Python Jobs in Scotland

Python
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,190 627 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.28% 14.55% 11.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.19% 35.87% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 243 251 381
10th Percentile £38,250 £40,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,427 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,585 1,748 2,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 52.07% 40.58% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 995 1,603
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,449 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,200 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Scotland.

Salary trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in Scotland

Python
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Glasgow -10 928 £48,000 -16.74% 32
Edinburgh +2 189 £60,000 -7.69% 50
Dundee +3 19 £50,000 - 3
Aberdeen -1 15 £38,500 -40.77% 2
Fife -1 15 £50,000 +11.11%
Scottish Borders +7 4 - -
West Lothian -2 4 £30,000 -25.00% 2
Lanarkshire -11 3 £70,000 -9.68% 12
Midlothian - 3 - - 17
Inverclyde - 1 £50,000 -
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 257 (21.60%) Apache Spark
2 109 (9.16%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (4.87%) ArcGIS
3 58 (4.87%) GeoServer
4 31 (2.61%) Apache
5 14 (1.18%) Camunda
6 5 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.25%) SAS
7 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.17%) Confluence
9 1 (0.084%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.084%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 623 (52.35%) AWS
2 167 (14.03%) Azure
3 86 (7.23%) GCP
4 48 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
5 36 (3.03%) SaaS
6 28 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 21 (1.76%) Power Platform
8 17 (1.43%) Datadog
9 16 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (1.09%) GitHub
10 13 (1.09%) Google Docs
10 13 (1.09%) Lucidchart
10 13 (1.09%) Miro
10 13 (1.09%) Slack
11 11 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (0.92%) Serverless
12 10 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.59%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.09%) DSL
2 12 (1.01%) Firewall
3 11 (0.92%) Network Security
3 11 (0.92%) SNMP
4 10 (0.84%) Internet
4 10 (0.84%) IPsec
4 10 (0.84%) VPN
5 6 (0.50%) HTTP
5 6 (0.50%) MQTT
6 3 (0.25%) BGP
7 2 (0.17%) Wireless
8 1 (0.084%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.084%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.084%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.084%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (14.79%) NoSQL
2 168 (14.12%) Big Data
3 105 (8.82%) Apache Hive
4 96 (8.07%) Hadoop
5 91 (7.65%) HBase
6 77 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
7 60 (5.04%) GIS
8 58 (4.87%) QGIS
9 57 (4.79%) Data Lake
10 55 (4.62%) MongoDB
11 45 (3.78%) Relational Database
12 39 (3.28%) Qlik Sense
13 25 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.93%) MySQL
15 21 (1.76%) Power BI
15 21 (1.76%) Tableau
16 14 (1.18%) Impala
16 14 (1.18%) Redis
17 13 (1.09%) DB2
17 13 (1.09%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 130 (10.92%) Jenkins
2 112 (9.41%) Git
3 81 (6.81%) Bitbucket Server
4 34 (2.86%) Maven
5 19 (1.60%) GitLab
6 16 (1.34%) Gradle
6 16 (1.34%) LabVIEW
7 14 (1.18%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.18%) Travis CI
8 13 (1.09%) JIRA
9 7 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.59%) Selenium
10 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.34%) Appium
11 4 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.34%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 870 (73.11%) Finance
2 866 (72.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 818 (68.74%) Law
4 481 (40.42%) Marketing
5 308 (25.88%) Legal
6 103 (8.66%) Social Skills
7 100 (8.40%) Financial Institution
8 97 (8.15%) Banking
9 76 (6.39%) Investment Banking
10 48 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (3.61%) Games
12 42 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
13 28 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.02%) Electronics
15 19 (1.60%) Front Office
16 18 (1.51%) Publishing
17 14 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (1.01%) Public Sector
19 10 (0.84%) Aerospace
20 7 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 825 (69.33%) Software Engineer
2 316 (26.55%) Python Engineer
3 313 (26.30%) Python Software Engineer
4 214 (17.98%) Lead
5 201 (16.89%) Data Engineer
6 189 (15.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 163 (13.70%) AWS Engineer
8 157 (13.19%) AWS Software Engineer
9 136 (11.43%) Senior
10 127 (10.67%) Big Data Engineer
10 127 (10.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 113 (9.50%) Developer
12 97 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 64 (5.38%) Java Engineer
14 63 (5.29%) Java Software Engineer
15 62 (5.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 62 (5.21%) Engineering Manager
16 56 (4.71%) Software Engineering Manager
17 54 (4.54%) Database Engineer
18 51 (4.29%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (14.20%) PySpark
2 146 (12.27%) React
3 96 (8.07%) Kafka
4 77 (6.47%) .NET
5 76 (6.39%) Spring
6 67 (5.63%) CSS
7 61 (5.13%) Pandas
8 58 (4.87%) Leaflet
8 58 (4.87%) OpenLayers
8 58 (4.87%) PostGIS
9 56 (4.71%) NumPy
10 55 (4.62%) Spring Boot
11 52 (4.37%) .NET Core
12 46 (3.87%) AngularJS
13 34 (2.86%) Django
14 29 (2.44%) REST
15 16 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
16 15 (1.26%) GraphQL
16 15 (1.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 378 (31.76%) Algorithms
2 292 (24.54%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.72%) Onboarding
4 68 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 60 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 53 (4.45%) Market Risk
7 37 (3.11%) Data Structures
8 33 (2.77%) Reference Data
9 30 (2.52%) Credit Risk
10 15 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
10 15 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.26%) Taxonomies
11 13 (1.09%) IoT
12 11 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.50%) Arduino
16 6 (0.50%) Raspberry Pi
16 6 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 148 (12.44%) Linux
2 126 (10.59%) Unix
3 27 (2.27%) Windows
4 10 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
5 8 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.084%) Android
7 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.084%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (84.37%) Software Engineering
2 861 (72.35%) Agile
3 744 (62.52%) SDLC
4 711 (59.75%) CI/CD
5 673 (56.55%) Operational Stability
6 564 (47.39%) Machine Learning
7 544 (45.71%) Community of Practice
8 521 (43.78%) Artificial Intelligence
9 339 (28.49%) Visualisation
10 336 (28.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 306 (25.71%) Risk Management
12 200 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
13 196 (16.47%) Decision-Making
14 173 (14.54%) Microservices
15 152 (12.77%) Test Automation
16 139 (11.68%) Continuous Delivery
17 136 (11.43%) Computer Science
18 117 (9.83%) Scrum
19 112 (9.41%) Analytics
20 110 (9.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 515 (43.28%) Java
2 437 (36.72%) SQL
3 201 (16.89%) JavaScript
4 132 (11.09%) PL/SQL
5 111 (9.33%) C#
6 64 (5.38%) C
7 53 (4.45%) C++
8 45 (3.78%) Bash
9 43 (3.61%) Scala
10 34 (2.86%) Go
11 28 (2.35%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.85%) Ruby
12 22 (1.85%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.51%) Embedded C
13 18 (1.51%) Groovy
13 18 (1.51%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.92%) R
14 11 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.84%) Rust
16 9 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (6.13%) Security Cleared
2 70 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 59 (4.96%) Degree
4 23 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.26%) PhD
7 14 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.25%) CCNA
9 3 (0.25%) CCNP
9 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.25%) HND
10 2 (0.17%) ACCA
10 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.084%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.084%) OCP
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.52%) Data Quality
1 30 (2.52%) QA
2 27 (2.27%) SLA
3 20 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.084%) Basel III
4 1 (0.084%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.084%) GDPR
4 1 (0.084%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 91 (7.65%) HDFS
2 58 (4.87%) Docker
3 15 (1.26%) Firmware
4 13 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 207 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 137 (11.51%) Terraform
3 32 (2.69%) Grafana
4 29 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 26 (2.18%) Ansible
6 10 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.25%) Puppet
9 2 (0.17%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.084%) Kibana
10 1 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 217 (18.24%) Databricks
2 151 (12.69%) Oracle
3 81 (6.81%) Informatica
4 61 (5.13%) Cloudera
5 58 (4.87%) ESRI
6 52 (4.37%) Alteryx
7 47 (3.95%) Google
8 35 (2.94%) Splunk
9 26 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.51%) Sybase
11 15 (1.26%) VMware
12 14 (1.18%) Pega
13 13 (1.09%) Cognos
13 13 (1.09%) Dell
14 11 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.84%) NetApp
15 10 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.84%) SolidFire
16 9 (0.76%) Twitter
17 6 (0.50%) SAP