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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 50 90 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.73% 7.57% 7.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.93% 24.93% 21.71%
Number of salaries quoted 37 58 60
10th Percentile £28,400 £43,388 £31,125
25th Percentile £49,250 £50,188 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £56,083
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +15.90% +1.97%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £67,749
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 179 361 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.95% 30.36% 35.76%
Number of salaries quoted 154 207 238
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,688 £33,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £71,875 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,646 £74,144 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -5 45 £67,500 +3.85% 66
West Wales +1 5 £50,124 -16.46% 15
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 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) Azure AI
6 4 (8.00%) dbt
6 4 (8.00%) GCP
6 4 (8.00%) Google Workspace
6 4 (8.00%) SurveyMonkey
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.00%) PaaS
7 3 (6.00%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.00%) Bluetooth
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) Internet
2 4 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (8.00%) Modbus
2 4 (8.00%) Network Security
2 4 (8.00%) VLAN
2 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
2 4 (8.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) MySQL
2 9 (18.00%) Tableau
3 8 (16.00%) Power BI
4 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.00%) Redis
6 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.00%) Metadata
7 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Spotfire
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Burp Suite
2 4 (8.00%) Metasploit
3 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) git-flow
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) JMeter
4 1 (2.00%) JUnit
4 1 (2.00%) Locust
4 1 (2.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.00%) MLflow
4 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
5 4 (8.00%) Law
5 4 (8.00%) Multimedia
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Lead
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Data Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Junior
4 6 (12.00%) Junior Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Technical Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Trainee
5 4 (8.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Administrator
7 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Trainee Administrator
7 2 (4.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.00%) Django
2 18 (36.00%) React
3 16 (32.00%) CSS
3 16 (32.00%) HTML
4 11 (22.00%) HTML5
5 6 (12.00%) Node.js
6 2 (4.00%) PySpark
6 2 (4.00%) Web Services
7 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.00%) Flutter
7 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.00%) Keras
7 1 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.00%) NumPy
7 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.00%) RESTful
7 1 (2.00%) Spring
7 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) CAN bus
1 4 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (8.00%) IoT
1 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
1 4 (8.00%) SCADA
2 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Android
2 4 (8.00%) Kali Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.00%) Agile
2 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
3 15 (30.00%) User Experience
4 14 (28.00%) AI
5 13 (26.00%) Scrum
6 12 (24.00%) Kanban
7 11 (22.00%) Software Testing
7 11 (22.00%) Workflow
8 10 (20.00%) DevOps
9 9 (18.00%) Data Science
10 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
10 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
11 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (12.00%) Prototyping
13 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 5 (10.00%) Observability
13 5 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (30.00%) SQL
3 8 (16.00%) R
4 7 (14.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) C++
5 4 (8.00%) Rust
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) Delphi
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (16.00%) Degree
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) Nessus
3 4 (8.00%) Nmap
4 3 (6.00%) Grafana
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (2.00%) Argo
6 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco
3 4 (8.00%) Qualtrics
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.00%) Splunk
4 3 (6.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) TIBCO