Python Jobs in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 39 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 60 96 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.59% 5.28% 11.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 16.49% 28.81%
Number of salaries quoted 37 58 81
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,025 £37,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,470 £42,425
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,528 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -14.12% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,000 £75,375 £79,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £71,071
% change year-on-year +7.41% -5.02% +1.53%

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 252 582 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 27.66% 32.01% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 175 422 328
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,594 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £50,000 £47,149
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +6.05% -5.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £64,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,853 £75,375
UK median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% -7.69% +8.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Wales

Python
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Wales.

Salary trend for Python in Wales

Python
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 15 March 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 15 March 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 +2 37 £65,000 +26.15% 52
West Wales +19 11 £48,867 +5.93% 5
North Wales -1 6 £40,101 -17.74% 2
Mid Wales - 1 - -
Dyfed - 1 £80,000 - 1
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (18.33%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Mathcad
2 3 (5.00%) Simulink
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) AWS
2 23 (38.33%) Azure
3 15 (25.00%) GitHub
4 14 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.00%) GCP
7 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (5.00%) ChatGPT
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (5.00%) dbt
8 3 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) GSM
2 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) DMARC
4 1 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (23.33%) Redis
3 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) Big Data
4 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.67%) MySQL
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Git
1 15 (25.00%) JIRA
2 11 (18.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.67%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.67%) Electronics
5 2 (3.33%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Senior
2 20 (33.33%) Developer
3 15 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 11 (18.33%) Backend Developer
4 11 (18.33%) Senior Backend Developer
4 11 (18.33%) Software Engineer
5 10 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Lead
7 5 (8.33%) Junior
7 5 (8.33%) Junior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Design Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Mathematical Modeller
9 3 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) Django
2 13 (21.67%) OAuth
3 11 (18.33%) FastAPI
3 11 (18.33%) Flask
3 11 (18.33%) GraphQL
3 11 (18.33%) Keycloak
3 11 (18.33%) pytest
3 11 (18.33%) RESTful
3 11 (18.33%) SQLAlchemy
3 11 (18.33%) WebSockets
4 5 (8.33%) CSS
4 5 (8.33%) HTML
4 5 (8.33%) Node.js
4 5 (8.33%) React
5 2 (3.33%) .NET
5 2 (3.33%) HTML5
5 2 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (3.33%) Middleware
5 2 (3.33%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.67%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (48.33%) DevOps
2 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 20 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.00%) Agile
6 12 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 12 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 12 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
7 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (15.00%) Design Patterns
8 9 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 9 (15.00%) Order Management
9 7 (11.67%) Mathematics
9 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.00%) Data Engineering
10 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
11 5 (8.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.67%) SQL
2 17 (28.33%) Java
3 15 (25.00%) C#
4 14 (23.33%) C++
5 13 (21.67%) Rust
6 11 (18.33%) Ruby
7 10 (16.67%) Go
8 6 (10.00%) C
9 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
10 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
11 3 (5.00%) MATLAB
12 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.67%) Ada
13 1 (1.67%) PHP
13 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (25.00%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.33%) Grafana
2 11 (18.33%) Prometheus
3 5 (8.33%) Terraform
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) MathWorks
4 1 (1.67%) ANSYS
4 1 (1.67%) Okta