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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 156 40 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.20% 5.35% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.38% 28.99% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 69 35 49
10th Percentile £36,691 £47,355 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £51,375 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,032 £76,000 £79,380
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 377 138 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.99% 18.45% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 254 125 318
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £73,625 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 3 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 3 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 +1 106 £63,500 -5.93% 45
West Wales -2 47 £55,000 +9.73% 12
North Wales -1 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 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.28%) Apache
2 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (27.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.64%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (64.74%) Azure
2 62 (39.74%) Azure AI
3 52 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 39 (25.00%) AWS
5 17 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.69%) dbt
6 12 (7.69%) GCP
7 10 (6.41%) Stripe
8 9 (5.77%) PaaS
8 9 (5.77%) SaaS
8 9 (5.77%) Serverless
9 7 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.85%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.85%) PowerApps
11 5 (3.21%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.56%) GitHub
12 4 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) Firewall
2 4 (2.56%) BGP
2 4 (2.56%) DHCP
2 4 (2.56%) DNS
2 4 (2.56%) HSRP
2 4 (2.56%) LAN
2 4 (2.56%) MPLS
2 4 (2.56%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.56%) VoIP
2 4 (2.56%) VPLS
2 4 (2.56%) VPN
2 4 (2.56%) VRRP
2 4 (2.56%) WAN
3 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (41.03%) Tableau
2 46 (29.49%) Power BI
3 11 (7.05%) Data Mining
4 10 (6.41%) Amazon QuickSight
4 10 (6.41%) Metabase
5 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.92%) Looker
7 2 (1.28%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.28%) Redis
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.64%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (1.92%) CANoe
2 3 (1.92%) JMeter
3 2 (1.28%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) JIRA
4 1 (0.64%) Locust
4 1 (0.64%) MSTest
4 1 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (55.13%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.31%) Finance
3 18 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.05%) Retail
6 10 (6.41%) Back Office
6 10 (6.41%) Legal
6 10 (6.41%) Marketing
7 8 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.21%) Welsh Language
9 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Aviation
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Games
10 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (30.13%) Junior
2 44 (28.21%) Analyst
2 44 (28.21%) Data Analyst
3 42 (26.92%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (26.92%) Junior Data Analyst
4 35 (22.44%) Senior
5 21 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 17 (10.90%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (7.05%) Lead
9 10 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.41%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 8 (5.13%) Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Data Scientist
12 5 (3.21%) Junior DevOps
12 5 (3.21%) Junior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) SEO Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.13%) Node.js
2 5 (3.21%) PyTorch
2 5 (3.21%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.56%) .NET
3 4 (2.56%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (2.56%) ModSecurity
3 4 (2.56%) OpenAPI
3 4 (2.56%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (2.56%) Spring
3 4 (2.56%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.92%) PySpark
5 2 (1.28%) YAML
6 1 (0.64%) CSS
6 1 (0.64%) Django
6 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.64%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.64%) HTML
6 1 (0.64%) React
6 1 (0.64%) REST
6 1 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.56%) CMDB
5 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.92%) Replication
7 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.33%) Linux
2 11 (7.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (51.92%) AI
2 64 (41.03%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (28.85%) Mentoring
4 42 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (23.08%) DevOps
6 33 (21.15%) Agile
7 32 (20.51%) Analytics
8 31 (19.87%) CI/CD
9 24 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (14.74%) Data Analysis
11 22 (14.10%) Decision-Making
12 21 (13.46%) Software Engineering
13 20 (12.82%) E-Commerce
13 20 (12.82%) Machine Learning
14 18 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
15 16 (10.26%) Data Science
15 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
17 14 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 93 (59.62%) SQL
2 24 (15.38%) Java
3 13 (8.33%) C#
4 12 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.05%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.13%) Bash
8 4 (2.56%) Bicep
8 4 (2.56%) C++
8 4 (2.56%) Ruby
9 3 (1.92%) C
9 3 (1.92%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.92%) Go
10 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.64%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (39.74%) Azure Certification
2 22 (14.10%) SC Cleared
2 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.13%) Degree
4 5 (3.21%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.56%) CCIE
5 4 (2.56%) CCNP
5 4 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.92%) HNC
6 3 (1.92%) HND
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) GDPR
2 10 (6.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (6.41%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.49%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.85%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (2.56%) NIST
7 2 (1.28%) QA
8 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (10.90%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (11.54%) Terraform
2 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.56%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (37.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.77%) Databricks
2 9 (5.77%) Google
3 5 (3.21%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.56%) Cisco
4 4 (2.56%) VMware
5 3 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.64%) IBM
7 1 (0.64%) OpenAI