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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 24 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 -35
Permanent jobs citing Python 123 42 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.47% 7.87% 3.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.79% 28.97% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 37 34 59
10th Percentile £39,300 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,500 £43,504
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,125 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +24.45% -6.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,000 £68,750
90th Percentile - £81,750 £70,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 233 145 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.16% 27.15% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 136 123 428
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,553 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,625 £71,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +8 92 £66,000 +1.54% 43
West Wales +4 28 £51,619 +5.63% 8
North Wales -8 3 £44,000 +35.38% 4
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 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 65 (52.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.81%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (81.30%) Azure
2 83 (67.48%) Azure AI
3 68 (55.28%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.32%) AWS
6 8 (6.50%) PaaS
7 7 (5.69%) dbt
7 7 (5.69%) GCP
7 7 (5.69%) SaaS
8 4 (3.25%) GitHub
8 4 (3.25%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.25%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.25%) Serverless
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.44%) IaaS
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) Firewall
2 4 (3.25%) BGP
2 4 (3.25%) DHCP
2 4 (3.25%) DNS
2 4 (3.25%) HSRP
2 4 (3.25%) LAN
2 4 (3.25%) MPLS
2 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.25%) VoIP
2 4 (3.25%) VPLS
2 4 (3.25%) VPN
2 4 (3.25%) VRRP
2 4 (3.25%) WAN
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (52.85%) Tableau
2 64 (52.03%) Power BI
3 4 (3.25%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.63%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.63%) Looker
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.81%) Big Data
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Parquet
6 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 4 (3.25%) JMeter
3 3 (2.44%) CANoe
3 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.44%) JIRA
3 3 (2.44%) Selenium
4 2 (1.63%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.81%) git-flow
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) Locust
5 1 (0.81%) MSTest
5 1 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (74.80%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.69%) Finance
4 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 66 (53.66%) Analyst
1 66 (53.66%) Data Analyst
2 63 (51.22%) Junior
2 63 (51.22%) Junior Analyst
2 63 (51.22%) Junior Data Analyst
3 20 (16.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) Senior
5 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Data Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Lead
7 5 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.44%) Developer
9 3 (2.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.07%) Node.js
2 4 (3.25%) ModSecurity
3 3 (2.44%) .NET
4 2 (1.63%) Django
4 2 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (1.63%) Web Services
5 1 (0.81%) CSS
5 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.81%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.81%) HTML
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) PySpark
5 1 (0.81%) React
5 1 (0.81%) REST
5 1 (0.81%) RESTful
5 1 (0.81%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.81%) Spring
5 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.25%) CMDB
1 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
1 4 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.44%) Replication
3 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Linux
1 4 (3.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (72.36%) AI
2 68 (55.28%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (15.45%) Test Automation
4 18 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 18 (14.63%) CI/CD
4 18 (14.63%) DevOps
5 16 (13.01%) Agile
6 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (8.94%) Containerisation
7 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (8.94%) Mentoring
8 9 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (6.50%) Decision-Making
9 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (6.50%) Scrum
10 7 (5.69%) BDD
11 6 (4.88%) Analytics
11 6 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (4.88%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (4.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (61.79%) SQL
2 15 (12.20%) Java
3 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.88%) Bash
4 6 (4.88%) C#
4 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.25%) C++
6 3 (2.44%) C
6 3 (2.44%) Embedded C
6 3 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.81%) R
8 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) Degree
4 4 (3.25%) CCIE
4 4 (3.25%) CCNP
4 4 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.44%) HNC
5 3 (2.44%) HND
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.25%) NIST
3 3 (2.44%) QA
4 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.76%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (9.76%) Terraform
2 7 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 74 (60.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.25%) Cisco
2 4 (3.25%) VMware
3 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.63%) Databricks
4 2 (1.63%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) IBM
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle