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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 6
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 142 47 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 11.83% 13.66% 15.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.80% 45.63% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 107 28 55
10th Percentile £47,000 £30,956 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,000 £32,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +1.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,875 £95,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -18.52% -3.57%

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 348 103 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 29.00% 29.94% 42.41%
Number of salaries quoted 300 83 164
10th Percentile £46,250 £30,956 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -24.14% +3.57%
75th Percentile £79,063 £63,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £77,400 £93,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +12.50%

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 20 September 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 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.70%) CMS
1 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.31%) AWS
2 23 (16.20%) Azure
3 13 (9.15%) Azure AI
4 10 (7.04%) GCP
5 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.82%) GitHub
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.41%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.41%) Dataform
8 2 (1.41%) dbt
8 2 (1.41%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.41%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.41%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.41%) SaaS
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) DNS
1 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
1 1 (0.70%) LTE
1 1 (0.70%) VLAN
1 1 (0.70%) VPN
1 1 (0.70%) WireGuard
1 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.34%) Power BI
1 9 (6.34%) Tableau
2 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.41%) Looker
3 2 (1.41%) Metabase
3 2 (1.41%) Redis
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.70%) Big Data
4 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.70%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Git
2 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.41%) GitLab
3 2 (1.41%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.41%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) JIRA
4 1 (0.70%) MLflow
4 1 (0.70%) Poetry
General
1 30 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.93%) Electronics
3 6 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.11%) Tech for Good
5 1 (0.70%) Automotive
5 1 (0.70%) Marketing
5 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (39.44%) Software Engineer
2 36 (25.35%) Python Engineer
3 35 (24.65%) Developer
4 32 (22.54%) Python Developer
4 32 (22.54%) Senior
5 28 (19.72%) Python Software Engineer
6 18 (12.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Junior
8 11 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Lead
10 8 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Hardware Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Junior Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Junior Data Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) RF Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.75%) React
2 7 (4.93%) Web Services
3 6 (4.23%) PyTorch
3 6 (4.23%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.52%) Terraform
5 4 (2.82%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.82%) Google JAX
5 4 (2.82%) JAX
5 4 (2.82%) Keras
5 4 (2.82%) Yocto
6 3 (2.11%) Django
7 2 (1.41%) Flask
7 2 (1.41%) STL
7 2 (1.41%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.70%) NumPy
8 1 (0.70%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.70%) OpenID
8 1 (0.70%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.70%) REST
8 1 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.46%) Cyber Threat
2 24 (16.90%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.34%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.93%) e-Learning
4 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.93%) Robotics
5 6 (4.23%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.52%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.52%) FPGA
7 4 (2.82%) IoT
8 3 (2.11%) Device Driver
8 3 (2.11%) Life Science
8 3 (2.11%) Verilog
9 2 (1.41%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.41%) VHDL
10 1 (0.70%) Acoustics
10 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.70%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.75%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (71.83%) Software Engineering
2 84 (59.15%) AI
3 47 (33.10%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (16.90%) Machine Learning
6 16 (11.27%) Computer Science
7 15 (10.56%) Agile
8 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (7.75%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.04%) Data Science
10 10 (7.04%) OO
11 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (6.34%) Mentoring
12 8 (5.63%) Analytics
12 8 (5.63%) Prototyping
12 8 (5.63%) Rapid Prototyping
12 8 (5.63%) Scrum
12 8 (5.63%) Test Strategy
12 8 (5.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.61%) C++
2 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
2 15 (10.56%) Rust
3 14 (9.86%) TypeScript
4 13 (9.15%) SQL
5 9 (6.34%) C
5 9 (6.34%) Java
6 5 (3.52%) C#
6 5 (3.52%) Embedded C
6 5 (3.52%) Embedded C++
7 3 (2.11%) Bash
8 2 (1.41%) Julia
8 2 (1.41%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.41%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Clojure
9 1 (0.70%) Haskell
9 1 (0.70%) OCaml
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.70%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 30 (21.13%) Degree
2 13 (9.15%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.04%) DBS Check
4 7 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.93%) PhD
5 5 (3.52%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.52%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.70%) GSEC
7 1 (0.70%) HND
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.34%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
3 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (7.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.41%) Podman
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.11%) EMC
2 3 (2.11%) Google
3 2 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle