Python Job Trends in Oxford

Python
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 85 25 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 11.41% 11.85% 13.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.86% 48.08% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 57 19 25
10th Percentile £46,189 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +27.27%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £102,000 £92,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year -1.92% +20.78% -6.40%

All Programming Languages
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 142 52 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 19.06% 24.64% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 112 41 84
10th Percentile £46,189 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £87,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -16.67%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Python job vacancy trend in Oxford

Python
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Oxford over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Oxford

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 6 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Lightworks
2 5 (5.88%) Simulink
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.18%) AWS
2 25 (29.41%) Azure
3 12 (14.12%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (7.06%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.53%) GCP
7 3 (3.53%) GitHub
7 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.76%) Wireless
2 7 (8.24%) MQTT
3 6 (7.06%) DHCP
3 6 (7.06%) DNS
3 6 (7.06%) Firewall
3 6 (7.06%) VLAN
3 6 (7.06%) VPN
3 6 (7.06%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (4.71%) Ethernet
5 3 (3.53%) HTTP
5 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (14.12%) Power BI
2 9 (10.59%) Amazon QuickSight
2 9 (10.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (10.59%) DynamoDB
2 9 (10.59%) Metadata
2 9 (10.59%) MongoDB
2 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.59%) Snowflake Schema
2 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.59%) Star Schema
3 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 8 (9.41%) LabVIEW
3 4 (4.71%) PetaLinux
4 3 (3.53%) GitLab
5 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.18%) Mocha
General
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.41%) Electronics
4 8 (9.41%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (8.24%) Aerospace
6 5 (5.88%) Automotive
7 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (45.88%) Software Engineer
2 35 (41.18%) Python Engineer
3 33 (38.82%) C++ Software Engineer
3 33 (38.82%) Python Software Engineer
4 22 (25.88%) C# Software Engineer
5 20 (23.53%) Senior
6 19 (22.35%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (22.35%) AWS Software Engineer
7 15 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (14.12%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 11 (12.94%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (12.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 11 (12.94%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Data Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) IT Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Network Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Network Operations Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Embedded Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) Django
1 9 (10.59%) Vue
2 7 (8.24%) React
3 4 (4.71%) Node.js
3 4 (4.71%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Yocto
4 3 (3.53%) JSON
4 3 (3.53%) Protocol Buffers
4 3 (3.53%) PySpark
5 2 (2.35%) .NET
5 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.35%) Blazor
5 2 (2.35%) gRPC
5 2 (2.35%) RESTful
6 1 (1.18%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.18%) Flask
6 1 (1.18%) Gradio
6 1 (1.18%) Kafka
6 1 (1.18%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.59%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (10.59%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (9.41%) Fibre Optics
5 6 (7.06%) CCTV
5 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (5.88%) FPGA
6 5 (5.88%) Verilog
6 5 (5.88%) VHDL
7 4 (4.71%) IoT
8 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.53%) Robotics
9 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.47%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Windows
3 4 (4.71%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (3.53%) Debian
4 3 (3.53%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Software Engineering
2 28 (32.94%) CI/CD
3 23 (27.06%) Agile
3 23 (27.06%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 23 (27.06%) Finite Element Analysis
4 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (17.65%) AI
5 15 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 14 (16.47%) Computer Science
7 13 (15.29%) Analytics
7 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
8 12 (14.12%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (14.12%) Data Modelling
8 12 (14.12%) DevOps
8 12 (14.12%) ETL
9 11 (12.94%) Data Management
9 11 (12.94%) Design Patterns
10 10 (11.76%) Clean Code
10 10 (11.76%) Machine Learning
10 10 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.06%) C++
2 35 (41.18%) C#
3 16 (18.82%) SQL
4 13 (15.29%) MATLAB
5 12 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.88%) C
9 4 (4.71%) Bash
9 4 (4.71%) Rust
10 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.18%) Java
11 1 (1.18%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 45 (52.94%) Degree
2 23 (27.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 14 (16.47%) PhD
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.65%) GDPR
2 12 (14.12%) Data Quality
3 9 (10.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (5.88%) ECSS
4 5 (5.88%) QA
5 1 (1.18%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 14 (16.47%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.06%) Hyper-V
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.06%) vSphere
3 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Informatica
2 9 (10.59%) Talend
3 6 (7.06%) VMware
4 5 (5.88%) Xilinx
5 3 (3.53%) Databricks
5 3 (3.53%) NVIDIA