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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 140 39 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.77% 5.44% 3.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.35% 29.10% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 67 34 55
10th Percentile £36,633 £47,138 £40,500
25th Percentile £48,965 £51,188 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £69,275
90th Percentile £79,274 £76,375 £79,840
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 347 134 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.30% 18.69% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 249 121 354
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +2 103 £61,750 -8.52% 42
West Wales -11 34 £65,000 +29.68% 11
North Wales -2 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 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.43%) Apache
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 46 (32.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.14%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.71%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (72.86%) Azure
2 65 (46.43%) Azure AI
3 55 (39.29%) Power Platform
4 29 (20.71%) AWS
5 17 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.86%) dbt
7 10 (7.14%) GCP
8 9 (6.43%) PaaS
8 9 (6.43%) SaaS
9 8 (5.71%) Serverless
10 6 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.29%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.29%) PowerApps
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.86%) GitHub
12 4 (2.86%) IaaS
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (2.86%) BGP
2 4 (2.86%) DHCP
2 4 (2.86%) DNS
2 4 (2.86%) HSRP
2 4 (2.86%) LAN
2 4 (2.86%) MPLS
2 4 (2.86%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.86%) VoIP
2 4 (2.86%) VPLS
2 4 (2.86%) VPN
2 4 (2.86%) VRRP
2 4 (2.86%) WAN
3 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (35.71%) Tableau
2 49 (35.00%) Power BI
3 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.14%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.14%) Looker
5 2 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.43%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.43%) Redis
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) Metabase
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Git
2 3 (2.14%) CANoe
2 3 (2.14%) JMeter
3 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.43%) Selenium
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.71%) Locust
4 1 (0.71%) MSTest
4 1 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.14%) Finance
5 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Welsh Language
7 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Back Office
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (35.71%) Junior
2 47 (33.57%) Analyst
2 47 (33.57%) Data Analyst
3 45 (32.14%) Junior Analyst
3 45 (32.14%) Junior Data Analyst
4 34 (24.29%) Senior
5 21 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 17 (12.14%) Data Engineer
7 13 (9.29%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Lead
9 10 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Developer
11 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Data Scientist
13 5 (3.57%) Junior DevOps
13 5 (3.57%) Junior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) SEO Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) WebOps Engineer
14 4 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.00%) Node.js
2 5 (3.57%) PyTorch
2 5 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.86%) .NET
3 4 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (2.86%) ModSecurity
4 3 (2.14%) OpenAPI
4 3 (2.14%) PySpark
4 3 (2.14%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (2.14%) Spring
4 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.43%) YAML
6 1 (0.71%) CSS
6 1 (0.71%) Django
6 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.71%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.71%) HTML
6 1 (0.71%) REST
6 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.86%) CMDB
3 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.14%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.14%) Replication
5 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 10 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (59.29%) AI
2 59 (42.14%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (25.00%) DevOps
4 32 (22.86%) Agile
4 32 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (20.71%) CI/CD
6 26 (18.57%) Mentoring
7 24 (17.14%) Analytics
8 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
9 18 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 18 (12.86%) Test Automation
10 15 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 14 (10.00%) ETL
11 14 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.29%) Data Engineering
13 12 (8.57%) Machine Learning
14 11 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (56.43%) SQL
2 23 (16.43%) Java
3 12 (8.57%) C#
3 12 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.71%) Bash
5 8 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.86%) Bicep
6 4 (2.86%) C++
7 3 (2.14%) C
7 3 (2.14%) Embedded C
7 3 (2.14%) Go
7 3 (2.14%) Ruby
8 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (46.43%) Azure Certification
2 20 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 20 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) Degree
4 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.86%) CCIE
5 4 (2.86%) CCNP
5 4 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) HNC
6 3 (2.14%) HND
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (2.86%) NIST
5 2 (1.43%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) QA
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (12.14%) Terraform
2 13 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.86%) Ansible
4 2 (1.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (43.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) Databricks
3 7 (5.00%) Google
4 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.86%) Cisco
5 4 (2.86%) VMware
6 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.71%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) OpenAI