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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 194 158 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 18.18% 14.27% 17.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.99% 33.26% 36.86%
Number of salaries quoted 52 72 136
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £68,724
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -12.69% +9.96%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £84,292
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £98,269
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -3.81%

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 441 475 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.33% 42.91% 46.85%
Number of salaries quoted 168 247 397
10th Percentile £27,475 £39,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £33,952 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £57,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -12.01% +4.56%
75th Percentile £77,890 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +0.91% -7.60% +2.97%

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 15 January 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 17 (8.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (6.19%) Confluence
3 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.12%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CICS
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (13.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 37 (19.07%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (4.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 171 (88.14%) Azure
2 96 (49.48%) GitHub
3 82 (42.27%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (28.87%) AWS
5 44 (22.68%) Snowflake
6 43 (22.16%) Power Platform
7 38 (19.59%) Entra ID
8 37 (19.07%) OCI
9 31 (15.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 28 (14.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (10.31%) dbt
11 20 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (7.73%) Datadog
14 11 (5.67%) GCP
15 10 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (5.15%) SaaS
16 8 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.82%) Internet
2 8 (4.12%) Firewall
3 4 (2.06%) BGP
3 4 (2.06%) DNS
3 4 (2.06%) LAN
3 4 (2.06%) MPLS
3 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.06%) VPN
3 4 (2.06%) WAN
3 4 (2.06%) Wireless
4 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.16%) Power BI
1 43 (22.16%) Tableau
2 24 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.67%) Metadata
4 9 (4.64%) Data Mining
5 7 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.06%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.52%) DB2
8 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (22.16%) Jenkins
2 41 (21.13%) JIRA
3 38 (19.59%) Git
4 37 (19.07%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (6.19%) ER Studio
5 12 (6.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) Locust
General
1 147 (75.77%) Finance
2 37 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.82%) Multimedia
4 8 (4.12%) Marketing
5 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (26.80%) Senior
2 50 (25.77%) Applications Engineer
3 41 (21.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (15.46%) Trainee
5 26 (13.40%) Analyst
6 24 (12.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.22%) Data Analyst
7 14 (7.22%) Development Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) Data Modeller
9 11 (5.67%) Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Software Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Trainee Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Trainee Software Developer
10 9 (4.64%) Trainee Analyst
10 9 (4.64%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 8 (4.12%) Business Analyst
11 8 (4.12%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.07%) RESTful
2 28 (14.43%) SOAP
3 25 (12.89%) SAML
4 21 (10.82%) CSS
4 21 (10.82%) HTML
5 20 (10.31%) JSON
5 20 (10.31%) XML
6 17 (8.76%) OAuth
6 17 (8.76%) OAuth2
7 14 (7.22%) .NET
7 14 (7.22%) ADO
8 9 (4.64%) Web Services
9 8 (4.12%) REST
9 8 (4.12%) YAML
10 7 (3.61%) Django
11 4 (2.06%) Node.js
11 4 (2.06%) React
12 3 (1.55%) Kafka
13 1 (0.52%) Gherkin
13 1 (0.52%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (29.38%) Product Ownership
2 44 (22.68%) Cloud Native
3 38 (19.59%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (11.34%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.61%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Linux
2 4 (2.06%) Unix
2 4 (2.06%) VMS
3 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (68.04%) Coaching
2 131 (67.53%) Asset Management
3 121 (62.37%) DevOps
4 115 (59.28%) Agile
5 91 (46.91%) CI/CD
6 69 (35.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (34.02%) AI
8 58 (29.90%) Analytics
9 53 (27.32%) Test Automation
10 52 (26.80%) Mentoring
11 51 (26.29%) Observability
12 43 (22.16%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (22.16%) Data Governance
13 37 (19.07%) API Integration
13 37 (19.07%) ERP
13 37 (19.07%) Roadmaps
14 35 (18.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (17.01%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (15.46%) Business Strategy
16 30 (15.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (55.15%) SQL
2 54 (27.84%) PowerShell
3 43 (22.16%) JavaScript
4 41 (21.13%) Java
5 37 (19.07%) PL/SQL
5 37 (19.07%) Shell Script
6 24 (12.37%) Bash
7 10 (5.15%) R
8 7 (3.61%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.03%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) C#
11 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (13.40%) Azure Certification
2 21 (10.82%) AWS Certification
2 21 (10.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 21 (10.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.09%) CISSP
3 6 (3.09%) CREST Certified
3 6 (3.09%) SANS
3 6 (3.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) CEH
4 1 (0.52%) GIAC
4 1 (0.52%) GREM
4 1 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.92%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.73%) QA
3 10 (5.15%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (11.86%) Docker
2 20 (10.31%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) RACF
Systems Management
1 95 (48.97%) Terraform
2 45 (23.20%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (10.31%) Grafana
3 20 (10.31%) Kubernetes
4 18 (9.28%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.58%) Ansible
7 3 (1.55%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (38.14%) Microsoft
2 37 (19.07%) Oracle
3 20 (10.31%) Okta
4 13 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.15%) Databricks
6 8 (4.12%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.12%) Workday
7 6 (3.09%) Splunk
8 4 (2.06%) F5
8 4 (2.06%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.06%) Google
8 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.52%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.52%) IBM