Python Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Python
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 117 59 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.16% 12.02% 14.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.88% 29.21% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 35 178
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,988 £78,750 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.61% +10.35% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 255 202 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 17.79% 41.14% 38.85%
Number of salaries quoted 174 154 468
10th Percentile £39,606 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,500 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,125 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Cambridgeshire

Python
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -5 104 £76,500 +53.00% 67
Peterborough - 5 £40,000 - 11
Python
East of England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (1.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.42%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.50%) Azure
2 27 (23.08%) AWS
2 27 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 26 (22.22%) Azure AI
4 7 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (5.13%) Dataform
5 6 (5.13%) dbt
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (4.27%) CloudFront
6 5 (4.27%) SaaS
7 4 (3.42%) GitHub
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.71%) Serverless
10 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.56%) Internet
3 2 (1.71%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) VLAN
4 1 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) WireGuard
4 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.08%) Power BI
1 27 (23.08%) Tableau
2 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.13%) Looker
3 6 (5.13%) Metabase
4 5 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.27%) Redis
5 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Git
2 3 (2.56%) PetaLinux
3 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.71%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) Poetry
4 1 (0.85%) Selenium
4 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.69%) Electronics
4 4 (3.42%) German Language
5 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.56%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.71%) Finance
6 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.85%) Automotive
7 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (20.51%) Software Engineer
2 21 (17.95%) Analyst
2 21 (17.95%) Data Analyst
2 21 (17.95%) Junior
3 20 (17.09%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (17.09%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (13.68%) Lead
4 16 (13.68%) Lead Software Engineer
5 14 (11.97%) Senior
6 11 (9.40%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Consultant
9 6 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Data Scientist
9 6 (5.13%) Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (5.13%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.53%) React
2 13 (11.11%) Web Services
3 12 (10.26%) HTML
4 10 (8.55%) TensorFlow
5 9 (7.69%) JSON
5 9 (7.69%) PyTorch
5 9 (7.69%) Regular Expression
5 9 (7.69%) XML
6 7 (5.98%) Google JAX
6 7 (5.98%) JAX
7 6 (5.13%) Yocto
8 5 (4.27%) Loki
9 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.42%) Vue
10 3 (2.56%) CSS
10 3 (2.56%) FastAPI
10 3 (2.56%) Node.js
11 2 (1.71%) Keras
11 2 (1.71%) LangGraph
11 2 (1.71%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.11%) e-Learning
3 12 (10.26%) Algorithms
4 10 (8.55%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (7.69%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.98%) CUDA
6 7 (5.98%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (5.98%) FPGA
7 5 (4.27%) Robotics
8 4 (3.42%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (3.42%) PCIe
9 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.56%) IoT
10 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.71%) Device Driver
11 1 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.68%) Linux
2 9 (7.69%) Unix
3 6 (5.13%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.56%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.56%) Windows
5 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (47.86%) AI
2 36 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 29 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (21.37%) Machine Learning
6 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 18 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (14.53%) Agile
7 17 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (13.68%) User Experience
8 16 (13.68%) UX Design
8 16 (13.68%) Web Development
9 15 (12.82%) Observability
10 14 (11.97%) Kanban
10 14 (11.97%) OO
11 13 (11.11%) Physics
11 13 (11.11%) Scrum
11 13 (11.11%) Scrum-ban
11 13 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.93%) SQL
2 21 (17.95%) JavaScript
3 17 (14.53%) Java
4 15 (12.82%) C++
5 13 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.26%) C
7 10 (8.55%) Bash
8 8 (6.84%) MATLAB
8 8 (6.84%) R
9 7 (5.98%) C#
10 6 (5.13%) Julia
11 5 (4.27%) Rust
12 3 (2.56%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.71%) Elixir
13 2 (1.71%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.71%) Embedded C++
13 2 (1.71%) Ruby
13 2 (1.71%) Scala
14 1 (0.85%) Haskell
14 1 (0.85%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 39 (33.33%) Degree
2 29 (24.79%) Azure Certification
3 20 (17.09%) DBS Check
4 6 (5.13%) PhD
5 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.42%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.56%) Postgraduate
7 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) CEH
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CISM
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) GIAC
8 1 (0.85%) GREM
8 1 (0.85%) GSEC
8 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.38%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.84%) Docker
2 7 (5.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Terraform
2 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.13%) Grafana
4 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (0.85%) Podman
5 1 (0.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) Altera
3 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (0.85%) Google
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle
3 1 (0.85%) Splunk