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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 174 128 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 14.87% 12.98% 13.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.85% 31.76% 29.36%
Number of salaries quoted 70 61 120
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 £79,600
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,648 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +13.21% -18.46%

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 426 403 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.41% 40.87% 44.39%
Number of salaries quoted 193 260 447
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 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -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 11 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 11 (6.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.87%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.57%) CICS
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (14.37%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.72%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 131 (75.29%) Azure
2 78 (44.83%) GitHub
3 57 (32.76%) AWS
4 51 (29.31%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (21.84%) Power Platform
6 29 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 26 (14.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (14.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 25 (14.37%) OCI
9 22 (12.64%) dbt
9 22 (12.64%) Entra ID
10 20 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (7.47%) Azure AI
11 13 (7.47%) GCP
12 11 (6.32%) Datadog
13 9 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.60%) SaaS
15 7 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.92%) Internet
2 4 (2.30%) BGP
2 4 (2.30%) Firewall
2 4 (2.30%) LAN
2 4 (2.30%) MPLS
2 4 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.30%) WAN
2 4 (2.30%) Wireless
3 3 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.56%) Tableau
2 38 (21.84%) Power BI
3 16 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (7.47%) Data Mining
5 10 (5.75%) Metadata
6 8 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.30%) Redis
9 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.57%) Big Data
11 1 (0.57%) DB2
11 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (20.11%) Jenkins
2 30 (17.24%) Git
3 25 (14.37%) Oracle Forms
4 21 (12.07%) JIRA
5 7 (4.02%) ER Studio
5 7 (4.02%) ERwin
6 6 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) JMeter
7 1 (0.57%) Locust
General
1 111 (63.79%) Finance
2 42 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.92%) Multimedia
5 5 (2.87%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.87%) Retail
6 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 42 (24.14%) Applications Engineer
2 40 (22.99%) Senior
3 37 (21.26%) Trainee
4 29 (16.67%) Analyst
5 26 (14.94%) Data Analyst
6 25 (14.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Junior
7 14 (8.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Junior Analyst
8 13 (7.47%) Junior Data Analyst
8 13 (7.47%) Trainee Analyst
8 13 (7.47%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (5.75%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.75%) Developer
9 10 (5.75%) Development Engineer
9 10 (5.75%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.75%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.75%) Trainee Developer
9 10 (5.75%) Trainee Software Developer
10 8 (4.60%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.37%) RESTful
2 20 (11.49%) CSS
2 20 (11.49%) HTML
3 17 (9.77%) SOAP
4 14 (8.05%) JSON
4 14 (8.05%) SAML
4 14 (8.05%) XML
5 12 (6.90%) .NET
6 11 (6.32%) OAuth
6 11 (6.32%) OAuth2
7 10 (5.75%) ADO
8 8 (4.60%) YAML
9 7 (4.02%) Django
10 6 (3.45%) NumPy
10 6 (3.45%) scikit-learn
11 5 (2.87%) Hugging Face
11 5 (2.87%) Matplotlib
11 5 (2.87%) Node.js
11 5 (2.87%) Pandas
11 5 (2.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 29 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 26 (14.94%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.75%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.60%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.02%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.45%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.57%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.57%) Blog
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Linux
2 4 (2.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.70%) DevOps
2 82 (47.13%) Coaching
3 81 (46.55%) Asset Management
4 76 (43.68%) Agile
5 71 (40.80%) CI/CD
6 59 (33.91%) AI
7 48 (27.59%) Analytics
8 46 (26.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (24.71%) Test Automation
10 41 (23.56%) Observability
11 39 (22.41%) Mentoring
12 37 (21.26%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (18.97%) Data Governance
14 27 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (15.52%) Roadmaps
15 26 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (14.94%) Data Modelling
16 25 (14.37%) API Integration
16 25 (14.37%) ERP
16 25 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (53.45%) SQL
2 39 (22.41%) PowerShell
3 33 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 32 (18.39%) Java
5 25 (14.37%) PL/SQL
5 25 (14.37%) Shell Script
6 18 (10.34%) Bash
7 10 (5.75%) R
8 7 (4.02%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.15%) C#
9 2 (1.15%) C++
9 2 (1.15%) Scala
9 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (18.39%) Azure Certification
2 24 (13.79%) AWS Certification
2 24 (13.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 19 (10.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.75%) CISSP
4 10 (5.75%) CREST Certified
4 10 (5.75%) SANS
5 6 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) Degree
7 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) CEH
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
8 1 (0.57%) GREM
8 1 (0.57%) OSCP
8 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.64%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.32%) QA
3 3 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.62%) Docker
2 14 (8.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) RACF
Systems Management
1 64 (36.78%) Terraform
2 28 (16.09%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (9.20%) Grafana
4 14 (8.05%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.47%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.87%) Ansible
6 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.37%) Oracle
3 14 (8.05%) Okta
4 11 (6.32%) Databricks
5 8 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.45%) Splunk
7 5 (2.87%) Google
8 4 (2.30%) F5
8 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.30%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.72%) Workday
10 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.57%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.57%) FIS
11 1 (0.57%) IBM