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 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 13 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 208 382 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.79% 14.08% 9.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.21% 41.39% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 271 229
10th Percentile £410 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +15.56%
75th Percentile £597 £590 £598
90th Percentile £634 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £54.25 £22.15
25th Percentile - £56.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% +36.07% -22.61%
75th Percentile - £67.66 £49.01
90th Percentile - £75.25 £50.07
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.63 £50.81
% change year-on-year -1.03% +19.32% +27.03%

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 608 923 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.61% 34.02% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 658 688
10th Percentile £356 £406 £373
25th Percentile £413 £433 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +1.98% +12.94%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £550
90th Percentile £650 £657 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

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 20 May 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +3 136 £500 -18.03% 40
Edinburgh -14 57 £494 -0.20% 61
South Lanarkshire +4 3 - - 1
Perthshire +10 2 £488 -11.36% 2
Lanarkshire +3 2 £460 -4.17% 13
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 (8.65%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.40%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) SAS
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Chatbot
2 10 (4.81%) Sketch
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 94 (45.19%) AWS
2 40 (19.23%) Azure
3 37 (17.79%) OpenShift
4 36 (17.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (17.31%) Serverless
5 33 (15.87%) Amazon S3
5 33 (15.87%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (5.29%) Snowflake
7 10 (4.81%) Figma
8 8 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 8 (3.85%) GCP
9 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.37%) Textract
10 6 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (2.88%) IaaS
11 5 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.40%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) SAN
2 7 (3.37%) DNS
2 7 (3.37%) NAS
3 6 (2.88%) Firewall
4 5 (2.40%) DHCP
4 5 (2.40%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (2.40%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.96%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 17 (8.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.85%) GIS
6 8 (3.85%) Oracle Database
7 7 (3.37%) Power BI
8 6 (2.88%) Big Data
9 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.92%) DB2
9 4 (1.92%) Parquet
10 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.44%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.44%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (14.42%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.62%) Git
3 16 (7.69%) GitLab
4 9 (4.33%) JIRA
5 8 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 7 (3.37%) Gradle
6 7 (3.37%) Maven
7 3 (1.44%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.96%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.48%) JUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (17.79%) Finance
2 33 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.98%) Banking
5 20 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.33%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.96%) Marketing
9 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (26.92%) Developer
2 33 (15.87%) Python Engineer
3 28 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.02%) Linux Engineer
5 22 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (10.10%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (8.17%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Python Developer
9 14 (6.73%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Designer
11 10 (4.81%) Unix Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) UX Designer
11 10 (4.81%) Windows Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Automation Developer
12 9 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.31%) AWS CDK
2 21 (10.10%) React
3 17 (8.17%) PySpark
4 16 (7.69%) HTML
4 16 (7.69%) REST
5 7 (3.37%) Middleware
5 7 (3.37%) SpaCy
5 7 (3.37%) Spring
6 6 (2.88%) Node.js
6 6 (2.88%) PostGIS
7 5 (2.40%) CSS
7 5 (2.40%) Flash
7 5 (2.40%) POSIX
7 5 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.40%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.92%) Apache Avro
8 4 (1.92%) Kafka
8 4 (1.92%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.96%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
1 11 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.33%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.88%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.40%) NVMe
6 4 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.92%) PKI
7 3 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 67 (32.21%) Linux
2 33 (15.87%) Unix
3 27 (12.98%) Windows
4 18 (8.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.81%) Android
5 10 (4.81%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.37%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.40%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.44%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (40.87%) Agile
2 82 (39.42%) DevOps
3 39 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 39 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 38 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (12.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 24 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (11.54%) User Experience
7 23 (11.06%) Code Quality
8 22 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.10%) Computer Science
9 21 (10.10%) Machine Learning
9 21 (10.10%) Observability
10 20 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (9.62%) Scrum
11 19 (9.13%) ETL
11 19 (9.13%) Kanban
11 19 (9.13%) OO
12 18 (8.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.63%) Perl
2 39 (18.75%) SQL
3 35 (16.83%) Java
4 26 (12.50%) Bash
5 23 (11.06%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.58%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.69%) C#
8 14 (6.73%) Scala
9 13 (6.25%) Groovy
10 12 (5.77%) PowerShell
10 12 (5.77%) Shell Script
11 9 (4.33%) Ruby
12 3 (1.44%) C
13 2 (0.96%) Rust
14 1 (0.48%) Elixir
14 1 (0.48%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (7.21%) Degree
2 9 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.40%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) OSCP
5 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (18.75%) Docker
2 10 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.40%) NFS
4 4 (1.92%) GPFS
5 2 (0.96%) Firmware
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (25.48%) Kubernetes
2 44 (21.15%) Terraform
3 33 (15.87%) Ansible
4 32 (15.38%) Grafana
5 11 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.85%) Kibana
7 7 (3.37%) SCCM
8 5 (2.40%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.92%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.44%) Packer
10 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.48%) Argo
12 1 (0.48%) Istio
12 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (7.21%) Databricks
2 12 (5.77%) Oracle
3 11 (5.29%) PayPal
4 10 (4.81%) Google
4 10 (4.81%) VMware
5 9 (4.33%) Splunk
5 9 (4.33%) Veritas
6 8 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.40%) IBM
8 4 (1.92%) Brocade
8 4 (1.92%) EMC
8 4 (1.92%) NetApp
8 4 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.92%) Sybase
9 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.44%) BMC
10 2 (0.96%) Facebook
10 2 (0.96%) HP
10 2 (0.96%) Sage
10 2 (0.96%) Twitter