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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 31 49 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 14.16% 13.32% 11.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.44% 38.89% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 20 31 25
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £34,200
25th Percentile £58,438 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £90,625 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £85,000 £97,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £49,172 £57,500
% change year-on-year +32.19% -14.48% +9.52%

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 64 126 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 29.22% 34.24% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 46 99 100
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £41,306
25th Percentile £55,313 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.35% +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £91,250 £80,000 £97,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +18.01%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Oxford

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.45%) GitHub
3 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.23%) dbt
4 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) Modbus
3 1 (3.23%) MQTT
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Looker
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.45%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 7 (22.58%) Aerospace
2 6 (19.35%) Tech for Good
3 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
3 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Senior
2 7 (22.58%) Software Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Ruby Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Qt
2 6 (19.35%) React
2 6 (19.35%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (9.68%) FastAPI
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) pydantic
5 1 (3.23%) gRPC
5 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.23%) ModSecurity
5 1 (3.23%) NumPy
5 1 (3.23%) Pandas
5 1 (3.23%) pytest
5 1 (3.23%) RESTful
5 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (16.13%) SCADA
3 4 (12.90%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.45%) IoT
4 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.23%) FMCG
5 1 (3.23%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (3.23%) Robotics
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
2 8 (25.81%) Agile
2 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) Validation
3 7 (22.58%) Analytics
3 7 (22.58%) CRM
3 7 (22.58%) DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (22.58%) Manual Testing
3 7 (22.58%) Regression Testing
3 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
3 7 (22.58%) TDD
3 7 (22.58%) Verification and Validation
4 6 (19.35%) Architectural Design
4 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (19.35%) Data Analytics
4 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
5 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Smart Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) C
2 7 (22.58%) C++
3 6 (19.35%) Ruby
4 5 (16.13%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.23%) Go
7 1 (3.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Argo
2 1 (3.23%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Allen-Bradley
1 5 (16.13%) Siemens
2 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) HubSpot
2 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) Talend
2 1 (3.23%) Zoho