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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 18 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 50 75 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.73% 8.29% 6.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.67% 25.25% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 28 44 48
10th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £34,647
25th Percentile £49,425 £51,625 £43,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 163 297 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.41% 32.82% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 129 157 228
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £31,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 £49,104 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,487 £74,125
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -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 3 January 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 3 January 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 43 £67,500 +3.85% 91
West Wales -1 7 £42,600 -29.00% 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 2 (4.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (66.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (30.00%) Azure AI
4 10 (20.00%) AWS
5 6 (12.00%) GCP
5 6 (12.00%) GitHub
6 4 (8.00%) dbt
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%) Sentry
9 1 (2.00%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
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 18 (36.00%) Tableau
2 17 (34.00%) Power BI
3 6 (12.00%) MySQL
4 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.00%) Redis
6 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (2.00%) Big Data
7 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.00%) Parquet
7 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.00%) Spotfire
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Burp Suite
2 4 (8.00%) Metasploit
3 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) JMeter
4 2 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) git-flow
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.00%) Locust
5 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
5 4 (8.00%) Law
5 4 (8.00%) Multimedia
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Analyst
2 16 (32.00%) Data Analyst
3 15 (30.00%) Junior
3 15 (30.00%) Junior Analyst
3 15 (30.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Lead
5 6 (12.00%) Architect
5 6 (12.00%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.00%) Trainee
6 5 (10.00%) Senior
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Administrator
8 2 (4.00%) Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Trainee Administrator
8 2 (4.00%) Web Administrator
9 1 (2.00%) Quality Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) Django
2 12 (24.00%) React
3 10 (20.00%) CSS
3 10 (20.00%) HTML
4 6 (12.00%) HTML5
4 6 (12.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) PySpark
5 2 (4.00%) Web Services
6 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.00%) Flask
6 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.00%) Kafka
6 1 (2.00%) pytest
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) Spring
6 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
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 2 (4.00%) 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
3 3 (6.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) AI
2 16 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (24.00%) Agile
3 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.00%) Mentoring
5 10 (20.00%) User Experience
6 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.00%) DevOps
7 8 (16.00%) Scrum
8 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (14.00%) Data Science
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.00%) Kanban
8 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (12.00%) Observability
9 6 (12.00%) Prototyping
9 6 (12.00%) Software Testing
9 6 (12.00%) Workflow
10 5 (10.00%) Cloud Security
10 5 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.00%) Java
3 8 (16.00%) R
4 4 (8.00%) C++
4 4 (8.00%) Rust
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) Delphi
5 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) Degree
4 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.00%) 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%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco
3 4 (8.00%) Qualtrics
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) TIBCO