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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 198 142 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.77% 13.27% 14.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.14% 31.28% 30.51%
Number of salaries quoted 70 63 123
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,930 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +9.09% -15.38%

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 459 454 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.87% 42.43% 46.06%
Number of salaries quoted 196 253 435
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,890 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,779 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.27% -7.35%

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 22 February 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 15 (7.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (4.04%) Confluence
3 7 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.53%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.51%) CICS
7 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (3.03%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.51%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 159 (80.30%) Azure
2 92 (46.46%) GitHub
3 70 (35.35%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (30.81%) AWS
5 44 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 38 (19.19%) Snowflake
7 33 (16.67%) OCI
8 32 (16.16%) Entra ID
9 29 (14.65%) GitHub Copilot
10 28 (14.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (10.10%) dbt
13 15 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (6.57%) Datadog
14 13 (6.57%) GCP
15 10 (5.05%) Azure AI
16 9 (4.55%) SaaS
17 8 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
17 8 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
18 7 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.61%) Internet
2 6 (3.03%) Firewall
3 4 (2.02%) BGP
3 4 (2.02%) LAN
3 4 (2.02%) MPLS
3 4 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.02%) WAN
3 4 (2.02%) Wireless
4 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.01%) DNS
5 2 (1.01%) VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (24.24%) Tableau
2 44 (22.22%) Power BI
3 21 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (7.07%) Data Mining
5 11 (5.56%) Metadata
6 8 (4.04%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.02%) Redis
9 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.51%) Big Data
10 1 (0.51%) DB2
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (21.72%) Jenkins
2 36 (18.18%) Git
3 33 (16.67%) JIRA
3 33 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
4 10 (5.05%) ER Studio
4 10 (5.05%) ERwin
5 6 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) JMeter
6 1 (0.51%) Locust
General
1 141 (71.21%) Finance
2 41 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.61%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.53%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.53%) Retail
6 4 (2.02%) Marketing
7 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (25.25%) Applications Engineer
2 48 (24.24%) Senior
3 40 (20.20%) Trainee
4 35 (17.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (16.16%) Analyst
6 24 (12.12%) Data Analyst
7 20 (10.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) Trainee Analyst
8 14 (7.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Development Engineer
10 11 (5.56%) Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Junior
10 11 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (5.56%) Trainee Software Developer
11 10 (5.05%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) Data Modeller
11 10 (5.05%) Junior Analyst
11 10 (5.05%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (5.05%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.67%) RESTful
2 24 (12.12%) SOAP
3 22 (11.11%) CSS
3 22 (11.11%) HTML
4 21 (10.61%) SAML
5 18 (9.09%) JSON
5 18 (9.09%) XML
6 15 (7.58%) OAuth
6 15 (7.58%) OAuth2
7 14 (7.07%) .NET
8 12 (6.06%) ADO
9 8 (4.04%) YAML
10 7 (3.54%) Django
10 7 (3.54%) Web Services
11 6 (3.03%) NumPy
11 6 (3.03%) REST
11 6 (3.03%) scikit-learn
12 5 (2.53%) Node.js
12 5 (2.53%) Pandas
12 5 (2.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 41 (20.71%) Cloud Native
3 34 (17.17%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (8.08%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.04%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.51%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.53%) Linux
2 4 (2.02%) Unix
3 2 (1.01%) VMS
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.57%) Coaching
2 111 (56.06%) Asset Management
3 107 (54.04%) DevOps
4 100 (50.51%) Agile
5 84 (42.42%) CI/CD
6 68 (34.34%) AI
7 59 (29.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (29.29%) Analytics
9 49 (24.75%) Test Automation
10 48 (24.24%) Mentoring
11 47 (23.74%) Observability
12 43 (21.72%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (20.71%) Data Governance
14 36 (18.18%) Roadmaps
15 33 (16.67%) API Integration
15 33 (16.67%) ERP
16 31 (15.66%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 29 (14.65%) Data Modelling
18 29 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 109 (55.05%) SQL
2 51 (25.76%) PowerShell
3 40 (20.20%) JavaScript
4 37 (18.69%) Java
5 33 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 33 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 24 (12.12%) Bash
7 11 (5.56%) R
8 7 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) Bicep
9 2 (1.01%) C#
9 2 (1.01%) Scala
9 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (15.66%) Azure Certification
2 26 (13.13%) AWS Certification
2 26 (13.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.05%) CISSP
4 10 (5.05%) CREST Certified
4 10 (5.05%) SANS
5 6 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.03%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) CEH
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) Degree
6 1 (0.51%) GIAC
6 1 (0.51%) GREM
6 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.57%) QA
3 10 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.03%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (9.60%) Docker
2 18 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) RACF
Systems Management
1 83 (41.92%) Terraform
2 39 (19.70%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (9.09%) Grafana
4 17 (8.59%) Kubernetes
5 16 (8.08%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.53%) Ansible
8 3 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.51%) QRadar
Vendors
1 89 (44.95%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.67%) Oracle
3 18 (9.09%) Okta
4 11 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.05%) Databricks
6 6 (3.03%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.03%) Splunk
6 6 (3.03%) Workday
7 4 (2.02%) F5
7 4 (2.02%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.02%) Google
7 4 (2.02%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.51%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.51%) FIS
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI