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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +32 -33
Permanent jobs citing Python 109 43 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.56% 8.35% 3.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.15% 27.04% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 42 33 63
10th Percentile £29,600 £45,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £52,500 £43,504
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,348 £65,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +26.15% -16.21%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,622 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £74,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 209 159 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.49% 30.87% 29.83%
Number of salaries quoted 131 129 435
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,651 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,250 £63,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 83 £70,079 +7.81% 58
West Wales +5 23 £42,600 -12.82% 9
North Wales -6 3 £44,000 +35.38% 14
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 (1.83%) WordPress
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 57 (52.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.92%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (73.39%) Azure
2 65 (59.63%) Azure AI
3 59 (54.13%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.93%) AWS
5 8 (7.34%) dbt
5 8 (7.34%) GitHub
5 8 (7.34%) PaaS
6 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.50%) GCP
7 6 (5.50%) SaaS
8 4 (3.67%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.67%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.75%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.83%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.83%) Datadog
10 2 (1.83%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) Firewall
2 5 (4.59%) Internet
3 4 (3.67%) BGP
3 4 (3.67%) DHCP
3 4 (3.67%) DNS
3 4 (3.67%) HSRP
3 4 (3.67%) LAN
3 4 (3.67%) MPLS
3 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.67%) VoIP
3 4 (3.67%) VPLS
3 4 (3.67%) VPN
3 4 (3.67%) VRRP
3 4 (3.67%) WAN
4 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.92%) Modbus
4 1 (0.92%) VLAN
4 1 (0.92%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.92%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (52.29%) Tableau
2 55 (50.46%) Power BI
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.75%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.75%) Redis
5 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.92%) Big Data
6 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Parquet
6 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.67%) JMeter
3 3 (2.75%) CANoe
3 3 (2.75%) JIRA
3 3 (2.75%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) GitLab
4 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) Locust
4 2 (1.83%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.92%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.92%) git-flow
5 1 (0.92%) JUnit
5 1 (0.92%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.92%) MSTest
5 1 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (66.97%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.34%) Finance
4 5 (4.59%) Multimedia
5 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.92%) Law
8 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (52.29%) Analyst
1 57 (52.29%) Data Analyst
2 54 (49.54%) Junior
2 54 (49.54%) Junior Analyst
2 54 (49.54%) Junior Data Analyst
3 14 (12.84%) Senior
4 11 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Trainee
6 6 (5.50%) Lead
7 5 (4.59%) Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Developer
7 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Test Leader
8 4 (3.67%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Django
2 6 (5.50%) Node.js
3 5 (4.59%) CSS
3 5 (4.59%) HTML
3 5 (4.59%) React
4 4 (3.67%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.83%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.83%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (1.83%) Web Services
6 1 (0.92%) .NET
6 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.92%) Flask
6 1 (0.92%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.92%) Kafka
6 1 (0.92%) PySpark
6 1 (0.92%) pytest
6 1 (0.92%) REST
6 1 (0.92%) RESTful
6 1 (0.92%) Spring
6 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.67%) CMDB
1 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.92%) CAN bus
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.92%) IoT
3 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.92%) Replication
3 1 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.92%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (63.30%) AI
2 56 (51.38%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (13.76%) DevOps
3 15 (13.76%) Test Automation
4 12 (11.01%) Agile
4 12 (11.01%) CI/CD
5 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (7.34%) BDD
7 8 (7.34%) Containerisation
7 8 (7.34%) Mentoring
8 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (6.42%) Observability
9 6 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (5.50%) Decision-Making
9 6 (5.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (5.50%) Software Engineering
10 5 (4.59%) Scrum
10 5 (4.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (57.80%) SQL
2 12 (11.01%) Java
3 9 (8.26%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.59%) C++
5 5 (4.59%) R
6 4 (3.67%) C#
7 3 (2.75%) C
7 3 (2.75%) Embedded C
7 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.92%) Bash
8 1 (0.92%) Delphi
8 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (62.39%) Azure Certification
2 11 (10.09%) Degree
2 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.67%) CCIE
4 4 (3.67%) CCNP
4 4 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) HNC
5 3 (2.75%) HND
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.67%) NIST
2 4 (3.67%) QA
3 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (1.83%) WCAG
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Terraform
2 5 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.92%) Nessus
6 1 (0.92%) Nmap
Vendors
1 68 (62.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.59%) Cisco
3 4 (3.67%) Google
3 4 (3.67%) VMware
4 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.83%) Databricks
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.92%) Splunk