Python Jobs in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 212 342 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.82% 15.93% 15.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.64% 35.89% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 134 185 219
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,264 £50,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +15.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 612 953 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.90% 44.39% 54.19%
Number of salaries quoted 467 612 819
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,095 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 30 (14.15%) ArcGIS
1 30 (14.15%) GeoServer
2 26 (12.26%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.25%) Apache
4 7 (3.30%) SAS
5 6 (2.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) EViews
2 1 (0.47%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.79%) AWS
2 56 (26.42%) GCP
3 52 (24.53%) Azure
4 32 (15.09%) Amazon S3
5 28 (13.21%) SaaS
6 23 (10.85%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (10.85%) Google Docs
6 23 (10.85%) Lucidchart
6 23 (10.85%) Miro
6 23 (10.85%) Slack
7 17 (8.02%) Power Platform
8 14 (6.60%) Serverless
9 8 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.83%) GitHub
11 5 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.89%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.89%) PaaS
13 3 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.42%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.77%) Network Security
2 6 (2.83%) Firewall
2 6 (2.83%) SNMP
3 5 (2.36%) Internet
3 5 (2.36%) IPsec
3 5 (2.36%) VPN
4 3 (1.42%) BGP
5 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.62%) GIS
3 30 (14.15%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (14.15%) QGIS
4 29 (13.68%) Big Data
5 24 (11.32%) Hadoop
6 23 (10.85%) Redis
6 23 (10.85%) Scylla
7 17 (8.02%) Power BI
8 10 (4.72%) Oracle Database
9 8 (3.77%) MySQL
10 7 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.83%) Tableau
12 5 (2.36%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.89%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.47%) Apache Accumulo
15 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) Git
2 14 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.19%) JIRA
4 7 (3.30%) IBM UrbanCode
4 7 (3.30%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.89%) Appium
6 4 (1.89%) Maven
6 4 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.42%) JDeveloper
7 3 (1.42%) Selenium
7 3 (1.42%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.94%) GitLab
8 2 (0.94%) JUnit
8 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.47%) Mockito
9 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 50 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.64%) Finance
2 48 (22.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (16.04%) Banking
4 23 (10.85%) Games
5 19 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.25%) Retail
7 7 (3.30%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.89%) Legal
9 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Electronics
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (45.75%) Software Engineer
2 51 (24.06%) Senior
3 29 (13.68%) Principal Engineer
4 25 (11.79%) Principal Software Engineer
4 25 (11.79%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (6.60%) Developer
6 12 (5.66%) Analyst
6 12 (5.66%) QA Engineer
7 9 (4.25%) Data Scientist
8 8 (3.77%) Data Analyst
8 8 (3.77%) Data Manager
8 8 (3.77%) Data Science Manager
8 8 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
8 8 (3.77%) Python Developer
8 8 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (3.77%) Tester
9 7 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.30%) Consultant
10 6 (2.83%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.11%) React
2 30 (14.15%) .NET
2 30 (14.15%) Leaflet
2 30 (14.15%) OpenLayers
2 30 (14.15%) PostGIS
3 27 (12.74%) CSS
3 27 (12.74%) Kafka
4 26 (12.26%) .NET Core
5 23 (10.85%) GraphQL
6 21 (9.91%) Django
7 8 (3.77%) Pandas
8 6 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.83%) Spring
8 6 (2.83%) YAML
9 5 (2.36%) Node.js
9 5 (2.36%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.36%) XGBoost
10 4 (1.89%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.42%) ADO
11 3 (1.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.98%) Algorithms
2 31 (14.62%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.83%) e-Learning
4 6 (2.83%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (2.36%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) IoT
7 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.47%) ASIC
9 1 (0.47%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.47%) FPGA
9 1 (0.47%) Verilog
9 1 (0.47%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.98%) Linux
2 7 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.30%) Windows
3 5 (2.36%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (2.36%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.89%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.47%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (50.94%) Software Engineering
2 91 (42.92%) Agile
3 64 (30.19%) DevOps
4 52 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (23.58%) Data Science
6 43 (20.28%) Machine Learning
7 42 (19.81%) Actionable Insight
8 33 (15.57%) Analytics
9 32 (15.09%) Test Automation
9 32 (15.09%) Web Development
10 31 (14.62%) CI/CD
10 31 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (13.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 28 (13.21%) Threat Intelligence
12 24 (11.32%) Software Testing
13 23 (10.85%) Computer Security
13 23 (10.85%) High Availability
13 23 (10.85%) User Experience
13 23 (10.85%) UX Research
14 20 (9.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (30.66%) Java
2 60 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 55 (25.94%) SQL
4 44 (20.75%) Bash
5 33 (15.57%) Go
6 25 (11.79%) Scala
7 22 (10.38%) C#
8 19 (8.96%) C++
9 18 (8.49%) C
10 11 (5.19%) Rust
11 9 (4.25%) Embedded C
12 7 (3.30%) Haskell
13 6 (2.83%) PowerShell
14 5 (2.36%) R
14 5 (2.36%) Shell Script
14 5 (2.36%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.89%) Perl
15 4 (1.89%) Ruby
16 3 (1.42%) VBA
17 2 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 33 (15.57%) SC Cleared
1 33 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.21%) Degree
3 13 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.13%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.25%) PhD
5 3 (1.42%) CCNA
5 3 (1.42%) CCNP
5 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.47%) OCP
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.38%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) CRD IV
3 2 (0.94%) IFRS
3 2 (0.94%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.47%) Basel III
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (10.38%) Docker
2 5 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.49%) Ansible
2 18 (8.49%) Terraform
3 7 (3.30%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.36%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.89%) vRealize
5 4 (1.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 3 (1.42%) Rancher
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Kibana
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (23.58%) Google
2 30 (14.15%) ESRI
3 28 (13.21%) Dell
4 10 (4.72%) Oracle
5 6 (2.83%) Databricks
5 6 (2.83%) IBM
5 6 (2.83%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.83%) VMware
6 5 (2.36%) NetApp
6 5 (2.36%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.36%) SolidFire
7 4 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.47%) Adobe
9 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.47%) Intel
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.47%) Splunk
9 1 (0.47%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.47%) Xilinx