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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 98 107 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 9.15% 12.31% 11.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.42% 37.28% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49 39 129
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,650 £38,650
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,115 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,550 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -23.08%

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 231 287 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.57% 33.03% 39.76%
Number of salaries quoted 132 183 447
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,625 £74,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.60%

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 29 May 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 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.10%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.02%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.24%) Azure
2 28 (28.57%) GitHub
3 27 (27.55%) Power Platform
4 25 (25.51%) AWS
4 25 (25.51%) Azure AI
5 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (9.18%) dbt
6 9 (9.18%) Snowflake
7 8 (8.16%) GCP
7 8 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.12%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.12%) OCI
9 5 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (4.08%) SaaS
11 3 (3.06%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.06%) Datadog
11 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) Internet
2 1 (1.02%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.67%) Tableau
2 27 (27.55%) Power BI
3 8 (8.16%) Data Mining
4 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.10%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.10%) Metadata
6 3 (3.06%) Big Data
7 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.04%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (6.12%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (5.10%) JIRA
5 3 (3.06%) ER Studio
5 3 (3.06%) ERwin
General
1 36 (36.73%) Finance
2 31 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Multimedia
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.10%) Retail
7 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.02%) Games
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Analyst
1 27 (27.55%) Data Analyst
2 23 (23.47%) Trainee
3 20 (20.41%) Junior
4 19 (19.39%) Junior Analyst
4 19 (19.39%) Junior Data Analyst
5 15 (15.31%) Senior
6 10 (10.20%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Developer
7 9 (9.18%) Data Engineer
8 8 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (8.16%) Trainee Analyst
8 8 (8.16%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead
10 5 (5.10%) Programmer
10 5 (5.10%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Trainee Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) CSS
1 11 (11.22%) HTML
2 6 (6.12%) NumPy
2 6 (6.12%) RESTful
2 6 (6.12%) scikit-learn
3 5 (5.10%) .NET
3 5 (5.10%) Hugging Face
3 5 (5.10%) Matplotlib
3 5 (5.10%) Pandas
3 5 (5.10%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.06%) ADO
4 3 (3.06%) JSON
4 3 (3.06%) OAuth
4 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.06%) SAML
4 3 (3.06%) SOAP
4 3 (3.06%) XML
4 3 (3.06%) YAML
5 2 (2.04%) Kafka
5 2 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.02%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.02%) Blog
5 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.02%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.86%) AI
2 26 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (23.47%) Agile
4 22 (22.45%) DevOps
5 20 (20.41%) Analytics
6 19 (19.39%) CI/CD
7 18 (18.37%) Asset Management
7 18 (18.37%) Coaching
7 18 (18.37%) Mentoring
8 16 (16.33%) Data Modelling
9 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 11 (11.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 11 (11.22%) Data Governance
10 11 (11.22%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (11.22%) Machine Learning
11 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (9.18%) Data Engineering
11 9 (9.18%) LLM
11 9 (9.18%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.08%) SQL
2 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (11.22%) Java
4 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.12%) PL/SQL
5 6 (6.12%) R
5 6 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.08%) Bash
7 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.04%) C++
8 2 (2.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.02%) C
9 1 (1.02%) C#
9 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.02%) Rust
9 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (35.71%) Azure Certification
2 15 (15.31%) AWS Certification
2 15 (15.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.08%) CISSP
4 4 (4.08%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.08%) SANS
5 3 (3.06%) Degree
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.02%) MCT
7 1 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.06%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.06%) Grafana
3 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (55.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) Databricks
2 6 (6.12%) Oracle
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) Okta
5 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.02%) FIS