Python Jobs in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 82 176 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.35% 11.19% 15.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.28% 31.65% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 29 123 166
10th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,864
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,278 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,360 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £90,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.48% -19.23% +8.33%

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 254 556 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.96% 35.35% 39.43%
Number of salaries quoted 163 425 448
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,875 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,875 £73,886 £78,269
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,000 £89,897
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.88%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) SAS
4 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.44%) CICS
5 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.44%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.22%) Simulink
3 1 (1.22%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.15%) AWS
2 12 (14.63%) GCP
3 11 (13.41%) Snowflake
4 10 (12.20%) Azure
5 7 (8.54%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (8.54%) SaaS
6 5 (6.10%) GitHub
7 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.88%) CloudBees
7 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.88%) Serverless
8 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.44%) Apigee
9 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.22%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.22%) SSL
2 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
1 8 (9.76%) Tableau
2 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.44%) Big Data
4 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.44%) MySQL
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (2.44%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.22%) DB2
5 1 (1.22%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 6 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) GitLab
3 2 (2.44%) JUnit
3 2 (2.44%) Maven
3 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.22%) JIRA
4 1 (1.22%) LabVIEW
General
1 31 (37.80%) Analytical Skills
1 31 (37.80%) Finance
2 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Legal
4 13 (15.85%) Banking
5 12 (14.63%) Front Office
6 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.66%) Retail
7 3 (3.66%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Marketing
8 2 (2.44%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.22%) Advertising
9 1 (1.22%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.22%) Electronics
9 1 (1.22%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Developer
2 12 (14.63%) Senior
3 11 (13.41%) Analyst
4 7 (8.54%) Risk Officer
5 6 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Data Scientist
6 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Lead
6 5 (6.10%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Risk Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Software Team Leader
8 3 (3.66%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) REST
1 8 (9.76%) RESTful
2 5 (6.10%) HTML
3 4 (4.88%) JSON
3 4 (4.88%) Middleware
3 4 (4.88%) Spring
3 4 (4.88%) WebSockets
4 3 (3.66%) Kafka
4 3 (3.66%) React
5 2 (2.44%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.44%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.22%) .NET
6 1 (1.22%) CherryPy
6 1 (1.22%) Flask
6 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.22%) gRPC
6 1 (1.22%) LangChain
6 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.66%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.44%) Clustering
6 2 (2.44%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.44%) IVR
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
6 2 (2.44%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.44%) Replication
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.22%) FPGA
7 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.22%) IoT
7 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.22%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.07%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Agile
1 31 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.61%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.39%) DevOps
3 20 (24.39%) Mathematics
4 17 (20.73%) Analytics
5 16 (19.51%) Project Management
6 15 (18.29%) Validation
7 14 (17.07%) Quantitative Analysis
7 14 (17.07%) Scrum
7 14 (17.07%) Software Engineering
8 13 (15.85%) Model Validation
8 13 (15.85%) Quantitative Finance
9 12 (14.63%) Data Science
9 12 (14.63%) Roadmaps
10 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (13.41%) Statistics
11 10 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.05%) Java
2 22 (26.83%) SQL
3 12 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.54%) C++
5 6 (7.32%) C
5 6 (7.32%) R
6 5 (6.10%) Go
6 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.88%) VBA
8 3 (3.66%) C#
9 2 (2.44%) Elixir
9 2 (2.44%) F#
9 2 (2.44%) Ruby
9 2 (2.44%) Scala
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) Cypher
10 1 (1.22%) JCL
10 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Degree
2 12 (14.63%) Master's Degree
3 11 (13.41%) PhD
4 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.22%) ACCA
6 1 (1.22%) CFA
6 1 (1.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.22%) ECSS
4 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (19.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.54%) Terraform
3 5 (6.10%) Ansible
4 2 (2.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Istio
5 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) IBM
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.88%) Blue Prism
3 4 (4.88%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) IBM Sterling
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle
3 4 (4.88%) Splunk
3 4 (4.88%) UiPath
4 3 (3.66%) Genesys
4 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.66%) Verint
5 2 (2.44%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.22%) Cadence