Python Jobs in Scotland

Python
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,303 725 745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.41% 15.31% 13.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.42% 35.19% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 247 276 401
10th Percentile £38,250 £38,752 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,091 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,786 2,060 2,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.39% 43.49% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,162 1,553
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -10 1,021 £49,000 -20.00% 33
Edinburgh +4 212 £57,500 -17.20% 49
Dundee +5 21 £50,000 +17.65% 4
Aberdeen -1 16 £38,500 -40.77% 5
Fife 0 15 £50,000 +17.09% 4
Scottish Borders +8 5 - -
Midlothian -3 3 - - 7
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 -
Lanarkshire -15 2 - - 3
Inverclyde - 1 £50,000 -
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
1 299 (22.95%) Apache Spark
2 117 (8.98%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (4.60%) ArcGIS
3 60 (4.60%) GeoServer
4 45 (3.45%) Apache
5 20 (1.53%) Camunda
6 8 (0.61%) SAS
7 6 (0.46%) Confluence
8 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.077%) EViews
2 1 (0.077%) Simulink
2 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 682 (52.34%) AWS
2 168 (12.89%) Azure
3 103 (7.90%) GCP
4 51 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
5 46 (3.53%) SaaS
6 37 (2.84%) Amazon S3
7 24 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 23 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (1.77%) Google Docs
8 23 (1.77%) Lucidchart
8 23 (1.77%) Miro
8 23 (1.77%) Slack
9 21 (1.61%) Serverless
10 19 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (1.23%) Datadog
13 15 (1.15%) GitHub
14 11 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (0.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.38%) DSL
2 12 (0.92%) Firewall
3 11 (0.84%) Network Security
3 11 (0.84%) SNMP
4 10 (0.77%) Internet
4 10 (0.77%) IPsec
4 10 (0.77%) VPN
5 8 (0.61%) HTTP
5 8 (0.61%) MQTT
6 3 (0.23%) BGP
7 1 (0.077%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.077%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (15.96%) Big Data
2 195 (14.97%) NoSQL
3 118 (9.06%) Apache Hive
4 116 (8.90%) Hadoop
5 103 (7.90%) HBase
6 78 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (5.07%) MongoDB
8 62 (4.76%) GIS
9 61 (4.68%) Data Lake
10 60 (4.60%) QGIS
11 54 (4.14%) Relational Database
12 37 (2.84%) Qlik Sense
13 35 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (2.00%) MySQL
15 24 (1.84%) Power BI
15 24 (1.84%) Redis
15 24 (1.84%) Tableau
16 23 (1.77%) Scylla
17 18 (1.38%) DB2
18 16 (1.23%) Impala
Development Applications
1 143 (10.97%) Jenkins
2 130 (9.98%) Git
3 86 (6.60%) Bitbucket Server
4 40 (3.07%) Maven
5 22 (1.69%) Gradle
6 20 (1.53%) CircleCI
6 20 (1.53%) GitLab
6 20 (1.53%) Travis CI
7 16 (1.23%) JIRA
7 16 (1.23%) LabVIEW
8 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
9 7 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.46%) JDeveloper
11 5 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.31%) Appium
12 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.31%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.23%) Selenium
13 3 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 981 (75.29%) Finance
2 965 (74.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 912 (69.99%) Law
4 556 (42.67%) Marketing
5 330 (25.33%) Legal
6 121 (9.29%) Banking
7 117 (8.98%) Social Skills
8 114 (8.75%) Financial Institution
9 85 (6.52%) Investment Banking
10 60 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
11 57 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
12 42 (3.22%) Games
13 30 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.92%) Electronics
15 19 (1.46%) Front Office
15 19 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.38%) Publishing
17 15 (1.15%) Public Sector
18 11 (0.84%) Retail
19 10 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 918 (70.45%) Software Engineer
2 331 (25.40%) Python Engineer
2 331 (25.40%) Python Software Engineer
3 232 (17.81%) Lead
4 211 (16.19%) Lead Software Engineer
5 208 (15.96%) Data Engineer
6 173 (13.28%) AWS Engineer
7 167 (12.82%) AWS Software Engineer
8 149 (11.44%) Senior
9 138 (10.59%) Big Data Engineer
9 138 (10.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 124 (9.52%) Developer
11 102 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (5.91%) Java Engineer
13 76 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
14 67 (5.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 66 (5.07%) Engineering Manager
16 60 (4.60%) Software Engineering Manager
17 59 (4.53%) Database Engineer
18 57 (4.37%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (13.43%) PySpark
2 174 (13.35%) React
3 119 (9.13%) Kafka
4 97 (7.44%) Spring
5 78 (5.99%) .NET
6 68 (5.22%) Spring Boot
7 67 (5.14%) Pandas
8 63 (4.83%) CSS
9 62 (4.76%) NumPy
10 60 (4.60%) Leaflet
10 60 (4.60%) OpenLayers
10 60 (4.60%) PostGIS
11 58 (4.45%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.99%) .NET Core
13 39 (2.99%) REST
14 37 (2.84%) Django
15 25 (1.92%) GraphQL
16 22 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
17 18 (1.38%) JPA
18 17 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 417 (32.00%) Algorithms
2 330 (25.33%) Cloud Native
3 88 (6.75%) Onboarding
3 88 (6.75%) Public Cloud
4 72 (5.53%) Product Ownership
5 58 (4.45%) Market Risk
6 47 (3.61%) Data Structures
7 38 (2.92%) Reference Data
8 35 (2.69%) Credit Risk
9 25 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.61%) Taxonomies
11 15 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
12 11 (0.84%) IoT
13 10 (0.77%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.61%) Arduino
14 8 (0.61%) Raspberry Pi
15 7 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (11.82%) Linux
2 136 (10.44%) Unix
3 24 (1.84%) Windows
4 10 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
5 9 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.31%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.077%) Android
8 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.077%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.077%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (85.73%) Software Engineering
2 965 (74.06%) Agile
3 829 (63.62%) SDLC
4 797 (61.17%) CI/CD
5 753 (57.79%) Operational Stability
6 641 (49.19%) Machine Learning
7 601 (46.12%) Community of Practice
8 589 (45.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 369 (28.32%) Visualisation
10 355 (27.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 335 (25.71%) Risk Management
12 238 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
13 233 (17.88%) Decision-Making
14 210 (16.12%) Microservices
15 165 (12.66%) Test Automation
16 162 (12.43%) Continuous Delivery
17 143 (10.97%) Computer Science
18 135 (10.36%) Analytics
19 124 (9.52%) Scrum
20 121 (9.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 610 (46.82%) Java
2 494 (37.91%) SQL
3 218 (16.73%) JavaScript
4 146 (11.20%) PL/SQL
5 115 (8.83%) C#
6 64 (4.91%) Scala
7 61 (4.68%) Bash
8 58 (4.45%) C
8 58 (4.45%) Go
9 53 (4.07%) C++
10 36 (2.76%) Ruby
11 35 (2.69%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.38%) Groovy
13 18 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.23%) Embedded C
15 12 (0.92%) Perl
15 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.84%) R
16 11 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (5.68%) Security Cleared
2 70 (5.37%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.14%) Degree
4 28 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 18 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.23%) PhD
8 3 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.23%) CCNA
8 3 (0.23%) CCNP
8 3 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.23%) HND
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.077%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.077%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.077%) OCA
10 1 (0.077%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.61%) SLA
3 30 (2.30%) QA
4 25 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.23%) CRD IV
6 2 (0.15%) IFRS
6 2 (0.15%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.077%) Basel III
7 1 (0.077%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.077%) GDPR
7 1 (0.077%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 102 (7.83%) HDFS
2 54 (4.14%) Docker
3 16 (1.23%) Firmware
4 13 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 236 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 153 (11.74%) Terraform
3 34 (2.61%) Grafana
4 29 (2.23%) Ansible
5 28 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.31%) vRealize
8 4 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.23%) Puppet
9 3 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.077%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.077%) Kibana
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 252 (19.34%) Databricks
2 182 (13.97%) Oracle
3 86 (6.60%) Informatica
4 72 (5.53%) Cloudera
5 66 (5.07%) Google
6 60 (4.60%) ESRI
7 55 (4.22%) Alteryx
8 33 (2.53%) Splunk
9 28 (2.15%) Dell
9 28 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.77%) Sybase
11 20 (1.53%) Pega
12 18 (1.38%) Cognos
13 15 (1.15%) VMware
14 11 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.77%) NetApp
15 10 (0.77%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.77%) SolidFire
16 9 (0.69%) Twitter
17 8 (0.61%) SAP