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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 197 154 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 18.01% 14.06% 16.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.78% 32.35% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 54 70 137
10th Percentile - £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -7.69% +6.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,125 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -33.33% +0.80% -2.42%

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 450 476 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.13% 43.47% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 171 247 427
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £50,429
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,031 £76,180 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -0.54%

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 21 January 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 17 (8.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (6.09%) Confluence
3 9 (4.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.51%) CICS
6 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 37 (18.78%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (4.06%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.51%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 173 (87.82%) Azure
2 97 (49.24%) GitHub
3 82 (41.62%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (28.93%) AWS
5 45 (22.84%) Power Platform
6 44 (22.34%) Snowflake
7 38 (19.29%) Entra ID
8 37 (18.78%) OCI
9 31 (15.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 29 (14.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (10.15%) dbt
13 19 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (7.61%) Datadog
15 12 (6.09%) GCP
16 10 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (5.08%) SaaS
17 8 (4.06%) Azure Key Vault
17 8 (4.06%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.66%) Internet
2 8 (4.06%) Firewall
3 4 (2.03%) BGP
3 4 (2.03%) DNS
3 4 (2.03%) LAN
3 4 (2.03%) MPLS
3 4 (2.03%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.03%) VPN
3 4 (2.03%) WAN
3 4 (2.03%) Wireless
4 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.84%) Power BI
1 45 (22.84%) Tableau
2 24 (12.18%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.58%) Metadata
4 9 (4.57%) Data Mining
5 7 (3.55%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.03%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) DB2
8 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (22.34%) Jenkins
2 41 (20.81%) JIRA
3 38 (19.29%) Git
4 37 (18.78%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (6.09%) ER Studio
5 12 (6.09%) ERwin
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) JMeter
6 1 (0.51%) Locust
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 148 (75.13%) Finance
2 38 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Multimedia
4 8 (4.06%) Marketing
5 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (26.40%) Senior
2 51 (25.89%) Applications Engineer
3 41 (20.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (15.23%) Trainee
5 27 (13.71%) Analyst
6 24 (12.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.61%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.11%) Development Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Data Modeller
10 11 (5.58%) Developer
10 11 (5.58%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.58%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (5.58%) Trainee Software Developer
11 9 (4.57%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) Trainee Analyst
11 9 (4.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 8 (4.06%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.78%) RESTful
2 28 (14.21%) SOAP
3 25 (12.69%) SAML
4 22 (11.17%) CSS
4 22 (11.17%) HTML
5 20 (10.15%) JSON
5 20 (10.15%) XML
6 17 (8.63%) OAuth
6 17 (8.63%) OAuth2
7 14 (7.11%) .NET
7 14 (7.11%) ADO
8 9 (4.57%) Web Services
9 8 (4.06%) REST
9 8 (4.06%) YAML
10 7 (3.55%) Django
11 4 (2.03%) Node.js
11 4 (2.03%) React
12 3 (1.52%) Kafka
13 1 (0.51%) Gherkin
13 1 (0.51%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (28.93%) Product Ownership
2 44 (22.34%) Cloud Native
3 38 (19.29%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (11.17%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.55%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.51%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.54%) Linux
2 4 (2.03%) Unix
2 4 (2.03%) VMS
3 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (67.01%) Coaching
2 131 (66.50%) Asset Management
3 121 (61.42%) DevOps
4 115 (58.38%) Agile
5 91 (46.19%) CI/CD
6 69 (35.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (34.52%) AI
8 58 (29.44%) Analytics
9 53 (26.90%) Test Automation
10 52 (26.40%) Mentoring
11 51 (25.89%) Observability
12 45 (22.84%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (22.34%) Data Governance
14 38 (19.29%) Roadmaps
15 37 (18.78%) API Integration
15 37 (18.78%) ERP
16 35 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
17 33 (16.75%) Cybersecurity
18 30 (15.23%) Data Modelling
18 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 109 (55.33%) SQL
2 55 (27.92%) PowerShell
3 43 (21.83%) JavaScript
4 41 (20.81%) Java
5 37 (18.78%) PL/SQL
5 37 (18.78%) Shell Script
6 25 (12.69%) Bash
7 10 (5.08%) R
8 7 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.03%) Bicep
10 2 (1.02%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (13.71%) Azure Certification
2 21 (10.66%) AWS Certification
2 21 (10.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 21 (10.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (3.55%) CISSP
3 7 (3.55%) CREST Certified
3 7 (3.55%) SANS
4 6 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.05%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.51%) CEH
5 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.51%) Degree
5 1 (0.51%) GIAC
5 1 (0.51%) GREM
5 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.21%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.61%) QA
3 10 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.06%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (11.68%) Docker
2 20 (10.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) RACF
Systems Management
1 95 (48.22%) Terraform
2 45 (22.84%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (10.15%) Grafana
3 20 (10.15%) Kubernetes
4 18 (9.14%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.54%) Ansible
7 3 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.51%) QRadar
Vendors
1 76 (38.58%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.78%) Oracle
3 20 (10.15%) Okta
4 13 (6.60%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.08%) Databricks
6 8 (4.06%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.06%) Workday
7 6 (3.05%) Splunk
8 4 (2.03%) F5
8 4 (2.03%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.03%) Google
8 4 (2.03%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.51%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.51%) FIS
9 1 (0.51%) IBM