Python Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Python Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Engineer salary in Scotland is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 201 235
Rank change year-on-year +124 +34 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 305 14 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.46% 0.33% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.60% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 9
10th Percentile £42,500 - £46,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +4.55% +46.67%
75th Percentile £88,125 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,250 £72,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +17.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +74 299 £60,000 -11.11%
Edinburgh +22 6 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Python Engineer
UK

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Python Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 305 (100.00%) Python
2 303 (99.34%) Software Engineering
3 300 (98.36%) Agile
4 299 (98.03%) Finance
4 299 (98.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 298 (97.70%) Operational Stability
5 298 (97.70%) SDLC
5 298 (97.70%) Law
6 276 (90.49%) CI/CD
7 231 (75.74%) Community of Practice
8 213 (69.84%) AWS
9 171 (56.07%) Marketing
10 167 (54.75%) Machine Learning
10 167 (54.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 131 (42.95%) Cloud Native
12 127 (41.64%) Algorithms
13 110 (36.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (36.07%) Visualisation
14 106 (34.75%) Legal
14 106 (34.75%) Risk Management
15 104 (34.10%) Apache Spark
16 99 (32.46%) Apache Airflow
17 95 (31.15%) PySpark
18 91 (29.84%) Big Data
19 80 (26.23%) Coaching
20 59 (19.34%) JavaScript
21 49 (16.07%) Mentoring
21 49 (16.07%) Databricks
22 47 (15.41%) Kubernetes
23 46 (15.08%) Microservices

Python Engineer Skill Set
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
1 104 (34.10%) Apache Spark
2 99 (32.46%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 213 (69.84%) AWS
2 14 (4.59%) Azure
3 7 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
3 7 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (0.66%) GCP
6 1 (0.33%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (29.84%) Big Data
2 18 (5.90%) Apache Hive
2 18 (5.90%) Hadoop
3 14 (4.59%) Impala
4 5 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.31%) HBase
6 2 (0.66%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Appium
1 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 299 (98.03%) Finance
1 299 (98.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 298 (97.70%) Law
3 171 (56.07%) Marketing
4 106 (34.75%) Legal
5 43 (14.10%) Banking
5 43 (14.10%) Investment Banking
6 32 (10.49%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.90%) Front Office
8 15 (4.92%) Games
8 15 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (31.15%) PySpark
2 46 (15.08%) Kafka
3 23 (7.54%) React
4 9 (2.95%) REST
5 7 (2.30%) Flask
5 7 (2.30%) Keras
5 7 (2.30%) PyTorch
5 7 (2.30%) SpaCy
5 7 (2.30%) TensorFlow
6 5 (1.64%) JSP
7 4 (1.31%) JPA
7 4 (1.31%) Spring
8 2 (0.66%) .NET
9 1 (0.33%) Django
9 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 131 (42.95%) Cloud Native
2 127 (41.64%) Algorithms
3 14 (4.59%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.87%) Unix
2 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (99.34%) Software Engineering
2 300 (98.36%) Agile
3 298 (97.70%) Operational Stability
3 298 (97.70%) SDLC
4 276 (90.49%) CI/CD
5 231 (75.74%) Community of Practice
6 167 (54.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 167 (54.75%) Machine Learning
7 110 (36.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (36.07%) Visualisation
8 106 (34.75%) Risk Management
9 80 (26.23%) Coaching
10 49 (16.07%) Mentoring
11 46 (15.08%) Microservices
12 43 (14.10%) Decision-Making
13 41 (13.44%) Scrum
13 41 (13.44%) Workflow
14 31 (10.16%) Asset Management
15 27 (8.85%) Computer Science
15 27 (8.85%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 305 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (19.34%) JavaScript
3 41 (13.44%) Java
4 29 (9.51%) SQL
5 19 (6.23%) C#
6 14 (4.59%) Scala
7 1 (0.33%) Go
7 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.57%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.59%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.31%) Docker
1 4 (1.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (15.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (16.07%) Databricks
2 20 (6.56%) Oracle
3 5 (1.64%) Dynatrace
3 5 (1.64%) Splunk
4 4 (1.31%) Cloudera