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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,312 708 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.62% 15.28% 12.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.95% 35.65% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 247 265 391
10th Percentile £38,250 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £94,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +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 3,754 1,986 2,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.14% 42.88% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 1,111 1,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,000 £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 7 May 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 7 May 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 1,032 £48,000 -21.63% 32
Edinburgh +3 208 £57,500 -11.54% 52
Dundee +6 21 £50,000 +8.11% 6
Aberdeen -3 16 £38,500 -40.77% 5
Fife -1 15 £50,000 +17.09% 3
Scottish Borders +8 5 - -
Midlothian -1 3 - - 5
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 -
Lanarkshire -12 2 - - 8
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
1 299 (22.79%) Apache Spark
2 117 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (4.57%) ArcGIS
3 60 (4.57%) GeoServer
4 45 (3.43%) Apache
5 20 (1.52%) Camunda
6 8 (0.61%) SAS
7 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.076%) EViews
2 1 (0.076%) Simulink
2 1 (0.076%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 691 (52.67%) AWS
2 172 (13.11%) Azure
3 107 (8.16%) GCP
4 51 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
5 46 (3.51%) SaaS
6 37 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 24 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 23 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (1.75%) Google Docs
8 23 (1.75%) Lucidchart
8 23 (1.75%) Miro
8 23 (1.75%) Slack
9 21 (1.60%) Serverless
10 19 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (1.30%) Datadog
13 14 (1.07%) GitHub
14 12 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.53%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (0.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.37%) DSL
2 12 (0.91%) Firewall
3 11 (0.84%) SNMP
4 10 (0.76%) Internet
4 10 (0.76%) IPsec
4 10 (0.76%) VPN
5 7 (0.53%) HTTP
5 7 (0.53%) MQTT
5 7 (0.53%) Network Security
6 3 (0.23%) BGP
7 1 (0.076%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.076%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (15.85%) Big Data
2 196 (14.94%) NoSQL
3 118 (8.99%) Apache Hive
4 116 (8.84%) Hadoop
5 103 (7.85%) HBase
6 78 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (5.11%) MongoDB
8 63 (4.80%) Data Lake
9 62 (4.73%) GIS
10 60 (4.57%) QGIS
11 54 (4.12%) Relational Database
12 39 (2.97%) Qlik Sense
13 35 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (1.98%) Tableau
15 25 (1.91%) MySQL
16 24 (1.83%) Power BI
16 24 (1.83%) Redis
17 23 (1.75%) Scylla
18 18 (1.37%) DB2
19 16 (1.22%) Impala
Development Applications
1 141 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 128 (9.76%) Git
3 86 (6.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 39 (2.97%) Maven
5 22 (1.68%) Gradle
6 20 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 20 (1.52%) GitLab
6 20 (1.52%) Travis CI
7 16 (1.22%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.91%) JIRA
9 7 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
9 7 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.46%) JDeveloper
11 5 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.30%) Appium
12 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.30%) Selenium
12 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 990 (75.46%) Finance
2 979 (74.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 923 (70.35%) Law
4 562 (42.84%) Marketing
5 333 (25.38%) Legal
6 123 (9.38%) Banking
7 116 (8.84%) Financial Institution
7 116 (8.84%) Social Skills
8 86 (6.55%) Investment Banking
9 61 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
10 53 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (3.28%) Games
12 29 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.83%) Electronics
14 19 (1.45%) Front Office
14 19 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.37%) Publishing
16 14 (1.07%) Public Sector
17 11 (0.84%) Retail
18 10 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 928 (70.73%) Software Engineer
2 335 (25.53%) Python Engineer
2 335 (25.53%) Python Software Engineer
3 236 (17.99%) Lead
4 214 (16.31%) Lead Software Engineer
5 213 (16.23%) Data Engineer
6 175 (13.34%) AWS Engineer
7 168 (12.80%) AWS Software Engineer
8 148 (11.28%) Senior
9 138 (10.52%) Big Data Engineer
9 138 (10.52%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 121 (9.22%) Developer
11 104 (7.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 79 (6.02%) Java Engineer
13 78 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
14 68 (5.18%) Engineering Manager
15 67 (5.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 62 (4.73%) Software Engineering Manager
17 59 (4.50%) Database Engineer
18 58 (4.42%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (13.49%) PySpark
2 171 (13.03%) React
3 119 (9.07%) Kafka
4 96 (7.32%) Spring
5 78 (5.95%) .NET
6 68 (5.18%) Pandas
7 67 (5.11%) Spring Boot
8 63 (4.80%) NumPy
9 61 (4.65%) CSS
10 60 (4.57%) Leaflet
10 60 (4.57%) OpenLayers
10 60 (4.57%) PostGIS
11 58 (4.42%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.96%) .NET Core
13 38 (2.90%) REST
14 36 (2.74%) Django
15 25 (1.91%) GraphQL
16 22 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
17 18 (1.37%) JPA
18 17 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 420 (32.01%) Algorithms
2 329 (25.08%) Cloud Native
3 90 (6.86%) Onboarding
4 88 (6.71%) Public Cloud
5 72 (5.49%) Product Ownership
6 59 (4.50%) Market Risk
7 47 (3.58%) Data Structures
8 39 (2.97%) Reference Data
9 35 (2.67%) Credit Risk
10 25 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.60%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
13 12 (0.91%) IoT
14 11 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (0.76%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.53%) Arduino
16 7 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.53%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 156 (11.89%) Linux
2 136 (10.37%) Unix
3 25 (1.91%) Windows
4 10 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
5 9 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.076%) Android
7 1 (0.076%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.076%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.076%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,125 (85.75%) Software Engineering
2 970 (73.93%) Agile
3 834 (63.57%) SDLC
4 800 (60.98%) CI/CD
5 762 (58.08%) Operational Stability
6 651 (49.62%) Machine Learning
7 607 (46.27%) Community of Practice
8 599 (45.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 374 (28.51%) Visualisation
10 362 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 338 (25.76%) Risk Management
12 235 (17.91%) Decision-Making
13 234 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
14 212 (16.16%) Microservices
15 165 (12.58%) Test Automation
16 159 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
17 140 (10.67%) Computer Science
18 132 (10.06%) Analytics
19 126 (9.60%) Scrum
20 123 (9.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 614 (46.80%) Java
2 495 (37.73%) SQL
3 215 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 145 (11.05%) PL/SQL
5 117 (8.92%) C#
6 64 (4.88%) Scala
7 62 (4.73%) Bash
8 59 (4.50%) C
8 59 (4.50%) Go
9 53 (4.04%) C++
10 37 (2.82%) Ruby
11 35 (2.67%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.37%) Groovy
13 18 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 17 (1.30%) Embedded C
15 13 (0.99%) Perl
16 12 (0.91%) R
16 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (5.64%) Security Cleared
2 70 (5.34%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.65%) Degree
4 22 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.22%) PhD
7 14 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.23%) CCNA
8 3 (0.23%) CCNP
8 3 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.23%) HND
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.076%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.076%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.076%) OCA
10 1 (0.076%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.59%) SLA
3 31 (2.36%) QA
4 25 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.23%) CRD IV
6 2 (0.15%) IFRS
6 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.076%) Basel III
7 1 (0.076%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.076%) GDPR
7 1 (0.076%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 102 (7.77%) HDFS
2 54 (4.12%) Docker
3 15 (1.14%) Firmware
4 13 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 232 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 153 (11.66%) Terraform
3 35 (2.67%) Grafana
4 29 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.91%) Ansible
6 10 (0.76%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.23%) Puppet
8 3 (0.23%) Rancher
9 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.076%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.076%) Kibana
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 252 (19.21%) Databricks
2 182 (13.87%) Oracle
3 86 (6.55%) Informatica
4 72 (5.49%) Cloudera
5 66 (5.03%) Google
6 60 (4.57%) ESRI
7 57 (4.34%) Alteryx
8 34 (2.59%) Splunk
9 29 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.83%) Dell
11 23 (1.75%) Sybase
12 20 (1.52%) Pega
13 18 (1.37%) Cognos
14 15 (1.14%) VMware
15 11 (0.84%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.76%) NetApp
16 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.76%) SolidFire
17 9 (0.69%) Twitter
18 7 (0.53%) SAP