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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 135 39 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.70% 5.59% 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.79% 30.47% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 65 34 61
10th Percentile £37,050 £47,138 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +6.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,704 £76,375 £79,600
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 331 128 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.98% 18.34% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 239 116 398
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,750 £40,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +6 101 £60,000 -9.43% 36
West Wales -11 31 £65,000 +29.68% 7
North Wales -2 3 £44,000 +35.38% 2
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 3 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) Apache
2 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 46 (34.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.74%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (75.56%) Azure
2 65 (48.15%) Azure AI
3 57 (42.22%) Power Platform
4 26 (19.26%) AWS
5 18 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.15%) dbt
7 10 (7.41%) GCP
7 10 (7.41%) Serverless
8 9 (6.67%) PaaS
8 9 (6.67%) SaaS
9 8 (5.93%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.93%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.96%) GitHub
13 4 (2.96%) IaaS
14 3 (2.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) Firewall
2 4 (2.96%) BGP
2 4 (2.96%) DHCP
2 4 (2.96%) DNS
2 4 (2.96%) HSRP
2 4 (2.96%) LAN
2 4 (2.96%) MPLS
2 4 (2.96%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.96%) VoIP
2 4 (2.96%) VPLS
2 4 (2.96%) VPN
2 4 (2.96%) VRRP
2 4 (2.96%) WAN
3 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (36.30%) Power BI
2 47 (34.81%) Tableau
3 4 (2.96%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.22%) Looker
5 2 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.48%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.48%) Redis
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) CANoe
2 3 (2.22%) JMeter
3 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.48%) Selenium
4 1 (0.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) Locust
4 1 (0.74%) MSTest
4 1 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (64.44%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Finance
6 4 (2.96%) Welsh Language
7 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Aviation
8 1 (0.74%) Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Games
8 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (36.30%) Junior
2 47 (34.81%) Analyst
2 47 (34.81%) Data Analyst
3 45 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
3 45 (33.33%) Junior Data Analyst
4 34 (25.19%) Senior
5 20 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 16 (11.85%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Lead
9 10 (7.41%) Developer
10 9 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.44%) SEO Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Data Scientist
14 4 (2.96%) SEO Engineer
14 4 (2.96%) Test Leader
14 4 (2.96%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.19%) Node.js
2 6 (4.44%) HTML5 Canvas
3 5 (3.70%) PyTorch
3 5 (3.70%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.96%) .NET
4 4 (2.96%) ModSecurity
5 3 (2.22%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.22%) PySpark
5 3 (2.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (2.22%) Spring
5 3 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.48%) YAML
7 1 (0.74%) CSS
7 1 (0.74%) Django
7 1 (0.74%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.74%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.74%) HTML
7 1 (0.74%) Next.js
7 1 (0.74%) REST
7 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.96%) CMDB
3 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.22%) Replication
5 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.74%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 9 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (62.22%) AI
2 56 (41.48%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (25.93%) DevOps
4 32 (23.70%) Agile
4 32 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (21.48%) CI/CD
6 23 (17.04%) Mentoring
7 22 (16.30%) Analytics
8 18 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 18 (13.33%) Test Automation
9 17 (12.59%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (12.59%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (10.37%) Containerisation
12 13 (9.63%) ETL
13 12 (8.89%) Data Engineering
13 12 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.89%) Scrum
14 11 (8.15%) Microservices
14 11 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (55.56%) SQL
2 22 (16.30%) Java
3 14 (10.37%) C#
3 14 (10.37%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.15%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.93%) Bash
7 4 (2.96%) Bicep
7 4 (2.96%) C++
8 3 (2.22%) C
8 3 (2.22%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.22%) Go
8 3 (2.22%) Ruby
9 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (48.15%) Azure Certification
2 19 (14.07%) SC Cleared
2 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.96%) CCIE
5 4 (2.96%) CCNP
5 4 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.22%) HNC
6 3 (2.22%) HND
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (2.96%) NIST
5 2 (1.48%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.96%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (12.59%) Terraform
2 13 (9.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.96%) Ansible
4 2 (1.48%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (45.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) Databricks
3 7 (5.19%) Google
4 4 (2.96%) Cisco
4 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.96%) VMware
5 3 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.74%) IBM