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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 101 159 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.32% 12.61% 17.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.69% 32.72% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17 100 171
10th Percentile £32,300 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £37,000 £46,597 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £76,896
90th Percentile £87,650 £87,750 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,451
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.92% -0.92%

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 226 486 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 29.82% 38.54% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 292 400
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £60,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £76,284
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £88,860
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

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

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 16 September 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 9 (8.91%) Confluence
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.98%) CICS
4 2 (1.98%) SAS
4 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.98%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.98%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.99%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (4.95%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (54.46%) Azure
2 31 (30.69%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (22.77%) GitHub
4 22 (21.78%) Snowflake
5 20 (19.80%) AWS
6 17 (16.83%) Power Platform
7 16 (15.84%) Entra ID
8 12 (11.88%) OCI
9 10 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (7.92%) SaaS
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (5.94%) GCP
11 6 (5.94%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.95%) Boomi
12 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (4.95%) Mimecast
13 4 (3.96%) Azure App Service
13 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) DNS
1 4 (3.96%) Firewall
1 4 (3.96%) VPN
2 2 (1.98%) Internet
3 1 (0.99%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.78%) Tableau
2 17 (16.83%) Power BI
3 12 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.98%) Big Data
6 2 (1.98%) DB2
6 2 (1.98%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.99%) Metadata
7 1 (0.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.99%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (21.78%) JIRA
2 14 (13.86%) Git
2 14 (13.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.88%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (4.95%) ER Studio
4 5 (4.95%) ERwin
5 2 (1.98%) GitLab
5 2 (1.98%) JUnit
5 2 (1.98%) Maven
5 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.99%) LabVIEW
General
1 74 (73.27%) Finance
2 31 (30.69%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Legal
5 10 (9.90%) Marketing
6 9 (8.91%) Front Office
7 7 (6.93%) Banking
8 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.98%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.98%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) Games
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.79%) Senior
2 16 (15.84%) Analyst
2 16 (15.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Applications Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Developer
4 10 (9.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.95%) Data Modeller
6 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (3.96%) Development Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.96%) Risk Manager
7 4 (3.96%) Risk Officer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) RESTful
2 11 (10.89%) SAML
2 11 (10.89%) SOAP
3 10 (9.90%) REST
4 7 (6.93%) JSON
5 6 (5.94%) OAuth
5 6 (5.94%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.94%) XML
6 5 (4.95%) Web Services
7 4 (3.96%) .NET
7 4 (3.96%) ADO
7 4 (3.96%) Middleware
7 4 (3.96%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.97%) HTML
9 2 (1.98%) CSS
9 2 (1.98%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.98%) Spring
9 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.99%) CherryPy
10 1 (0.99%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 33 (32.67%) Product Ownership
2 14 (13.86%) Onboarding
3 12 (11.88%) Cloud Native
3 12 (11.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.96%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.97%) Market Risk
7 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.98%) Clustering
8 2 (1.98%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.98%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.98%) Replication
9 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.99%) FPGA
9 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.99%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) VMS
3 3 (2.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (53.47%) Agile
2 51 (50.50%) Coaching
2 51 (50.50%) DevOps
3 50 (49.50%) Asset Management
4 32 (31.68%) CI/CD
5 30 (29.70%) Analytics
6 27 (26.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (25.74%) Artificial Intelligence
7 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (22.77%) Roadmaps
9 21 (20.79%) Test Automation
10 20 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (15.84%) Translating Business Requirements
13 15 (14.85%) Mentoring
13 15 (14.85%) Observability
14 14 (13.86%) Business Strategy
14 14 (13.86%) Data Governance
14 14 (13.86%) Mathematics
15 13 (12.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.50%) SQL
2 23 (22.77%) Java
3 22 (21.78%) PowerShell
4 20 (19.80%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.87%) Shell Script
6 12 (11.88%) PL/SQL
7 10 (9.90%) Bash
8 6 (5.94%) C
9 5 (4.95%) C++
10 4 (3.96%) Bicep
10 4 (3.96%) R
11 3 (2.97%) C#
12 2 (1.98%) Go
12 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.99%) Cypher
13 1 (0.99%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Degree
2 9 (8.91%) Master's Degree
3 8 (7.92%) PhD
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.99%) ACCA
5 1 (0.99%) CFA
5 1 (0.99%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) QA
2 9 (8.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.95%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.99%) ECSS
System Software
1 17 (16.83%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.98%) RACF
Systems Management
1 35 (34.65%) Terraform
2 17 (16.83%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (15.84%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.94%) Grafana
5 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.98%) Ansible
7 2 (1.98%) Istio
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
1 16 (15.84%) Oracle
2 7 (6.93%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.94%) Okta
4 5 (4.95%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.95%) Workday
5 4 (3.96%) IBM
5 4 (3.96%) Splunk
6 3 (2.97%) Genesys
6 3 (2.97%) Verint
7 2 (1.98%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.99%) Cadence