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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 9 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 29 52 16
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 6.24% 12.94% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.29% 48.60% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 13
10th Percentile £256 £194 £350
25th Percentile £405 £309 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £622 £545 £550
90th Percentile £728 £565 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile £25.70 £15.20 -
25th Percentile - £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -20.21% +27.37%
75th Percentile £33.75 £22.00 -
90th Percentile £66.00 £25.39 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £46.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.93% -23.03% -7.69%

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 99 107 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 21.29% 26.62% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 74 91
10th Percentile £323 £168 £202
25th Percentile £413 £261 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £575 £620
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 6
10th Percentile £27.14 £15.69 £36.43
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.12 £48.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £21.12 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.43% -60.16% +166.20%
75th Percentile £59.38 £24.13 £55.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £26.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 27 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 27 December 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 27 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -7 26 £498 +117.49% 133
Dyfed 0 2 £575 +43.75%
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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
4 8 (27.59%) GitHub
5 6 (20.69%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (17.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) GCP
7 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (6.90%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
10 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) VSAN
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
3 4 (13.79%) Power BI
4 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.34%) Spotfire
4 3 (10.34%) Tableau
5 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.90%) Metadata
5 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.45%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JMeter
2 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (17.24%) MSTest
3 5 (17.24%) Selenium
4 4 (13.79%) Git
4 4 (13.79%) Visual Studio
5 3 (10.34%) GitLab
5 3 (10.34%) JIRA
5 3 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.90%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Data Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Automation Tester
2 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior Automation Tester
2 5 (17.24%) Senior Tester
2 5 (17.24%) Tester
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 4 (13.79%) PySpark
3 3 (10.34%) ADO
4 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) LDAP
5 1 (3.45%) Node.js
5 1 (3.45%) NumPy
5 1 (3.45%) Pandas
5 1 (3.45%) React
5 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.45%) Statsmodels
5 1 (3.45%) XGBoost
5 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
1 3 (10.34%) NHS
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) VMS
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
4 8 (27.59%) Analytics
5 7 (24.14%) ETL
5 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
5 7 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
5 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Data Science
8 4 (13.79%) AI
8 4 (13.79%) Architectural Design
8 4 (13.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (13.79%) Design Patterns
8 4 (13.79%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
8 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
9 3 (10.34%) Mathematics
9 3 (10.34%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) R
5 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Java
7 1 (3.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
3 5 (17.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Kibana
2 2 (6.90%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Argo
3 1 (3.45%) Check_MK
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Nessus
3 1 (3.45%) Podman
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) TIBCO
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Tenable
5 1 (3.45%) VMware