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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 161 32 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.92% 3.80% 5.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.33% 25.60% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 69 26 50
10th Percentile £38,830 £47,573 £41,320
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,188 £47,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,955
90th Percentile £80,000 - £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.76% -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 469 125 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.34% 14.85% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 262 109 222
10th Percentile £35,250 £43,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,659 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +13.61%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £74,060
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -5 95 £63,500 -5.93% 67
West Wales -12 65 £53,310 +6.36% 11
North Wales - 1 £44,000 - 6
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 4 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.24%) Apache
2 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (45.34%) Azure
2 45 (27.95%) AWS
3 38 (23.60%) Stripe
4 30 (18.63%) Azure AI
5 26 (16.15%) Power Platform
6 18 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.70%) GCP
8 10 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.21%) Serverless
9 9 (5.59%) dbt
10 7 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.73%) Azure Databricks
11 6 (3.73%) SaaS
12 5 (3.11%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (3.11%) PaaS
13 4 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) Firewall
2 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.24%) BGP
3 2 (1.24%) DHCP
3 2 (1.24%) DNS
3 2 (1.24%) HSRP
3 2 (1.24%) LAN
3 2 (1.24%) MPLS
3 2 (1.24%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.24%) VoIP
3 2 (1.24%) VPLS
3 2 (1.24%) VPN
3 2 (1.24%) VRRP
3 2 (1.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (43.48%) Tableau
2 38 (23.60%) Metabase
3 22 (13.66%) Power BI
4 16 (9.94%) Amazon QuickSight
4 16 (9.94%) Data Mining
5 8 (4.97%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.73%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.86%) Looker
7 3 (1.86%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.86%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.62%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.62%) Metadata
9 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.62%) Redis
9 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.56%) Git
2 2 (1.24%) GitLab
2 2 (1.24%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.62%) CANoe
3 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) JMeter
3 1 (0.62%) Selenium
General
1 60 (37.27%) Finance
2 58 (36.02%) Social Skills
3 39 (24.22%) Retail
4 38 (23.60%) Legal
5 22 (13.66%) Public Sector
6 17 (10.56%) Marketing
7 16 (9.94%) Back Office
8 13 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.11%) Welsh Language
10 4 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Aviation
12 1 (0.62%) Banking
12 1 (0.62%) Games
12 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Law
12 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (24.22%) Senior
2 26 (16.15%) Data Engineer
3 20 (12.42%) Junior
4 18 (11.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (9.94%) Analyst
5 16 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 16 (9.94%) Data Analyst
5 16 (9.94%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 15 (9.32%) Junior Analyst
6 15 (9.32%) Junior Data Analyst
7 10 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) Lead
9 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Site Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Junior DevOps
12 5 (3.11%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.56%) Terraform
2 10 (6.21%) PySpark
3 9 (5.59%) Node.js
4 5 (3.11%) OpenAPI
4 5 (3.11%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.11%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (3.11%) Spring
4 5 (3.11%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.11%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.48%) .NET
5 4 (2.48%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.24%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.24%) React
6 2 (1.24%) YAML
7 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.62%) Next.js
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 54 (33.54%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.97%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.11%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.86%) Replication
7 2 (1.24%) CMDB
7 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.07%) Linux
2 11 (6.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.62%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.17%) Mentoring
2 70 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (36.65%) Actionable Insight
4 55 (34.16%) Data Analysis
5 54 (33.54%) E-Commerce
6 53 (32.92%) AI
7 51 (31.68%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (28.57%) Analytics
9 45 (27.95%) Data Security
10 42 (26.09%) Risk Management
11 39 (24.22%) CI/CD
11 39 (24.22%) Performance Management
12 38 (23.60%) Fraud Detection
12 38 (23.60%) Order Management
12 38 (23.60%) Regulatory Compliance
13 36 (22.36%) DevOps
14 34 (21.12%) Agile
15 26 (16.15%) Decision-Making
15 26 (16.15%) Machine Learning
16 23 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 109 (67.70%) SQL
2 21 (13.04%) Java
3 13 (8.07%) C#
4 10 (6.21%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.59%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.97%) Bash
7 5 (3.11%) Ruby
8 4 (2.48%) Bicep
9 3 (1.86%) Go
10 2 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.24%) R
11 1 (0.62%) C
11 1 (0.62%) C++
11 1 (0.62%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 31 (19.25%) Azure Certification
2 22 (13.66%) SC Cleared
2 22 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.48%) Degree
4 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.24%) CCIE
5 2 (1.24%) CCNP
5 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) HNC
6 1 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (24.84%) GDPR
2 38 (23.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 38 (23.60%) PCI DSS
3 11 (6.83%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.24%) NIST
6 2 (1.24%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.24%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.94%) Databricks
3 11 (6.83%) Google
4 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.24%) Cisco
5 2 (1.24%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.24%) VMware
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle