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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 29 8
Rank change year-on-year +18 -21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 84 71 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.95% 8.41% 11.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.50% 30.74% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 55 25 117
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -0.54%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,360 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £82,751 £88,500
Scotland median annual salary £51,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.54% +9.09% -15.38%

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 157 231 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.85% 27.37% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 112 151 349
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £71,500 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £98,474 £89,000
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 August 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 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.76%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) Azure
2 23 (27.38%) Azure AI
3 18 (21.43%) AWS
4 17 (20.24%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.71%) GCP
6 7 (8.33%) dbt
7 6 (7.14%) GitHub
8 4 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.76%) SaaS
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.57%) PaaS
10 2 (2.38%) Apigee
10 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.38%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (2.38%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.38%) Dataform
11 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.38%) Internet
3 1 (1.19%) Broadband
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) Tableau
2 17 (20.24%) Power BI
3 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.76%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.57%) Big Data
5 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.57%) DuckDB
5 3 (3.57%) Parquet
6 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.38%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.38%) Metadata
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (2.38%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 32 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.76%) Retail
6 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.38%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Electronics
8 1 (1.19%) Games
8 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.19%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Analyst
2 18 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 17 (20.24%) Senior
4 16 (19.05%) Developer
5 15 (17.86%) Python Developer
6 14 (16.67%) Junior
6 14 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
6 14 (16.67%) Junior Data Analyst
7 10 (11.90%) Trainee
8 9 (10.71%) Django Developer
8 9 (10.71%) Python/Django Developer
9 8 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Data Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Site Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 4 (4.76%) Programmer
13 4 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (4.76%) Trainee Analyst
13 4 (4.76%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) Django
2 5 (5.95%) NumPy
2 5 (5.95%) React
2 5 (5.95%) scikit-learn
3 4 (4.76%) Hugging Face
3 4 (4.76%) Matplotlib
3 4 (4.76%) Pandas
3 4 (4.76%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.57%) Next.js
4 3 (3.57%) Svelte
4 3 (3.57%) SvelteKit
5 2 (2.38%) .NET
5 2 (2.38%) CSS
5 2 (2.38%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.38%) HTML
6 1 (1.19%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.19%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.19%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.95%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.19%) Blog
6 1 (1.19%) FPGA
6 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.19%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
1 3 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) AI
2 16 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (16.67%) LLM
4 13 (15.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 12 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 11 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.90%) Analytics
7 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.71%) DevOps
9 8 (9.52%) Agile
10 6 (7.14%) Clean Code
10 6 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (7.14%) Observability
10 6 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 5 (5.95%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (5.95%) Generative AI
11 5 (5.95%) Prompt Engineering
11 5 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (4.76%) Java
3 3 (3.57%) C++
3 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.38%) Bash
4 2 (2.38%) C
4 2 (2.38%) R
5 1 (1.19%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.19%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.19%) Rust
5 1 (1.19%) Scala
5 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.19%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.38%) CISSP
6 2 (2.38%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.38%) PhD
6 2 (2.38%) SANS
7 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.19%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Google
3 6 (7.14%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Foundry
4 3 (3.57%) Meraki
5 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.19%) Altera
6 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.19%) YouTube