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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 182 129 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.41% 13.06% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.55% 31.85% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 70 62 119
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 £80,000 £75,360 £78,657
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,648 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -33.33% +13.74% -18.85%

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 438 405 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.09% 40.99% 44.27%
Number of salaries quoted 193 261 445
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £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 £78,312 £79,648 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £56,318 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.54% +2.40% -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 9 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 13 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.75%) Jupyter
2 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.20%) Confluence
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) CICS
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (15.93%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.20%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 140 (76.92%) Azure
2 82 (45.05%) GitHub
3 59 (32.42%) AWS
4 58 (31.87%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (21.98%) Power Platform
6 32 (17.58%) Snowflake
7 29 (15.93%) OCI
8 27 (14.84%) GitHub Copilot
9 26 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (14.29%) Entra ID
10 23 (12.64%) dbt
11 20 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (7.14%) GCP
13 12 (6.59%) Azure AI
14 11 (6.04%) Datadog
14 11 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (4.95%) SaaS
16 8 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
17 7 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 7 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.44%) Internet
2 4 (2.20%) BGP
2 4 (2.20%) Firewall
2 4 (2.20%) LAN
2 4 (2.20%) MPLS
2 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.20%) WAN
2 4 (2.20%) Wireless
3 3 (1.65%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.63%) Tableau
2 40 (21.98%) Power BI
3 18 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (7.14%) Data Mining
5 11 (6.04%) Metadata
6 8 (4.40%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.20%) Redis
9 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.55%) Big Data
10 1 (0.55%) DB2
10 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 32 (17.58%) Git
3 29 (15.93%) Oracle Forms
4 25 (13.74%) JIRA
5 8 (4.40%) ER Studio
5 8 (4.40%) ERwin
6 6 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) Locust
General
1 121 (66.48%) Finance
2 42 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.44%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.75%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.75%) Retail
6 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 46 (25.27%) Applications Engineer
2 43 (23.63%) Senior
3 37 (20.33%) Trainee
4 29 (15.93%) Analyst
4 29 (15.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (13.74%) Data Analyst
6 16 (8.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) Junior
7 13 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
7 13 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Junior Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Junior Data Analyst
9 11 (6.04%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Developer
10 10 (5.49%) Development Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.49%) Trainee Developer
10 10 (5.49%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.93%) RESTful
2 20 (10.99%) CSS
2 20 (10.99%) HTML
2 20 (10.99%) SOAP
3 17 (9.34%) SAML
4 16 (8.79%) JSON
4 16 (8.79%) XML
5 13 (7.14%) OAuth
5 13 (7.14%) OAuth2
6 12 (6.59%) .NET
7 10 (5.49%) ADO
8 8 (4.40%) YAML
9 7 (3.85%) Django
10 6 (3.30%) NumPy
10 6 (3.30%) scikit-learn
11 5 (2.75%) Matplotlib
11 5 (2.75%) Node.js
11 5 (2.75%) Pandas
11 5 (2.75%) React
11 5 (2.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 33 (18.13%) Product Ownership
3 30 (16.48%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.49%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.40%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.55%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.55%) Blog
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.75%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (50.55%) Coaching
2 91 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 91 (50.00%) DevOps
3 85 (46.70%) Agile
4 76 (41.76%) CI/CD
5 62 (34.07%) AI
6 52 (28.57%) Analytics
7 49 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (25.82%) Test Automation
9 43 (23.63%) Observability
10 42 (23.08%) Mentoring
11 39 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (20.33%) Data Governance
13 30 (16.48%) Roadmaps
14 29 (15.93%) API Integration
14 29 (15.93%) ERP
15 28 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (14.84%) Data Modelling
17 26 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (54.40%) SQL
2 43 (23.63%) PowerShell
3 36 (19.78%) Java
4 34 (18.68%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.93%) PL/SQL
5 29 (15.93%) Shell Script
6 20 (10.99%) Bash
7 10 (5.49%) R
8 7 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.10%) C#
9 2 (1.10%) Scala
9 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (17.03%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.19%) AWS Certification
2 24 (13.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 19 (10.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.49%) CISSP
4 10 (5.49%) CREST Certified
4 10 (5.49%) SANS
5 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.30%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) Degree
7 1 (0.55%) CEH
7 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) GIAC
7 1 (0.55%) GREM
7 1 (0.55%) OSCP
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.64%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.04%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.24%) Docker
3 6 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) RACF
Systems Management
1 71 (39.01%) Terraform
2 33 (18.13%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (8.79%) Grafana
4 14 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.14%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.75%) Ansible
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 84 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.93%) Oracle
3 16 (8.79%) Okta
4 11 (6.04%) Databricks
5 9 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.30%) Splunk
7 5 (2.75%) Google
8 4 (2.20%) F5
8 4 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.20%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.20%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.20%) Workday
9 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.55%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.55%) FIS
10 1 (0.55%) IBM