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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 168 117 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 14.24% 12.00% 12.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.58% 30.79% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 73 56 120
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £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 £78,790 £75,770 £79,700
90th Percentile £88,750 £79,648 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +13.21% -18.46%

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 414 380 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.08% 38.97% 43.45%
Number of salaries quoted 194 257 450
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,375 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 20 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 10 (5.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.98%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.19%) Apache
6 2 (1.19%) Confluence
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (17.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (13.10%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.19%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 122 (72.62%) Azure
2 75 (44.64%) GitHub
3 54 (32.14%) AWS
4 45 (26.79%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (22.02%) Power Platform
6 26 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (15.48%) Snowflake
7 24 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 22 (13.10%) OCI
9 21 (12.50%) dbt
10 19 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (10.71%) Entra ID
12 16 (9.52%) GCP
13 14 (8.33%) Azure AI
14 11 (6.55%) Datadog
15 8 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (4.17%) Power Automate
16 7 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.31%) Internet
2 4 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.79%) BGP
3 3 (1.79%) Firewall
3 3 (1.79%) LAN
3 3 (1.79%) MPLS
3 3 (1.79%) WAN
3 3 (1.79%) Wireless
4 2 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.21%) Tableau
2 37 (22.02%) Power BI
3 14 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (7.14%) Data Mining
5 11 (6.55%) Metadata
6 8 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.38%) Redis
10 3 (1.79%) Big Data
11 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 28 (16.67%) Git
3 22 (13.10%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (10.71%) JIRA
5 6 (3.57%) ER Studio
5 6 (3.57%) ERwin
5 6 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) Locust
General
1 100 (59.52%) Finance
2 40 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.31%) Multimedia
5 7 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.98%) Retail
7 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 39 (23.21%) Senior
2 38 (22.62%) Applications Engineer
3 36 (21.43%) Trainee
4 28 (16.67%) Analyst
5 26 (15.48%) Data Analyst
6 22 (13.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) Junior
8 14 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
8 14 (8.33%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 12 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (6.55%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.95%) Developer
11 10 (5.95%) Development Engineer
11 10 (5.95%) Trainee Developer
12 9 (5.36%) Security Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.36%) Trainee Software Developer
13 8 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.10%) RESTful
2 20 (11.90%) CSS
2 20 (11.90%) HTML
3 14 (8.33%) SOAP
4 12 (7.14%) .NET
4 12 (7.14%) JSON
4 12 (7.14%) SAML
4 12 (7.14%) XML
5 10 (5.95%) ADO
5 10 (5.95%) OAuth
5 10 (5.95%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.76%) YAML
7 7 (4.17%) Django
8 6 (3.57%) NumPy
8 6 (3.57%) React
8 6 (3.57%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.98%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.98%) Matplotlib
9 5 (2.98%) Node.js
9 5 (2.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.69%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (13.69%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.95%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.76%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.19%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.60%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.60%) Blog
11 1 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (46.43%) DevOps
2 73 (43.45%) Coaching
3 72 (42.86%) Agile
3 72 (42.86%) Asset Management
4 67 (39.88%) CI/CD
5 56 (33.33%) AI
6 44 (26.19%) Analytics
7 43 (25.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 39 (23.21%) Mentoring
10 37 (22.02%) Observability
11 36 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (17.26%) Data Governance
13 27 (16.07%) Data Modelling
14 26 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (13.10%) API Integration
16 22 (13.10%) ERP
17 21 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 89 (52.98%) SQL
2 32 (19.05%) JavaScript
2 32 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 29 (17.26%) Java
4 22 (13.10%) PL/SQL
4 22 (13.10%) Shell Script
5 15 (8.93%) Bash
6 10 (5.95%) R
7 7 (4.17%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.19%) C#
8 2 (1.19%) C++
8 2 (1.19%) Scala
8 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (19.64%) Azure Certification
2 24 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 24 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 19 (11.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.36%) CISSP
4 9 (5.36%) CREST Certified
4 9 (5.36%) SANS
5 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.79%) Degree
7 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) CEH
8 1 (0.60%) GIAC
8 1 (0.60%) GREM
8 1 (0.60%) OSCP
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.55%) QA
4 2 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.93%) Docker
2 12 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (35.71%) Terraform
2 24 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (8.93%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.33%) Grafana
5 13 (7.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.79%) Ansible
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.60%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 78 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.10%) Oracle
3 12 (7.14%) Okta
4 11 (6.55%) Databricks
5 9 (5.36%) Google
6 5 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.38%) Splunk
8 3 (1.79%) F5
8 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.79%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.19%) Workday
10 1 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.60%) FIS