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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -27
Permanent jobs citing Python 129 38 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.84% 5.78% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.43% 31.40% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 57 33 67
10th Percentile £37,200 £46,426 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £51,000 £43,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +3.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,516 £76,750 £79,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 297 121 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.45% 18.39% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 205 109 449
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +1 95 £60,000 -7.69% 37
West Wales -4 31 £55,000 +25.20% 5
North Wales -5 3 £44,000 +35.38% 4
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 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.55%) Apache
2 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 50 (38.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.78%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (75.97%) Azure
2 68 (52.71%) Azure AI
3 58 (44.96%) Power Platform
4 20 (15.50%) AWS
5 16 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.98%) dbt
6 9 (6.98%) PaaS
6 9 (6.98%) SaaS
6 9 (6.98%) Serverless
7 8 (6.20%) GCP
8 7 (5.43%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.43%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.65%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.10%) GitHub
11 4 (3.10%) IaaS
12 3 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) Firewall
2 4 (3.10%) BGP
2 4 (3.10%) DHCP
2 4 (3.10%) DNS
2 4 (3.10%) HSRP
2 4 (3.10%) LAN
2 4 (3.10%) MPLS
2 4 (3.10%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.10%) VoIP
2 4 (3.10%) VPLS
2 4 (3.10%) VPN
2 4 (3.10%) VRRP
2 4 (3.10%) WAN
3 1 (0.78%) Internet
3 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (39.53%) Power BI
1 51 (39.53%) Tableau
2 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.33%) Looker
4 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.55%) Redis
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) CANoe
2 3 (2.33%) JMeter
3 2 (1.55%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.55%) Selenium
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.78%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) Locust
4 1 (0.78%) MSTest
4 1 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (65.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.08%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Finance
6 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.78%) Aviation
8 1 (0.78%) Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (39.53%) Analyst
1 51 (39.53%) Data Analyst
2 50 (38.76%) Junior
3 48 (37.21%) Junior Analyst
3 48 (37.21%) Junior Data Analyst
4 29 (22.48%) Senior
5 20 (15.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (10.85%) Data Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Lead
8 10 (7.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Developer
10 7 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.88%) SEO Developer
13 4 (3.10%) Network Engineer
13 4 (3.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (3.10%) Senior Network Engineer
13 4 (3.10%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) Node.js
2 5 (3.88%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (3.10%) .NET
3 4 (3.10%) ModSecurity
4 3 (2.33%) OpenAPI
4 3 (2.33%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (2.33%) Spring
4 3 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.33%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.55%) PySpark
5 2 (1.55%) YAML
6 1 (0.78%) CSS
6 1 (0.78%) Django
6 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.78%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.78%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.78%) HTML
6 1 (0.78%) Next.js
6 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.10%) CMDB
3 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Replication
5 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.78%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.20%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (64.34%) AI
2 57 (44.19%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (20.93%) DevOps
4 26 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (19.38%) Agile
6 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 20 (15.50%) Mentoring
8 19 (14.73%) Analytics
9 18 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 18 (13.95%) Test Automation
10 13 (10.08%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (10.08%) Containerisation
10 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (9.30%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.53%) Data Engineering
12 11 (8.53%) Decision-Making
12 11 (8.53%) ETL
13 10 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (7.75%) Scrum
14 9 (6.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (57.36%) SQL
2 19 (14.73%) Java
3 12 (9.30%) C#
3 12 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.53%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.20%) Bash
5 8 (6.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.10%) C++
7 3 (2.33%) Bicep
7 3 (2.33%) C
7 3 (2.33%) Embedded C
7 3 (2.33%) Ruby
8 2 (1.55%) Go
8 2 (1.55%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (52.71%) Azure Certification
2 16 (12.40%) SC Cleared
2 16 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.10%) CCIE
5 4 (3.10%) CCNP
5 4 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.33%) HNC
6 3 (2.33%) HND
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (3.10%) NIST
5 2 (1.55%) QA
6 1 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (12.40%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.10%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (11.63%) Terraform
2 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.10%) Ansible
4 2 (1.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (48.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.65%) Databricks
3 5 (3.88%) Google
4 4 (3.10%) Cisco
4 4 (3.10%) VMware
5 3 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.78%) IBM