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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 27 14
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 80 82 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.57% 9.61% 10.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.24% 33.74% 27.55%
Number of salaries quoted 51 29 122
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,360 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £82,751 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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 173 243 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.37% 28.49% 37.15%
Number of salaries quoted 121 154 427
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,625 £43,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,118 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,833 £73,886
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +5.51% -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 29 June 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 6 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.25%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.50%) Apache
5 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Azure
2 25 (31.25%) Azure AI
3 21 (26.25%) AWS
4 20 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (13.75%) GitHub
6 8 (10.00%) GCP
7 6 (7.50%) dbt
8 5 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.75%) PaaS
11 2 (2.50%) Apigee
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Composer
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Run
11 2 (2.50%) Dataform
12 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.00%) Tableau
2 20 (25.00%) Power BI
3 5 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.75%) Big Data
4 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.50%) Metadata
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.25%) Multimedia
5 5 (6.25%) Retail
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Analyst
1 21 (26.25%) Data Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Junior
3 16 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
3 16 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 15 (18.75%) Developer
4 15 (18.75%) Trainee
5 12 (15.00%) Python Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Data Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Senior
9 6 (7.50%) Django Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Python/Django Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 5 (6.25%) Programmer
10 5 (6.25%) Trainee Analyst
10 5 (6.25%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 5 (6.25%) Trainee Programmer
11 4 (5.00%) Lead
11 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) CSS
1 6 (7.50%) Django
1 6 (7.50%) HTML
1 6 (7.50%) NumPy
1 6 (7.50%) scikit-learn
2 5 (6.25%) Hugging Face
2 5 (6.25%) Matplotlib
2 5 (6.25%) Pandas
2 5 (6.25%) Streamlit
3 3 (3.75%) React
4 2 (2.50%) .NET
4 2 (2.50%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
5 1 (1.25%) CrewAI
5 1 (1.25%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.25%) Node.js
5 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.25%) SvelteKit
5 1 (1.25%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Algorithms
1 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.25%) Blog
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.25%) AI
2 19 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 14 (17.50%) Machine Learning
4 13 (16.25%) LLM
4 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
5 11 (13.75%) Analytics
6 8 (10.00%) Agile
7 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.75%) DevOps
8 6 (7.50%) Data Analytics
8 6 (7.50%) Data Modelling
8 6 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (7.50%) Data Privacy
8 6 (7.50%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (7.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (7.50%) Workflow
9 5 (6.25%) OOP
9 5 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.25%) Java
3 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.00%) Bash
5 3 (3.75%) R
6 2 (2.50%) C++
6 2 (2.50%) Scala
7 1 (1.25%) C
7 1 (1.25%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.25%) Rust
7 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Azure Certification
2 10 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.00%) CISSP
4 4 (5.00%) CREST Certified
4 4 (5.00%) SANS
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) MCT
7 1 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Databricks
3 5 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.25%) FIS
6 1 (1.25%) Meraki