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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 106 53 212
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 12.59% 19.85% 21.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.48% 46.90% 44.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53 30 155
10th Percentile £41,500 £31,025 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.00% -20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,988 £78,875 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.00% -5.66%

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 210 113 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 24.94% 42.32% 47.27%
Number of salaries quoted 147 83 350
10th Percentile £39,775 £28,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +0.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £92,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% -

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 18 May 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 (0.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.36%) Azure
2 26 (24.53%) Azure AI
2 26 (24.53%) Power Platform
3 25 (23.58%) AWS
4 7 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (5.66%) Dataform
5 6 (5.66%) dbt
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (4.72%) CloudFront
6 5 (4.72%) SaaS
7 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.89%) GitHub
8 2 (1.89%) Serverless
9 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.94%) Firewall
3 1 (0.94%) Internet
3 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.94%) VLAN
3 1 (0.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.94%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.53%) Power BI
1 26 (24.53%) Tableau
2 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.66%) Looker
2 6 (5.66%) Metabase
3 5 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.72%) Redis
4 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Git
1 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.89%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.94%) GitLab
2 1 (0.94%) Poetry
2 1 (0.94%) Selenium
2 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.49%) Electronics
4 4 (3.77%) German Language
5 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.89%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.94%) Advertising
7 1 (0.94%) Automotive
7 1 (0.94%) Billing
7 1 (0.94%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (22.64%) Software Engineer
2 22 (20.75%) Junior
3 20 (18.87%) Analyst
3 20 (18.87%) Data Analyst
3 20 (18.87%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (18.87%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (15.09%) Lead
4 16 (15.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) Python Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Senior
7 7 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Principal Data Scientist
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Data Scientist
8 6 (5.66%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) React
2 13 (12.26%) Web Services
3 11 (10.38%) HTML
4 10 (9.43%) JSON
4 10 (9.43%) Regular Expression
4 10 (9.43%) XML
5 6 (5.66%) TensorFlow
6 5 (4.72%) Loki
6 5 (4.72%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.77%) Vue
8 3 (2.83%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.83%) Google JAX
8 3 (2.83%) JAX
8 3 (2.83%) Node.js
8 3 (2.83%) Yocto
9 2 (1.89%) Flask
9 2 (1.89%) Keras
9 2 (1.89%) LangGraph
9 2 (1.89%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Product Ownership
2 13 (12.26%) e-Learning
3 11 (10.38%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (10.38%) Onboarding
4 9 (8.49%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.77%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.77%) FPGA
5 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.77%) PCIe
6 3 (2.83%) CUDA
6 3 (2.83%) IoT
7 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.89%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.89%) NHS
7 2 (1.89%) Robotics
8 1 (0.94%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Linux
2 10 (9.43%) Unix
3 3 (2.83%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.89%) Windows
5 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.66%) AI
2 32 (30.19%) Software Engineering
3 26 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.75%) Machine Learning
6 19 (17.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (16.04%) Agile
7 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
8 16 (15.09%) User Experience
8 16 (15.09%) UX Design
9 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.15%) Web Development
10 14 (13.21%) Computer Science
10 14 (13.21%) LLM
10 14 (13.21%) Observability
10 14 (13.21%) OO
11 13 (12.26%) Kanban
11 13 (12.26%) Product Vision
11 13 (12.26%) Requirements Gathering
11 13 (12.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.47%) SQL
2 19 (17.92%) JavaScript
3 17 (16.04%) Java
4 13 (12.26%) TypeScript
5 12 (11.32%) C++
6 9 (8.49%) Bash
6 9 (8.49%) C
7 7 (6.60%) C#
7 7 (6.60%) R
8 6 (5.66%) Julia
9 5 (4.72%) MATLAB
9 5 (4.72%) Rust
10 2 (1.89%) Elixir
10 2 (1.89%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.89%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.89%) Ruby
10 2 (1.89%) Scala
11 1 (0.94%) Clojure
11 1 (0.94%) OCaml
11 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (33.96%) Degree
2 27 (25.47%) Azure Certification
3 20 (18.87%) DBS Check
4 6 (5.66%) PhD
5 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.83%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.94%) CISM
8 1 (0.94%) CISSP
8 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.94%) GSEC
8 1 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.98%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) NIST
3 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Docker
1 7 (6.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (8.49%) Terraform
2 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.66%) Grafana
4 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.77%) Altera
3 1 (0.94%) Google
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle