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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 120 54 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 15.13% 21.26% 21.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.79% 48.21% 45.42%
Number of salaries quoted 55 31 158
10th Percentile £39,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% -12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,875 £80,001
90th Percentile £92,988 £78,750 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £70,000 £56,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +23.35% -9.20% -7.41%

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 219 112 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 27.62% 44.09% 47.81%
Number of salaries quoted 146 82 346
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,001
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £93,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -4.00%

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 22 April 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 2 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.67%) Azure
2 27 (22.50%) Azure AI
2 27 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 26 (21.67%) AWS
4 7 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (5.00%) Dataform
5 6 (5.00%) dbt
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (4.17%) CloudFront
6 5 (4.17%) SaaS
7 4 (3.33%) GitHub
8 3 (2.50%) Serverless
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.67%) Internet
2 2 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.33%) Tableau
2 27 (22.50%) Power BI
3 6 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.00%) Looker
3 6 (5.00%) Metabase
4 5 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.17%) Redis
5 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.83%) Poetry
3 1 (0.83%) Selenium
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (39.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.67%) German Language
4 7 (5.83%) Electronics
5 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.67%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.67%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.83%) Advertising
7 1 (0.83%) Automotive
7 1 (0.83%) Billing
7 1 (0.83%) Finance
7 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (19.17%) Junior
1 23 (19.17%) Software Engineer
2 22 (18.33%) Analyst
2 22 (18.33%) Data Analyst
3 21 (17.50%) Junior Analyst
3 21 (17.50%) Junior Data Analyst
4 17 (14.17%) Lead
4 17 (14.17%) Lead Software Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Senior
7 7 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 7 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Principal Data Scientist
8 6 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.00%) HTML
2 22 (18.33%) JSON
2 22 (18.33%) Regular Expression
2 22 (18.33%) XML
3 17 (14.17%) React
4 14 (11.67%) Web Services
5 7 (5.83%) TensorFlow
6 6 (5.00%) PyTorch
7 5 (4.17%) Loki
8 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.50%) Google JAX
8 3 (2.50%) JAX
8 3 (2.50%) Node.js
8 3 (2.50%) Vue
9 2 (1.67%) CSS
9 2 (1.67%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.67%) Keras
9 2 (1.67%) LangGraph
9 2 (1.67%) NumPy
10 1 (0.83%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.17%) Linux Command Line
1 23 (19.17%) Onboarding
2 16 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 14 (11.67%) e-Learning
4 8 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.33%) FPGA
5 4 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.33%) PCIe
6 3 (2.50%) CUDA
7 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.67%) NHS
8 1 (0.83%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.33%) Unix
2 10 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (60.00%) AI
2 30 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 27 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (22.50%) LLM
4 24 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 22 (18.33%) Machine Learning
6 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (14.17%) Agile
8 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
8 17 (14.17%) User Experience
8 17 (14.17%) UX Design
9 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (13.33%) Web Development
10 15 (12.50%) OO
10 15 (12.50%) Scrum
11 14 (11.67%) Kanban
11 14 (11.67%) Observability
11 14 (11.67%) Scrum-ban
11 14 (11.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.17%) SQL
2 20 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 18 (15.00%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.50%) Bash
5 9 (7.50%) C++
6 8 (6.67%) R
7 6 (5.00%) C
7 6 (5.00%) Julia
8 5 (4.17%) C#
8 5 (4.17%) MATLAB
8 5 (4.17%) Rust
9 2 (1.67%) Elixir
9 2 (1.67%) Ruby
9 2 (1.67%) Scala
10 1 (0.83%) Haskell
10 1 (0.83%) OCaml
10 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (37.50%) Degree
2 29 (24.17%) Azure Certification
3 20 (16.67%) DBS Check
4 6 (5.00%) PhD
5 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.50%) Postgraduate
5 3 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISM
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.83%) GSEC
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Terraform
2 8 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.00%) Grafana
4 5 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.83%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.33%) Altera
3 1 (0.83%) Foundry
3 1 (0.83%) Google
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle