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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 28 33 17
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 5.06% 10.65% 4.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.17% 38.82% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 10
10th Percentile £325 £167 £160
25th Percentile £404 £416 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £592 £550 £563
90th Percentile £731 £608 £575
UK median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile £38.00 £20.12 £15.45
25th Percentile - £21.53 £15.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% +17.68% +5.03%
75th Percentile - £31.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 £24.72
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +26.44% -13.00% -23.08%

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 96 85 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 17.36% 27.42% 28.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 56 90
10th Percentile £305 £191 £252
25th Percentile £400 £310 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £515 £538 £538
90th Percentile £613 £563 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 7
10th Percentile £40.00 £20.12 £15.57
25th Percentile - £22.25 £18.14
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.84 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.50% +14.84% +15.44%
75th Percentile £76.25 £41.06 £39.56
90th Percentile £86.25 £45.88 £54.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -10 22 £475 -12.04% 58
West Wales -7 3 £400 -25.58% 9
Dyfed +1 1 £550 +37.50% 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) VSAN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) Data Hub
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JMeter
1 8 (28.57%) MSTest
1 8 (28.57%) Selenium
2 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (17.86%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Senior
2 10 (35.71%) Data Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 7 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 7 (25.00%) Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Research Scientist
5 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Web Services
2 3 (10.71%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) ADO
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.57%) Jinja
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) LDAP
4 1 (3.57%) NumPy
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) Statsmodels
4 1 (3.57%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) VMS
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 9 (32.14%) AI
3 9 (32.14%) Machine Learning
4 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 8 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 7 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 7 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 7 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (21.43%) ETL
7 5 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (17.86%) Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (14.29%) Data Science
8 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
9 3 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (28.57%) ISTQB
3 8 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 6 (21.43%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (7.14%) PhD
6 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Check_MK
2 1 (3.57%) Nessus
2 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Databricks
1 4 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Confluent
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) VMware