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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 175 938 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.35% 15.18% 12.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.58% 31.11% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 43 230 258
10th Percentile £38,850 £38,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,513
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,360 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,550 £85,000 £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 942 3,015 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.82% 48.78% 37.82%
Number of salaries quoted 522 1,054 941
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,548
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 19 July 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 19 July 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
Glasgow -6 92 £75,360 +63.83% 77
Edinburgh -15 77 £57,500 -11.54% 85
Aberdeen +20 3 £45,000 +16.88% 12
Dundee -3 1 - - 8
Fife -12 1 £50,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 - 6
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 21 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 17 (9.71%) Apache
3 9 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.00%) SAS
5 4 (2.29%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (2.29%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.14%) CICS
6 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.14%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.57%) Simulink
3 1 (0.57%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 67 (38.29%) AWS
2 34 (19.43%) Azure
3 24 (13.71%) GCP
4 14 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 11 (6.29%) Amazon S3
6 10 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.71%) GitHub
6 10 (5.71%) Serverless
7 9 (5.14%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.43%) SaaS
10 5 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.86%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.29%) CloudBees
11 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.29%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.29%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) Firewall
2 3 (1.71%) BGP
2 3 (1.71%) OSPF
3 2 (1.14%) Bluetooth
3 2 (1.14%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.14%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (1.14%) Modbus
3 2 (1.14%) MQTT
3 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) WAN
3 2 (1.14%) Wireless
4 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.57%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.29%) Big Data
1 18 (10.29%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (5.14%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (4.57%) Tableau
6 7 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.43%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.43%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.86%) Apache Hudi
8 5 (2.86%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.86%) Parquet
9 4 (2.29%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.29%) Impala
9 4 (2.29%) KDB
9 4 (2.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Git
2 15 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.57%) JUnit
4 7 (4.00%) GitLab
5 5 (2.86%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.14%) Maven
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) JIRA
8 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 109 (62.29%) Finance
2 72 (41.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (37.71%) Law
4 50 (28.57%) Banking
5 40 (22.86%) Marketing
6 38 (21.71%) Social Skills
7 33 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (10.29%) Front Office
9 15 (8.57%) Legal
10 10 (5.71%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.43%) Electronics
12 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 4 (2.29%) Publishing
14 3 (1.71%) Agriculture
14 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.71%) Retail
15 2 (1.14%) Tech for Good
15 2 (1.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (37.14%) Software Engineer
2 38 (21.71%) Python Engineer
3 33 (18.86%) Lead
3 33 (18.86%) Python Software Engineer
4 22 (12.57%) Lead Software Engineer
4 22 (12.57%) Senior
5 19 (10.86%) Developer
6 13 (7.43%) Analyst
7 11 (6.29%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Risk Officer
11 6 (3.43%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.43%) AWS Software Engineer
11 6 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.43%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.43%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.57%) Kafka
2 13 (7.43%) PySpark
2 13 (7.43%) RESTful
3 11 (6.29%) Pandas
3 11 (6.29%) React
4 10 (5.71%) REST
5 8 (4.57%) scikit-learn
6 7 (4.00%) Spring
7 6 (3.43%) HTML
7 6 (3.43%) NumPy
8 5 (2.86%) .NET
9 4 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.29%) Django
9 4 (2.29%) Middleware
9 4 (2.29%) Web Services
9 4 (2.29%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.71%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.71%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.71%) Algorithms
2 22 (12.57%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.57%) Derivative
3 8 (4.57%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.57%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.86%) Replication
6 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.29%) IoT
7 3 (1.71%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.71%) Life Science
7 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.71%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.14%) ARM Cortex
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.57%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Windows
3 6 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.86%) Unix
5 4 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.57%) Solaris
6 1 (0.57%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.86%) Agile
2 81 (46.29%) Software Engineering
3 67 (38.29%) CI/CD
4 62 (35.43%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (31.43%) Operational Stability
5 55 (31.43%) SDLC
6 40 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
6 40 (22.86%) Machine Learning
7 35 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 33 (18.86%) DevOps
9 30 (17.14%) Analytics
9 30 (17.14%) Mathematics
10 28 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (16.00%) Visualisation
11 27 (15.43%) Community of Practice
12 20 (11.43%) Data Science
13 19 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (10.86%) Computer Science
13 19 (10.86%) Containerisation
14 17 (9.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.14%) SQL
2 54 (30.86%) Java
3 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.86%) C
5 12 (6.86%) C++
6 11 (6.29%) Bash
7 9 (5.14%) R
8 8 (4.57%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.43%) C#
10 5 (2.86%) Go
10 5 (2.86%) Perl
11 4 (2.29%) VBA
12 3 (1.71%) Scala
13 2 (1.14%) Elixir
13 2 (1.14%) F#
13 2 (1.14%) Ruby
14 1 (0.57%) Bicep
14 1 (0.57%) Cypher
14 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (17.14%) Degree
2 14 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.86%) PhD
4 9 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.57%) ACCA
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CFA
7 1 (0.57%) CISA
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) HND
7 1 (0.57%) RHCE
7 1 (0.57%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.43%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.14%) JTAG
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) ECSS
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (17.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (1.71%) Firmware
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) KVM
4 1 (0.57%) RACF
4 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 42 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.14%) Terraform
3 17 (9.71%) Ansible
4 15 (8.57%) Grafana
5 8 (4.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.29%) Netcool
6 4 (2.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (2.29%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.71%) Puppet
8 2 (1.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.57%) Argo
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (7.43%) IBM
1 13 (7.43%) Oracle
1 13 (7.43%) Splunk
2 10 (5.71%) Databricks
3 8 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.00%) Google
4 7 (4.00%) SAP
4 7 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.29%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.29%) IBM Sterling
6 4 (2.29%) UiPath
7 3 (1.71%) Cisco
7 3 (1.71%) Genesys
7 3 (1.71%) Verint
7 3 (1.71%) VMware
8 2 (1.14%) Aruba
8 2 (1.14%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.14%) Sybase