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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 152 173 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.29% 12.87% 17.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.06% 32.16% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 42 88 147
10th Percentile - £43,375 £42,874
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,713 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,539 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,375 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.77% +8.33% -

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 345 538 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.25% 40.03% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 148 282 368
10th Percentile £25,925 £40,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £30,168 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,585
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 22 November 2025.

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 12 (7.89%) Confluence
1 12 (7.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) CICS
3 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (17.76%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (5.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (83.55%) Azure
2 69 (45.39%) GitHub
3 66 (43.42%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (28.29%) AWS
5 33 (21.71%) Entra ID
5 33 (21.71%) Power Platform
6 32 (21.05%) Snowflake
7 27 (17.76%) OCI
8 21 (13.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 18 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (11.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (8.55%) dbt
13 11 (7.24%) SaaS
14 10 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (6.58%) Datadog
15 9 (5.92%) GCP
16 8 (5.26%) Boomi
16 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (5.26%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.55%) Internet
2 8 (5.26%) Firewall
3 4 (2.63%) BGP
3 4 (2.63%) DNS
3 4 (2.63%) LAN
3 4 (2.63%) MPLS
3 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.63%) VPN
3 4 (2.63%) WAN
3 4 (2.63%) Wireless
4 3 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.71%) Power BI
2 31 (20.39%) Tableau
3 19 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.61%) Metadata
5 6 (3.95%) Data Mining
5 6 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.63%) Redis
8 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.66%) DB2
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (23.68%) JIRA
2 33 (21.71%) Jenkins
3 27 (17.76%) Oracle Forms
4 25 (16.45%) Git
5 8 (5.26%) ER Studio
5 8 (5.26%) ERwin
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) JMeter
6 1 (0.66%) Locust
General
1 117 (76.97%) Finance
2 31 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.55%) Multimedia
5 8 (5.26%) Marketing
6 3 (1.97%) Legal
7 2 (1.32%) Front Office
8 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (25.66%) Applications Engineer
2 38 (25.00%) Senior
3 31 (20.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (12.50%) Analyst
4 19 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 19 (12.50%) Trainee
5 9 (5.92%) Development Engineer
6 8 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.26%) Data Modeller
6 8 (5.26%) Developer
6 8 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Software Developer
7 7 (4.61%) Trainee Developer
7 7 (4.61%) Trainee Software Developer
8 6 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.95%) Trainee Analyst
8 6 (3.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.76%) RESTful
2 23 (15.13%) SOAP
3 20 (13.16%) SAML
4 15 (9.87%) JSON
4 15 (9.87%) XML
5 13 (8.55%) CSS
5 13 (8.55%) HTML
6 12 (7.89%) OAuth
6 12 (7.89%) OAuth2
7 9 (5.92%) .NET
7 9 (5.92%) ADO
7 9 (5.92%) Web Services
8 8 (5.26%) REST
9 7 (4.61%) Django
10 4 (2.63%) Node.js
10 4 (2.63%) React
11 3 (1.97%) YAML
12 1 (0.66%) Gherkin
12 1 (0.66%) Kafka
12 1 (0.66%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (34.21%) Product Ownership
2 30 (19.74%) Cloud Native
3 28 (18.42%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (11.18%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.95%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.66%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.66%) Replication
10 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.63%) Unix
2 4 (2.63%) VMS
3 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (67.76%) Coaching
2 102 (67.11%) Asset Management
3 96 (63.16%) DevOps
4 92 (60.53%) Agile
5 68 (44.74%) CI/CD
6 54 (35.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (34.21%) AI
8 44 (28.95%) Analytics
9 39 (25.66%) Test Automation
10 37 (24.34%) Mentoring
10 37 (24.34%) Observability
10 37 (24.34%) Roadmaps
11 33 (21.71%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (19.74%) Data Governance
12 30 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (17.76%) API Integration
13 27 (17.76%) ERP
14 25 (16.45%) Business Strategy
14 25 (16.45%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 76 (50.00%) SQL
2 49 (32.24%) PowerShell
3 30 (19.74%) Java
3 30 (19.74%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.76%) PL/SQL
4 27 (17.76%) Shell Script
5 24 (15.79%) Bash
6 6 (3.95%) R
7 4 (2.63%) Bicep
8 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.32%) C#
10 1 (0.66%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.21%) Azure Certification
2 13 (8.55%) AWS Certification
2 13 (8.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 13 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.95%) CISSP
3 6 (3.95%) CREST Certified
3 6 (3.95%) SANS
3 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.32%) Degree
4 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.32%) PhD
5 1 (0.66%) CEH
5 1 (0.66%) GIAC
5 1 (0.66%) GREM
5 1 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.47%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.24%) QA
3 8 (5.26%) GDPR
4 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Docker
2 15 (9.87%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.66%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (49.34%) Terraform
2 35 (23.03%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (9.87%) Grafana
3 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.55%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.29%) Ansible
7 3 (1.97%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.66%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.42%) Oracle
3 15 (9.87%) Okta
4 13 (8.55%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 8 (5.26%) Workday
6 6 (3.95%) Splunk
7 4 (2.63%) Databricks
7 4 (2.63%) F5
7 4 (2.63%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.63%) Google
7 4 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.66%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.66%) IBM