37 (19.07%) Developer
2 35 (18.04%) Senior
3 32 (16.49%) Data Engineer
4 31 (15.98%) Trainee
5 27 (13.92%) Architect
6 26 (13.40%) Analyst
7 24 (12.37%) Data Analyst
8 22 (11.34%) Lead
9 21 (10.82%) Python Developer
10 17 (8.76%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (8.76%) Software Developer
11 14 (7.22%) Data Manager
12 12 (6.19%) Engineering Manager
13 11 (5.67%) Applications Architect
14 10 (5.15%) Junior
14 10 (5.15%) Trainee Analyst
14 10 (5.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 10 (5.15%) Trainee Developer
14 10 (5.15%) Trainee Software Developer
15 8 (4.12%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.04%) CSS
1 35 (18.04%) HTML
2 20 (10.31%) FastAPI
3 19 (9.79%) Django
3 19 (9.79%) Flask
4 16 (8.25%) React
5 11 (5.67%) Vue
6 10 (5.15%) Kafka
6 10 (5.15%) PySpark
7 9 (4.64%) RESTful
8 7 (3.61%) .NET
9 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (2.58%) Pandas
9 5 (2.58%) Spring
9 5 (2.58%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.06%) Celery
10 4 (2.06%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.06%) gRPC
10 4 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.12%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) IoT
9 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.22%) Linux
2 12 (6.19%) Windows
3 6 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.03%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (49.48%) Mentoring
2 73 (37.63%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.62%) Data Modelling
3 40 (20.62%) Migration
3 40 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (20.10%) Agile
5 38 (19.59%) Data Engineering
6 37 (19.07%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (18.56%) Analytics
8 35 (18.04%) AI
8 35 (18.04%) DevOps
9 32 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (14.95%) Microservices
11 27 (13.92%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (12.89%) Data Analysis
14 24 (12.37%) Machine Learning
14 24 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (11.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 106 (54.64%) SQL
2 65 (33.51%) JavaScript
3 45 (23.20%) Java
4 31 (15.98%) C#
5 30 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.79%) PowerShell
7 14 (7.22%) Bash
8 11 (5.67%) R
9 7 (3.61%) Scala
10 5 (2.58%) PHP
11 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.03%) C
13 2 (1.03%) C++
13 2 (1.03%) Go
13 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.52%) Perl
14 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (27.32%) AWS Certification
2 47 (24.23%) Azure Certification
3 38 (19.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (14.43%) Degree
5 22 (11.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 21 (10.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (9.28%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.06%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.06%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.03%) CCSA
10 2 (1.03%) CCSE
10 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.03%) OSCP
11 1 (0.52%) CISA
11 1 (0.52%) CISSP
11 1 (0.52%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.55%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (19.07%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.89%) Terraform
3 14 (7.22%) Ansible
4 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 5 (2.58%) SCCM
4 5 (2.58%) SCOM
4 5 (2.58%) WSUS
5 3 (1.55%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.03%) Control-M
6 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.52%) Argo
7 1 (0.52%) Grafana
7 1 (0.52%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.52%) Nmap
7 1 (0.52%) QRadar
7 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (42.27%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.53%) Databricks
3 13 (6.70%) Oracle
4 5 (2.58%) Palantir
4 5 (2.58%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.06%) Google
6 3 (1.55%) IBM
6 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.03%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.03%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.03%) Splunk
7 2 (1.03%) VMware
8 1 (0.52%) Avaya
8 1 (0.52%) ESRI
8 1 (0.52%) Genesys
8 1 (0.52%) Juniper
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) Verint