Python Contract Job Trends in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 23 37 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.46% 8.83% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.71% 38.14% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 24
10th Percentile £256 £236 £334
25th Percentile £280 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -1.23% -11.96%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £609
90th Percentile £715 £555 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.84 £20.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% +11.55% -9.64%
75th Percentile - £20.35 £19.31
90th Percentile - £21.01 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 97 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 23.31% 23.15% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 62 93
10th Percentile £256 £210 £225
25th Percentile £313 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £565
90th Percentile £638 £573 £650
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - - £19.11
25th Percentile - £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate £22.84 £20.24 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -46.75% +90.86%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £54.56
90th Percentile - £29.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Wales

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Wales

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
South Wales +2 21 £410 -0.49% 71
Dyfed - 1 £675 - 1
North Wales - 1 £325 - 2
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (13.04%) Oracle Service Bus
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (13.04%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (13.04%) OCI
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) Spotfire
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (8.70%) Tableau
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) Git
3 5 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (13.04%) Subversion
5 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Middleware
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (13.04%) PySpark
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) Anaconda
3 1 (4.35%) LangChain
3 1 (4.35%) Memcached
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Data Science
2 5 (21.74%) ETL
2 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
3 4 (17.39%) Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) SOA
4 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
5 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
5 2 (8.70%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (8.70%) Information Management
5 2 (8.70%) Mathematics
5 2 (8.70%) Operations Research
5 2 (8.70%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) R
5 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
5 3 (13.04%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 1 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Varnish
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) logstash
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) TIBCO
4 1 (4.35%) Foundry
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) InterSystems