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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 179 126 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.04% 12.83% 13.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.24% 31.74% 29.72%
Number of salaries quoted 75 60 122
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £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 £79,395 £75,770 £79,600
90th Percentile £89,500 £79,648 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +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 434 397 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.47% 40.43% 43.91%
Number of salaries quoted 201 256 451
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,875 £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 £79,736 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £58,565 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +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 14 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 11 (6.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.79%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.68%) Confluence
4 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (13.97%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.68%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 133 (74.30%) Azure
2 80 (44.69%) GitHub
3 59 (32.96%) AWS
4 51 (28.49%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (21.23%) Power Platform
6 29 (16.20%) Snowflake
7 26 (14.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (13.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 25 (13.97%) OCI
9 22 (12.29%) dbt
9 22 (12.29%) Entra ID
10 20 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (8.38%) GCP
12 13 (7.26%) Azure AI
13 11 (6.15%) Datadog
14 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (4.47%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (4.47%) SaaS
16 7 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (3.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.73%) Internet
2 4 (2.23%) BGP
2 4 (2.23%) Firewall
2 4 (2.23%) LAN
2 4 (2.23%) MPLS
2 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.23%) WAN
2 4 (2.23%) Wireless
3 3 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.91%) Tableau
2 38 (21.23%) Power BI
3 16 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (7.26%) Data Mining
5 11 (6.15%) Metadata
6 8 (4.47%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.23%) Redis
10 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.12%) Big Data
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.56%) DB2
12 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (19.55%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.32%) Git
3 25 (13.97%) Oracle Forms
4 22 (12.29%) JIRA
5 7 (3.91%) ER Studio
5 7 (3.91%) ERwin
6 6 (3.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) JMeter
7 1 (0.56%) Locust
General
1 111 (62.01%) Finance
2 42 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.73%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.79%) Retail
6 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 42 (23.46%) Applications Engineer
2 41 (22.91%) Senior
3 39 (21.79%) Trainee
4 29 (16.20%) Analyst
5 26 (14.53%) Data Analyst
6 25 (13.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.82%) Junior
7 14 (7.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) Junior Analyst
8 13 (7.26%) Junior Data Analyst
8 13 (7.26%) Trainee Analyst
8 13 (7.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 11 (6.15%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Developer
9 11 (6.15%) Trainee Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Development Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) RESTful
2 22 (12.29%) CSS
2 22 (12.29%) HTML
3 17 (9.50%) SOAP
4 14 (7.82%) JSON
4 14 (7.82%) SAML
4 14 (7.82%) XML
5 12 (6.70%) .NET
6 11 (6.15%) OAuth
6 11 (6.15%) OAuth2
7 10 (5.59%) ADO
8 8 (4.47%) YAML
9 7 (3.91%) Django
10 6 (3.35%) NumPy
10 6 (3.35%) React
10 6 (3.35%) scikit-learn
11 5 (2.79%) Matplotlib
11 5 (2.79%) Node.js
11 5 (2.79%) Pandas
11 5 (2.79%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 29 (16.20%) Product Ownership
3 26 (14.53%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.47%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.35%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.56%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.56%) Blog
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
2 4 (2.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (47.49%) DevOps
2 82 (45.81%) Coaching
3 81 (45.25%) Asset Management
4 79 (44.13%) Agile
5 72 (40.22%) CI/CD
6 59 (32.96%) AI
7 48 (26.82%) Analytics
8 46 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (24.58%) Test Automation
10 42 (23.46%) Mentoring
11 41 (22.91%) Observability
12 37 (20.67%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (18.44%) Data Governance
14 27 (15.08%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (15.08%) Data Modelling
14 27 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (15.08%) Roadmaps
15 25 (13.97%) API Integration
15 25 (13.97%) ERP
15 25 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (52.51%) SQL
2 39 (21.79%) PowerShell
3 35 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 32 (17.88%) Java
5 25 (13.97%) PL/SQL
5 25 (13.97%) Shell Script
6 18 (10.06%) Bash
7 11 (6.15%) R
8 7 (3.91%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.12%) C#
9 2 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (1.12%) Scala
9 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (18.99%) Azure Certification
2 26 (14.53%) AWS Certification
2 26 (14.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.59%) CISSP
4 10 (5.59%) CREST Certified
4 10 (5.59%) SANS
5 6 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.35%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.68%) Degree
7 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) CEH
8 1 (0.56%) GIAC
8 1 (0.56%) GREM
8 1 (0.56%) OSCP
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.29%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.15%) QA
4 3 (1.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.38%) Docker
2 14 (7.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 66 (36.87%) Terraform
2 28 (15.64%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (8.94%) Grafana
4 14 (7.82%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.82%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.79%) Ansible
5 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.68%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (46.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.97%) Oracle
3 14 (7.82%) Okta
4 11 (6.15%) Databricks
5 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.91%) Google
7 6 (3.35%) Splunk
8 4 (2.23%) F5
8 4 (2.23%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.23%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.68%) Workday
10 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.56%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.56%) FIS
11 1 (0.56%) IBM