Python Job Trends in Cambridge

Python
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 155 43 123
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 12.50% 11.62% 19.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.11% 43.88% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 119 28 68
10th Percentile £47,500 £30,956 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £32,188 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £46,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -36.21% +3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,750 £95,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +1.82%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 377 98 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 30.40% 26.49% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 329 82 173
10th Percentile £47,250 £30,956 £47,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £74,875 £90,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +16.67%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Python job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Python
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cambridge over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Cambridge

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.65%) CMS
1 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.65%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.42%) AWS
2 18 (11.61%) Azure
3 13 (8.39%) GCP
4 5 (3.23%) GitHub
5 4 (2.58%) Azure AI
6 3 (1.94%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.29%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.29%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.29%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.29%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.29%) Serverless
8 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) LTE
1 4 (2.58%) Wireless
2 3 (1.94%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.29%) Big Data
3 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.29%) Power BI
3 2 (1.29%) Redis
3 2 (1.29%) Spatial Data
3 2 (1.29%) Tableau
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (5.81%) Git
2 3 (1.94%) GitLab
2 3 (1.94%) MLflow
3 2 (1.29%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.29%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 18 (11.61%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.10%) Electronics
3 7 (4.52%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.94%) Tech for Good
5 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.65%) Automotive
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing
7 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (42.58%) Software Engineer
2 45 (29.03%) Python Engineer
3 41 (26.45%) Senior
4 38 (24.52%) Python Software Engineer
5 36 (23.23%) Developer
6 34 (21.94%) Python Developer
7 25 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) Junior
8 8 (5.16%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.16%) Senior Python Developer
9 7 (4.52%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Hardware Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) RF Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Lead
11 5 (3.23%) Electronics Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (2.58%) Research Scientist
12 4 (2.58%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.52%) TensorFlow
2 6 (3.87%) PyTorch
2 6 (3.87%) React
3 5 (3.23%) Google JAX
3 5 (3.23%) JAX
3 5 (3.23%) Terraform
4 4 (2.58%) FastAPI
4 4 (2.58%) Keras
4 4 (2.58%) Yocto
5 3 (1.94%) Django
5 3 (1.94%) Flask
5 3 (1.94%) OpenTofu
5 3 (1.94%) REST
5 3 (1.94%) STL
5 3 (1.94%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.29%) Middleware
6 2 (1.29%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.29%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.29%) RESTful
6 2 (1.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (31.61%) Cyber Threat
2 35 (22.58%) Algorithms
3 11 (7.10%) FPGA
4 9 (5.81%) Robotics
5 6 (3.87%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.87%) Verilog
6 5 (3.23%) Acoustics
6 5 (3.23%) IoT
6 5 (3.23%) VHDL
7 4 (2.58%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (2.58%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.58%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.94%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (1.94%) Life Science
8 3 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.29%) ASIC
9 2 (1.29%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.29%) PCIe
9 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.61%) Linux
2 4 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (2.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) CentOS
3 1 (0.65%) Debian
3 1 (0.65%) macOS
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (73.55%) Software Engineering
2 85 (54.84%) AI
3 59 (38.06%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (15.48%) Machine Learning
6 19 (12.26%) Computer Science
7 13 (8.39%) Agile
7 13 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (7.74%) Prototyping
9 11 (7.10%) Rapid Prototyping
10 10 (6.45%) CI/CD
10 10 (6.45%) Data Science
11 9 (5.81%) Critical Thinking
11 9 (5.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (5.16%) Containerisation
12 8 (5.16%) Physics
12 8 (5.16%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (5.16%) Test Automation
13 7 (4.52%) Data Analysis
13 7 (4.52%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 30 (19.35%) C++
2 21 (13.55%) Rust
3 15 (9.68%) C
4 12 (7.74%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.81%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.52%) Embedded C
6 7 (4.52%) SQL
7 6 (3.87%) C#
7 6 (3.87%) Embedded C++
7 6 (3.87%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.23%) Java
9 3 (1.94%) Bash
10 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.29%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.65%) Clojure
11 1 (0.65%) Fortran
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (27.10%) Degree
2 11 (7.10%) Master's Degree
2 11 (7.10%) PhD
3 8 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.16%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.29%) HND
6 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.65%) GSEC
7 1 (0.65%) HNC
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.58%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.65%) NIST
2 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (5.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) Firmware
3 2 (1.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Ceph
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Lustre
4 1 (0.65%) NFS
4 1 (0.65%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.94%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (0.65%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (3.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.23%) EMC
3 4 (2.58%) Databricks
4 3 (1.94%) Google
5 1 (0.65%) Apple
5 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat