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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 27 53
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 -38
Permanent jobs citing Python 122 35 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.03% 6.88% 3.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.71% 29.91% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 41 28 54
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,930 £51,000 £43,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +20.48% -7.11%
75th Percentile £74,066 £71,156 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -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 223 117 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.85% 22.99% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 131 101 423
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,486 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +8 89 £60,000 -7.69% 60
West Wales +1 30 £51,619 +36.80% 12
North Wales -7 3 £44,000 +35.38%
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 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.82%) Apache
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 59 (48.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.82%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (78.69%) Azure
2 77 (63.11%) Azure AI
3 63 (51.64%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.02%) AWS
4 11 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.56%) PaaS
6 7 (5.74%) dbt
6 7 (5.74%) GCP
6 7 (5.74%) SaaS
7 6 (4.92%) Serverless
8 4 (3.28%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.28%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.46%) GitHub
9 3 (2.46%) IaaS
10 2 (1.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) Firewall
2 4 (3.28%) BGP
2 4 (3.28%) DHCP
2 4 (3.28%) DNS
2 4 (3.28%) HSRP
2 4 (3.28%) LAN
2 4 (3.28%) MPLS
2 4 (3.28%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.28%) VoIP
2 4 (3.28%) VPLS
2 4 (3.28%) VPN
2 4 (3.28%) VRRP
2 4 (3.28%) WAN
3 1 (0.82%) Internet
3 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (49.18%) Tableau
2 59 (48.36%) Power BI
3 4 (3.28%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.28%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.46%) Looker
5 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.64%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.82%) Big Data
6 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.82%) Parquet
6 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.82%) Redis
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Git
2 4 (3.28%) JMeter
3 3 (2.46%) CANoe
3 3 (2.46%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.82%) Locust
5 1 (0.82%) MSTest
5 1 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (70.49%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (6.56%) Finance
4 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.82%) Banking
6 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.82%) Law
6 1 (0.82%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (49.18%) Analyst
1 60 (49.18%) Data Analyst
2 57 (46.72%) Junior
2 57 (46.72%) Junior Analyst
2 57 (46.72%) Junior Data Analyst
3 21 (17.21%) Senior
4 20 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 10 (8.20%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Lead
7 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Test Leader
11 3 (2.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 3 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) .NET
1 4 (3.28%) ModSecurity
1 4 (3.28%) Node.js
2 3 (2.46%) OpenAPI
2 3 (2.46%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (2.46%) Spring
2 3 (2.46%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.82%) CSS
4 1 (0.82%) Django
4 1 (0.82%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.82%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.82%) HTML
4 1 (0.82%) Kafka
4 1 (0.82%) Next.js
4 1 (0.82%) PySpark
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) Web Services
4 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.28%) CMDB
1 4 (3.28%) Data Centre
1 4 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (2.46%) Driving Licence
2 3 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.46%) Replication
3 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Linux
1 4 (3.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (69.67%) AI
2 63 (51.64%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (15.57%) CI/CD
4 18 (14.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 18 (14.75%) Test Automation
5 17 (13.93%) Agile
5 17 (13.93%) DevOps
6 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (10.66%) Mentoring
8 10 (8.20%) Analytics
8 10 (8.20%) Containerisation
8 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (7.38%) Decision-Making
9 9 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (6.56%) Data Engineering
10 8 (6.56%) ETL
10 8 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.56%) Software Engineering
11 6 (4.92%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (4.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (59.84%) SQL
2 16 (13.11%) Java
3 9 (7.38%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.74%) C#
6 6 (4.92%) Bash
7 4 (3.28%) C++
8 3 (2.46%) C
8 3 (2.46%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.46%) Ruby
8 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.82%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.82%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (62.30%) Azure Certification
2 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
2 13 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.20%) Degree
4 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.28%) CCIE
4 4 (3.28%) CCNP
4 4 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.46%) HNC
5 3 (2.46%) HND
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.82%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.28%) NIST
3 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.46%) QA
4 2 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (10.66%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.28%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.02%) Terraform
2 8 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 67 (54.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.28%) Cisco
2 4 (3.28%) VMware
3 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.46%) Databricks
4 2 (1.64%) Google
4 2 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.82%) IBM
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle