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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 124 159 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.17% 12.76% 18.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.21% 33.19% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23 79 166
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £31,625 £47,098 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,770 £79,613 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £41,250 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -36.54% +9.20% -0.79%

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 252 479 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.86% 38.44% 44.10%
Number of salaries quoted 107 243 381
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,625 £73,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £80,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year - -2.34% -0.32%

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 19 October 2025.

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 12 (9.68%) Confluence
2 9 (7.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.61%) CICS
4 2 (1.61%) SAS
4 2 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.61%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.81%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (16.94%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (6.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 87 (70.16%) Azure
2 49 (39.52%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (31.45%) GitHub
4 29 (23.39%) Snowflake
5 28 (22.58%) AWS
5 28 (22.58%) Entra ID
6 24 (19.35%) Power Platform
7 21 (16.94%) OCI
8 16 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (8.06%) SaaS
10 9 (7.26%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (6.45%) Boomi
11 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (6.45%) Mimecast
12 7 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (4.03%) dbt
14 4 (3.23%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Internet
2 5 (4.03%) Firewall
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 4 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) BGP
4 1 (0.81%) LAN
4 1 (0.81%) MPLS
4 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) WAN
4 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.39%) Tableau
2 24 (19.35%) Power BI
3 16 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.23%) Metadata
4 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.42%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.61%) DB2
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.61%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.81%) Big Data
7 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.81%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (25.81%) JIRA
2 24 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 21 (16.94%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (12.10%) Git
5 8 (6.45%) ER Studio
5 8 (6.45%) ERwin
6 1 (0.81%) LabVIEW
General
1 98 (79.03%) Finance
2 32 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.10%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Legal
5 8 (6.45%) Marketing
6 7 (5.65%) Front Office
7 6 (4.84%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.42%) Banking
8 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.61%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Games
10 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (20.97%) Senior
2 25 (20.16%) Applications Engineer
2 25 (20.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (14.52%) Analyst
4 16 (12.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.26%) Trainee
6 8 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.45%) Data Modeller
6 8 (6.45%) Developer
6 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.23%) Risk Manager
8 4 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.94%) RESTful
2 20 (16.13%) SOAP
3 17 (13.71%) SAML
4 13 (10.48%) JSON
5 12 (9.68%) XML
6 11 (8.87%) REST
7 9 (7.26%) OAuth
7 9 (7.26%) OAuth2
7 9 (7.26%) Web Services
8 7 (5.65%) HTML
9 6 (4.84%) CSS
10 4 (3.23%) .NET
10 4 (3.23%) ADO
11 2 (1.61%) Django
11 2 (1.61%) Middleware
11 2 (1.61%) React
11 2 (1.61%) WebSockets
12 1 (0.81%) Kafka
12 1 (0.81%) Node.js
12 1 (0.81%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (36.29%) Product Ownership
2 21 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.94%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 8 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.61%) Clustering
6 2 (1.61%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.61%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) FPGA
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) VMS
2 3 (2.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.10%) Asset Management
1 77 (62.10%) Coaching
2 76 (61.29%) Agile
3 67 (54.03%) DevOps
4 40 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 37 (29.84%) AI
5 37 (29.84%) Analytics
6 35 (28.23%) Roadmaps
7 34 (27.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (21.77%) Mentoring
8 27 (21.77%) Test Automation
9 25 (20.16%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (19.35%) Data Governance
11 23 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (17.74%) Business Strategy
12 22 (17.74%) Observability
12 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (16.94%) API Integration
13 21 (16.94%) ERP
14 20 (16.13%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.00%) SQL
2 38 (30.65%) PowerShell
3 26 (20.97%) Java
4 23 (18.55%) JavaScript
5 21 (16.94%) PL/SQL
5 21 (16.94%) Shell Script
6 19 (15.32%) Bash
7 4 (3.23%) Bicep
7 4 (3.23%) R
8 3 (2.42%) C
8 3 (2.42%) C++
9 1 (0.81%) C#
9 1 (0.81%) Cypher
9 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 12 (9.68%) Degree
2 7 (5.65%) Master's Degree
2 7 (5.65%) PhD
3 6 (4.84%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.42%) CISSP
4 3 (2.42%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.42%) SANS
5 2 (1.61%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.10%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.45%) GDPR
2 8 (6.45%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.87%) Docker
3 8 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.61%) RACF
Systems Management
1 53 (42.74%) Terraform
2 29 (23.39%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (8.06%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (5.65%) Grafana
6 5 (4.03%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.42%) Ansible
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 31 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (19.35%) Oracle
3 12 (9.68%) Okta
4 11 (8.87%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.45%) MuleSoft
5 8 (6.45%) Workday
6 5 (4.03%) Splunk
7 4 (3.23%) IBM
8 2 (1.61%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.81%) Cadence
9 1 (0.81%) F5
9 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.81%) Genesys
9 1 (0.81%) Google
9 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.81%) Verint