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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 201 141 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.34% 12.90% 14.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.60% 30.32% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 65 64 132
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,875 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +9.09% -15.06%

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 461 465 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.78% 42.54% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 187 254 454
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.27% -7.35%

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 15 February 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 16 (7.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (4.98%) Confluence
3 8 (3.98%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.49%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.50%) CICS
6 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (15.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 35 (17.41%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (3.48%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 167 (83.08%) Azure
2 96 (47.76%) GitHub
3 76 (37.81%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (29.35%) AWS
5 46 (22.89%) Power Platform
6 41 (20.40%) Snowflake
7 35 (17.41%) Entra ID
7 35 (17.41%) OCI
8 30 (14.93%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (14.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.95%) dbt
12 17 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (6.97%) Datadog
14 12 (5.97%) GCP
15 10 (4.98%) SaaS
16 9 (4.48%) Azure AI
16 9 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (3.98%) Azure Key Vault
17 8 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.45%) Internet
2 7 (3.48%) Firewall
3 4 (1.99%) BGP
3 4 (1.99%) LAN
3 4 (1.99%) MPLS
3 4 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.99%) WAN
3 4 (1.99%) Wireless
4 3 (1.49%) DNS
4 3 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.49%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.88%) Tableau
2 46 (22.89%) Power BI
3 22 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.97%) Data Mining
5 11 (5.47%) Metadata
6 7 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.99%) Redis
9 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Big Data
10 1 (0.50%) DB2
10 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 37 (18.41%) Git
2 37 (18.41%) JIRA
3 35 (17.41%) Oracle Forms
4 11 (5.47%) ER Studio
4 11 (5.47%) ERwin
5 4 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) JMeter
6 1 (0.50%) Locust
General
1 147 (73.13%) Finance
2 41 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 38 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.45%) Multimedia
5 6 (2.99%) Marketing
6 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.49%) Retail
7 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (25.87%) Applications Engineer
2 49 (24.38%) Senior
3 38 (18.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (17.91%) Trainee
5 31 (15.42%) Analyst
6 22 (10.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 21 (10.45%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.47%) Development Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (5.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Data Modeller
10 11 (5.47%) Developer
10 11 (5.47%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.47%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (5.47%) Trainee Software Developer
11 10 (4.98%) Junior
11 10 (4.98%) Security Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Junior Analyst
12 9 (4.48%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.41%) RESTful
2 26 (12.94%) SOAP
3 23 (11.44%) SAML
4 22 (10.95%) CSS
4 22 (10.95%) HTML
5 19 (9.45%) JSON
5 19 (9.45%) XML
6 16 (7.96%) OAuth
6 16 (7.96%) OAuth2
7 14 (6.97%) .NET
8 13 (6.47%) ADO
9 8 (3.98%) Web Services
9 8 (3.98%) YAML
10 7 (3.48%) Django
10 7 (3.48%) REST
11 4 (1.99%) Node.js
11 4 (1.99%) NumPy
11 4 (1.99%) React
11 4 (1.99%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.37%) Product Ownership
2 42 (20.90%) Cloud Native
3 36 (17.91%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (9.45%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.98%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.50%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.49%) Linux
2 4 (1.99%) Unix
3 3 (1.49%) VMS
4 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (60.70%) Coaching
2 121 (60.20%) Asset Management
3 114 (56.72%) DevOps
4 108 (53.73%) Agile
5 88 (43.78%) CI/CD
6 70 (34.83%) AI
7 64 (31.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (29.35%) Analytics
9 51 (25.37%) Test Automation
10 50 (24.88%) Mentoring
11 49 (24.38%) Observability
12 45 (22.39%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (21.39%) Data Governance
14 39 (19.40%) Roadmaps
15 35 (17.41%) API Integration
15 35 (17.41%) ERP
16 32 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 111 (55.22%) SQL
2 55 (27.36%) PowerShell
3 41 (20.40%) JavaScript
4 39 (19.40%) Java
5 35 (17.41%) PL/SQL
5 35 (17.41%) Shell Script
6 26 (12.94%) Bash
7 10 (4.98%) R
8 7 (3.48%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.49%) Bicep
10 2 (1.00%) C#
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (14.93%) Azure Certification
2 24 (11.94%) AWS Certification
2 24 (11.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (4.98%) CISSP
4 10 (4.98%) CREST Certified
4 10 (4.98%) SANS
5 6 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) CEH
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) Degree
6 1 (0.50%) GIAC
6 1 (0.50%) GREM
6 1 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.43%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.97%) QA
3 10 (4.98%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (10.45%) Docker
2 19 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 89 (44.28%) Terraform
2 42 (20.90%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (9.45%) Grafana
4 18 (8.96%) Kubernetes
5 17 (8.46%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.49%) Ansible
8 3 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.50%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 84 (41.79%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.41%) Oracle
3 19 (9.45%) Okta
4 12 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.98%) Databricks
6 7 (3.48%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.48%) Workday
7 6 (2.99%) Splunk
8 4 (1.99%) F5
8 4 (1.99%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.99%) Google
8 4 (1.99%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.50%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.50%) FIS
9 1 (0.50%) IBM
9 1 (0.50%) OpenAI