Python Job Trends in South Wales

Python
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 24 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 57 35 58
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 6.75% 7.76% 6.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.88% 22.58% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 52
10th Percentile £32,300 £61,800 £40,125
25th Percentile £43,375 £64,471 £43,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £65,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +26.15% -10.39%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,883 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,375
Wales median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year +7.69% +26.15% -14.12%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 127 155 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 15.05% 34.37% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 87 99 280
10th Percentile £29,300 - £35,176
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £71,798 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - +5.26%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Python job vacancy trend in South Wales

Python
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in South Wales

Python
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +9 31 £73,801 +6.48% 37
Newport +4 25 £41,000 -40.58% 22
Bridgend - 1 £61,496 - 1
Python
Wales

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 (1.75%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (49.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) Azure
2 29 (50.88%) Power Platform
3 26 (45.61%) Azure AI
4 10 (17.54%) AWS
5 7 (12.28%) dbt
6 6 (10.53%) GCP
6 6 (10.53%) PaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) GitHub
7 4 (7.02%) Google Workspace
7 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
7 4 (7.02%) Pulumi
7 4 (7.02%) SurveyMonkey
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (5.26%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.02%) Bluetooth
2 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (7.02%) Modbus
2 4 (7.02%) Network Security
2 4 (7.02%) VLAN
2 4 (7.02%) Wireshark
2 4 (7.02%) ZigBee
3 3 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (49.12%) Tableau
2 25 (43.86%) Power BI
3 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.02%) Redis
4 3 (5.26%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.75%) Big Data
6 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) Parquet
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Burp Suite
1 4 (7.02%) Git
1 4 (7.02%) Metasploit
2 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 3 (5.26%) JMeter
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Locust
4 1 (1.75%) git-flow
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.75%) Selenium
4 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.75%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (49.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
4 4 (7.02%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Law
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Analyst
1 26 (45.61%) Data Analyst
2 24 (42.11%) Junior
2 24 (42.11%) Junior Analyst
2 24 (42.11%) Junior Data Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Trainee
5 3 (5.26%) Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Lead
5 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Test Leader
6 2 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.51%) SEO Developer
7 1 (1.75%) Administrator
7 1 (1.75%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) Django
2 6 (10.53%) Node.js
2 6 (10.53%) React
3 3 (5.26%) CSS
3 3 (5.26%) HTML
4 2 (3.51%) Gherkin
4 2 (3.51%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (3.51%) Web Services
5 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.75%) Kafka
5 1 (1.75%) PySpark
5 1 (1.75%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) CAN bus
1 4 (7.02%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (7.02%) IoT
1 4 (7.02%) Operational Technology
1 4 (7.02%) SCADA
2 3 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Android
2 4 (7.02%) Kali Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
2 4 (7.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) AI
2 24 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (19.30%) DevOps
4 10 (17.54%) Agile
5 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (12.28%) Data Science
7 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
7 7 (12.28%) Observability
7 7 (12.28%) Prototyping
8 5 (8.77%) BDD
8 5 (8.77%) Cloud Security
8 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.77%) Statistics
8 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (54.39%) SQL
2 10 (17.54%) Java
3 7 (12.28%) R
4 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.02%) C++
5 4 (7.02%) Rust
6 3 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (47.37%) Azure Certification
2 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
2 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) WCAG
3 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Nessus
2 4 (7.02%) Nmap
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.51%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) Cisco
3 4 (7.02%) Qualtrics
3 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.02%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) TIBCO