Python Jobs in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 37 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -19 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 49 101 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.11% 4.43% 12.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.13% 17.00% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 38 67 88
10th Percentile £39,320 £40,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £43,610 £42,673
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £56,272
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +6.63% +0.43%
75th Percentile £71,467 £68,750 £68,497
90th Percentile £74,875 £79,375 £78,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

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 195 594 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.37% 26.05% 37.84%
Number of salaries quoted 170 451 331
10th Percentile £41,125 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £41,125 £34,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Wales

Python
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Wales.

Salary trend for Python in Wales

Python
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +2 43 £65,000 +4.00% 184
North Wales +5 4 £40,101 +45.82% 4
West Wales +8 2 £43,929 -7.16% 17
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) Apache
1 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.12%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Mathcad
1 12 (24.49%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) AWS
3 9 (18.37%) GitHub
3 9 (18.37%) Serverless
4 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Functions
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.16%) PowerApps
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) MySQL
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) Redis
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.08%) Metadata
5 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) JIRA
3 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.08%) Appium
4 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.08%) JMeter
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.08%) Selenium
4 2 (4.08%) TestNG
5 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.04%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (2.04%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) Mercurial
5 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 8 (16.33%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.04%) Advertising
4 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Senior
2 12 (24.49%) Mathematical Modeller
3 11 (22.45%) Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Lead
3 11 (22.45%) Senior Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Backend Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Backend Developer
6 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Junior
6 2 (4.08%) Junior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) Django
2 9 (18.37%) React
3 8 (16.33%) CSS
3 8 (16.33%) HTML
4 5 (10.20%) HTML5
5 4 (8.16%) Node.js
6 3 (6.12%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.12%) Flask
6 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.12%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (6.12%) Keycloak
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth
6 3 (6.12%) pytest
6 3 (6.12%) REST
6 3 (6.12%) RESTful
6 3 (6.12%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (6.12%) WebSockets
7 2 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (4.08%) PySpark
7 2 (4.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Algorithms
1 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Unix
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (34.69%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) DevOps
3 15 (30.61%) Mathematics
4 14 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 12 (24.49%) Mathematical Modelling
5 12 (24.49%) Performance Analysis
5 12 (24.49%) Validation
5 12 (24.49%) Verification and Validation
6 11 (22.45%) Systems Engineering
7 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
8 9 (18.37%) Scrum
9 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (14.29%) Software Testing
11 6 (12.24%) Kanban
11 6 (12.24%) Microservices
12 5 (10.20%) Data Engineering
12 5 (10.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) JavaScript
1 12 (24.49%) MATLAB
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) Java
3 8 (16.33%) C#
4 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.12%) Rust
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) C++
6 2 (4.08%) Groovy
6 2 (4.08%) R
7 1 (2.04%) Ada
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) Degree
4 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 13485
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.33%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Grafana
3 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.04%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) MathWorks
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) Google