Python Job Trends in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Python 173 42 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.57% 5.29% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.79% 29.17% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 73 36 50
10th Percentile £36,900 £47,573 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £51,563 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,758 £75,625 £79,640
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 414 144 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.71% 18.14% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 261 130 312
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Python job vacancy trend in Wales

Python
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 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
South Wales +5 112 £64,250 -4.81% 57
West Wales 0 58 £53,310 +6.36% 11
North Wales -1 3 £44,000 +35.38% 2
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 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (23.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.73%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.58%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (58.38%) Azure
2 59 (34.10%) Azure AI
3 50 (28.90%) Power Platform
4 48 (27.75%) AWS
5 19 (10.98%) Stripe
6 17 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.09%) GCP
8 13 (7.51%) dbt
9 10 (5.78%) Serverless
10 9 (5.20%) PaaS
10 9 (5.20%) SaaS
11 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.47%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.47%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.89%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.31%) GitHub
15 4 (2.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) Firewall
2 4 (2.31%) BGP
2 4 (2.31%) DHCP
2 4 (2.31%) DNS
2 4 (2.31%) HSRP
2 4 (2.31%) LAN
2 4 (2.31%) MPLS
2 4 (2.31%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.31%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.31%) VoIP
2 4 (2.31%) VPLS
2 4 (2.31%) VPN
2 4 (2.31%) VRRP
2 4 (2.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (43.93%) Tableau
2 44 (25.43%) Power BI
3 19 (10.98%) Metabase
4 17 (9.83%) Data Mining
5 16 (9.25%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.73%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.73%) Looker
8 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.16%) Redis
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (7.51%) Git
2 3 (1.73%) CANoe
2 3 (1.73%) JMeter
3 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.16%) Selenium
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Locust
4 1 (0.58%) MSTest
4 1 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (48.55%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.86%) Finance
3 20 (11.56%) Retail
4 19 (10.98%) Legal
5 18 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 17 (9.83%) Marketing
7 16 (9.25%) Back Office
8 15 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.89%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.58%) Aviation
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Games
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Law
12 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (25.43%) Junior
2 41 (23.70%) Analyst
2 41 (23.70%) Data Analyst
3 39 (22.54%) Junior Analyst
3 39 (22.54%) Junior Data Analyst
4 37 (21.39%) Senior
5 21 (12.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 18 (10.40%) Data Engineer
7 16 (9.25%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 13 (7.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) Lead
10 10 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.62%) Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) Site Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 5 (2.89%) Data Scientist
14 5 (2.89%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.20%) Node.js
2 5 (2.89%) OpenAPI
2 5 (2.89%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.89%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (2.89%) Spring
2 5 (2.89%) Spring Boot
2 5 (2.89%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.31%) .NET
3 4 (2.31%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (2.31%) ModSecurity
3 4 (2.31%) PySpark
4 2 (1.16%) React
4 2 (1.16%) YAML
5 1 (0.58%) CSS
5 1 (0.58%) Django
5 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.58%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.58%) HTML
5 1 (0.58%) REST
5 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.23%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.89%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.31%) CMDB
6 4 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Replication
8 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.09%) Linux
2 12 (6.94%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (45.66%) AI
2 68 (39.31%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (36.42%) Mentoring
4 52 (30.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (23.12%) Actionable Insight
5 40 (23.12%) Analytics
6 38 (21.97%) Data Analysis
7 37 (21.39%) DevOps
8 35 (20.23%) E-Commerce
9 34 (19.65%) Agile
9 34 (19.65%) CI/CD
10 28 (16.18%) Decision-Making
11 26 (15.03%) Machine Learning
12 24 (13.87%) Software Engineering
13 23 (13.29%) Risk Management
14 22 (12.72%) Data Science
15 21 (12.14%) Data Security
16 20 (11.56%) Performance Management
16 20 (11.56%) Visualisation
17 19 (10.98%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 107 (61.85%) SQL
2 25 (14.45%) Java
3 14 (8.09%) C#
4 12 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.36%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.62%) Bash
8 5 (2.89%) Ruby
9 4 (2.31%) Bicep
9 4 (2.31%) C++
10 3 (1.73%) C
10 3 (1.73%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.73%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (34.10%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.87%) SC Cleared
2 24 (13.87%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.62%) Degree
4 5 (2.89%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.31%) CCIE
5 4 (2.31%) CCNP
5 4 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.73%) HNC
6 3 (1.73%) HND
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.56%) GDPR
2 19 (10.98%) Actionable Recommendations
2 19 (10.98%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.05%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.47%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (2.31%) NIST
7 2 (1.16%) QA
8 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (9.83%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.31%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (10.98%) Terraform
2 13 (7.51%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.31%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (31.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.36%) Google
3 10 (5.78%) Databricks
4 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.31%) Cisco
5 4 (2.31%) VMware
6 3 (1.73%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI