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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Python 178 363 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.38% 13.54% 10.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.97% 40.74% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 251 265
10th Percentile £411 £413 £413
25th Percentile £440 £456 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £569 £589 £588
90th Percentile £620 £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 £61.00 £64.69 £50.85
% change year-on-year -5.70% +27.21% +35.60%

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 594 891 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.98% 33.23% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 619 749
10th Percentile £350 £400 £390
25th Percentile £410 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £41.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £50.37 £32.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.27 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +23.97% +2.17%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.11 £55.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

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 9 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 9 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 -1 107 £488 -18.75% 33
Edinburgh -13 57 £489 -1.81% 50
Perthshire +10 2 £488 -11.36%
South Lanarkshire +7 2 - - 1
Lanarkshire +4 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 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.25%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Chatbot
2 10 (5.62%) Sketch
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 86 (48.31%) AWS
2 35 (19.66%) AWS CloudFormation
2 35 (19.66%) Azure
3 34 (19.10%) Serverless
4 32 (17.98%) Amazon S3
5 31 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (16.29%) OpenShift
7 11 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (6.18%) Snowflake
8 10 (5.62%) Figma
9 8 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.49%) AWS CodePipeline
9 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.93%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (3.37%) Textract
12 5 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.81%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (2.81%) GCP
13 3 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) Firewall
2 4 (2.25%) NAS
2 4 (2.25%) SAN
3 2 (1.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) DSL
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.29%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (10.11%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.99%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (7.87%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.49%) GIS
5 8 (4.49%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.49%) Power BI
6 5 (2.81%) Big Data
7 4 (2.25%) Parquet
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.69%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.69%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.12%) Tableau
10 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.99%) GitLab
3 13 (7.30%) Git
4 7 (3.93%) Artifactory
4 7 (3.93%) Gradle
4 7 (3.93%) Maven
5 6 (3.37%) JIRA
6 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.56%) JUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (16.85%) Public Sector
2 26 (14.61%) Finance
3 22 (12.36%) Social Skills
4 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.30%) Banking
6 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing
8 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (29.21%) Developer
2 21 (11.80%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (11.24%) Python Engineer
4 19 (10.67%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (9.55%) Data Engineer
6 14 (7.87%) Software Developer
7 13 (7.30%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.62%) Designer
9 10 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) UX Designer
9 10 (5.62%) Windows Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Automation Developer
10 9 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Senior
11 8 (4.49%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.10%) AWS CDK
2 20 (11.24%) React
3 18 (10.11%) PySpark
4 16 (8.99%) HTML
5 12 (6.74%) REST
6 7 (3.93%) SpaCy
7 6 (3.37%) Node.js
7 6 (3.37%) PostGIS
7 6 (3.37%) Spring
8 5 (2.81%) CSS
8 5 (2.81%) Kafka
8 5 (2.81%) Middleware
8 5 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.25%) Apache Avro
9 4 (2.25%) Pandas
9 4 (2.25%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.12%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (1.12%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.12%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.81%) PKI
4 5 (2.81%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.12%) Social Media
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 47 (26.40%) Linux
2 24 (13.48%) Windows
3 23 (12.92%) Unix
4 13 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.62%) Android
5 10 (5.62%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.93%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.93%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
7 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.45%) Agile
2 68 (38.20%) DevOps
3 36 (20.22%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.22%) Software Engineering
4 35 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (14.61%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (12.92%) User Experience
7 22 (12.36%) Code Quality
8 20 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (10.67%) Machine Learning
9 19 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (10.11%) Scrum
10 18 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (9.55%) ETL
11 17 (9.55%) Kanban
12 15 (8.43%) Community of Practice
12 15 (8.43%) Roadmaps
12 15 (8.43%) Visualisation
13 14 (7.87%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.98%) SQL
2 28 (15.73%) Java
3 24 (13.48%) Bash
4 21 (11.80%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.80%) Perl
4 21 (11.80%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.99%) C#
6 14 (7.87%) Scala
7 13 (7.30%) Groovy
7 13 (7.30%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.74%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.49%) Ruby
10 2 (1.12%) Rust
11 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (7.87%) Degree
2 8 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.69%) OSCP
5 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (17.98%) Docker
2 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 37 (20.79%) Terraform
3 27 (15.17%) Ansible
3 27 (15.17%) Grafana
4 9 (5.06%) Kibana
5 7 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.93%) SCCM
6 3 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.69%) Packer
7 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.56%) Argo
8 1 (0.56%) Istio
8 1 (0.56%) logstash
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) SCOM
8 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (8.99%) Databricks
2 12 (6.74%) Oracle
3 11 (6.18%) PayPal
4 10 (5.62%) Splunk
5 8 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.81%) VMware
7 4 (2.25%) Google
8 3 (1.69%) BMC
8 3 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.12%) Brandwatch
9 2 (1.12%) Facebook
9 2 (1.12%) Hootsuite
9 2 (1.12%) IDERA
9 2 (1.12%) Instagram
9 2 (1.12%) Sage
9 2 (1.12%) Twitter
9 2 (1.12%) Veritas
9 2 (1.12%) YouTube
10 1 (0.56%) StreamSets