Python Job Trends in Scotland

Python
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 197 191 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.07% 8.63% 16.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.93% 26.71% 31.17%
Number of salaries quoted 80 52 245
10th Percentile £28,925 £38,550 £38,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £71,500 £75,360 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,125 £82,751 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 506 715 3,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.58% 32.29% 52.57%
Number of salaries quoted 258 329 1,184
10th Percentile £29,525 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,672 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Python job vacancy trend in Scotland

Python
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026. 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 +13 89 £45,000 -23.40% 69
Glasgow -3 42 £55,000 -27.02% 69
Aberdeen -2 24 £37,500 -25.00% 22
Dundee +2 22 - - 17
South Ayrshire - 6 £46,000 -
Highlands - 4 £52,500 - 32
West Lothian - 3 - - 31
Stirling - 1 - - 28
Lanarkshire - 1 £34,000 - 22
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.54%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 73 (37.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 123 (62.44%) Azure
2 93 (47.21%) Azure AI
3 71 (36.04%) Power Platform
4 35 (17.77%) AWS
5 24 (12.18%) GitHub
6 11 (5.58%) GCP
7 7 (3.55%) dbt
7 7 (3.55%) IaaS
8 6 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.54%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.54%) SaaS
9 5 (2.54%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.03%) OCI
10 4 (2.03%) PaaS
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.58%) Internet
2 7 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.05%) ATM
3 6 (3.05%) Multicast
3 6 (3.05%) tcpdump
3 6 (3.05%) Wireshark
4 5 (2.54%) Broadband
5 3 (1.52%) MQTT
6 1 (0.51%) BGP
6 1 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Firewall
6 1 (0.51%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.51%) OSPF
6 1 (0.51%) SNMP
6 1 (0.51%) VLAN
6 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (38.58%) Tableau
2 71 (36.04%) Power BI
3 8 (4.06%) Data Mining
4 7 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.52%) Big Data
8 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.52%) Metadata
9 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.02%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.02%) MySQL
9 2 (1.02%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.02%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.60%) Git
2 10 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (2.03%) JIRA
5 3 (1.52%) GitLab
6 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.51%) ERwin
7 1 (0.51%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 109 (55.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.20%) Finance
3 14 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.58%) Multimedia
5 9 (4.57%) Aerospace
5 9 (4.57%) Automotive
6 6 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.05%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.05%) Retail
6 6 (3.05%) Spanish Language
7 4 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Legal
8 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Electronics
9 1 (0.51%) Games
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (37.06%) Analyst
2 72 (36.55%) Data Analyst
3 67 (34.01%) Junior
4 64 (32.49%) Junior Analyst
4 64 (32.49%) Junior Data Analyst
5 27 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 24 (12.18%) Trainee
7 20 (10.15%) Developer
8 19 (9.64%) Senior
9 12 (6.09%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.06%) Architect
10 8 (4.06%) Trainee Analyst
10 8 (4.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 7 (3.55%) Lead
12 6 (3.05%) Applications Engineer
12 6 (3.05%) Deployment Engineer
12 6 (3.05%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) Principal Architect
13 5 (2.54%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.09%) CSS
1 12 (6.09%) HTML
2 7 (3.55%) NumPy
3 6 (3.05%) Hugging Face
3 6 (3.05%) Pandas
3 6 (3.05%) scikit-learn
4 5 (2.54%) Django
4 5 (2.54%) Kafka
4 5 (2.54%) Matplotlib
4 5 (2.54%) React
4 5 (2.54%) REST
4 5 (2.54%) Streamlit
5 4 (2.03%) LangChain
5 4 (2.03%) Node.js
6 3 (1.52%) .NET
6 3 (1.52%) RESTful
6 3 (1.52%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (1.02%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.02%) JSON
7 2 (1.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.03%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.03%) FPGA
5 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Robotics
6 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.02%) IoT
6 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.02%) Replication
6 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.51%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Linux
2 7 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) AIX
4 1 (0.51%) Solaris
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (59.90%) AI
2 70 (35.53%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (17.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 27 (13.71%) Mentoring
5 25 (12.69%) Machine Learning
6 21 (10.66%) Analytics
7 20 (10.15%) Agile
7 20 (10.15%) CI/CD
8 17 (8.63%) LLM
8 17 (8.63%) Validation
9 16 (8.12%) Test Automation
10 15 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (7.61%) DevOps
11 14 (7.11%) Data Engineering
11 14 (7.11%) Data Modelling
12 13 (6.60%) Observability
13 12 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.09%) Software Engineering
14 11 (5.58%) Data Analytics
15 10 (5.08%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 95 (48.22%) SQL
2 16 (8.12%) JavaScript
3 13 (6.60%) Java
4 8 (4.06%) R
5 7 (3.55%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.05%) Bash
7 4 (2.03%) C++
8 3 (1.52%) C
8 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.02%) C#
9 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Scala
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.51%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.51%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) Rust
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (50.25%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.12%) AWS Certification
2 16 (8.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.57%) Degree
5 6 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.03%) CISSP
6 4 (2.03%) CREST Certified
6 4 (2.03%) SANS
7 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) HND
8 1 (0.51%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.51%) MCT
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.52%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.60%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) KVM
2 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.58%) Terraform
3 6 (3.05%) Ansible
3 6 (3.05%) Puppet
4 3 (1.52%) Grafana
5 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.51%) Nagios
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 101 (51.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.06%) Google
3 7 (3.55%) Databricks
4 6 (3.05%) VMware
5 5 (2.54%) Foundry
6 4 (2.03%) Oracle
7 3 (1.52%) Meraki
8 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) Arista
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.51%) FIS
9 1 (0.51%) Juniper
9 1 (0.51%) Okta
9 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds