Python Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Python Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 150 164
Rank change year-on-year +53 +14 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 34 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 0.55% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile £443 £431 £447
25th Percentile £500 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £544 £542
90th Percentile £715 £668 £659
UK median daily rate £638 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £22.64
% change year-on-year +13.91% +154.03% -17.69%

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 2,720 3,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.14% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,951 2,390
10th Percentile £204 £238 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £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 44 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.91 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.20
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +20 32 £575 -3.85%
Edinburgh +37 2 £450 -
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Python Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (76.47%) Linux
3 22 (64.71%) Perl
3 22 (64.71%) DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Banking
4 12 (35.29%) OO
4 12 (35.29%) Unix
5 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
5 11 (32.35%) AWS
6 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
7 8 (23.53%) Observability
7 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (23.53%) Docker
7 8 (23.53%) VMware
7 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 8 (23.53%) Agile
7 8 (23.53%) Finance
8 7 (20.59%) SAN
8 7 (20.59%) Windows
8 7 (20.59%) Java
8 7 (20.59%) OpenShift
8 7 (20.59%) Azure
8 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
9 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
9 6 (17.65%) SDLC
9 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
9 6 (17.65%) Task Automation
9 6 (17.65%) SQL
9 6 (17.65%) Veritas
9 6 (17.65%) Middleware

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 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) SAN
2 4 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (11.76%) iSCSI
3 3 (8.82%) NAS
4 2 (5.88%) DHCP
4 2 (5.88%) DNS
5 1 (2.94%) HTTP
5 1 (2.94%) SSL
5 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) DB2
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
1 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 12 (35.29%) Banking
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Middleware
2 4 (11.76%) Flash
2 4 (11.76%) POSIX
3 3 (8.82%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.94%) Redfish
5 1 (2.94%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Client/Server
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.76%) NVMe
2 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Linux
2 12 (35.29%) Unix
3 7 (20.59%) Windows
4 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (11.76%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) DevOps
2 12 (35.29%) OO
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 8 (23.53%) Observability
4 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.65%) SDLC
5 6 (17.65%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.71%) High Availability
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Capacity Management
7 4 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (11.76%) Problem Management
7 4 (11.76%) Storage Management
8 3 (8.82%) Data Deduplication
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (64.71%) Perl
3 7 (20.59%) Java
4 6 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) C
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) Scala
6 1 (2.94%) Elixir
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) Ruby
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
1 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.76%) GPFS
2 4 (11.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
2 4 (11.76%) Grafana
2 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (5.88%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Veritas
3 5 (14.71%) Google
4 4 (11.76%) Brocade
4 4 (11.76%) EMC
4 4 (11.76%) IBM
4 4 (11.76%) NetApp
4 4 (11.76%) Sybase
5 2 (5.88%) BMC
5 2 (5.88%) Databricks
6 1 (2.94%) Dell
6 1 (2.94%) HP
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle