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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 80 88 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.67% 10.46% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.20% 34.65% 28.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51 34 129
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,150 £38,750
25th Percentile £34,375 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% -9.62% -
75th Percentile £71,750 £74,645 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,175 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -17.97%

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 181 254 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.35% 30.20% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 128 164 449
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,088 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,125 £74,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £99,625 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +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 June 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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.25%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 38 (47.50%) Azure
2 24 (30.00%) Azure AI
3 21 (26.25%) AWS
4 20 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 13 (16.25%) GitHub
6 8 (10.00%) GCP
7 6 (7.50%) dbt
8 5 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.75%) PaaS
11 2 (2.50%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.50%) Apigee
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Composer
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Run
11 2 (2.50%) Dataform
12 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) Tableau
2 20 (25.00%) Power BI
3 6 (7.50%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.75%) Big Data
4 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.50%) Metadata
5 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
1 6 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Multimedia
5 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.25%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Games
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Analyst
1 22 (27.50%) Data Analyst
2 18 (22.50%) Trainee
3 17 (21.25%) Junior
4 16 (20.00%) Developer
4 16 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 12 (15.00%) Python Developer
6 8 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Django Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Python/Django Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 6 (7.50%) Trainee Analyst
7 6 (7.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 5 (6.25%) Programmer
8 5 (6.25%) Trainee Programmer
9 4 (5.00%) Lead
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) CSS
1 8 (10.00%) HTML
2 6 (7.50%) Django
2 6 (7.50%) NumPy
2 6 (7.50%) scikit-learn
3 5 (6.25%) Hugging Face
3 5 (6.25%) Matplotlib
3 5 (6.25%) Pandas
3 5 (6.25%) Streamlit
4 2 (2.50%) .NET
4 2 (2.50%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 2 (2.50%) React
5 1 (1.25%) CrewAI
5 1 (1.25%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.25%) Node.js
5 1 (1.25%) PySpark
5 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.25%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Algorithms
1 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.25%) Blog
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) AI
2 19 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
4 13 (16.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 13 (16.25%) Machine Learning
5 11 (13.75%) Analytics
5 11 (13.75%) LLM
6 8 (10.00%) Agile
7 7 (8.75%) DevOps
8 6 (7.50%) Business Analysis
8 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.50%) Data Analysis
8 6 (7.50%) Data Analytics
8 6 (7.50%) Data Modelling
8 6 (7.50%) Data Privacy
8 6 (7.50%) Project Management
8 6 (7.50%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (7.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (7.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.25%) Java
3 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.00%) Bash
4 4 (5.00%) R
5 2 (2.50%) C++
5 2 (2.50%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) C
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Rust
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (36.25%) Azure Certification
2 12 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 12 (15.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.00%) CISSP
4 4 (5.00%) CREST Certified
4 4 (5.00%) SANS
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) MCT
7 1 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (48.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Databricks
2 5 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (2.50%) Foundry
3 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.25%) FIS