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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 163 115 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 13.84% 12.21% 12.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.85% 31.51% 29.79%
Number of salaries quoted 74 58 126
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £29,188 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,697 £77,375 £76,875
90th Percentile £89,625 £81,700 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £44,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -26.25% +14.29% -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 399 365 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.87% 38.75% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 191 258 464
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,298 £50,557
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +1.24% -6.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 27 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 9 (5.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.07%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (18.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.07%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (71.78%) Azure
2 73 (44.79%) GitHub
3 53 (32.52%) AWS
4 40 (24.54%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (23.31%) Power Platform
6 26 (15.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (14.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 23 (14.11%) Snowflake
8 20 (12.27%) dbt
8 20 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (11.66%) OCI
10 17 (10.43%) Azure AI
10 17 (10.43%) GCP
11 14 (8.59%) Entra ID
12 11 (6.75%) Datadog
13 8 (4.91%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (4.29%) Power Automate
15 6 (3.68%) PaaS
15 6 (3.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.66%) Internet
2 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.84%) BGP
3 3 (1.84%) Firewall
3 3 (1.84%) LAN
3 3 (1.84%) MPLS
3 3 (1.84%) WAN
3 3 (1.84%) Wireless
4 2 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.54%) Tableau
2 38 (23.31%) Power BI
3 12 (7.36%) Data Mining
3 12 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.13%) Metadata
5 8 (4.91%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.45%) Redis
9 3 (1.84%) Big Data
10 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.61%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (17.18%) Jenkins
2 27 (16.56%) Git
3 19 (11.66%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (9.20%) JIRA
5 6 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.07%) ER Studio
6 5 (3.07%) ERwin
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) Locust
General
1 91 (55.83%) Finance
2 42 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.66%) Multimedia
5 7 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.07%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.07%) Retail
7 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 36 (22.09%) Senior
1 36 (22.09%) Trainee
2 35 (21.47%) Applications Engineer
3 29 (17.79%) Analyst
4 28 (17.18%) Data Analyst
5 19 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (10.43%) Junior
7 16 (9.82%) Junior Analyst
7 16 (9.82%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (7.36%) Trainee Analyst
8 12 (7.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (6.13%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.13%) Developer
9 10 (6.13%) Development Engineer
9 10 (6.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.13%) Trainee Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Security Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (4.91%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.27%) CSS
1 20 (12.27%) HTML
2 19 (11.66%) RESTful
3 12 (7.36%) .NET
4 11 (6.75%) SOAP
5 10 (6.13%) ADO
5 10 (6.13%) JSON
5 10 (6.13%) SAML
5 10 (6.13%) XML
6 9 (5.52%) OAuth
6 9 (5.52%) OAuth2
7 8 (4.91%) YAML
8 7 (4.29%) Django
9 6 (3.68%) NumPy
9 6 (3.68%) React
9 6 (3.68%) scikit-learn
10 5 (3.07%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.07%) Matplotlib
10 5 (3.07%) Node.js
10 5 (3.07%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.27%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (11.66%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.13%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.91%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.68%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.61%) Autonomous Agent
12 1 (0.61%) Blog
12 1 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Linux
2 4 (2.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.17%) DevOps
2 64 (39.26%) Agile
2 64 (39.26%) CI/CD
2 64 (39.26%) Coaching
3 63 (38.65%) Asset Management
4 56 (34.36%) AI
5 42 (25.77%) Analytics
6 40 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (23.93%) Test Automation
8 37 (22.70%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (22.09%) Mentoring
10 35 (21.47%) Observability
11 27 (16.56%) Data Modelling
12 26 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (15.34%) Data Governance
14 23 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (14.11%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (11.66%) API Integration
16 19 (11.66%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 86 (52.76%) SQL
2 31 (19.02%) JavaScript
3 28 (17.18%) PowerShell
4 26 (15.95%) Java
5 19 (11.66%) PL/SQL
5 19 (11.66%) Shell Script
6 13 (7.98%) Bash
7 10 (6.13%) R
8 7 (4.29%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.84%) Scala
10 2 (1.23%) C#
10 2 (1.23%) C++
10 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (22.09%) Azure Certification
2 24 (14.72%) AWS Certification
2 24 (14.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 19 (11.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.52%) CISSP
4 9 (5.52%) CREST Certified
4 9 (5.52%) SANS
5 6 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.68%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.84%) Degree
7 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) CEH
8 1 (0.61%) GIAC
8 1 (0.61%) GREM
8 1 (0.61%) OSCP
8 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.75%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (9.20%) Docker
2 10 (6.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (33.13%) Terraform
2 20 (12.27%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (9.20%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.59%) Grafana
5 13 (7.98%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.84%) Ansible
6 3 (1.84%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 77 (47.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.66%) Oracle
3 12 (7.36%) Databricks
4 10 (6.13%) Okta
5 9 (5.52%) Google
6 4 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.45%) Splunk
7 3 (1.84%) F5
7 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.61%) FIS
9 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.61%) Workday