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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 8
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 80 75 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.43% 9.54% 11.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.17% 35.89% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 51 22 110
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,125 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £76,075 £70,938 £79,806
90th Percentile £102,500 £82,751 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 145 209 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.48% 26.59% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 101 126 336
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -4.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £73,914
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £89,375
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 17 August 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
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) Azure
2 21 (26.25%) Azure AI
3 16 (20.00%) AWS
4 14 (17.50%) Power Platform
5 9 (11.25%) GCP
6 7 (8.75%) dbt
7 4 (5.00%) GitHub
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.75%) PaaS
8 3 (3.75%) SaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Apigee
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.50%) Dataform
10 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.25%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.75%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) Internet
4 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) Tableau
2 14 (17.50%) Power BI
3 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.75%) DuckDB
4 3 (3.75%) Parquet
5 2 (2.50%) Big Data
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.50%) Metadata
6 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.25%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Git
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
1 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Legal
5 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.50%) Law
6 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Senior
2 17 (21.25%) Developer
3 16 (20.00%) Analyst
3 16 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 14 (17.50%) Data Analyst
5 12 (15.00%) Junior
5 12 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (15.00%) Junior Data Analyst
6 10 (12.50%) Django Developer
6 10 (12.50%) Python/Django Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Python Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Site Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Data Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Trainee
10 3 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Principal Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) Django
2 4 (5.00%) React
3 3 (3.75%) Next.js
3 3 (3.75%) Svelte
3 3 (3.75%) SvelteKit
4 2 (2.50%) CSS
4 2 (2.50%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.50%) HTML
4 2 (2.50%) Hugging Face
4 2 (2.50%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.50%) NumPy
4 2 (2.50%) Pandas
4 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.50%) Streamlit
5 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.25%) Kafka
5 1 (1.25%) PySpark
5 1 (1.25%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Blog
5 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.25%) FPGA
5 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
1 5 (6.25%) Unix
2 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) AI
2 14 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
2 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
3 11 (13.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 11 (13.75%) LLM
4 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
4 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
5 8 (10.00%) Agile
5 8 (10.00%) Analytics
5 8 (10.00%) DevOps
6 7 (8.75%) Observability
6 7 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (7.50%) Clean Code
7 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (3.75%) C++
3 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.50%) C
4 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.50%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.25%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) Rust
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.75%) Degree
3 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.50%) PhD
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Google
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) Foundry
4 3 (3.75%) Meraki
4 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.75%) YouTube
5 1 (1.25%) Altera
5 1 (1.25%) OpenAI