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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 88 30 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 12.10% 13.82% 13.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.11% 47.62% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 55 19 31
10th Percentile £46,189 £55,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £58,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile - £97,500 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £49,172
% change year-on-year -3.85% +32.19% -14.48%

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 144 63 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 19.81% 29.03% 34.07%
Number of salaries quoted 109 45 99
10th Percentile £46,189 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.35%
75th Percentile £69,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £90,000 £80,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +27.50% -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 16 September 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 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.68%) Lightworks
3 3 (3.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.50%) AWS
1 33 (37.50%) Azure
2 16 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 13 (14.77%) Azure AI
4 9 (10.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (10.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.41%) GCP
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.14%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) Wireless
2 6 (6.82%) DHCP
2 6 (6.82%) DNS
2 6 (6.82%) Firewall
2 6 (6.82%) VLAN
2 6 (6.82%) VPN
2 6 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (5.68%) MQTT
4 3 (3.41%) Ethernet
5 2 (2.27%) HTTP
5 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) Power BI
2 10 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (10.23%) Amazon QuickSight
3 9 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (10.23%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.23%) Metadata
3 9 (10.23%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.23%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.23%) Star Schema
4 7 (7.95%) Tableau
5 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (20.45%) Git
2 8 (9.09%) LabVIEW
3 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 3 (3.41%) PetaLinux
4 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.14%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Mocha
4 1 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Electronics
4 8 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.55%) Automotive
7 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (44.32%) Software Engineer
2 37 (42.05%) Python Engineer
3 34 (38.64%) Python Software Engineer
4 31 (35.23%) C++ Software Engineer
5 22 (25.00%) Senior
6 20 (22.73%) C# Software Engineer
7 14 (15.91%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (15.91%) AWS Software Engineer
7 14 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (13.64%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 11 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (11.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 10 (11.36%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (7.95%) Analyst
11 7 (7.95%) Data Analyst
11 7 (7.95%) Junior
11 7 (7.95%) Junior Analyst
11 7 (7.95%) Junior Data Analyst
12 6 (6.82%) Network Operations Engineer
12 6 (6.82%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) Django
1 8 (9.09%) Vue
2 7 (7.95%) React
3 4 (4.55%) Node.js
3 4 (4.55%) Terraform
4 3 (3.41%) Blazor
4 3 (3.41%) Yocto
5 2 (2.27%) .NET
5 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.27%) gRPC
5 2 (2.27%) JSON
5 2 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (2.27%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) Flask
6 1 (1.14%) Gradio
6 1 (1.14%) Jest
6 1 (1.14%) Kafka
6 1 (1.14%) Playwright
6 1 (1.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (10.23%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
5 6 (6.82%) CCTV
5 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.41%) FPGA
6 3 (3.41%) IoT
6 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.41%) Robotics
6 3 (3.41%) Verilog
6 3 (3.41%) VHDL
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Debian
3 3 (3.41%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (3.41%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) Software Engineering
2 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.00%) Agile
4 21 (23.86%) AI
4 21 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.45%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
5 18 (20.45%) Finite Element Analysis
6 16 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (17.05%) Data Protection
8 14 (15.91%) Computer Science
9 13 (14.77%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.77%) DevOps
10 12 (13.64%) Data Management
11 11 (12.50%) Analytics
11 11 (12.50%) Design Patterns
12 10 (11.36%) Clean Code
12 10 (11.36%) Data Modelling
12 10 (11.36%) ETL
12 10 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (11.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.91%) C++
2 33 (37.50%) C#
3 18 (20.45%) SQL
4 12 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 11 (12.50%) MATLAB
6 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.55%) Bash
9 3 (3.41%) C
9 3 (3.41%) Rust
10 1 (1.14%) Java
10 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (47.73%) Degree
2 21 (23.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (18.18%) Master's Degree
4 14 (15.91%) PhD
5 13 (14.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) GDPR
2 10 (11.36%) Data Quality
3 9 (10.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (7.95%) QA
5 3 (3.41%) ECSS
System Software
1 14 (15.91%) Docker
2 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (14.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Informatica
2 9 (10.23%) Talend
3 6 (6.82%) VMware
4 3 (3.41%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.41%) Xilinx
5 1 (1.14%) Databricks