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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 107 110 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 9.66% 12.67% 12.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.47% 37.93% 30.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48 43 127
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,500 £38,550
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £69,375 £71,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,072 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -23.08%

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 258 290 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.29% 33.41% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 132 186 445
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,188 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 26 May 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 (4.67%) Jupyter
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (26.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.93%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 71 (66.36%) Azure
2 36 (33.64%) GitHub
3 29 (27.10%) Power Platform
4 26 (24.30%) AWS
5 25 (23.36%) Azure AI
6 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (12.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (12.15%) Snowflake
8 10 (9.35%) dbt
8 10 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (9.35%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (9.35%) OCI
9 8 (7.48%) GCP
10 5 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.67%) Datadog
10 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.74%) SaaS
12 3 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (31.78%) Tableau
2 29 (27.10%) Power BI
3 8 (7.48%) Data Mining
4 7 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.61%) Metadata
6 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.80%) Big Data
8 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.87%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) Git
1 14 (13.08%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (6.54%) JIRA
4 6 (5.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (3.74%) ER Studio
5 4 (3.74%) ERwin
General
1 47 (43.93%) Finance
2 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Multimedia
5 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.67%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Analyst
1 27 (25.23%) Data Analyst
2 23 (21.50%) Trainee
3 20 (18.69%) Junior
3 20 (18.69%) Senior
4 19 (17.76%) Junior Analyst
4 19 (17.76%) Junior Data Analyst
5 15 (14.02%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Developer
7 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Trainee Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 5 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Trainee Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) CSS
1 11 (10.28%) HTML
2 10 (9.35%) RESTful
3 7 (6.54%) .NET
4 6 (5.61%) NumPy
4 6 (5.61%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.67%) ADO
5 5 (4.67%) Hugging Face
5 5 (4.67%) JSON
5 5 (4.67%) Matplotlib
5 5 (4.67%) OAuth
5 5 (4.67%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.67%) Pandas
5 5 (4.67%) SAML
5 5 (4.67%) SOAP
5 5 (4.67%) Streamlit
5 5 (4.67%) XML
5 5 (4.67%) YAML
6 2 (1.87%) Django
6 2 (1.87%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.35%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.61%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.93%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.93%) Blog
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.99%) AI
2 32 (29.91%) Agile
2 32 (29.91%) DevOps
3 29 (27.10%) Asset Management
3 29 (27.10%) CI/CD
3 29 (27.10%) Coaching
4 28 (26.17%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (20.56%) Analytics
6 20 (18.69%) Test Automation
7 19 (17.76%) Data Modelling
7 19 (17.76%) Mentoring
8 15 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (14.02%) Data Governance
9 14 (13.08%) Observability
10 13 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (10.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 11 (10.28%) Machine Learning
11 11 (10.28%) RBAC
12 10 (9.35%) API Integration
12 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (56.07%) SQL
2 16 (14.95%) JavaScript
3 15 (14.02%) Java
4 10 (9.35%) PL/SQL
4 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.35%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.61%) R
6 4 (3.74%) Bash
6 4 (3.74%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.87%) C++
7 2 (1.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) C
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.93%) Rust
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (32.71%) Azure Certification
2 15 (14.02%) AWS Certification
2 15 (14.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.74%) CISSP
4 4 (3.74%) CREST Certified
4 4 (3.74%) SANS
5 3 (2.80%) Degree
6 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (22.43%) Terraform
2 10 (9.35%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (7.48%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.67%) Grafana
4 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (53.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Databricks
4 5 (4.67%) Google
4 5 (4.67%) Okta
5 2 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.93%) FIS