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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 82 69 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.74% 8.32% 11.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.25% 30.80% 33.79%
Number of salaries quoted 52 23 111
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,269 £72,500 £78,363
90th Percentile £101,750 £82,751 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,875 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.78% +4.55% -15.38%

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 154 224 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.53% 27.02% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 107 146 336
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £82,000 £98,474 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,069 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.97% +4.55% -4.35%

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 8 August 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 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.66%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 30 (36.59%) Azure
2 22 (26.83%) Azure AI
3 17 (20.73%) AWS
4 15 (18.29%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.98%) GCP
6 7 (8.54%) dbt
7 5 (6.10%) GitHub
8 3 (3.66%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (3.66%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.66%) PaaS
8 3 (3.66%) SaaS
9 2 (2.44%) Apigee
9 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.44%) Dataform
9 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) Internet
3 1 (1.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.95%) Tableau
2 15 (18.29%) Power BI
3 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.66%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.66%) DuckDB
4 3 (3.66%) Parquet
5 2 (2.44%) Big Data
5 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.44%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.44%) Metadata
6 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.22%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.85%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.66%) Retail
6 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Law
6 2 (2.44%) Legal
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Electronics
7 1 (1.22%) Games
7 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Senior
2 18 (21.95%) Analyst
3 17 (20.73%) Developer
4 16 (19.51%) Data Analyst
4 16 (19.51%) Python Developer
5 13 (15.85%) Junior
5 13 (15.85%) Junior Analyst
5 13 (15.85%) Junior Data Analyst
6 10 (12.20%) Django Developer
6 10 (12.20%) Python/Django Developer
7 8 (9.76%) Trainee
8 7 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Data Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Site Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 3 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 3 (3.66%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) Django
2 5 (6.10%) React
3 3 (3.66%) Hugging Face
3 3 (3.66%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.66%) Next.js
3 3 (3.66%) NumPy
3 3 (3.66%) Pandas
3 3 (3.66%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.66%) Streamlit
3 3 (3.66%) Svelte
3 3 (3.66%) SvelteKit
4 2 (2.44%) CSS
4 2 (2.44%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.44%) HTML
5 1 (1.22%) .NET
5 1 (1.22%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.22%) Kafka
5 1 (1.22%) Node.js
5 1 (1.22%) PySpark
5 1 (1.22%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) AI Agents
1 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Blog
4 1 (1.22%) FPGA
4 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.22%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.22%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Linux
1 4 (4.88%) Unix
2 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) AI
2 15 (18.29%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (15.85%) Mentoring
4 12 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 12 (14.63%) LLM
4 12 (14.63%) Software Engineering
5 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
6 9 (10.98%) Analytics
6 9 (10.98%) CI/CD
7 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (9.76%) DevOps
8 7 (8.54%) Agile
9 6 (7.32%) Clean Code
9 6 (7.32%) Observability
9 6 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 5 (6.10%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) SQL
2 4 (4.88%) Java
3 3 (3.66%) C++
3 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.44%) C
4 2 (2.44%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.44%) R
4 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.22%) Rust
5 1 (1.22%) Scala
5 1 (1.22%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.54%) Degree
3 5 (6.10%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.44%) PhD
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.22%) MCT
6 1 (1.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) Google
3 6 (7.32%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Foundry
4 3 (3.66%) Meraki
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.44%) YouTube
6 1 (1.22%) Altera
6 1 (1.22%) OpenAI