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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 53 77 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.74% 8.21% 7.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.11% 24.92% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 30 46 56
10th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £37,677
25th Percentile £51,913 £54,063 £43,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £67,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 176 309 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.74% 32.94% 33.80%
Number of salaries quoted 141 168 229
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,500 £33,150
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 £49,052 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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 26 December 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 26 December 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 -4 46 £67,500 +3.85% 144
West Wales 0 7 £42,600 -29.00% 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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) Azure
2 17 (32.08%) Power Platform
3 15 (28.30%) Azure AI
4 11 (20.75%) AWS
5 6 (11.32%) GCP
5 6 (11.32%) GitHub
6 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.55%) dbt
6 4 (7.55%) Google Workspace
6 4 (7.55%) SurveyMonkey
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.66%) PaaS
7 3 (5.66%) Pulumi
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (3.77%) Sentry
9 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.55%) Bluetooth
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 4 (7.55%) Internet
2 4 (7.55%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (7.55%) Modbus
2 4 (7.55%) Network Security
2 4 (7.55%) VLAN
2 4 (7.55%) Wireshark
2 4 (7.55%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) Tableau
2 17 (32.08%) Power BI
3 7 (13.21%) MySQL
4 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.66%) Redis
6 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.89%) Big Data
7 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.89%) Parquet
7 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.89%) Spotfire
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) Burp Suite
2 4 (7.55%) Metasploit
3 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.77%) GitLab
4 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.77%) JMeter
4 2 (3.77%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) git-flow
5 1 (1.89%) JUnit
5 1 (1.89%) Locust
5 1 (1.89%) MLflow
5 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.89%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.89%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.55%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.55%) Law
5 4 (7.55%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Analyst
2 16 (30.19%) Data Analyst
3 15 (28.30%) Junior
3 15 (28.30%) Junior Analyst
3 15 (28.30%) Junior Data Analyst
4 8 (15.09%) Lead
5 6 (11.32%) Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Trainee
6 5 (9.43%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Trainee Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Web Administrator
9 1 (1.89%) Test Leader
9 1 (1.89%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.08%) Django
2 13 (24.53%) React
3 11 (20.75%) CSS
3 11 (20.75%) HTML
4 7 (13.21%) HTML5
5 6 (11.32%) Node.js
6 3 (5.66%) PySpark
7 2 (3.77%) Web Services
8 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.89%) Kafka
8 1 (1.89%) Keras
8 1 (1.89%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.89%) NumPy
8 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.89%) RESTful
8 1 (1.89%) Spring
8 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) CAN bus
1 4 (7.55%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (7.55%) IoT
1 4 (7.55%) Operational Technology
1 4 (7.55%) SCADA
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Android
2 4 (7.55%) Kali Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
2 4 (7.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) AI
2 16 (30.19%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (26.42%) Agile
4 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
6 11 (20.75%) User Experience
7 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 10 (18.87%) DevOps
8 9 (16.98%) Scrum
9 8 (15.09%) Data Science
9 8 (15.09%) Kanban
9 8 (15.09%) Machine Learning
10 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (13.21%) Software Testing
10 7 (13.21%) Workflow
11 6 (11.32%) Observability
11 6 (11.32%) Prototyping
12 5 (9.43%) Cloud Security
12 5 (9.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) SQL
2 12 (22.64%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.09%) Java
3 8 (15.09%) R
4 4 (7.55%) C++
4 4 (7.55%) Rust
5 2 (3.77%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) Delphi
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Azure Certification
2 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Terraform
3 4 (7.55%) Nessus
3 4 (7.55%) Nmap
4 3 (5.66%) Grafana
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (1.89%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (45.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Google
3 4 (7.55%) Cisco
3 4 (7.55%) Qualtrics
3 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.55%) Splunk
4 3 (5.66%) Databricks
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) TIBCO