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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 17 35
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 41 80 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.62% 6.51% 7.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.28% 23.05% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35 49 67
10th Percentile £31,100 £41,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,955 £55,000 £41,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,165
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.71% +3.94%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £67,999
90th Percentile £78,598 £80,000 £72,960
UK median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.56% +6.27% +0.82%

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 145 347 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.33% 28.26% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 128 199 276
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £32,500 £36,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,315 £74,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -5 39 £67,500 +3.85% 86
West Wales 0 2 £40,062 -26.15% 11
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 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.88%) WordPress
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) AWS
3 8 (19.51%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) Serverless
5 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
6 5 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.76%) dbt
7 4 (9.76%) GCP
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (7.32%) Google Workspace
8 3 (7.32%) PaaS
8 3 (7.32%) PowerApps
8 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
8 3 (7.32%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.32%) Bluetooth
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) Internet
2 3 (7.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (7.32%) Modbus
2 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 3 (7.32%) VLAN
2 3 (7.32%) Wireshark
2 3 (7.32%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) MySQL
2 5 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Power BI
3 3 (7.32%) Redis
3 3 (7.32%) Tableau
4 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.88%) Metadata
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.44%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) Burp Suite
3 3 (7.32%) Metasploit
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) Locust
4 1 (2.44%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.44%) MLflow
General
1 14 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.32%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.32%) Law
3 3 (7.32%) Multimedia
3 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Lead
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Trainee
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Trainee Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) Django
2 15 (36.59%) CSS
2 15 (36.59%) HTML
3 14 (34.15%) React
4 11 (26.83%) HTML5
5 4 (9.76%) Node.js
6 3 (7.32%) PySpark
7 2 (4.88%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (2.44%) Flutter
8 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.44%) Keras
8 1 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (2.44%) Metaflow
8 1 (2.44%) NumPy
8 1 (2.44%) Pandas
8 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
8 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
8 1 (2.44%) Web Services
8 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) CAN bus
1 3 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (7.32%) IoT
1 3 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (7.32%) Operational Technology
1 3 (7.32%) SCADA
2 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Android
3 3 (7.32%) Kali Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Mentoring
1 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
2 14 (34.15%) User Experience
3 11 (26.83%) DevOps
3 11 (26.83%) Kanban
3 11 (26.83%) Scrum
3 11 (26.83%) Software Testing
3 11 (26.83%) Workflow
4 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 8 (19.51%) Data Science
6 7 (17.07%) AI
6 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning
7 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (12.20%) Microservices
8 5 (12.20%) Observability
8 5 (12.20%) Prototyping
8 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
2 8 (19.51%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) R
4 6 (14.63%) Java
5 4 (9.76%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) Bash
6 3 (7.32%) C++
6 3 (7.32%) Rust
6 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.51%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (24.39%) Terraform
3 4 (9.76%) Grafana
4 3 (7.32%) Nessus
4 3 (7.32%) Nmap
4 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (2.44%) Argo
6 1 (2.44%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Google
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) Qualtrics
4 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.32%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) TIBCO