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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 54 17 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 10.06% 10.24% 6.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.00% 29.82% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22 15 43
10th Percentile £35,250 £48,796 £41,750
25th Percentile £60,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,039 £63,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% +10.00% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,411 £85,500 £75,750
South Wales median annual salary £63,748 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% +23.81% -14.63%

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 90 57 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 16.76% 34.34% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 53 52 220
10th Percentile £25,800 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,212 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,343 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,272 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £52,101
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.56% +2.93%

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 13 May 2026.

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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (42.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (62.96%) Azure
2 27 (50.00%) Azure AI
3 23 (42.59%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.81%) AWS
4 8 (14.81%) PaaS
5 7 (12.96%) dbt
5 7 (12.96%) GCP
5 7 (12.96%) SaaS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) IaaS
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (3.70%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.85%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.85%) Sentry
8 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) BGP
2 4 (7.41%) DHCP
2 4 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) HSRP
2 4 (7.41%) LAN
2 4 (7.41%) MPLS
2 4 (7.41%) SD-WAN
2 4 (7.41%) VoIP
2 4 (7.41%) VPLS
2 4 (7.41%) VPN
2 4 (7.41%) VRRP
2 4 (7.41%) WAN
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) Tableau
2 23 (42.59%) Power BI
3 4 (7.41%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.56%) Looker
5 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Parquet
6 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 3 (5.56%) JMeter
3 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) Locust
4 1 (1.85%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Analyst
1 24 (44.44%) Data Analyst
2 21 (38.89%) Junior
2 21 (38.89%) Junior Analyst
2 21 (38.89%) Junior Data Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Lead
6 4 (7.41%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Test Leader
7 3 (5.56%) Trainee
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Trainee Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 1 (1.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) ModSecurity
1 4 (7.41%) Node.js
2 2 (3.70%) Django
3 1 (1.85%) CSS
3 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.85%) HTML
3 1 (1.85%) Kafka
3 1 (1.85%) PySpark
3 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) CMDB
1 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
1 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.56%) Replication
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
1 4 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) AI
2 26 (48.15%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 9 (16.67%) Agile
6 8 (14.81%) Analytics
6 8 (14.81%) DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 6 (11.11%) BDD
8 6 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (11.11%) Observability
9 5 (9.26%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (9.26%) Data Engineering
9 5 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.26%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) SQL
2 13 (24.07%) Java
3 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.85%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (1.85%) R
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (51.85%) Azure Certification
2 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) CCIE
3 4 (7.41%) CCNP
3 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.41%) NIST
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Terraform
2 4 (7.41%) Ansible
2 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Cisco
2 4 (7.41%) VMware
3 2 (3.70%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle