Python Software Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Software Engineer salary in Scotland is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 195 239
Rank change year-on-year +108 +44 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 216 15 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.79% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.91% 0.43% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 8
10th Percentile £43,750 - £46,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £53,750 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +71.88%
75th Percentile £60,625 £71,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £63,250 £110,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £101,250 £92,500
% change year-on-year +8.64% +9.46% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Python Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in Scotland

Python Software Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Software Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +61 214 £60,000 -11.11%
Edinburgh +24 2 £45,000 -21.74%
Python Software Engineer
UK

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Python Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 216 (100.00%) Python
1 216 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 214 (99.07%) Agile
2 214 (99.07%) Finance
3 213 (98.61%) Law
3 213 (98.61%) Operational Stability
3 213 (98.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 213 (98.61%) SDLC
4 190 (87.96%) CI/CD
5 150 (69.44%) Community of Practice
6 149 (68.98%) AWS
7 122 (56.48%) Machine Learning
7 122 (56.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 111 (51.39%) Marketing
9 90 (41.67%) Cloud Native
10 84 (38.89%) Algorithms
11 82 (37.96%) Apache Spark
12 81 (37.50%) Risk Management
12 81 (37.50%) Legal
13 75 (34.72%) Visualisation
13 75 (34.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 73 (33.80%) Big Data
15 68 (31.48%) PySpark
15 68 (31.48%) Apache Airflow
16 54 (25.00%) Coaching
17 39 (18.06%) Decision-Making
17 39 (18.06%) Databricks
18 34 (15.74%) Mentoring
18 34 (15.74%) Kubernetes
18 34 (15.74%) Kafka

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 82 (37.96%) Apache Spark
2 68 (31.48%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 149 (68.98%) AWS
2 13 (6.02%) Azure
3 1 (0.46%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (0.46%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (0.46%) GCP
3 1 (0.46%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (33.80%) Big Data
2 14 (6.48%) Apache Hive
2 14 (6.48%) Hadoop
2 14 (6.48%) Impala
3 2 (0.93%) Tableau
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Appium
1 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 214 (99.07%) Finance
2 213 (98.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 213 (98.61%) Law
3 111 (51.39%) Marketing
4 81 (37.50%) Legal
5 32 (14.81%) Banking
5 32 (14.81%) Investment Banking
6 21 (9.72%) Financial Institution
7 15 (6.94%) Games
7 15 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.63%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (31.48%) PySpark
2 34 (15.74%) Kafka
3 11 (5.09%) React
4 1 (0.46%) .NET
4 1 (0.46%) Django
4 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.46%) Flask
4 1 (0.46%) Keras
4 1 (0.46%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.46%) SpaCy
4 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 90 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 84 (38.89%) Algorithms
3 14 (6.48%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 214 (99.07%) Agile
3 213 (98.61%) Operational Stability
3 213 (98.61%) SDLC
4 190 (87.96%) CI/CD
5 150 (69.44%) Community of Practice
6 122 (56.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 122 (56.48%) Machine Learning
7 81 (37.50%) Risk Management
8 75 (34.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (34.72%) Visualisation
9 54 (25.00%) Coaching
10 39 (18.06%) Decision-Making
11 34 (15.74%) Mentoring
12 27 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 27 (12.50%) Mathematics
13 25 (11.57%) Microservices
14 20 (9.26%) Asset Management
15 15 (6.94%) Business Analysis
15 15 (6.94%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 216 (100.00%) Python
2 32 (14.81%) Java
3 25 (11.57%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.26%) SQL
5 14 (6.48%) Scala
6 13 (6.02%) C#
7 1 (0.46%) Go
7 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) SLA
2 6 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (15.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (18.06%) Databricks
2 20 (9.26%) Oracle