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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 63 126 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.31% 16.43% 12.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.37% 49.80% 33.06%
Number of salaries quoted 37 19 89
10th Percentile - £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £79,225
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £63,451 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.90% -23.08% +13.04%

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 133 253 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.20% 32.99% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 90 101 261
10th Percentile - £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £90,000 £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.31%

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 2 October 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 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) Azure
2 11 (17.46%) Azure AI
3 10 (15.87%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.94%) GCP
6 4 (6.35%) dbt
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.17%) IaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Dagster
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.59%) PaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Prefect
9 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) DNS
1 6 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (3.17%) BIG-IP
3 2 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.59%) BGP
4 1 (1.59%) Broadband
4 1 (1.59%) DHCP
4 1 (1.59%) IPsec
4 1 (1.59%) OSPF
4 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.59%) SSL
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Tableau
3 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.76%) DuckDB
4 3 (4.76%) Parquet
5 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 26 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Law
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Electronics
7 1 (1.59%) Games
7 1 (1.59%) Local Government
7 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Senior
2 17 (26.98%) Developer
3 16 (25.40%) Python Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Django Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Python/Django Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Analyst
6 8 (12.70%) Site Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Junior
7 4 (6.35%) Junior Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Junior Data Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Principal Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) Django
2 5 (7.94%) React
3 3 (4.76%) Next.js
3 3 (4.76%) Svelte
3 3 (4.76%) SvelteKit
3 3 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (1.59%) .NET
4 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.52%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.59%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.59%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.59%) FPGA
5 1 (1.59%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
1 5 (7.94%) Unix
2 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) AI
2 19 (30.16%) Software Engineering
3 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
4 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 8 (12.70%) Observability
5 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (11.11%) Analytics
6 7 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 7 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 7 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (11.11%) LLM
7 6 (9.52%) Agile
7 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.94%) DevOps
8 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.94%) Statistics
8 5 (7.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
2 4 (6.35%) Java
2 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.17%) ActionScript
3 2 (3.17%) MATLAB
3 2 (3.17%) R
3 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.59%) C
4 1 (1.59%) C#
4 1 (1.59%) C++
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded C++
4 1 (1.59%) Go
4 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.59%) Rust
4 1 (1.59%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 8 (12.70%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MCT
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PhD
6 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
1 1 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Ansible
1 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Databricks
2 4 (6.35%) Google
2 4 (6.35%) YouTube
3 3 (4.76%) Foundry
3 3 (4.76%) Meraki
3 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.17%) F5
5 1 (1.59%) Altera
5 1 (1.59%) Fortinet