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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 6 34
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 33 58 13
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 6.55% 15.55% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.67% 52.25% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 10
10th Percentile £304 £206 £331
25th Percentile £405 £466 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -4.65% -4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £563
90th Percentile £725 £589 £575
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 1
10th Percentile £30.00 £15.20 -
25th Percentile £30.63 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.12 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +136.77% -16.73% +30.12%
75th Percentile - £26.19 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% -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 98 111 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 19.44% 29.76% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 73 86
10th Percentile £306 £210 £207
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £419
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +19.40% -16.25%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £635 £588 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.36% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 6
10th Percentile £30.00 £15.69 £36.43
25th Percentile £30.25 £20.12 £48.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.25 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.72% -58.02% +171.93%
75th Percentile - £31.13 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.50 £45.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -6.92%

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 19 February 2026.

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 19 February 2026.

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 19 February 2026. 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 -8 27 £495 -5.71% 52
West Wales -9 3 £400 -23.81% 12
Dyfed +1 2 £575 +43.75% 1
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 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub
4 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
5 6 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (15.15%) GCP
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (9.09%) AWS
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
10 1 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (3.03%) dbt
10 1 (3.03%) Serverless
10 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) LAN
1 1 (3.03%) VSAN
1 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.09%) Power BI
4 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.06%) Spotfire
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) Tableau
5 1 (3.03%) Data Hub
5 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JMeter
2 5 (15.15%) MSTest
2 5 (15.15%) Selenium
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
4 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) Zephyr
6 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Automation Tester
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Automation Tester
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Tester
3 5 (15.15%) Tester
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Research Scientist
5 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) PySpark
2 5 (15.15%) Web Services
3 3 (9.09%) ADO
4 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) Jinja
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
5 1 (3.03%) LDAP
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) NumPy
5 1 (3.03%) Pandas
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.03%) Statsmodels
5 1 (3.03%) XGBoost
5 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) NHS
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.03%) VMS
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Agile
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps
2 9 (27.27%) Analytics
2 9 (27.27%) Machine Learning
2 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) ETL
4 7 (21.21%) AI
4 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
4 7 (21.21%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.18%) Data Science
5 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.12%) Architectural Design
6 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.12%) Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Test Strategy
6 4 (12.12%) Unit Testing
7 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.09%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) Bash
2 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) C#
4 4 (12.12%) R
4 4 (12.12%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Degree
4 5 (15.15%) ISTQB
4 5 (15.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
6 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (6.06%) PhD
8 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Kibana
2 2 (6.06%) logstash
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Argo
3 1 (3.03%) Check_MK
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Nessus
3 1 (3.03%) Podman
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Databricks
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Confluent
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) Tenable
5 1 (3.03%) VMware