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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 35 76 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.23% 4.98% 9.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.00% 20.16% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 28 54 78
10th Percentile £48,007 £41,273 £26,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,222 £41,830
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £56,104
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +11.40% +2.01%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,933 £67,713
90th Percentile - £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 125 377 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.11% 24.69% 34.89%
Number of salaries quoted 108 242 273
10th Percentile £43,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,557 £38,813 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +13.61% -11.98%
75th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,299 £72,487
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -3 34 £67,500 +8.00% 71
West Wales +8 1 £50,124 +3.35% 11
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 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Mathcad
1 3 (8.57%) Simulink
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) Serverless
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (14.29%) GitHub
5 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Functions
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (11.43%) PowerApps
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.57%) Google Workspace
6 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
6 3 (8.57%) SurveyMonkey
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Bluetooth
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (8.57%) Modbus
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
1 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.57%) VLAN
1 3 (8.57%) Wireshark
1 3 (8.57%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) Metadata
2 2 (5.71%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
1 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) Burp Suite
2 3 (8.57%) Metasploit
3 2 (5.71%) Appium
3 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.71%) JMeter
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 2 (5.71%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
3 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) TestNG
4 1 (2.86%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.86%) MLflow
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
3 3 (8.57%) Law
3 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Advertising
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Lead
2 9 (25.71%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Mathematical Modeller
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) QA Leader
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) CSS
1 12 (34.29%) HTML
1 12 (34.29%) React
2 11 (31.43%) Django
2 11 (31.43%) HTML5
3 3 (8.57%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (8.57%) PySpark
4 2 (5.71%) Node.js
4 2 (5.71%) REST
4 2 (5.71%) SOAP
5 1 (2.86%) Flutter
5 1 (2.86%) Keras
5 1 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.86%) Metaflow
5 1 (2.86%) NumPy
5 1 (2.86%) Pandas
5 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) CAN bus
1 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (8.57%) IoT
1 3 (8.57%) Operational Technology
1 3 (8.57%) SCADA
2 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Android
2 3 (8.57%) Kali Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Mentoring
1 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) User Experience
3 11 (31.43%) Kanban
3 11 (31.43%) Scrum
3 11 (31.43%) Software Testing
3 11 (31.43%) Workflow
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
5 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.14%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 5 (14.29%) Data Science
7 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
8 4 (11.43%) Mathematics
8 4 (11.43%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) JavaScript
2 7 (20.00%) Java
3 5 (14.29%) C#
3 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) R
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 3 (8.57%) C++
5 3 (8.57%) MATLAB
5 3 (8.57%) Rust
6 2 (5.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Nessus
3 3 (8.57%) Nmap
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Argo
4 1 (2.86%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Cisco
3 3 (8.57%) MathWorks
3 3 (8.57%) Qualtrics
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.57%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft