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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 206 152 180
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 18.12% 14.10% 14.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.59% 32.14% 31.97%
Number of salaries quoted 62 69 134
10th Percentile - £42,500 £43,250
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% +0.78%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 462 473 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.63% 43.88% 46.57%
Number of salaries quoted 181 251 454
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.34% -5.39%

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 5 February 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 (8.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.83%) Confluence
3 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.49%) CICS
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (15.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 37 (17.96%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.88%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.49%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 175 (84.95%) Azure
2 99 (48.06%) GitHub
3 82 (39.81%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (28.64%) AWS
5 47 (22.82%) Power Platform
6 44 (21.36%) Snowflake
7 38 (18.45%) Entra ID
8 37 (17.96%) OCI
9 31 (15.05%) GitHub Copilot
10 30 (14.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (9.71%) dbt
13 19 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (7.28%) Datadog
15 12 (5.83%) GCP
16 11 (5.34%) SaaS
17 10 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
18 9 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
19 8 (3.88%) Boomi
19 8 (3.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.19%) Internet
2 8 (3.88%) Firewall
3 4 (1.94%) BGP
3 4 (1.94%) DNS
3 4 (1.94%) LAN
3 4 (1.94%) MPLS
3 4 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.94%) VPN
3 4 (1.94%) WAN
3 4 (1.94%) Wireless
4 3 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.30%) Tableau
2 47 (22.82%) Power BI
3 24 (11.65%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.34%) Data Mining
4 11 (5.34%) Metadata
5 7 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.94%) Redis
8 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.49%) Big Data
9 1 (0.49%) DB2
9 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (22.33%) Jenkins
2 41 (19.90%) JIRA
3 38 (18.45%) Git
4 37 (17.96%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (5.83%) ER Studio
5 12 (5.83%) ERwin
6 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.49%) JMeter
7 1 (0.49%) Locust
General
1 154 (74.76%) Finance
2 40 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (19.42%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.19%) Multimedia
4 8 (3.88%) Marketing
5 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.97%) Retail
6 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (25.73%) Applications Engineer
2 52 (25.24%) Senior
3 41 (19.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (16.50%) Trainee
5 30 (14.56%) Analyst
6 24 (11.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 18 (8.74%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.80%) Development Engineer
9 12 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.83%) Data Modeller
10 11 (5.34%) Developer
10 11 (5.34%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.34%) Trainee Analyst
10 11 (5.34%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (5.34%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (5.34%) Trainee Software Developer
11 9 (4.37%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.37%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.88%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.88%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.96%) RESTful
2 28 (13.59%) SOAP
3 25 (12.14%) SAML
4 22 (10.68%) CSS
4 22 (10.68%) HTML
5 20 (9.71%) JSON
5 20 (9.71%) XML
6 17 (8.25%) OAuth
6 17 (8.25%) OAuth2
7 15 (7.28%) .NET
8 14 (6.80%) ADO
9 9 (4.37%) Web Services
10 8 (3.88%) REST
10 8 (3.88%) YAML
11 7 (3.40%) Django
12 4 (1.94%) Node.js
12 4 (1.94%) React
13 3 (1.46%) Kafka
13 3 (1.46%) NumPy
13 3 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.67%) Product Ownership
2 44 (21.36%) Cloud Native
3 38 (18.45%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (10.68%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.88%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.49%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.43%) Linux
2 4 (1.94%) Unix
2 4 (1.94%) VMS
3 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (64.08%) Coaching
2 131 (63.59%) Asset Management
3 122 (59.22%) DevOps
4 116 (56.31%) Agile
5 92 (44.66%) CI/CD
6 72 (34.95%) AI
7 69 (33.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (29.61%) Analytics
9 53 (25.73%) Test Automation
10 52 (25.24%) Mentoring
11 51 (24.76%) Observability
12 46 (22.33%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (21.84%) Data Governance
14 41 (19.90%) Roadmaps
15 37 (17.96%) API Integration
15 37 (17.96%) ERP
16 35 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 33 (16.02%) Cybersecurity
18 31 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (14.56%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 114 (55.34%) SQL
2 58 (28.16%) PowerShell
3 43 (20.87%) JavaScript
4 41 (19.90%) Java
5 37 (17.96%) PL/SQL
5 37 (17.96%) Shell Script
6 27 (13.11%) Bash
7 10 (4.85%) R
8 7 (3.40%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.94%) Bicep
10 2 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) Scala
11 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (13.59%) Azure Certification
2 23 (11.17%) AWS Certification
2 23 (11.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (10.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.37%) CISSP
4 9 (4.37%) CREST Certified
4 9 (4.37%) SANS
5 6 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.91%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) CEH
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.49%) Degree
6 1 (0.49%) GIAC
6 1 (0.49%) GREM
6 1 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.56%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.28%) QA
3 10 (4.85%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (11.17%) Docker
2 20 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) RACF
Systems Management
1 95 (46.12%) Terraform
2 45 (21.84%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (9.71%) Grafana
3 20 (9.71%) Kubernetes
4 18 (8.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.43%) Ansible
7 3 (1.46%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.49%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 82 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.96%) Oracle
3 20 (9.71%) Okta
4 13 (6.31%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.85%) Databricks
6 8 (3.88%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.88%) Workday
7 6 (2.91%) Splunk
8 4 (1.94%) F5
8 4 (1.94%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.94%) Google
8 4 (1.94%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.49%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.49%) FIS
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) OpenAI