Python Jobs in Scotland

Python
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 17 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 842 491 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.78% 12.94% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.94% 34.46% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 207 260 393
10th Percentile £38,250 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,265 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.83%
75th Percentile £73,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,154 £83,600
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,721 1,425 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.75% 37.56% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,114 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Python in Scotland

Python
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 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 -3 612 £49,000 -21.60% 16
Edinburgh +1 176 £65,000 - 25
Dundee +4 11 £52,500 - 1
Fife -1 11 £50,000 +17.09%
Aberdeen 0 9 £40,000 -38.46% 3
West Lothian -5 5 £30,000 -25.00%
Lanarkshire -10 4 £70,000 -9.68% 12
Midlothian - 3 - - 16
Scottish Borders - 2 - -
Python
UK

Python
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
1 162 (19.24%) Apache Spark
2 70 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (4.51%) ArcGIS
3 38 (4.51%) GeoServer
4 10 (1.19%) Apache
5 8 (0.95%) SAS
6 5 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.24%) Confluence
8 2 (0.24%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 431 (51.19%) AWS
2 145 (17.22%) Azure
3 78 (9.26%) GCP
4 36 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 17 (2.02%) Datadog
6 17 (2.02%) Power Platform
6 17 (2.02%) SaaS
7 16 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (1.78%) GitHub
8 15 (1.78%) Serverless
9 7 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (0.83%) dbt
10 6 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.48%) Lucidchart
12 4 (0.48%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.48%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.43%) Network Security
2 11 (1.31%) Firewall
2 11 (1.31%) SNMP
3 10 (1.19%) Internet
3 10 (1.19%) IPsec
3 10 (1.19%) VPN
4 3 (0.36%) BGP
5 2 (0.24%) Wireless
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.12%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.85%) NoSQL
2 113 (13.42%) Big Data
3 74 (8.79%) Apache Hive
4 60 (7.13%) HBase
5 58 (6.89%) Hadoop
6 50 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (4.75%) Data Lake
7 40 (4.75%) GIS
8 38 (4.51%) QGIS
9 35 (4.16%) Qlik Sense
9 35 (4.16%) Relational Database
10 26 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 20 (2.38%) MySQL
12 17 (2.02%) Power BI
13 15 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.66%) Impala
15 11 (1.31%) Tableau
16 9 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.95%) SQL Server
18 5 (0.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 95 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 84 (9.98%) Git
3 60 (7.13%) Bitbucket Server
4 20 (2.38%) Maven
5 18 (2.14%) GitLab
6 15 (1.78%) LabVIEW
6 15 (1.78%) Selenium
7 13 (1.54%) JIRA
8 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.71%) Spinnaker
9 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.48%) GoCD
11 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.24%) Gradle
12 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.12%) Appium
General
1 569 (67.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 568 (67.46%) Finance
3 523 (62.11%) Law
4 252 (29.93%) Marketing
5 239 (28.38%) Legal
6 81 (9.62%) Social Skills
7 62 (7.36%) Banking
8 55 (6.53%) Financial Institution
9 50 (5.94%) Investment Banking
10 36 (4.28%) Games
11 34 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.49%) Manufacturing
13 19 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (2.14%) Electronics
14 18 (2.14%) Publishing
15 10 (1.19%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.19%) Front Office
16 8 (0.95%) Retail
17 5 (0.59%) Wholesale Banking
18 3 (0.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 548 (65.08%) Software Engineer
2 219 (26.01%) Python Engineer
3 216 (25.65%) Python Software Engineer
4 163 (19.36%) Data Engineer
5 129 (15.32%) Lead
6 123 (14.61%) AWS Engineer
7 117 (13.90%) AWS Software Engineer
8 105 (12.47%) Big Data Engineer
8 105 (12.47%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 103 (12.23%) Lead Software Engineer
10 86 (10.21%) Senior
11 76 (9.03%) Developer
12 57 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 46 (5.46%) Architect
14 43 (5.11%) Engineering Manager
15 41 (4.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 37 (4.39%) Java Engineer
16 37 (4.39%) Java Software Engineer
16 37 (4.39%) Software Engineering Manager
17 36 (4.28%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (14.01%) PySpark
2 85 (10.10%) React
3 57 (6.77%) .NET
4 50 (5.94%) CSS
5 47 (5.58%) Kafka
6 40 (4.75%) Spring
7 38 (4.51%) .NET Core
7 38 (4.51%) Leaflet
7 38 (4.51%) OpenLayers
7 38 (4.51%) PostGIS
8 37 (4.39%) NumPy
9 34 (4.04%) Pandas
10 33 (3.92%) Spring Boot
11 27 (3.21%) Django
12 22 (2.61%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.26%) Node.js
14 13 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (1.43%) HTML
16 10 (1.19%) REST
16 10 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 265 (31.47%) Algorithms
2 175 (20.78%) Cloud Native
3 66 (7.84%) Onboarding
4 36 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 34 (4.04%) Credit Risk
5 34 (4.04%) Market Risk
6 31 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 19 (2.26%) Reference Data
9 15 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
10 14 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.43%) IoT
12 9 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
14 5 (0.59%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (0.48%) Hedge funds
16 3 (0.36%) Embedded Systems
16 3 (0.36%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.01%) Linux
2 95 (11.28%) Unix
3 29 (3.44%) Windows
4 10 (1.19%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.12%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (80.17%) Software Engineering
2 567 (67.34%) Agile
3 485 (57.60%) SDLC
4 446 (52.97%) CI/CD
5 427 (50.71%) Operational Stability
6 344 (40.86%) Community of Practice
6 344 (40.86%) Machine Learning
7 319 (37.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 246 (29.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 237 (28.15%) Visualisation
10 234 (27.79%) Risk Management
11 143 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
12 115 (13.66%) Decision-Making
13 105 (12.47%) Computer Science
13 105 (12.47%) Test Automation
14 91 (10.81%) Coaching
15 86 (10.21%) Microservices
16 85 (10.10%) DevOps
17 84 (9.98%) Mathematics
18 81 (9.62%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 317 (37.65%) Java
2 290 (34.44%) SQL
3 126 (14.96%) JavaScript
4 86 (10.21%) PL/SQL
5 80 (9.50%) C#
6 60 (7.13%) C
7 51 (6.06%) C++
8 35 (4.16%) Bash
9 22 (2.61%) Scala
10 21 (2.49%) Groovy
10 21 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 18 (2.14%) Embedded C
11 18 (2.14%) Go
12 14 (1.66%) PowerShell
13 12 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.19%) R
14 10 (1.19%) TypeScript
15 9 (1.07%) Perl
16 6 (0.71%) Rust
17 4 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (6.65%) Degree
2 52 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 50 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.31%) PhD
7 10 (1.19%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.36%) CCNA
10 3 (0.36%) CCNP
10 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.36%) HND
11 2 (0.24%) ACCA
11 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.12%) OCP
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.44%) QA
2 14 (1.66%) SLA
3 12 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.24%) GDPR
5 2 (0.24%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.24%) IFRS
5 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 60 (7.13%) HDFS
2 56 (6.65%) Docker
3 13 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Firmware
5 6 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 144 (17.10%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.54%) Terraform
3 32 (3.80%) Ansible
4 30 (3.56%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.85%) Grafana
6 10 (1.19%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.48%) Puppet
9 3 (0.36%) Fortio
9 3 (0.36%) Istio
9 3 (0.36%) Kiali
10 2 (0.24%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.24%) zSecure
11 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 133 (15.80%) Databricks
2 93 (11.05%) Oracle
3 60 (7.13%) Informatica
4 40 (4.75%) Google
5 38 (4.51%) ESRI
6 36 (4.28%) Alteryx
7 31 (3.68%) Splunk
8 30 (3.56%) Cloudera
9 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.78%) VMware
11 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.19%) NetApp
12 10 (1.19%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.19%) SolidFire
13 7 (0.83%) Microsoft
14 6 (0.71%) Sybase
14 6 (0.71%) Twitter
15 5 (0.59%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.59%) CA
16 4 (0.48%) Dell