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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 17 8
Rank change year-on-year -29 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 174 1,299 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.82% 19.37% 15.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.68% 34.88% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 71 240 263
10th Percentile £38,250 £38,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,365 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £93,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

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 984 3,724 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.93% 55.54% 42.58%
Number of salaries quoted 680 1,123 1,066
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -7 111 £57,500 - 338
Glasgow -5 45 £75,180 +63.43% 274
Aberdeen +20 4 £50,000 +29.87% 208
Moray - 4 £49,050 -
Fife -21 3 £49,050 -1.90% 25
East Ayrshire - 3 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £49,050 -
Dundee -5 1 - - 25
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 13 (7.47%) Apache
2 11 (6.32%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.60%) SAS
4 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.15%) CICS
5 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.15%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.57%) Simulink
3 1 (0.57%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 60 (34.48%) AWS
2 30 (17.24%) Azure
3 22 (12.64%) GCP
4 15 (8.62%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.90%) Amazon SageMaker
5 12 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (6.90%) Serverless
6 11 (6.32%) GitHub
7 10 (5.75%) SaaS
8 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.87%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.30%) CloudBees
11 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.45%) Firewall
2 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.15%) BGP
3 2 (1.15%) OSPF
4 1 (0.57%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.57%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.57%) Modbus
4 1 (0.57%) MQTT
4 1 (0.57%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.57%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) WAN
4 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.62%) Tableau
2 13 (7.47%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.17%) Big Data
4 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.45%) Power BI
6 5 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.30%) MySQL
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.72%) Looker
8 3 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.15%) DB2
9 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (12.64%) Git
2 15 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.75%) GitLab
4 8 (4.60%) JUnit
5 5 (2.87%) Eclipse
5 5 (2.87%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (1.72%) Selenium
6 3 (1.72%) Spinnaker
6 3 (1.72%) TestNG
7 2 (1.15%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.15%) JIRA
7 2 (1.15%) Maven
7 2 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (40.80%) Finance
2 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 41 (23.56%) Banking
4 40 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (10.92%) Law
7 18 (10.34%) Legal
8 15 (8.62%) Marketing
9 13 (7.47%) Front Office
10 7 (4.02%) Retail
11 6 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
12 5 (2.87%) Electronics
12 5 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.87%) Tech for Good
13 4 (2.30%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
15 2 (1.15%) Agriculture
15 2 (1.15%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 40 (22.99%) Software Engineer
2 39 (22.41%) Senior
3 22 (12.64%) Developer
4 20 (11.49%) Analyst
4 20 (11.49%) Lead
5 18 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (6.32%) Python Engineer
7 9 (5.17%) Data Scientist
8 8 (4.60%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Python Software Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Architect
9 7 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Risk Officer
10 6 (3.45%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Junior
10 6 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.87%) Junior Software Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.34%) Kafka
2 11 (6.32%) HTML
3 10 (5.75%) RESTful
4 9 (5.17%) Middleware
4 9 (5.17%) REST
5 8 (4.60%) PySpark
5 8 (4.60%) React
6 6 (3.45%) CSS
6 6 (3.45%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.45%) Spring
7 5 (2.87%) JSP
8 4 (2.30%) .NET
8 4 (2.30%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.30%) JSON
8 4 (2.30%) NumPy
8 4 (2.30%) Pandas
8 4 (2.30%) PyTorch
8 4 (2.30%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.72%) OpenFin
9 3 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.02%) Credit Risk
3 7 (4.02%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.30%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.72%) IoT
6 3 (1.72%) Life Science
6 3 (1.72%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.15%) Clustering
7 2 (1.15%) Derivative
7 2 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.15%) IVR
7 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.15%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.84%) Linux
2 13 (7.47%) Windows
3 6 (3.45%) Unix
4 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.57%) Solaris
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.93%) Agile
2 57 (32.76%) Software Engineering
3 52 (29.89%) CI/CD
4 46 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (24.71%) Mathematics
6 39 (22.41%) Analytics
7 37 (21.26%) DevOps
8 34 (19.54%) Artificial Intelligence
9 31 (17.82%) Machine Learning
10 29 (16.67%) Data Science
11 27 (15.52%) SDLC
12 25 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (14.37%) Computer Science
13 24 (13.79%) Test Automation
14 23 (13.22%) Decision-Making
14 23 (13.22%) Visualisation
15 21 (12.07%) Software Testing
16 17 (9.77%) Containerisation
16 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (9.77%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.33%) SQL
2 56 (32.18%) Java
3 23 (13.22%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.20%) C++
5 13 (7.47%) C#
5 13 (7.47%) Rust
6 12 (6.90%) C
7 11 (6.32%) Bash
8 8 (4.60%) R
9 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.45%) VBA
11 5 (2.87%) Ada
11 5 (2.87%) Go
12 3 (1.72%) Perl
13 2 (1.15%) Elixir
13 2 (1.15%) F#
13 2 (1.15%) Ruby
13 2 (1.15%) Scala
14 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (32.76%) Degree
2 19 (10.92%) Master's Degree
3 17 (9.77%) PhD
4 7 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.72%) CISA
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.57%) ACCA
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) CCNP
8 1 (0.57%) CEH
8 1 (0.57%) CFA
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
8 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) QA
2 6 (3.45%) GDPR
3 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) ECSS
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) JTAG
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (16.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.15%) Firmware
3 1 (0.57%) RACF
3 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (21.26%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.52%) Terraform
3 12 (6.90%) Ansible
4 9 (5.17%) Grafana
5 5 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.15%) Istio
6 2 (1.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) Argo
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.57%) Netcool
7 1 (0.57%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.57%) Opsview
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (6.32%) IBM
2 10 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.17%) Databricks
4 8 (4.60%) Oracle
5 7 (4.02%) Google
5 7 (4.02%) Splunk
6 4 (2.30%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.30%) IBM Sterling
6 4 (2.30%) SAP
6 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.30%) UiPath
7 3 (1.72%) Genesys
7 3 (1.72%) Verint
8 2 (1.15%) Cisco
8 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.15%) Sybase
8 2 (1.15%) VMware
9 1 (0.57%) Epicor
9 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.57%) Veritas