Python Jobs in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 116 208 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.65% 13.62% 16.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.22% 34.44% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 58 133 184
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £68,116
Median % change year-on-year - -15.59% +13.53%
75th Percentile £76,590 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £81,700 £96,539 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £58,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -23.08% +8.33%

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 360 604 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.26% 39.55% 44.50%
Number of salaries quoted 254 463 606
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,610 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £82,688 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.62%) SAS
2 4 (3.45%) Apache
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) LaTeX
2 1 (0.86%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) AWS
2 17 (14.66%) Azure
3 15 (12.93%) GCP
4 10 (8.62%) GitHub
5 9 (7.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (7.76%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.17%) SaaS
7 5 (4.31%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (3.45%) CloudBees
8 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.72%) Apigee
10 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.72%) dbt
10 2 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.86%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
1 10 (8.62%) Tableau
2 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.45%) Big Data
3 4 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.59%) Power BI
5 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.72%) Looker
5 2 (1.72%) MySQL
6 1 (0.86%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Git
2 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.31%) GitLab
3 5 (4.31%) JUnit
4 3 (2.59%) Selenium
4 3 (2.59%) TestNG
5 2 (1.72%) Maven
5 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.86%) JIRA
6 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 52 (44.83%) Finance
2 39 (33.62%) Banking
3 38 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
4 22 (18.97%) Legal
5 13 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.90%) Front Office
7 6 (5.17%) Tech for Good
8 5 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.45%) Marketing
9 4 (3.45%) Retail
9 4 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (2.59%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.59%) Social Science
11 1 (0.86%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.86%) Games
11 1 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (19.83%) Senior
2 15 (12.93%) Analyst
3 14 (12.07%) Developer
4 12 (10.34%) Graduate
5 10 (8.62%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.76%) Lead
7 7 (6.03%) Data Science Graduate
7 7 (6.03%) Risk Manager
8 6 (5.17%) Architect
8 6 (5.17%) Audit Manager
8 6 (5.17%) Risk Officer
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Credit Risk Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) PySpark
1 8 (6.90%) RESTful
2 7 (6.03%) REST
3 6 (5.17%) React
4 5 (4.31%) HTML
4 5 (4.31%) Kafka
5 4 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.45%) JSON
5 4 (3.45%) Middleware
5 4 (3.45%) Spring
5 4 (3.45%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.59%) OpenFin
6 3 (2.59%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.59%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.72%) Google JAX
7 2 (1.72%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.72%) JAX
7 2 (1.72%) NumPy
7 2 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Algorithms
2 13 (11.21%) Credit Risk
3 12 (10.34%) Learning Management System
4 8 (6.90%) Mobile App
5 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.31%) Hackathon
7 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.45%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.72%) IVR
8 2 (1.72%) Life Science
8 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.97%) Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Unix
3 2 (1.72%) VMS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.21%) Agile
2 35 (30.17%) Artificial Intelligence
3 32 (27.59%) Analytics
4 29 (25.00%) DevOps
4 29 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.41%) Data Science
5 26 (22.41%) Machine Learning
6 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.97%) CI/CD
7 22 (18.97%) Decision-Making
8 21 (18.10%) Mathematics
9 18 (15.52%) Statistical Modelling
10 17 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (13.79%) Data Engineering
11 16 (13.79%) Project Management
11 16 (13.79%) Visualisation
12 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
12 13 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (11.21%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.34%) SQL
2 30 (25.86%) Java
3 19 (16.38%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.03%) C#
4 7 (6.03%) C++
5 6 (5.17%) C
5 6 (5.17%) VBA
6 5 (4.31%) Go
6 5 (4.31%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.31%) R
6 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.72%) Elixir
7 2 (1.72%) F#
7 2 (1.72%) Ruby
7 2 (1.72%) Scala
8 1 (0.86%) Bash
8 1 (0.86%) JCL
8 1 (0.86%) Perl
8 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (34.48%) Degree
2 22 (18.97%) Master's Degree
3 21 (18.10%) PhD
4 3 (2.59%) CISA
4 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.86%) ACCA
5 1 (0.86%) CEH
5 1 (0.86%) CFA
5 1 (0.86%) CISM
5 1 (0.86%) CISSP
5 1 (0.86%) GIAC
5 1 (0.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) GDPR
3 4 (3.45%) CRD IV
3 4 (3.45%) IFRS
3 4 (3.45%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.86%) ECSS
5 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (16.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.48%) Terraform
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) Istio
5 1 (0.86%) Grafana
5 1 (0.86%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.62%) Google
2 10 (8.62%) IBM
3 5 (4.31%) Databricks
4 4 (3.45%) Blue Prism
4 4 (3.45%) IBM Sterling
4 4 (3.45%) UiPath
5 3 (2.59%) Oracle
6 2 (1.72%) Genesys
6 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.72%) Verint
7 1 (0.86%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.86%) Splunk