Python Job Trends in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 26 10
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 81 77 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.69% 8.92% 11.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.29% 31.56% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53 29 121
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,360 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £82,751 £87,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -19.23%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 244 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.42% 28.27% 36.91%
Number of salaries quoted 112 161 399
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £69,063 £82,751 £73,818
90th Percentile £94,000 £100,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,069 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.83% +5.51% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Python job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.17%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.51%) Azure
2 24 (29.63%) Azure AI
3 18 (22.22%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 8 (9.88%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) GitHub
6 6 (7.41%) dbt
7 5 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.94%) SaaS
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.70%) PaaS
10 2 (2.47%) Apigee
10 2 (2.47%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (2.47%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.47%) Dataform
11 1 (1.23%) Dagster
11 1 (1.23%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) Broadband
2 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.16%) Tableau
2 18 (22.22%) Power BI
3 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.17%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.70%) Big Data
5 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.70%) Parquet
6 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.47%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.47%) Metadata
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) JIRA
General
1 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Finance
3 7 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.17%) Retail
6 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Games
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Analyst
1 20 (24.69%) Data Analyst
2 15 (18.52%) Developer
2 15 (18.52%) Junior
2 15 (18.52%) Junior Analyst
2 15 (18.52%) Junior Data Analyst
3 14 (17.28%) Python Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
4 12 (14.81%) Trainee
5 8 (9.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Django Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Python/Django Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 5 (6.17%) Programmer
7 5 (6.17%) Trainee Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Trainee Programmer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Django
2 6 (7.41%) NumPy
2 6 (7.41%) scikit-learn
3 5 (6.17%) Hugging Face
3 5 (6.17%) Matplotlib
3 5 (6.17%) Pandas
3 5 (6.17%) React
3 5 (6.17%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.70%) Next.js
4 3 (3.70%) Svelte
4 3 (3.70%) SvelteKit
5 2 (2.47%) .NET
5 2 (2.47%) CSS
5 2 (2.47%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.47%) HTML
6 1 (1.23%) Kafka
6 1 (1.23%) Node.js
6 1 (1.23%) PySpark
6 1 (1.23%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) AI Agents
2 6 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.23%) Blog
4 1 (1.23%) FPGA
4 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Linux
1 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) AI
2 17 (20.99%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (18.52%) LLM
4 14 (17.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 13 (16.05%) Machine Learning
6 10 (12.35%) Analytics
6 10 (12.35%) Mentoring
7 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.88%) Agile
8 8 (9.88%) DevOps
9 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.41%) Data Analytics
10 6 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (7.41%) Data Privacy
10 6 (7.41%) Prompt Engineering
10 6 (7.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 6 (7.41%) Workflow
11 5 (6.17%) Conversational UI
11 5 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.27%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) Java
2 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.70%) Bash
3 3 (3.70%) C++
3 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.47%) C
4 2 (2.47%) R
5 1 (1.23%) C#
5 1 (1.23%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.23%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.23%) Rust
5 1 (1.23%) Scala
5 1 (1.23%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.64%) AWS Certification
2 7 (8.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (3.70%) CISSP
3 3 (3.70%) CREST Certified
3 3 (3.70%) Degree
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.70%) SANS
4 2 (2.47%) PhD
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Databricks
2 6 (7.41%) Google
3 3 (3.70%) Foundry
3 3 (3.70%) Meraki
4 2 (2.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) Altera