Python Developer Contracts in Scotland

Python Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Developer daily rate in Scotland is £624 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 89 137
Rank change year-on-year -24 +48 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 18 82 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 2.87% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 3.02% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 60 13
10th Percentile £475 £425 -
25th Percentile £508 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.14% +4.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £637 £636 £510
90th Percentile £659 £750 £550
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +11.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in Scotland

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in Scotland

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in Scotland

Python Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -14 17 £623 -14.14% 4
Edinburgh +17 1 £638 +30.37% 4
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Python Developer contract 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 contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Banking
2 7 (38.89%) Git
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Unix
3 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) SSL
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) PySpark
4 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 5 (27.78%) Perl
4 5 (27.78%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) Bash
5 4 (22.22%) Twisted
5 4 (22.22%) F5
5 4 (22.22%) REST
5 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 4 (22.22%) HTTP
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Big Data
5 4 (22.22%) NetScaler
5 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes

Python Developer 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) SSL
2 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (22.22%) HTTP
3 4 (22.22%) NetScaler
4 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Parquet
3 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.56%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (38.89%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) PySpark
2 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 4 (22.22%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) Twisted
3 3 (16.67%) Apache Avro
4 2 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (5.56%) Flash
5 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) POSIX
5 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 3 (16.67%) ETL
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Low Latency
4 2 (11.11%) SDLC
4 2 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 1 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.56%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) Bash
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Scala
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) NFS
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) F5
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Sage
2 2 (11.11%) VMware