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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,302 730 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.41% 15.89% 11.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.88% 37.19% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 239 265 385
10th Percentile £38,250 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,091 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 3,733 1,963 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.66% 42.74% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,080 1,566
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,625 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -11 1,032 £46,000 -23.33% 43
Edinburgh +3 199 £57,500 -11.54% 66
Dundee +4 19 £50,000 - 7
Fife +2 15 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Aberdeen -3 15 £38,500 -40.77% 4
Scottish Borders +8 5 - -
Midlothian -1 3 - - 12
West Lothian -4 3 £30,000 -25.00% 1
Lanarkshire -13 2 - - 15
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
1 296 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 117 (8.99%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (4.61%) ArcGIS
3 60 (4.61%) GeoServer
4 42 (3.23%) Apache
5 20 (1.54%) Camunda
6 7 (0.54%) SAS
7 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.077%) EViews
2 1 (0.077%) Simulink
2 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 686 (52.69%) AWS
2 172 (13.21%) Azure
3 106 (8.14%) GCP
4 52 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
5 44 (3.38%) SaaS
6 36 (2.76%) Amazon S3
7 24 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 22 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (1.69%) Google Docs
8 22 (1.69%) Lucidchart
8 22 (1.69%) Miro
8 22 (1.69%) Slack
9 17 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (1.31%) Datadog
10 16 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (1.23%) Serverless
11 14 (1.08%) GitHub
12 12 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (0.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.38%) DSL
2 12 (0.92%) Firewall
3 11 (0.84%) SNMP
4 10 (0.77%) Internet
4 10 (0.77%) IPsec
4 10 (0.77%) VPN
5 7 (0.54%) HTTP
5 7 (0.54%) MQTT
5 7 (0.54%) Network Security
6 3 (0.23%) BGP
7 1 (0.077%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.077%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (15.75%) Big Data
2 192 (14.75%) NoSQL
3 118 (9.06%) Apache Hive
4 114 (8.76%) Hadoop
5 102 (7.83%) HBase
6 78 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (5.15%) MongoDB
8 63 (4.84%) Data Lake
9 62 (4.76%) GIS
10 60 (4.61%) QGIS
11 54 (4.15%) Relational Database
12 39 (3.00%) Qlik Sense
13 34 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (2.00%) Tableau
15 24 (1.84%) MySQL
15 24 (1.84%) Power BI
16 23 (1.77%) Redis
17 22 (1.69%) Scylla
18 18 (1.38%) DB2
19 16 (1.23%) Impala
Development Applications
1 141 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 124 (9.52%) Git
3 86 (6.61%) Bitbucket Server
4 41 (3.15%) Maven
5 22 (1.69%) Gradle
6 20 (1.54%) CircleCI
6 20 (1.54%) Travis CI
7 19 (1.46%) GitLab
8 16 (1.23%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.92%) JIRA
10 7 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.46%) JDeveloper
11 6 (0.46%) Selenium
12 5 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
12 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.31%) Appium
13 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.31%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 988 (75.88%) Finance
2 974 (74.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 923 (70.89%) Law
4 562 (43.16%) Marketing
5 333 (25.58%) Legal
6 120 (9.22%) Banking
7 117 (8.99%) Social Skills
8 116 (8.91%) Financial Institution
9 86 (6.61%) Investment Banking
10 60 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
12 43 (3.30%) Games
13 29 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.84%) Electronics
15 19 (1.46%) Front Office
15 19 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.38%) Publishing
17 14 (1.08%) Public Sector
18 10 (0.77%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 921 (70.74%) Software Engineer
2 335 (25.73%) Python Engineer
2 335 (25.73%) Python Software Engineer
3 236 (18.13%) Lead
4 214 (16.44%) Lead Software Engineer
5 212 (16.28%) Data Engineer
6 173 (13.29%) AWS Engineer
7 168 (12.90%) AWS Software Engineer
8 146 (11.21%) Senior
9 138 (10.60%) Big Data Engineer
9 138 (10.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 118 (9.06%) Developer
11 104 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 76 (5.84%) Java Engineer
13 75 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 68 (5.22%) Engineering Manager
15 67 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 62 (4.76%) Software Engineering Manager
17 59 (4.53%) Database Engineer
18 58 (4.45%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (13.59%) PySpark
2 167 (12.83%) React
3 117 (8.99%) Kafka
4 95 (7.30%) Spring
5 78 (5.99%) .NET
6 67 (5.15%) Pandas
6 67 (5.15%) Spring Boot
7 62 (4.76%) CSS
7 62 (4.76%) NumPy
8 60 (4.61%) Leaflet
8 60 (4.61%) OpenLayers
8 60 (4.61%) PostGIS
9 57 (4.38%) AngularJS
10 52 (3.99%) .NET Core
11 38 (2.92%) REST
12 35 (2.69%) Django
13 24 (1.84%) GraphQL
14 21 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
15 18 (1.38%) JPA
16 16 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 418 (32.10%) Algorithms
2 328 (25.19%) Cloud Native
3 89 (6.84%) Onboarding
4 88 (6.76%) Public Cloud
5 72 (5.53%) Product Ownership
6 59 (4.53%) Market Risk
7 46 (3.53%) Data Structures
8 39 (3.00%) Reference Data
9 34 (2.61%) Credit Risk
10 25 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.61%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
13 14 (1.08%) IoT
14 12 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.84%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
17 7 (0.54%) Arduino
17 7 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
17 7 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.54%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 154 (11.83%) Linux
2 135 (10.37%) Unix
3 27 (2.07%) Windows
4 10 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
4 10 (0.77%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.077%) Android
6 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.077%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (86.02%) Software Engineering
2 965 (74.12%) Agile
3 834 (64.06%) SDLC
4 798 (61.29%) CI/CD
5 762 (58.53%) Operational Stability
6 651 (50.00%) Machine Learning
7 607 (46.62%) Community of Practice
8 600 (46.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 374 (28.73%) Visualisation
10 366 (28.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 337 (25.88%) Risk Management
12 237 (18.20%) Decision-Making
13 230 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
14 208 (15.98%) Microservices
15 165 (12.67%) Test Automation
16 159 (12.21%) Continuous Delivery
17 141 (10.83%) Computer Science
18 130 (9.98%) Analytics
19 128 (9.83%) Scrum
20 120 (9.22%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 608 (46.70%) Java
2 490 (37.63%) SQL
3 211 (16.21%) JavaScript
4 145 (11.14%) PL/SQL
5 114 (8.76%) C#
6 62 (4.76%) Scala
7 59 (4.53%) Bash
7 59 (4.53%) C
8 57 (4.38%) Go
9 53 (4.07%) C++
10 35 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 33 (2.53%) Ruby
12 22 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.38%) Groovy
13 18 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 17 (1.31%) Embedded C
15 12 (0.92%) Perl
15 12 (0.92%) R
15 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (5.61%) Security Cleared
2 70 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.76%) Degree
4 23 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.23%) PhD
7 14 (1.08%) Master's Degree
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%) ACCA
9 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.077%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.077%) OCP
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 35 (2.69%) QA
3 34 (2.61%) SLA
4 25 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.15%) CRD IV
6 1 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.077%) Basel III
6 1 (0.077%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.077%) GDPR
6 1 (0.077%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.077%) IFRS
6 1 (0.077%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 102 (7.83%) HDFS
2 54 (4.15%) Docker
3 15 (1.15%) Firmware
4 13 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 228 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 152 (11.67%) Terraform
3 35 (2.69%) Grafana
4 29 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.92%) Ansible
6 10 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.23%) Puppet
9 2 (0.15%) Rancher
9 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.077%) Kibana
Vendors
1 252 (19.35%) Databricks
2 179 (13.75%) Oracle
3 86 (6.61%) Informatica
4 72 (5.53%) Cloudera
5 65 (4.99%) Google
6 60 (4.61%) ESRI
7 57 (4.38%) Alteryx
8 34 (2.61%) Splunk
9 29 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.77%) Sybase
11 22 (1.69%) Dell
12 20 (1.54%) Pega
13 18 (1.38%) Cognos
14 15 (1.15%) VMware
15 11 (0.84%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.77%) NetApp
16 10 (0.77%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.77%) SolidFire
17 9 (0.69%) Twitter
18 7 (0.54%) NVIDIA