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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 187 137 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.97% 13.29% 13.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.02% 31.42% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 68 60 119
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,000
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 £80,625 £77,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,808 £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 445 436 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.00% 42.29% 45.61%
Number of salaries quoted 192 248 435
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,625 £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% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,431 £79,569 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £56,318 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.10% +2.40% -7.60%

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 1 March 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 14 (7.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.21%) Confluence
2 6 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.67%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) CICS
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (16.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (16.58%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.67%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 148 (79.14%) Azure
2 86 (45.99%) GitHub
3 64 (34.22%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (31.02%) AWS
5 42 (22.46%) Power Platform
6 35 (18.72%) Snowflake
7 31 (16.58%) OCI
8 29 (15.51%) Entra ID
9 28 (14.97%) GitHub Copilot
10 27 (14.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (10.70%) dbt
13 13 (6.95%) GCP
13 13 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (6.42%) Datadog
15 11 (5.88%) Azure AI
16 8 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (4.28%) SaaS
17 7 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 7 (3.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.16%) Internet
2 5 (2.67%) Firewall
3 4 (2.14%) BGP
3 4 (2.14%) LAN
3 4 (2.14%) MPLS
3 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.14%) WAN
3 4 (2.14%) Wireless
4 3 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.06%) Tableau
2 42 (22.46%) Power BI
3 19 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.95%) Data Mining
5 11 (5.88%) Metadata
6 8 (4.28%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.14%) Redis
9 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) DB2
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (21.93%) Jenkins
2 33 (17.65%) Git
3 31 (16.58%) Oracle Forms
4 29 (15.51%) JIRA
5 9 (4.81%) ER Studio
5 9 (4.81%) ERwin
6 6 (3.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) Locust
General
1 130 (69.52%) Finance
2 41 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.16%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.67%) Retail
6 2 (1.07%) Marketing
7 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (25.67%) Applications Engineer
2 45 (24.06%) Senior
3 37 (19.79%) Trainee
4 32 (17.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (16.04%) Analyst
6 24 (12.83%) Data Analyst
7 18 (9.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.95%) Trainee Analyst
8 13 (6.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 12 (6.42%) Junior
10 11 (5.88%) Development Engineer
10 11 (5.88%) Junior Analyst
10 11 (5.88%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (5.35%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) Developer
11 10 (5.35%) Security Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) Software Developer
11 10 (5.35%) Trainee Developer
11 10 (5.35%) Trainee Software Developer
12 9 (4.81%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.58%) RESTful
2 22 (11.76%) SOAP
3 20 (10.70%) CSS
3 20 (10.70%) HTML
4 19 (10.16%) SAML
5 17 (9.09%) JSON
5 17 (9.09%) XML
6 14 (7.49%) OAuth
6 14 (7.49%) OAuth2
7 13 (6.95%) .NET
8 11 (5.88%) ADO
9 8 (4.28%) YAML
10 7 (3.74%) Django
11 6 (3.21%) NumPy
11 6 (3.21%) scikit-learn
11 6 (3.21%) Web Services
12 5 (2.67%) Matplotlib
12 5 (2.67%) Node.js
12 5 (2.67%) Pandas
12 5 (2.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.86%) Cloud Native
1 39 (20.86%) Product Ownership
2 32 (17.11%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.95%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.28%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Blog
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Linux
2 4 (2.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.55%) Coaching
2 101 (54.01%) Asset Management
3 99 (52.94%) DevOps
4 92 (49.20%) Agile
5 80 (42.78%) CI/CD
6 65 (34.76%) AI
7 54 (28.88%) Analytics
7 54 (28.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (25.13%) Test Automation
9 45 (24.06%) Observability
10 44 (23.53%) Mentoring
11 41 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (20.86%) Data Governance
13 33 (17.65%) Roadmaps
14 31 (16.58%) API Integration
14 31 (16.58%) ERP
15 28 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (14.97%) Data Modelling
15 28 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (55.08%) SQL
2 47 (25.13%) PowerShell
3 36 (19.25%) Java
3 36 (19.25%) JavaScript
4 31 (16.58%) PL/SQL
4 31 (16.58%) Shell Script
5 22 (11.76%) Bash
6 10 (5.35%) R
7 7 (3.74%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.07%) C#
8 2 (1.07%) Scala
8 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) Bicep
9 1 (0.53%) C++
9 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (16.04%) Azure Certification
2 24 (12.83%) AWS Certification
2 24 (12.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.35%) CISSP
4 10 (5.35%) CREST Certified
4 10 (5.35%) SANS
5 6 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.21%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.07%) Degree
7 1 (0.53%) CEH
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) GIAC
7 1 (0.53%) GREM
7 1 (0.53%) OSCP
7 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.37%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.42%) QA
3 10 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 17 (9.09%) Docker
2 7 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) RACF
Systems Management
1 77 (41.18%) Terraform
2 36 (19.25%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (9.09%) Grafana
4 15 (8.02%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.02%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.67%) Ansible
7 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.58%) Oracle
3 17 (9.09%) Okta
4 10 (5.35%) Databricks
4 10 (5.35%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.21%) Splunk
6 5 (2.67%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.67%) Workday
7 4 (2.14%) F5
7 4 (2.14%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.14%) Google
7 4 (2.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.53%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.53%) FIS
8 1 (0.53%) IBM
8 1 (0.53%) OpenAI