Python Contracts in Scotland

Python
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Python 193 372 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.01% 13.90% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.69% 41.70% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 261 252
10th Percentile £410 £418 £413
25th Percentile £440 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -4.76% +15.38%
75th Percentile £578 £590 £598
90th Percentile £623 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £54.25 £24.15
25th Percentile - £56.25 £34.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% +42.47% -26.09%
75th Percentile - £67.66 £48.13
90th Percentile - £75.25 £49.71
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% +26.83% +34.87%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 609 892 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.42% 33.32% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 626 721
10th Percentile £350 £406 £381
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Scotland

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +1 121 £500 -16.67% 38
Edinburgh -12 58 £494 -0.80% 57
Perthshire +10 2 £488 -11.36% 2
South Lanarkshire +7 2 - -
Lanarkshire +3 2 £460 -4.17% 12
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 18 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.55%) SAS
3 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.70%) Chatbot
2 10 (5.18%) Sketch
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.15%) AWS
2 37 (19.17%) Azure
3 35 (18.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 35 (18.13%) Serverless
4 33 (17.10%) OpenShift
5 32 (16.58%) Amazon S3
5 32 (16.58%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (5.70%) Snowflake
7 10 (5.18%) Figma
8 8 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.15%) AWS CodePipeline
8 8 (4.15%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.63%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (3.11%) Textract
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.59%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (2.59%) GCP
12 3 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.15%) Firewall
1 8 (4.15%) SAN
2 6 (3.11%) NAS
3 3 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (1.55%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.04%) DHCP
4 2 (1.04%) DNS
4 2 (1.04%) SSL
5 1 (0.52%) DSL
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.84%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (7.25%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.15%) GIS
5 8 (4.15%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.15%) Power BI
6 5 (2.59%) Big Data
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.07%) Parquet
8 3 (1.55%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.55%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.04%) DB2
9 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (13.47%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.29%) GitLab
3 15 (7.77%) Git
4 8 (4.15%) Artifactory
4 8 (4.15%) JIRA
5 7 (3.63%) Gradle
5 7 (3.63%) Maven
6 3 (1.55%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.04%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (16.58%) Finance
2 31 (16.06%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.03%) Social Skills
4 20 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.36%) Banking
5 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.04%) Marketing
7 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (26.42%) Developer
2 26 (13.47%) Python Engineer
3 23 (11.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.88%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (10.88%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (9.33%) Data Engineer
5 18 (9.33%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (7.25%) Software Developer
7 13 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.70%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.18%) Designer
10 10 (5.18%) UX Designer
10 10 (5.18%) Windows Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Automation Developer
11 9 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.13%) AWS CDK
2 21 (10.88%) React
3 18 (9.33%) PySpark
4 16 (8.29%) HTML
5 15 (7.77%) REST
6 7 (3.63%) SpaCy
6 7 (3.63%) Spring
7 6 (3.11%) Node.js
7 6 (3.11%) PostGIS
8 5 (2.59%) CSS
8 5 (2.59%) Kafka
8 5 (2.59%) Middleware
8 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.59%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.07%) Apache Avro
9 4 (2.07%) Pandas
9 4 (2.07%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.55%) Flash
10 3 (1.55%) POSIX
11 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Legacy Systems
1 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.59%) PKI
6 4 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.55%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.55%) NVMe
7 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.04%) Social Media
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (28.50%) Linux
2 27 (13.99%) Windows
3 26 (13.47%) Unix
4 15 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.18%) Android
5 10 (5.18%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.63%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.63%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.11%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.55%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.90%) Agile
2 74 (38.34%) DevOps
3 38 (19.69%) CI/CD
4 36 (18.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (18.65%) Software Engineering
5 26 (13.47%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (11.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 23 (11.92%) User Experience
7 22 (11.40%) Code Quality
8 21 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (9.84%) Machine Learning
9 19 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (9.84%) Scrum
10 18 (9.33%) Computer Science
10 18 (9.33%) ETL
10 18 (9.33%) Kanban
10 18 (9.33%) Observability
10 18 (9.33%) Roadmaps
11 15 (7.77%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.17%) SQL
2 33 (17.10%) Perl
3 32 (16.58%) Java
4 24 (12.44%) Bash
5 22 (11.40%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.88%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.29%) C#
8 14 (7.25%) Scala
9 13 (6.74%) Groovy
9 13 (6.74%) Shell Script
10 12 (6.22%) PowerShell
11 8 (4.15%) Ruby
12 2 (1.04%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (7.77%) Degree
2 8 (4.15%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.07%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) OSCP
5 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (17.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.55%) NFS
4 2 (1.04%) GPFS
5 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 40 (20.73%) Terraform
3 31 (16.06%) Ansible
4 30 (15.54%) Grafana
5 10 (5.18%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.66%) Kibana
7 7 (3.63%) SCCM
8 4 (2.07%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.55%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.55%) Packer
10 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Argo
11 1 (0.52%) logstash
11 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.52%) Puppet
11 1 (0.52%) SCOM
11 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (8.29%) Databricks
2 12 (6.22%) Oracle
3 11 (5.70%) PayPal
3 11 (5.70%) Splunk
4 8 (4.15%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.11%) Google
5 6 (3.11%) Veritas
6 5 (2.59%) VMware
7 3 (1.55%) BMC
7 3 (1.55%) IBM
7 3 (1.55%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.04%) Brandwatch
8 2 (1.04%) Brocade
8 2 (1.04%) EMC
8 2 (1.04%) Facebook
8 2 (1.04%) NetApp
8 2 (1.04%) Sage
8 2 (1.04%) Sybase
8 2 (1.04%) Twitter