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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 182 37 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.22% 4.43% 4.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.18% 26.81% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 72 32 55
10th Percentile £36,825 £46,703 £41,281
25th Percentile £50,351 £51,000 £47,731
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,375 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +4.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,722
90th Percentile £80,000 - £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 453 138 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.49% 16.51% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 264 123 280
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £48,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +5 109 £63,500 -5.93% 60
West Wales -7 70 £53,310 +6.36% 12
North Wales +2 3 £44,000 +35.38% 3
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 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.10%) Apache
2 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (17.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.65%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.55%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (50.00%) Azure
2 48 (26.37%) Azure AI
3 46 (25.27%) AWS
4 41 (22.53%) Power Platform
5 38 (20.88%) Stripe
6 17 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (7.14%) GCP
8 10 (5.49%) dbt
8 10 (5.49%) Serverless
9 9 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.85%) SaaS
11 6 (3.30%) PaaS
12 5 (2.75%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.20%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.85%) Firewall
2 4 (2.20%) BGP
2 4 (2.20%) DHCP
2 4 (2.20%) DNS
2 4 (2.20%) HSRP
2 4 (2.20%) LAN
2 4 (2.20%) MPLS
2 4 (2.20%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.20%) VoIP
2 4 (2.20%) VPLS
2 4 (2.20%) VPN
2 4 (2.20%) VRRP
2 4 (2.20%) WAN
3 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (47.25%) Tableau
2 38 (20.88%) Metabase
3 37 (20.33%) Power BI
4 17 (9.34%) Data Mining
5 16 (8.79%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.75%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.65%) Looker
7 3 (1.65%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.65%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) CANoe
3 2 (1.10%) JMeter
3 2 (1.10%) Selenium
4 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) MSTest
4 1 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 61 (33.52%) Finance
3 39 (21.43%) Retail
4 38 (20.88%) Legal
5 19 (10.44%) Public Sector
6 17 (9.34%) Marketing
7 16 (8.79%) Back Office
8 13 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.75%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Aviation
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (20.88%) Senior
2 35 (19.23%) Junior
3 32 (17.58%) Analyst
3 32 (17.58%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.48%) Junior Analyst
4 30 (16.48%) Junior Data Analyst
5 21 (11.54%) Data Engineer
6 19 (10.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 16 (8.79%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 14 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) Lead
10 8 (4.40%) Developer
10 8 (4.40%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Site Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.75%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.34%) Terraform
2 9 (4.95%) Node.js
3 7 (3.85%) PySpark
4 5 (2.75%) OpenAPI
4 5 (2.75%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.75%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (2.75%) Spring
4 5 (2.75%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.75%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.20%) .NET
5 4 (2.20%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (2.20%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.10%) React
6 2 (1.10%) YAML
7 1 (0.55%) CSS
7 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.55%) HTML
7 1 (0.55%) Next.js
7 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (29.67%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.75%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.20%) CMDB
6 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.65%) Replication
8 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.14%) Linux
2 11 (6.04%) Unix
3 1 (0.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (45.60%) Mentoring
2 71 (39.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (37.91%) AI
4 62 (34.07%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (32.42%) Actionable Insight
6 57 (31.32%) Data Analysis
7 54 (29.67%) E-Commerce
8 43 (23.63%) Analytics
8 43 (23.63%) Data Security
9 42 (23.08%) Risk Management
10 39 (21.43%) Performance Management
11 38 (20.88%) Fraud Detection
11 38 (20.88%) Order Management
11 38 (20.88%) Regulatory Compliance
12 35 (19.23%) CI/CD
12 35 (19.23%) DevOps
13 32 (17.58%) Agile
14 26 (14.29%) Machine Learning
15 25 (13.74%) Decision-Making
15 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (65.93%) SQL
2 22 (12.09%) Java
3 14 (7.69%) C#
4 12 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.04%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.40%) Bash
8 5 (2.75%) Ruby
9 4 (2.20%) Bicep
9 4 (2.20%) C++
10 3 (1.65%) C
10 3 (1.65%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.65%) Go
11 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (27.47%) Azure Certification
2 23 (12.64%) SC Cleared
2 23 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.40%) Degree
4 5 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.20%) CCIE
5 4 (2.20%) CCNP
5 4 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.65%) HNC
6 3 (1.65%) HND
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.43%) GDPR
2 38 (20.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 38 (20.88%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.30%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (2.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.24%) Docker
2 4 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.20%) Ansible
3 1 (0.55%) Grafana
3 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.14%) Databricks
3 10 (5.49%) Google
4 5 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.20%) Cisco
5 4 (2.20%) VMware
6 3 (1.65%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) OpenAI