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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 86 92 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.22% 10.80% 11.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.33% 35.38% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 51 35 131
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,930 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,650 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +12.38% -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 194 260 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.55% 30.52% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 126 167 452
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £49,118 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,125 £74,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £99,250 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.86%

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 14 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 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.81%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.16%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 46 (53.49%) Azure
2 23 (26.74%) AWS
2 23 (26.74%) Azure AI
3 22 (25.58%) Power Platform
4 19 (22.09%) GitHub
5 8 (9.30%) GCP
6 7 (8.14%) dbt
7 6 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.65%) SaaS
10 3 (3.49%) PaaS
10 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.33%) Apigee
11 2 (2.33%) Cloud Composer
11 2 (2.33%) Cloud Run
11 2 (2.33%) Dataform
11 2 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) Internet
2 1 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.40%) Tableau
2 22 (25.58%) Power BI
3 7 (8.14%) Data Mining
4 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.49%) Big Data
5 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.49%) Metadata
6 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.33%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.98%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (3.49%) JIRA
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.16%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.16%) ERwin
General
1 27 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.74%) Finance
3 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.47%) Multimedia
5 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.16%) Games
8 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Analyst
1 23 (26.74%) Data Analyst
2 21 (24.42%) Trainee
3 17 (19.77%) Junior
4 16 (18.60%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (18.60%) Junior Data Analyst
5 14 (16.28%) Developer
6 9 (10.47%) Data Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Python Developer
6 9 (10.47%) Senior
7 8 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Trainee Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 6 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 5 (5.81%) Lead
10 5 (5.81%) Programmer
10 5 (5.81%) Trainee Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Trainee Programmer
11 4 (4.65%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) CSS
1 10 (11.63%) HTML
2 6 (6.98%) NumPy
2 6 (6.98%) scikit-learn
3 5 (5.81%) Hugging Face
3 5 (5.81%) Matplotlib
3 5 (5.81%) Pandas
3 5 (5.81%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.49%) .NET
4 3 (3.49%) Django
5 2 (2.33%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.33%) Kafka
5 2 (2.33%) React
5 2 (2.33%) RESTful
6 1 (1.16%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.16%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.16%) Node.js
6 1 (1.16%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.16%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.16%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.16%) Blog
4 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.16%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) AI
2 21 (24.42%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (18.60%) Mentoring
4 15 (17.44%) Analytics
5 13 (15.12%) Agile
6 12 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 12 (13.95%) DevOps
6 12 (13.95%) Machine Learning
7 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.63%) Data Modelling
7 10 (11.63%) LLM
8 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (9.30%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.14%) Business Analysis
9 7 (8.14%) Data Analysis
9 7 (8.14%) Data Analytics
9 7 (8.14%) Data Engineering
9 7 (8.14%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (8.14%) Project Management
10 6 (6.98%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) SQL
2 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.14%) Java
4 6 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.81%) R
6 4 (4.65%) Bash
7 2 (2.33%) C++
7 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.33%) Scala
7 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) C#
8 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.16%) Rust
8 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (36.05%) Azure Certification
2 14 (16.28%) AWS Certification
2 14 (16.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 10 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.65%) CISSP
4 4 (4.65%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.65%) SANS
5 3 (3.49%) Degree
6 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.16%) MCT
7 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.16%) Grafana
4 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (52.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) Databricks
2 5 (5.81%) Google
3 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (1.16%) FIS
4 1 (1.16%) Foundry
4 1 (1.16%) Okta