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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 75 88 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.87% 11.22% 11.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.74% 39.64% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 46 21 106
10th Percentile - £35,000 £37,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -11.54% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £79,806
90th Percentile £108,750 £82,751 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% - -7.60%

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 137 222 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.55% 28.32% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 95 122 319
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -7.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,755 £74,015
90th Percentile £93,000 £98,376 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 1 September 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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (33.33%) Azure
2 18 (24.00%) Azure AI
3 14 (18.67%) AWS
4 12 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (12.00%) GCP
6 6 (8.00%) dbt
7 4 (5.33%) GitHub
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.67%) Apigee
9 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (2.67%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.67%) Dataform
9 2 (2.67%) PaaS
9 2 (2.67%) SaaS
10 1 (1.33%) Dagster
10 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.33%) BGP
4 1 (1.33%) Broadband
4 1 (1.33%) DHCP
4 1 (1.33%) Firewall
4 1 (1.33%) IPsec
4 1 (1.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.33%) OSPF
4 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.33%) SSL
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) Power BI
2 11 (14.67%) Tableau
3 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.00%) DuckDB
4 3 (4.00%) Parquet
5 2 (2.67%) Big Data
5 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.67%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
6 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.00%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Games
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Senior
2 17 (22.67%) Developer
3 16 (21.33%) Python Developer
4 12 (16.00%) Analyst
5 10 (13.33%) Django Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Python/Django Developer
6 9 (12.00%) Data Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) Junior
6 9 (12.00%) Junior Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) Junior Data Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) Python Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Site Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Consultant
10 3 (4.00%) Architect
10 3 (4.00%) Fraud Analyst
10 3 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) Django
2 6 (8.00%) Terraform
3 4 (5.33%) React
4 3 (4.00%) Next.js
4 3 (4.00%) Svelte
4 3 (4.00%) SvelteKit
5 2 (2.67%) CSS
5 2 (2.67%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.67%) HTML
6 1 (1.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) PySpark
6 1 (1.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.33%) FPGA
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
1 5 (6.67%) Unix
2 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) AI
2 16 (21.33%) Software Engineering
3 14 (18.67%) Mentoring
4 12 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.00%) Agile
6 9 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.67%) Analytics
7 8 (10.67%) DevOps
7 8 (10.67%) LLM
7 8 (10.67%) Observability
7 8 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) Clean Code
8 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (9.33%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 6 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (4.00%) Java
3 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.67%) C
4 2 (2.67%) C++
4 2 (2.67%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.67%) R
5 1 (1.33%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.33%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.33%) Scala
5 1 (1.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Azure Certification
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.33%) MCT
7 1 (1.33%) PhD
7 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Databricks
2 6 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (5.33%) YouTube
4 3 (4.00%) Foundry
4 3 (4.00%) Meraki
4 3 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.33%) Altera
5 1 (1.33%) Fortinet