Python Jobs in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 37 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 51 94 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.55% 4.56% 12.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.94% 16.67% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 38 57 79
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £28,050
25th Percentile £49,500 £43,470 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £51,528 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% -6.39% -2.15%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £79,000 - £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 213 564 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 18.98% 27.37% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 182 426 305
10th Percentile £37,574 £31,250 £28,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Wales

Python
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Wales.

Salary trend for Python in Wales

Python
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Wales

Python
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
South Wales 0 38 £65,000 +23.81% 65
North Wales +10 5 £40,101 +45.82% 9
West Wales +15 4 £37,733 -18.20% 4
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Mathcad
1 10 (19.61%) Simulink
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) GitHub
4 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (13.73%) Serverless
6 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) GSM
2 1 (1.96%) DMARC
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (9.80%) Redis
2 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
3 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) JIRA
3 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.92%) Appium
5 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.92%) JMeter
5 2 (3.92%) JUnit
5 2 (3.92%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (3.92%) Maven
5 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.92%) Selenium
5 2 (3.92%) TestNG
6 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.96%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Electronics
3 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Senior
2 11 (21.57%) Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Mathematical Modeller
3 10 (19.61%) Senior Developer
4 9 (17.65%) Lead
5 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Backend Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Design Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Junior
8 2 (3.92%) Junior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) Django
2 5 (9.80%) Node.js
3 4 (7.84%) FastAPI
3 4 (7.84%) Flask
3 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
3 4 (7.84%) Keycloak
3 4 (7.84%) OAuth
3 4 (7.84%) pytest
3 4 (7.84%) React
3 4 (7.84%) RESTful
3 4 (7.84%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (7.84%) WebSockets
4 3 (5.88%) CSS
4 3 (5.88%) HTML
4 3 (5.88%) REST
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.92%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (3.92%) SOAP
6 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (35.29%) DevOps
3 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 13 (25.49%) Mathematics
4 13 (25.49%) Systems Engineering
5 12 (23.53%) Agile
6 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (19.61%) Mathematical Modelling
7 10 (19.61%) Performance Analysis
7 10 (19.61%) Validation
7 10 (19.61%) Verification and Validation
8 9 (17.65%) Computer Science
8 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (11.76%) Data Engineering
10 6 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
11 5 (9.80%) Front End Development
11 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) SQL
2 12 (23.53%) Java
3 10 (19.61%) MATLAB
4 9 (17.65%) C#
5 8 (15.69%) C++
6 6 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.80%) C
7 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
7 5 (9.80%) Rust
8 4 (7.84%) Ruby
9 3 (5.88%) Go
10 2 (3.92%) Bash
10 2 (3.92%) Groovy
10 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.92%) R
11 1 (1.96%) Ada
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (27.45%) Degree
3 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Grafana
2 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) MathWorks
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) ANSYS
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Okta