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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 155 109 175
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 12.81% 11.78% 12.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.01% 30.11% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 68 57 133
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £29,563 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% -4.17% -10.16%
75th Percentile £79,092 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £81,850 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £48,598 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.00% +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 378 362 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 31.24% 39.14% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 177 260 471
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,433 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,250 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16 April 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 8 (5.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.23%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (20.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (10.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 112 (72.26%) Azure
2 66 (42.58%) GitHub
3 47 (30.32%) AWS
4 40 (25.81%) Power Platform
5 34 (21.94%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (16.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (16.13%) Azure AI
8 22 (14.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 20 (12.90%) Snowflake
10 19 (12.26%) dbt
11 18 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (10.32%) GCP
12 16 (10.32%) OCI
13 11 (7.10%) Datadog
14 10 (6.45%) Entra ID
15 8 (5.16%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (4.52%) Power Automate
17 6 (3.87%) PaaS
18 5 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.97%) Internet
2 3 (1.94%) BGP
2 3 (1.94%) Firewall
2 3 (1.94%) LAN
2 3 (1.94%) MPLS
2 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.94%) WAN
2 3 (1.94%) Wireless
3 2 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.45%) Tableau
2 40 (25.81%) Power BI
3 11 (7.10%) Data Mining
4 10 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.81%) Metadata
6 8 (5.16%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.94%) Big Data
9 3 (1.94%) Redis
10 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (15.48%) Git
2 23 (14.84%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.32%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (7.74%) JIRA
5 6 (3.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.58%) ER Studio
6 4 (2.58%) ERwin
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) JMeter
7 1 (0.65%) Locust
General
1 79 (50.97%) Finance
2 49 (31.61%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.97%) Multimedia
5 6 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.23%) Retail
7 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Trainee
2 32 (20.65%) Senior
3 31 (20.00%) Analyst
3 31 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 30 (19.35%) Applications Engineer
5 21 (13.55%) Junior
6 20 (12.90%) Junior Analyst
6 20 (12.90%) Junior Data Analyst
7 16 (10.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (7.10%) Trainee Analyst
8 11 (7.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (6.45%) Development Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) Developer
10 9 (5.81%) Lead
10 9 (5.81%) Trainee Developer
11 8 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.16%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.61%) CSS
1 18 (11.61%) HTML
2 16 (10.32%) RESTful
3 12 (7.74%) .NET
4 10 (6.45%) ADO
5 8 (5.16%) JSON
5 8 (5.16%) OAuth
5 8 (5.16%) OAuth2
5 8 (5.16%) SAML
5 8 (5.16%) SOAP
5 8 (5.16%) XML
5 8 (5.16%) YAML
6 6 (3.87%) NumPy
6 6 (3.87%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.23%) Django
7 5 (3.23%) Hugging Face
7 5 (3.23%) Matplotlib
7 5 (3.23%) Pandas
7 5 (3.23%) React
7 5 (3.23%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.97%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.16%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.87%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.65%) Autonomous Agent
12 1 (0.65%) Blog
12 1 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (41.29%) DevOps
2 60 (38.71%) AI
3 59 (38.06%) CI/CD
4 55 (35.48%) Agile
4 55 (35.48%) Coaching
5 54 (34.84%) Asset Management
6 39 (25.16%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (23.87%) Analytics
7 37 (23.87%) Test Automation
8 36 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (20.65%) Observability
10 31 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 26 (16.77%) Data Modelling
12 24 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (13.55%) Data Governance
13 21 (13.55%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (13.55%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (11.61%) Data Analysis
16 17 (10.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.55%) SQL
2 28 (18.06%) JavaScript
3 24 (15.48%) Java
4 22 (14.19%) PowerShell
5 16 (10.32%) PL/SQL
5 16 (10.32%) Shell Script
6 9 (5.81%) Bash
6 9 (5.81%) R
7 7 (4.52%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.94%) Scala
9 2 (1.29%) C#
9 2 (1.29%) C++
9 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (27.10%) Azure Certification
2 22 (14.19%) AWS Certification
2 22 (14.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 17 (10.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.52%) CISSP
4 7 (4.52%) CREST Certified
4 7 (4.52%) SANS
5 4 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.94%) Degree
7 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.65%) CEH
8 1 (0.65%) GIAC
8 1 (0.65%) GREM
8 1 (0.65%) OSCP
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.32%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.39%) Data Quality
3 11 (7.10%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (9.03%) Docker
2 8 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (30.32%) Terraform
2 16 (10.32%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 14 (9.03%) Grafana
5 13 (8.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.94%) Ansible
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.65%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 75 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.32%) Oracle
3 12 (7.74%) Databricks
4 8 (5.16%) Google
4 8 (5.16%) Okta
5 4 (2.58%) Splunk
6 3 (1.94%) F5
6 3 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.94%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.65%) FIS