Python Contracts in South Wales

Python
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 22 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 9.02% 5.65% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.29% 20.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 21
10th Percentile £220 £198 £400
25th Percentile £415 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £578 £563 £613
90th Percentile £603 £573 £688
Wales median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.45 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.59 £15.81 £17.48
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.47 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% +8.80% -5.50%
75th Percentile £39.50 £23.75 £19.81
90th Percentile £45.00 £24.72 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.47 £18.82
% change year-on-year +9.92% +8.80% -5.50%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 95 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.18% 28.27% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 76 102
10th Percentile £216 £338 £328
25th Percentile £322 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £663
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.06 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £48.50 £39.56 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
% change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in South Wales

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in South Wales

Python
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport +14 15 £563 +230.88% 70
Cardiff 0 6 £445 -19.09% 96
Bridgend - 1 £238 - 2
Gwent - 1 £540 - 9
Python
Wales

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (9.09%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) GCP
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) OCI
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Data Scientist
1 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Research Scientist
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Researcher
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Graduate
4 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) Middleware
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) Angular 2
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) HTML5
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) NumPy
2 1 (4.55%) Pandas
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) SciPy
2 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 4 (18.18%) Cyberattack
3 3 (13.64%) Blog
3 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
2 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) Data Science
3 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) Concurrent Programming
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
6 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) SOA
6 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
7 2 (9.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Rust
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) R
3 2 (9.09%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 7 (31.82%) Master's Degree
2 7 (31.82%) PhD
3 4 (18.18%) CCNA
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) VMware