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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 44 122 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 11.73% 20.03% 16.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.00% 40.94% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 28 67 43
10th Percentile £30,956 £55,250 £42,950
25th Percentile £32,188 £65,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £69,688 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £95,000 £86,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -21.43% +1.82% -1.79%

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 100 298 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.67% 48.93% 42.22%
Number of salaries quoted 83 170 107
10th Percentile £30,956 £49,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +9.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £63,125 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £90,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -21.43% +19.15% +2.17%

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 16 October 2025.

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 (2.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.73%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.27%) dbt
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.27%) Figma
4 1 (2.27%) Fivetran
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.27%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) SaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Serverless
4 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Internet
1 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.82%) Tableau
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.55%) Big Data
2 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Redis
3 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.27%) Looker
3 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
1 2 (4.55%) GitLab
1 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Health Technology
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.55%) Publishing
5 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Applications Support
4 4 (9.09%) Applications Support Technician
4 4 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Support Technician
5 3 (6.82%) Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Junior
5 3 (6.82%) Machine Learning Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Administrator
6 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Graduate
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) HTML
1 6 (13.64%) TensorFlow
2 5 (11.36%) PyTorch
3 4 (9.09%) Node.js
3 4 (9.09%) React
4 3 (6.82%) Google JAX
4 3 (6.82%) JAX
4 3 (6.82%) JSON
4 3 (6.82%) Regular Expression
4 3 (6.82%) scikit-learn
4 3 (6.82%) XML
5 2 (4.55%) Anaconda
5 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.55%) Laravel
6 1 (2.27%) HTML5
6 1 (2.27%) Kafka
6 1 (2.27%) NumPy
6 1 (2.27%) Pandas
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.27%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 4 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (6.82%) CUDA
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.55%) FPGA
3 2 (4.55%) Life Science
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.55%) NHS
3 2 (4.55%) Verilog
3 2 (4.55%) VHDL
4 1 (2.27%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (2.27%) ASIC
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 4 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 3 (6.82%) Unix
4 2 (4.55%) Android
4 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) AI
2 15 (34.09%) Machine Learning
2 15 (34.09%) Software Engineering
3 14 (31.82%) Computer Science
4 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (20.45%) Mathematics
6 7 (15.91%) Computer Vision
6 7 (15.91%) Data Analysis
6 7 (15.91%) Physics
7 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.64%) Data Science
7 6 (13.64%) LLM
8 5 (11.36%) DevOps
8 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (9.09%) Agile
9 4 (9.09%) Customer Experience
9 4 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (9.09%) Natural Language Processing
9 4 (9.09%) SDLC
9 4 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (18.18%) Java
3 7 (15.91%) SQL
4 5 (11.36%) C++
5 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.55%) PHP
6 2 (4.55%) R
7 1 (2.27%) C
7 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.27%) Go
7 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.27%) Rust
7 1 (2.27%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (2.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Degree
2 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.36%) PhD
4 4 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) CDISC
1 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.27%) DICOM
1 1 (2.27%) GDPR
1 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.27%) HL7
1 1 (2.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Ansible
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Puppet
2 1 (2.27%) Salt
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.55%) VMware
2 1 (2.27%) Alteryx
2 1 (2.27%) Facebook
2 1 (2.27%) Google
2 1 (2.27%) Huawei
2 1 (2.27%) HubSpot
2 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.27%) Talend
2 1 (2.27%) YouTube
2 1 (2.27%) Zoho