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 28 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 35 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 -18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 49 99 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.21% 4.91% 12.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.11% 17.37% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 36 61 83
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,125 £43,470 £41,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,528 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -6.39% +0.08%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £71,375
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% +3.57%

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 212 570 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 22.53% 28.26% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 179 429 311
10th Percentile £33,725 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 34 £65,000 +23.81% 48
West Wales +13 5 £48,867 +5.93% 3
North Wales +8 5 £40,101 +45.82% 1
Dyfed - 1 £80,000 -
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 6 (12.24%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Mathcad
1 10 (20.41%) Simulink
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) Azure
2 13 (26.53%) AWS
3 10 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (16.33%) GitHub
5 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) GSM
2 1 (2.04%) DMARC
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (14.29%) Redis
2 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.08%) Big Data
2 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.08%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Git
2 10 (20.41%) JIRA
3 6 (12.24%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.08%) Appium
4 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.08%) JMeter
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.08%) Selenium
4 2 (4.08%) TestNG
5 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.04%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Electronics
3 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.04%) Marketing
5 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (51.02%) Senior
2 12 (24.49%) Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Senior Developer
4 10 (20.41%) Mathematical Modeller
5 7 (14.29%) Lead
5 7 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Backend Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Design Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Junior
9 2 (4.08%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) Django
2 6 (12.24%) FastAPI
2 6 (12.24%) Flask
2 6 (12.24%) GraphQL
2 6 (12.24%) Keycloak
2 6 (12.24%) OAuth
2 6 (12.24%) pytest
2 6 (12.24%) RESTful
2 6 (12.24%) SQLAlchemy
2 6 (12.24%) WebSockets
3 5 (10.20%) Node.js
3 5 (10.20%) React
4 3 (6.12%) CSS
4 3 (6.12%) HTML
4 3 (6.12%) REST
5 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (4.08%) SOAP
6 1 (2.04%) Redux
6 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.12%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.04%) Housing Association
5 1 (2.04%) NHS
5 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (34.69%) DevOps
3 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.53%) Agile
4 13 (26.53%) Mathematics
4 13 (26.53%) Systems Engineering
5 10 (20.41%) Computer Science
5 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (20.41%) Mathematical Modelling
5 10 (20.41%) Performance Analysis
5 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
5 10 (20.41%) Validation
5 10 (20.41%) Verification and Validation
6 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
8 6 (12.24%) Data Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
9 5 (10.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) Java
3 10 (20.41%) MATLAB
4 9 (18.37%) C#
5 8 (16.33%) C++
6 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
7 5 (10.20%) C
7 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.20%) Ruby
7 5 (10.20%) Rust
8 3 (6.12%) Go
9 2 (4.08%) Groovy
9 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.04%) Ada
10 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (28.57%) Degree
3 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 13485
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.24%) Grafana
2 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.12%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) MathWorks
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) ANSYS
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Okta