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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 36 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 148 33 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.53% 3.84% 5.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.46% 25.38% 20.88%
Number of salaries quoted 62 26 48
10th Percentile £39,163 £47,573 £41,361
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,188 £51,053
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £79,225
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 456 130 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.97% 15.13% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 256 113 213
10th Percentile £35,250 £42,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +13.80%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £74,829
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 85 £63,500 -5.93% 111
West Wales -8 63 £53,310 +6.36% 22
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 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.35%) Apache
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.92%) Azure
2 44 (29.73%) AWS
3 38 (25.68%) Stripe
4 24 (16.22%) Azure AI
5 22 (14.86%) Power Platform
6 16 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.78%) GCP
8 10 (6.76%) Serverless
9 9 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (5.41%) dbt
11 7 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (3.38%) Azure Functions
13 5 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.38%) SaaS
14 4 (2.70%) IaaS
14 4 (2.70%) PaaS
14 4 (2.70%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) Firewall
2 3 (2.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) BGP
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) HSRP
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) MPLS
3 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.68%) VoIP
3 1 (0.68%) VPLS
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) VRRP
3 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (45.27%) Tableau
2 38 (25.68%) Metabase
3 18 (12.16%) Power BI
4 16 (10.81%) Amazon QuickSight
4 16 (10.81%) Data Mining
5 8 (5.41%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.05%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.03%) Looker
7 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.03%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.68%) Metadata
9 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.68%) Redis
9 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) JMeter
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 59 (39.86%) Finance
2 49 (33.11%) Social Skills
3 39 (26.35%) Retail
4 38 (25.68%) Legal
5 21 (14.19%) Public Sector
6 17 (11.49%) Marketing
7 16 (10.81%) Back Office
8 12 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.38%) Welsh Language
10 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Aviation
12 1 (0.68%) Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Law
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) Senior
2 25 (16.89%) Data Engineer
3 17 (11.49%) Junior
3 17 (11.49%) Senior Data Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 13 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (8.11%) Analyst
6 12 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 12 (8.11%) Junior Analyst
6 12 (8.11%) Junior Data Analyst
7 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Python Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Site Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Developer
9 7 (4.73%) Lead
10 5 (3.38%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.38%) Junior DevOps
10 5 (3.38%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.81%) Terraform
2 10 (6.76%) PySpark
3 9 (6.08%) Node.js
4 5 (3.38%) OpenAPI
4 5 (3.38%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.38%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (3.38%) Spring
4 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.38%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.70%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (2.03%) .NET
7 2 (1.35%) React
7 2 (1.35%) YAML
8 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.68%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.68%) Next.js
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.49%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.38%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.03%) Replication
7 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.78%) Linux
2 11 (7.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (56.76%) Mentoring
2 67 (45.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (39.19%) Actionable Insight
4 55 (37.16%) Data Analysis
5 54 (36.49%) E-Commerce
6 47 (31.76%) AI
7 46 (31.08%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (30.41%) Analytics
8 45 (30.41%) Data Security
9 42 (28.38%) Risk Management
10 39 (26.35%) Performance Management
11 38 (25.68%) Fraud Detection
11 38 (25.68%) Order Management
11 38 (25.68%) Regulatory Compliance
12 37 (25.00%) CI/CD
13 34 (22.97%) DevOps
14 32 (21.62%) Agile
15 26 (17.57%) Machine Learning
16 25 (16.89%) Decision-Making
17 22 (14.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 105 (70.95%) SQL
2 19 (12.84%) Java
3 13 (8.78%) C#
4 10 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.08%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.73%) Bash
6 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.38%) Ruby
8 4 (2.70%) Bicep
9 3 (2.03%) Go
10 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (16.89%) Azure Certification
2 20 (13.51%) SC Cleared
2 20 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.35%) Degree
5 1 (0.68%) CCIE
5 1 (0.68%) CCNP
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.03%) GDPR
2 38 (25.68%) Actionable Recommendations
2 38 (25.68%) PCI DSS
3 11 (7.43%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.68%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.14%) Databricks
3 11 (7.43%) Google
4 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco
6 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) VMware