Python Job Trends in Cardiff

Python
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 22 35 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 5.82% 8.93% 11.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.29% 23.33% 29.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 35
10th Percentile £66,635 £41,909 £42,874
25th Percentile £68,813 £47,285 £48,211
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +15.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,600 £69,800
90th Percentile - £80,000 £75,250
South Wales median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £57,333
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.37% +9.20%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 56 150 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.81% 38.27% 38.63%
Number of salaries quoted 42 114 107
10th Percentile £50,000 £23,750 £38,455
25th Percentile £56,250 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £44,672 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.91% -14.91% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £47,750 £52,301
% change year-on-year +15.18% -8.70% +4.60%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Python job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Python
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cardiff over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Cardiff

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) Azure AI
5 4 (18.18%) dbt
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.64%) PaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Pulumi
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Sentry
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (4.55%) Anthos
8 1 (4.55%) Datadog
8 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Power BI
2 6 (27.27%) Tableau
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) Redis
4 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (4.55%) Big Data
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) Parquet
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Locust
2 1 (4.55%) MLflow
2 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Data Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Technical Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Junior
3 5 (22.73%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
7 1 (4.55%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Django
2 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 6 (27.27%) React
3 2 (9.09%) PySpark
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Keras
4 1 (4.55%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) Metaflow
4 1 (4.55%) NumPy
4 1 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 6 (27.27%) AI
2 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (27.27%) Observability
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
3 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
4 3 (13.64%) Open Source
4 3 (13.64%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) BDD
5 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) R
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Kubeflow
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) TIBCO