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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 184 39 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.47% 4.79% 4.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.44% 27.46% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 76 34 54
10th Percentile £37,125 £47,138 £40,375
25th Percentile £50,351 £51,188 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,933
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 444 142 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.61% 17.42% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 266 129 306
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,659 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 24 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 24 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 +3 113 £63,500 -5.93% 36
West Wales -7 68 £53,310 +6.36% 7
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 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.09%) Apache
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (16.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.63%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.54%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (50.00%) Azure
2 49 (26.63%) Azure AI
3 47 (25.54%) AWS
4 42 (22.83%) Power Platform
5 36 (19.57%) Stripe
6 17 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (7.07%) GCP
8 12 (6.52%) dbt
9 10 (5.43%) Serverless
10 9 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.89%) SaaS
11 8 (4.35%) PaaS
12 7 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.72%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.72%) Power Automate
13 5 (2.72%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) Firewall
2 4 (2.17%) BGP
2 4 (2.17%) DHCP
2 4 (2.17%) DNS
2 4 (2.17%) HSRP
2 4 (2.17%) LAN
2 4 (2.17%) MPLS
2 4 (2.17%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.17%) VoIP
2 4 (2.17%) VPLS
2 4 (2.17%) VPN
2 4 (2.17%) VRRP
2 4 (2.17%) WAN
3 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (45.65%) Tableau
2 37 (20.11%) Power BI
3 36 (19.57%) Metabase
4 17 (9.24%) Data Mining
5 16 (8.70%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.72%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.72%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.63%) Looker
8 3 (1.63%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.54%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.54%) Redis
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (7.61%) Git
2 3 (1.63%) CANoe
2 3 (1.63%) JMeter
3 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) JIRA
4 1 (0.54%) Locust
4 1 (0.54%) MSTest
4 1 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 61 (33.15%) Finance
3 37 (20.11%) Retail
4 36 (19.57%) Legal
5 19 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 17 (9.24%) Marketing
7 16 (8.70%) Back Office
8 14 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.54%) Aviation
12 1 (0.54%) Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (21.20%) Senior
2 35 (19.02%) Junior
3 32 (17.39%) Analyst
3 32 (17.39%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.30%) Junior Analyst
4 30 (16.30%) Junior Data Analyst
5 21 (11.41%) Data Engineer
6 20 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 14 (7.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Lead
10 10 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Developer
12 8 (4.35%) Site Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 5 (2.72%) Data Scientist
14 5 (2.72%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.78%) Terraform
2 9 (4.89%) Node.js
3 7 (3.80%) PySpark
4 5 (2.72%) OpenAPI
4 5 (2.72%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.72%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (2.72%) Spring
4 5 (2.72%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.72%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.17%) .NET
5 4 (2.17%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (2.17%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.09%) React
6 2 (1.09%) YAML
7 1 (0.54%) CSS
7 1 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.54%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.54%) HTML
7 1 (0.54%) REST
7 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.26%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.89%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.72%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.17%) CMDB
6 4 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.63%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.07%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (44.02%) Mentoring
2 70 (38.04%) AI
2 70 (38.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (33.70%) Business Intelligence
4 57 (30.98%) Actionable Insight
5 55 (29.89%) Data Analysis
6 52 (28.26%) E-Commerce
7 43 (23.37%) Analytics
8 41 (22.28%) Data Security
9 40 (21.74%) Risk Management
10 37 (20.11%) Performance Management
11 36 (19.57%) CI/CD
11 36 (19.57%) DevOps
11 36 (19.57%) Fraud Detection
11 36 (19.57%) Order Management
11 36 (19.57%) Regulatory Compliance
12 33 (17.93%) Agile
13 27 (14.67%) Decision-Making
14 26 (14.13%) Machine Learning
14 26 (14.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 118 (64.13%) SQL
2 24 (13.04%) Java
3 14 (7.61%) C#
4 12 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.98%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.35%) Bash
8 5 (2.72%) Ruby
9 4 (2.17%) Bicep
9 4 (2.17%) C++
10 3 (1.63%) C
10 3 (1.63%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.63%) Go
11 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (27.17%) Azure Certification
2 23 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 23 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.35%) Degree
4 5 (2.72%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.17%) CCIE
5 4 (2.17%) CCNP
5 4 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.63%) HNC
6 3 (1.63%) HND
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.11%) GDPR
2 36 (19.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 36 (19.57%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (2.17%) NIST
6 2 (1.09%) QA
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.17%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.17%) Ansible
3 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.07%) Databricks
3 10 (5.43%) Google
4 5 (2.72%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.17%) Cisco
5 4 (2.17%) VMware
6 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.54%) OpenAI