Python Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 218 242
Rank change year-on-year +137 +24 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 329 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.91% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.07% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile - £53,125 £45,550
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +15.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £56,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,500 £90,625 £70,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year +18.75% -12.33% +46.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Python Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +68 326 £60,000 -11.11%
Edinburgh +35 3 £45,000 -23.40%
Python Software Engineer
UK

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Python Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 329 (100.00%) Python
1 329 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 327 (99.39%) Agile
3 326 (99.09%) Finance
4 325 (98.78%) Law
4 325 (98.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 325 (98.78%) SDLC
5 324 (98.48%) Operational Stability
6 304 (92.40%) CI/CD
7 248 (75.38%) Community of Practice
8 233 (70.82%) AWS
9 187 (56.84%) Marketing
10 182 (55.32%) Machine Learning
10 182 (55.32%) Artificial Intelligence
11 144 (43.77%) Cloud Native
12 135 (41.03%) Algorithms
13 117 (35.56%) Risk Management
13 117 (35.56%) Legal
13 117 (35.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (35.56%) Visualisation
14 115 (34.95%) Apache Spark
15 111 (33.74%) Apache Airflow
16 98 (29.79%) PySpark
17 94 (28.57%) Big Data
18 89 (27.05%) Coaching
19 69 (20.97%) JavaScript
20 62 (18.84%) Microservices
21 58 (17.63%) Databricks
22 56 (17.02%) Java
23 54 (16.41%) Decision-Making

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
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
1 115 (34.95%) Apache Spark
2 111 (33.74%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 233 (70.82%) AWS
2 13 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
2 13 (3.95%) Azure
3 7 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (0.30%) GCP
4 1 (0.30%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (28.57%) Big Data
2 29 (8.81%) Apache Hive
2 29 (8.81%) Hadoop
3 16 (4.86%) Impala
4 13 (3.95%) HBase
5 11 (3.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Appium
1 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 326 (99.09%) Finance
2 325 (98.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 325 (98.78%) Law
3 187 (56.84%) Marketing
4 117 (35.56%) Legal
5 50 (15.20%) Banking
5 50 (15.20%) Investment Banking
6 38 (11.55%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.47%) Front Office
8 14 (4.26%) Games
8 14 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (29.79%) PySpark
2 47 (14.29%) Kafka
3 32 (9.73%) React
4 24 (7.29%) REST
5 13 (3.95%) JPA
5 13 (3.95%) Spring
6 11 (3.34%) JSP
7 7 (2.13%) Flask
7 7 (2.13%) Keras
7 7 (2.13%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.13%) SpaCy
7 7 (2.13%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.61%) .NET
9 1 (0.30%) Django
9 1 (0.30%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 144 (43.77%) Cloud Native
2 135 (41.03%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.86%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 327 (99.39%) Agile
3 325 (98.78%) SDLC
4 324 (98.48%) Operational Stability
5 304 (92.40%) CI/CD
6 248 (75.38%) Community of Practice
7 182 (55.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 182 (55.32%) Machine Learning
8 117 (35.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 117 (35.56%) Risk Management
8 117 (35.56%) Visualisation
9 89 (27.05%) Coaching
10 62 (18.84%) Microservices
11 54 (16.41%) Decision-Making
12 51 (15.50%) Mentoring
12 51 (15.50%) Scrum
12 51 (15.50%) Workflow
13 38 (11.55%) Asset Management
14 26 (7.90%) Computer Science
14 26 (7.90%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 329 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (20.97%) JavaScript
3 56 (17.02%) Java
4 45 (13.68%) SQL
5 25 (7.60%) C#
6 16 (4.86%) Scala
7 1 (0.30%) Go
7 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.29%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.86%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.95%) HDFS
2 3 (0.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 58 (17.63%) Databricks
2 20 (6.08%) Oracle
3 13 (3.95%) Cloudera
4 11 (3.34%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.34%) Splunk
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