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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 68 119 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 14.17% 21.60% 18.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.91% 41.90% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 29 65 48
10th Percentile £30,956 £54,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £65,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £95,000 £92,375
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 131 284 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 27.29% 51.54% 45.78%
Number of salaries quoted 92 160 117
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -2.10% +19.17%
75th Percentile £69,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,450 £90,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +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 13 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 (1.47%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Azure
3 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.88%) Azure AI
4 4 (5.88%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.94%) CloudFront
6 2 (2.94%) GCP
6 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.47%) Datadog
7 1 (1.47%) PaaS
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Internet
2 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) Tableau
2 5 (7.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.47%) Looker
5 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Redis
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
1 2 (2.94%) GitLab
1 2 (2.94%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.82%) German Language
3 5 (7.35%) Finance
4 2 (2.94%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.47%) Billing
5 1 (1.47%) Electronics
5 1 (1.47%) Law
5 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.47%) Marketing
5 1 (1.47%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.47%) Publishing
5 1 (1.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (11.76%) Analyst
2 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 7 (10.29%) Data Analyst
2 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Junior
3 6 (8.82%) Senior
4 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
4 4 (5.88%) Applications Support Technician
4 4 (5.88%) Junior Analyst
4 4 (5.88%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Support Technician
4 4 (5.88%) Trainee
5 3 (4.41%) Administrator
5 3 (4.41%) Consultant
5 3 (4.41%) Developer
5 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Machine Learning Consultant
5 3 (4.41%) Trainee Analyst
5 3 (4.41%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.24%) HTML
2 23 (33.82%) JSON
2 23 (33.82%) Regular Expression
2 23 (33.82%) XML
3 6 (8.82%) TensorFlow
4 5 (7.35%) PyTorch
5 4 (5.88%) React
6 3 (4.41%) Google JAX
6 3 (4.41%) JAX
7 2 (2.94%) Anaconda
7 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.94%) CSS
7 2 (2.94%) Loki
7 2 (2.94%) Node.js
7 2 (2.94%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.47%) FHIR
8 1 (1.47%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.47%) Kafka
8 1 (1.47%) Laravel
8 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 23 (33.82%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.41%) CUDA
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) FPGA
5 2 (2.94%) Life Science
5 2 (2.94%) NHS
5 2 (2.94%) Verilog
5 2 (2.94%) VHDL
6 1 (1.47%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.47%) ASIC
6 1 (1.47%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.47%) Omics
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Unix
2 8 (11.76%) Linux
3 4 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 4 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Android
4 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) AI
2 27 (39.71%) Data Analysis
3 26 (38.24%) LLM
4 12 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 12 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 8 (11.76%) DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) Agile
8 6 (8.82%) Mathematics
8 6 (8.82%) Physics
9 5 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.35%) Computer Vision
10 4 (5.88%) Analytics
10 4 (5.88%) Customer Experience
10 4 (5.88%) Customer Service
10 4 (5.88%) Data Science
10 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (5.88%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.71%) SQL
2 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.82%) Java
4 4 (5.88%) C++
5 3 (4.41%) Bash
6 2 (2.94%) R
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) C
7 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.47%) PHP
7 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.47%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.47%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 31 (45.59%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
2 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.35%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.94%) PhD
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.47%) MCP
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) CDISC
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) DICOM
2 1 (1.47%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.47%) HL7
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.94%) Ansible
4 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
5 1 (1.47%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.94%) VMware
3 1 (1.47%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.47%) Foundry
3 1 (1.47%) Google
3 1 (1.47%) Huawei
3 1 (1.47%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.47%) Talend
3 1 (1.47%) Zoho