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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 75 110 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 14.68% 22.22% 17.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.57% 42.80% 35.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34 59 44
10th Percentile £30,956 £52,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £65,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £72,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% -4.92% +8.93%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £87,813
90th Percentile £76,750 £91,000 £95,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -31.03% -3.33% +7.14%

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 140 257 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 27.40% 51.92% 48.37%
Number of salaries quoted 99 146 111
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,750 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +14.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £77,100 £87,500 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% +4.17%

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 21 December 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 (1.33%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.67%) AWS
2 10 (13.33%) Azure
3 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.67%) Azure AI
5 4 (5.33%) GitHub
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.67%) CloudFront
7 2 (2.67%) GCP
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.67%) Serverless
7 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.33%) Datadog
8 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.33%) SAN
2 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) Tableau
2 6 (8.00%) Power BI
3 3 (4.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Redis
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.33%) Looker
5 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Git
1 3 (4.00%) GitLab
2 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.33%) Selenium
3 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.67%) German Language
3 5 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (2.67%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.33%) Advertising
6 1 (1.33%) Billing
6 1 (1.33%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.33%) Publishing
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (12.00%) Analyst
1 9 (12.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (10.67%) Data Analyst
3 7 (9.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 7 (9.33%) Junior
3 7 (9.33%) Senior
4 5 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) Junior Data Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Applications Support
5 4 (5.33%) Applications Support Technician
5 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Support Technician
5 4 (5.33%) Trainee
6 3 (4.00%) Administrator
6 3 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Lead
6 3 (4.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.00%) HTML
2 24 (32.00%) JSON
2 24 (32.00%) Regular Expression
2 24 (32.00%) XML
3 7 (9.33%) TensorFlow
4 6 (8.00%) React
5 5 (6.67%) PyTorch
6 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.00%) Google JAX
6 3 (4.00%) JAX
6 3 (4.00%) Node.js
7 2 (2.67%) Anaconda
7 2 (2.67%) CSS
7 2 (2.67%) Keras
7 2 (2.67%) Loki
7 2 (2.67%) scikit-learn
7 2 (2.67%) Vue
7 2 (2.67%) Web Services
8 1 (1.33%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 25 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.00%) CUDA
4 3 (4.00%) Life Science
5 2 (2.67%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.67%) FPGA
5 2 (2.67%) NHS
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.67%) Verilog
5 2 (2.67%) VHDL
6 1 (1.33%) ASIC
6 1 (1.33%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.33%) Omics
6 1 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.00%) Unix
2 10 (13.33%) Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Mac OS
3 4 (5.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Android
4 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (58.67%) AI
2 28 (37.33%) Data Analysis
3 27 (36.00%) LLM
4 15 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 14 (18.67%) Machine Learning
5 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
7 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (10.67%) Agile
8 8 (10.67%) DevOps
8 8 (10.67%) Physics
9 7 (9.33%) Mathematics
10 6 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (8.00%) Computer Vision
10 6 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.67%) SDLC
12 4 (5.33%) Rapid Prototyping
12 4 (5.33%) User Experience
12 4 (5.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
1 11 (14.67%) SQL
2 9 (12.00%) Java
3 5 (6.67%) C++
4 3 (4.00%) Bash
4 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.67%) R
6 1 (1.33%) C
6 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.33%) Go
6 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.33%) PHP
6 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) Rust
6 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.33%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (1.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (8.00%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.00%) PhD
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.33%) MCP
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) CDISC
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) DICOM
2 1 (1.33%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.33%) HL7
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Puppet
5 1 (1.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.67%) VMware
3 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.33%) Foundry
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) Huawei
3 1 (1.33%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.33%) Talend
3 1 (1.33%) Zoho