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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 11 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 32 48 23
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 7.79% 10.84% 4.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.99% 43.24% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 20
10th Percentile £256 £210 £305
25th Percentile £306 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £609
90th Percentile £725 - £648
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £584
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.50% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £24.27 £15.20 -
25th Percentile £26.42 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% - -
75th Percentile £31.88 £21.18 -
90th Percentile £33.00 £25.27 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.73% +5.00%

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 97 111 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 23.60% 25.06% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 69 90
10th Percentile £256 £191 £202
25th Percentile £366 £375 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £645 £578 £664
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 6
10th Percentile £24.99 £16.19 £23.63
25th Percentile £28.21 £20.12 £31.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £20.24 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +49.49% -60.90% +173.02%
75th Percentile £31.50 £23.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £32.85 £26.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.61 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.02% - +4.17%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Python job vacancy trend 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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +3 29 £455 +85.71% 89
Dyfed - 2 £575 - 1
North Wales - 1 £325 - 8
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub
3 10 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 6 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (15.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (12.50%) GCP
6 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.13%) AWS
9 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (3.13%) OCI
9 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
2 5 (15.63%) Power BI
3 4 (12.50%) Spotfire
3 4 (12.50%) Tableau
4 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.13%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) JMeter
3 5 (15.63%) MSTest
3 5 (15.63%) Selenium
3 5 (15.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (9.38%) GitLab
6 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.25%) JIRA
6 2 (6.25%) Zephyr
7 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Data Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Automation Tester
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Automation Tester
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Tester
3 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Tester
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Web Services
2 4 (12.50%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) ADO
3 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) Anaconda
4 1 (3.13%) Memcached
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) NumPy
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.13%) Statsmodels
4 1 (3.13%) XGBoost
4 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.38%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) VMS
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) Analytics
4 9 (28.13%) Machine Learning
4 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
5 7 (21.88%) Data Science
5 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 7 (21.88%) Non-Functional Testing
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) AI
7 5 (15.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 5 (15.63%) Predictive Analytics
7 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (12.50%) Architectural Design
8 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.50%) Prescriptive Analytics
8 4 (12.50%) Supply Chain Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) SQL
2 10 (31.25%) Bash
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.63%) C#
5 5 (15.63%) R
6 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 3 (9.38%) Java
8 1 (3.13%) Groovy
8 1 (3.13%) VB.NET
8 1 (3.13%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) ISTQB
3 5 (15.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) Varnish
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Kibana
3 2 (6.25%) logstash
4 1 (3.13%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.13%) Podman
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) TIBCO
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) InterSystems
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk