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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 117 62 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 11.25% 18.02% 13.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.34% 50.00% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 79 34 66
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,044 £45,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £34,063 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,938 £82,188
90th Percentile £92,988 £75,000 £95,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% -3.70%

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 290 124 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 27.88% 36.05% 40.51%
Number of salaries quoted 240 93 196
10th Percentile £46,250 £28,950 £43,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,988 £77,500 £93,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 7 August 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 (0.85%) CMS
1 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.22%) Azure
2 22 (18.80%) AWS
3 19 (16.24%) Azure AI
3 19 (16.24%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.13%) Dataform
4 6 (5.13%) dbt
4 6 (5.13%) GCP
5 5 (4.27%) SaaS
6 4 (3.42%) GitHub
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.71%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.71%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.71%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.71%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) DNS
1 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.85%) Firewall
1 1 (0.85%) Internet
1 1 (0.85%) VLAN
1 1 (0.85%) VPN
1 1 (0.85%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.24%) Power BI
1 19 (16.24%) Tableau
2 6 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.13%) Looker
2 6 (5.13%) Metabase
3 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Git
2 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.71%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.85%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) MLflow
4 1 (0.85%) Poetry
General
1 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.42%) Electronics
5 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.85%) Automotive
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
6 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (37.61%) Software Engineer
2 23 (19.66%) Python Engineer
3 22 (18.80%) Developer
3 22 (18.80%) Senior
4 19 (16.24%) Junior
4 19 (16.24%) Python Developer
5 18 (15.38%) Python Software Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Analyst
6 13 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 13 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
6 13 (11.11%) Junior Data Analyst
6 13 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Lead
7 11 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Data Scientist
9 6 (5.13%) Principal Data Scientist
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.40%) React
2 7 (5.98%) PyTorch
2 7 (5.98%) TensorFlow
2 7 (5.98%) Web Services
3 4 (3.42%) Google JAX
3 4 (3.42%) JAX
4 3 (2.56%) Django
4 3 (2.56%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.56%) Yocto
5 2 (1.71%) Flask
5 2 (1.71%) Keras
5 2 (1.71%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.71%) NumPy
5 2 (1.71%) OpenCV
5 2 (1.71%) STL
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) Pyramid
6 1 (0.85%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.66%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (14.53%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.98%) e-Learning
4 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.27%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.27%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (4.27%) Robotics
6 3 (2.56%) CUDA
6 3 (2.56%) IoT
7 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.71%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.71%) Life Science
7 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.85%) FPGA
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.98%) Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) Software Engineering
2 67 (57.26%) AI
3 29 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (21.37%) Machine Learning
6 19 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (11.97%) Agile
7 14 (11.97%) Computer Science
8 13 (11.11%) Data Science
9 12 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (9.40%) Analytics
10 11 (9.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (9.40%) Mentoring
11 10 (8.55%) OO
12 9 (7.69%) Observability
12 9 (7.69%) Web Development
13 8 (6.84%) Kanban
13 8 (6.84%) Mathematics
13 8 (6.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) C++
1 21 (17.95%) SQL
2 15 (12.82%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.26%) Rust
5 8 (6.84%) Java
6 7 (5.98%) R
7 6 (5.13%) C
7 6 (5.13%) C#
7 6 (5.13%) Julia
8 3 (2.56%) Bash
9 2 (1.71%) Elixir
9 2 (1.71%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.71%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.71%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.71%) Ruby
9 2 (1.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) Clojure
10 1 (0.85%) Haskell
10 1 (0.85%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) Degree
2 20 (17.09%) Azure Certification
3 14 (11.97%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.27%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.42%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.56%) PhD
6 3 (2.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CISM
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.85%) GSEC
7 1 (0.85%) HND
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.98%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (0.85%) Altera
3 1 (0.85%) Databricks
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle