Python Jobs in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 190 305 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.43% 16.47% 13.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 39.20% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 128 174 197
10th Percentile £38,600 £40,025 £40,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,091 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,233 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £95,250 £85,600
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.83%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 570 778 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.28% 42.01% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 446 507 877
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +14.58%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 30 (15.79%) ArcGIS
1 30 (15.79%) GeoServer
2 14 (7.37%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.79%) AWS
2 51 (26.84%) Azure
3 42 (22.11%) GCP
4 23 (12.11%) Amazon S3
5 18 (9.47%) SaaS
6 16 (8.42%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.37%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (7.37%) Google Docs
7 14 (7.37%) Lucidchart
7 14 (7.37%) Miro
7 14 (7.37%) Slack
8 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.68%) Serverless
9 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.11%) GitHub
9 4 (2.11%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.58%) dbt
10 3 (1.58%) PaaS
11 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Network Security
2 6 (3.16%) Firewall
2 6 (3.16%) SNMP
3 5 (2.63%) Internet
3 5 (2.63%) IPsec
3 5 (2.63%) VPN
4 3 (1.58%) BGP
5 2 (1.05%) Wireless
6 1 (0.53%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.53%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (16.32%) GIS
3 30 (15.79%) QGIS
4 21 (11.05%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (9.47%) Big Data
6 17 (8.95%) Hadoop
7 16 (8.42%) Power BI
8 14 (7.37%) Redis
8 14 (7.37%) Scylla
9 6 (3.16%) MySQL
9 6 (3.16%) Tableau
10 5 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.05%) SQLite
13 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (11.05%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) JIRA
4 6 (3.16%) Selenium
5 5 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.11%) Appium
6 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.58%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (1.58%) Maven
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.58%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.53%) GitLab
8 1 (0.53%) Gradle
8 1 (0.53%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) Mockito
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (21.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 41 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.42%) Finance
3 23 (12.11%) Games
4 21 (11.05%) Banking
5 9 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.68%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.11%) Legal
7 4 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.11%) Retail
8 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.58%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Electronics
9 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (43.68%) Software Engineer
2 43 (22.63%) Senior
3 25 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
4 15 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
4 15 (7.89%) Principal Software Engineer
5 13 (6.84%) Developer
6 12 (6.32%) QA Engineer
7 11 (5.79%) Tester
8 10 (5.26%) Lead
8 10 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.74%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) Data Manager
10 8 (4.21%) Data Science Manager
11 7 (3.68%) Analyst
11 7 (3.68%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.68%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (24.74%) React
2 32 (16.84%) CSS
3 30 (15.79%) .NET
3 30 (15.79%) Leaflet
3 30 (15.79%) OpenLayers
3 30 (15.79%) PostGIS
4 26 (13.68%) .NET Core
5 24 (12.63%) Django
6 17 (8.95%) Kafka
7 14 (7.37%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.21%) Pandas
9 6 (3.16%) HTML
9 6 (3.16%) Node.js
9 6 (3.16%) Playwright
9 6 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.16%) YAML
10 5 (2.63%) XGBoost
11 4 (2.11%) Spring
11 4 (2.11%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.58%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.16%) Algorithms
2 22 (11.58%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.16%) IoT
4 5 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.63%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.58%) FPGA
5 3 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.58%) VHDL
6 2 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.53%) ASIC
7 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.53%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.53%) State Machine
7 1 (0.53%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.37%) Linux
2 7 (3.68%) Windows
3 5 (2.63%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (49.47%) Software Engineering
2 78 (41.05%) Agile
3 56 (29.47%) DevOps
4 39 (20.53%) Data Science
5 38 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 37 (19.47%) Actionable Insight
7 34 (17.89%) Test Automation
8 32 (16.84%) Web Development
9 30 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.21%) Software Testing
11 26 (13.68%) Analytics
12 25 (13.16%) CI/CD
13 20 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.89%) Code Quality
15 15 (7.89%) Data Analytics
16 14 (7.37%) Computer Science
16 14 (7.37%) High Availability
16 14 (7.37%) Threat Intelligence
16 14 (7.37%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.53%) JavaScript
2 49 (25.79%) SQL
3 45 (23.68%) Java
4 28 (14.74%) Bash
5 21 (11.05%) C#
6 20 (10.53%) C
7 19 (10.00%) Go
8 15 (7.89%) Scala
9 14 (7.37%) C++
10 10 (5.26%) Rust
11 9 (4.74%) Embedded C
12 6 (3.16%) Haskell
12 6 (3.16%) PowerShell
13 5 (2.63%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.63%) TypeScript
14 4 (2.11%) R
15 3 (1.58%) Tcl
16 2 (1.05%) Groovy
16 2 (1.05%) Perl
16 2 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (18.42%) SC Cleared
1 35 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.00%) Degree
3 9 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.21%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.21%) PhD
5 3 (1.58%) CCNA
5 3 (1.58%) CCNP
5 3 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) OCP
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.58%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.53%) Basel III
2 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 21 (11.05%) Docker
2 5 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.05%) Firmware
4 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.42%) Terraform
3 15 (7.89%) Ansible
4 7 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.63%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.05%) Rancher
7 1 (0.53%) Grafana
7 1 (0.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (18.42%) Google
2 30 (15.79%) ESRI
3 14 (7.37%) Dell
4 6 (3.16%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.16%) VMware
5 5 (2.63%) Databricks
5 5 (2.63%) NetApp
5 5 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.63%) SolidFire
6 4 (2.11%) Splunk
7 3 (1.58%) Intel
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle
7 3 (1.58%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.05%) Altera
8 2 (1.05%) IBM
8 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.53%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow