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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 135 35 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.12% 4.09% 5.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.34% 26.32% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 61 29 46
10th Percentile £39,163 £46,471 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £79,225
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -3.33% +4.17%

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 445 133 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.57% 15.54% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 257 117 204
10th Percentile £35,250 £38,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +9.33% +8.87%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £74,743
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.10% -0.77%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -12 76 £63,500 -5.93% 67
West Wales -13 59 £53,310 +6.36% 16
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 4 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) Apache
2 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.26%) Azure
2 44 (32.59%) AWS
3 38 (28.15%) Stripe
4 16 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.63%) GCP
6 12 (8.89%) Azure AI
7 10 (7.41%) Serverless
8 9 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (5.93%) dbt
10 7 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.44%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.96%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.96%) Prefect
13 4 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (45.19%) Tableau
2 38 (28.15%) Metabase
3 16 (11.85%) Amazon QuickSight
3 16 (11.85%) Data Mining
4 12 (8.89%) Power BI
5 8 (5.93%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.44%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.22%) Looker
7 3 (2.22%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.74%) Metadata
9 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.74%) Redis
9 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) JMeter
3 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 59 (43.70%) Finance
2 39 (28.89%) Retail
3 38 (28.15%) Legal
4 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 22 (16.30%) Public Sector
6 17 (12.59%) Marketing
7 16 (11.85%) Back Office
8 12 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.70%) Welsh Language
10 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Aviation
11 1 (0.74%) Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (26.67%) Senior
2 25 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 17 (12.59%) Senior Data Engineer
4 16 (11.85%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 11 (8.15%) Junior
6 9 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Site Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Lead
9 6 (4.44%) Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Junior Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Junior Data Analyst
10 5 (3.70%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.70%) Junior DevOps
10 5 (3.70%) Junior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 10 (7.41%) PySpark
3 8 (5.93%) Node.js
4 5 (3.70%) OpenAPI
4 5 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (3.70%) Spring
4 5 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.70%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.96%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (2.22%) .NET
7 2 (1.48%) React
7 2 (1.48%) YAML
8 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.74%) Next.js
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 54 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.70%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.63%) Linux
2 10 (7.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (61.48%) Mentoring
2 68 (50.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (42.96%) Actionable Insight
4 55 (40.74%) Data Analysis
5 54 (40.00%) E-Commerce
6 45 (33.33%) Analytics
6 45 (33.33%) Data Security
7 42 (31.11%) Risk Management
8 40 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (28.89%) Performance Management
10 38 (28.15%) Fraud Detection
10 38 (28.15%) Order Management
10 38 (28.15%) Regulatory Compliance
11 36 (26.67%) CI/CD
12 35 (25.93%) AI
13 33 (24.44%) DevOps
14 32 (23.70%) Agile
15 26 (19.26%) Machine Learning
16 25 (18.52%) Decision-Making
17 22 (16.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (72.59%) SQL
2 18 (13.33%) Java
3 13 (9.63%) C#
4 10 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.93%) Bash
7 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.70%) Ruby
9 4 (2.96%) Bicep
10 3 (2.22%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) SC Cleared
1 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.63%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (29.63%) GDPR
2 38 (28.15%) Actionable Recommendations
2 38 (28.15%) PCI DSS
3 11 (8.15%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 14 (10.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Grafana
2 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.11%) Databricks
3 11 (8.15%) Google
4 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle