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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 115 58 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 14.99% 22.05% 22.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.50% 49.15% 46.14%
Number of salaries quoted 52 35 164
10th Percentile £38,875 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £81,375 £72,500 £80,001
90th Percentile £92,988 £79,500 £90,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £66,250 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.25% -6.40% -3.85%

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 211 118 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 27.51% 44.87% 48.93%
Number of salaries quoted 141 88 353
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £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 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £93,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £62,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.10% -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 16 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 (1.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.22%) Azure
2 26 (22.61%) Power Platform
3 25 (21.74%) Azure AI
4 24 (20.87%) AWS
5 7 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.22%) Dataform
6 6 (5.22%) dbt
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (4.35%) CloudFront
8 4 (3.48%) GitHub
8 4 (3.48%) SaaS
9 3 (2.61%) Serverless
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.74%) Internet
2 2 (1.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) VLAN
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.48%) Tableau
2 26 (22.61%) Power BI
3 6 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.22%) Looker
3 6 (5.22%) Metabase
4 5 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.35%) Redis
5 3 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.87%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Git
2 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.87%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.87%) Poetry
3 1 (0.87%) Selenium
3 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.96%) German Language
4 7 (6.09%) Electronics
5 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.74%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.74%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.87%) Advertising
7 1 (0.87%) Billing
7 1 (0.87%) Finance
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (19.13%) Junior
1 22 (19.13%) Software Engineer
2 21 (18.26%) Analyst
2 21 (18.26%) Data Analyst
3 20 (17.39%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (17.39%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (13.91%) Lead
4 16 (13.91%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (9.57%) Python Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Senior
7 7 (6.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 7 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Principal Data Scientist
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.87%) HTML
2 22 (19.13%) JSON
2 22 (19.13%) Regular Expression
2 22 (19.13%) XML
3 16 (13.91%) React
4 13 (11.30%) Web Services
5 6 (5.22%) PyTorch
5 6 (5.22%) TensorFlow
6 5 (4.35%) Loki
7 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.61%) Google JAX
7 3 (2.61%) JAX
7 3 (2.61%) Node.js
7 3 (2.61%) Vue
8 2 (1.74%) CSS
8 2 (1.74%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.74%) Keras
8 2 (1.74%) LangGraph
8 2 (1.74%) NumPy
9 1 (0.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 23 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 15 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 13 (11.30%) e-Learning
4 8 (6.96%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.48%) FPGA
5 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.48%) PCIe
6 3 (2.61%) CUDA
7 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.74%) NHS
8 1 (0.87%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) IoT
8 1 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.13%) Unix
2 10 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (1.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (59.13%) AI
2 29 (25.22%) Software Engineering
3 27 (23.48%) LLM
4 26 (22.61%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (20.87%) Data Analysis
6 21 (18.26%) Machine Learning
7 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (13.91%) Agile
9 16 (13.91%) CI/CD
9 16 (13.91%) User Experience
9 16 (13.91%) UX Design
10 15 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (13.04%) Web Development
11 14 (12.17%) OO
11 14 (12.17%) Scrum
12 13 (11.30%) Kanban
12 13 (11.30%) Scrum-ban
12 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
12 13 (11.30%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.35%) SQL
2 19 (16.52%) JavaScript
3 17 (14.78%) Java
4 13 (11.30%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.83%) C++
6 8 (6.96%) Bash
6 8 (6.96%) R
7 6 (5.22%) C
7 6 (5.22%) Julia
8 5 (4.35%) C#
8 5 (4.35%) MATLAB
8 5 (4.35%) Rust
9 2 (1.74%) Elixir
9 2 (1.74%) Ruby
9 2 (1.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.87%) Haskell
10 1 (0.87%) OCaml
10 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (38.26%) Degree
2 27 (23.48%) Azure Certification
3 19 (16.52%) DBS Check
4 6 (5.22%) PhD
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.61%) Postgraduate
5 3 (2.61%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.52%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) EU AI Act
3 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (6.96%) Terraform
2 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.22%) Grafana
4 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.48%) Altera
3 1 (0.87%) Foundry
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle