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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 33 29 24
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 5.31% 8.48% 5.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.28% 31.87% 22.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 13
10th Percentile £306 £256 £270
25th Percentile £400 £336 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £455 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -17.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £539 £563
90th Percentile £713 £591 £573
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £555
% change year-on-year -2.33% -3.15% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £30.40 £27.40 £15.63
25th Percentile £43.00 £34.00 £19.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +122.39% +7.55%
75th Percentile - - £20.38
90th Percentile - - £21.45
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £45.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +18.33% -27.71% -4.23%

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 109 91 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 17.52% 26.61% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 64 76
10th Percentile £305 £256 £325
25th Percentile £375 £313 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -11.69% -3.75%
75th Percentile £545 £488 £543
90th Percentile £625 £547 £569
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £30.40 £24.88 £15.69
25th Percentile £43.00 £27.69 £20.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.13 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +34.68% +83.47% -3.62%
75th Percentile - £45.00 £20.47
90th Percentile - - £29.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -13 26 £483 +6.04% 37
West Wales -2 4 £450 -5.26% 12
North Wales -7 1 - - 3
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 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) GitHub
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.12%) Cloud Run
5 4 (12.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (9.09%) AWS
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.03%) dbt
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.03%) Serverless
8 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (12.12%) Data Mining
2 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.09%) Power BI
4 2 (6.06%) Big Data
4 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) Git
3 3 (9.09%) JMeter
3 3 (9.09%) MSTest
3 3 (9.09%) Selenium
3 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Data Engineer
1 10 (30.30%) Senior
2 5 (15.15%) Data Scientist
2 5 (15.15%) Python Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Java Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) GCP Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Research Scientist
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Web Services
2 5 (15.15%) Jinja
2 5 (15.15%) RESTful
3 4 (12.12%) Flask
3 4 (12.12%) Spring
3 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.09%) PySpark
5 2 (6.06%) Apache Beam
6 1 (3.03%) Django
6 1 (3.03%) Kafka
6 1 (3.03%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.06%) NHS
5 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.03%) Life Science
5 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Analytics
1 10 (30.30%) Machine Learning
1 10 (30.30%) Migration
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (24.24%) Data Science
3 8 (24.24%) Statistics
3 8 (24.24%) User Experience
4 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
4 7 (21.21%) ETL
5 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (15.15%) AI
6 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
6 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Statistical Modelling
7 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 4 (12.12%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) SQL
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) C#
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) R
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 3 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.06%) PhD
6 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.03%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Databricks
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.03%) Confluent
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow