Python Contracts in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 26 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 -19
Contract jobs citing Python 25 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.45% 4.64% 4.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.78% 16.04% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 20
10th Percentile £256 £380 £406
25th Percentile £405 £441 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £578 £563 £619
90th Percentile £618 £575 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £20.98 £15.38 £17.18
25th Percentile £22.28 £15.66 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £18.14 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +87.43% -3.59% -5.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £21.29 £19.81
90th Percentile - £22.77 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £39.66 £60.00 £62.54
% change year-on-year -33.90% -4.06% +23.18%

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 74 106 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.00% 28.96% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 78 112
10th Percentile £222 £356 £363
25th Percentile £322 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £491 £548 £625
90th Percentile £588 £579 £663
UK median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £21.56 £15.45 £17.18
25th Percentile £24.56 £15.81 £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.13 £20.47 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +81.36% +8.80% -5.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £23.75 £19.81
90th Percentile £49.38 £41.75 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Wales

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Wales

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Wales

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Wales

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 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
South Wales +6 22 £525 -4.55% 65
North Wales -1 1 £325 - 9
Dyfed - 1 £675 -
West Wales - 1 £475 - 5
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 (12.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) OCI
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 3 (12.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (12.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Research Scientist
2 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Researcher
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Graduate
4 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Middleware
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) Pandas
2 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.00%) Anaconda
3 1 (4.00%) Angular 2
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) HTML5
3 1 (4.00%) LangChain
3 1 (4.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) NumPy
3 1 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SciPy
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (16.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Blog
4 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) VMS
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (28.00%) Data Science
4 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.00%) Data Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.00%) SOA
7 3 (12.00%) Concurrent Programming
7 3 (12.00%) DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) ETL
7 3 (12.00%) ITIL
7 3 (12.00%) Multithreading
7 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Rust
1 5 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 2 (8.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) R
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) Degree
3 7 (28.00%) Master's Degree
3 7 (28.00%) PhD
4 4 (16.00%) CCNA
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco
1 4 (16.00%) Google
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Foundry
4 1 (4.00%) VMware