Python Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Python over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 86 97 96
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 32 13 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.312% 0.489% 0.543%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.051% 2.031% 1.843%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 8
Average daily rate £425 £230 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+84.78% -34.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £125 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £300 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.57% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+9.58% +5.79%
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All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1049 640 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.01% 24.06% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 290 405
Average daily rate £363 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Python
UK

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Scotland Python Jobs Demand Trend

Python
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Python across the Scotland region.

Scotland Python Daily Rate Trend

Python
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Python across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Python Daily Rate Histogram

Python
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Scotland region.

Scotland Python Hourly Rate Trend

Python
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow +1 22 £425 +88.88%
Edinburgh +5 4 £400 +73.91%
Aberdeen - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 £375 -
Python
UK

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python.

1 27 (60.00%) Java
2 26 (57.78%) C#
2 26 (57.78%) Perl
3 19 (42.22%) C++
4 18 (40.00%) Linux
5 17 (37.78%) SQL
6 12 (26.67%) Fixed Income
6 12 (26.67%) Banking
7 11 (24.44%) Multithreading
7 11 (24.44%) Finance
7 11 (24.44%) UNIX
8 10 (22.22%) Spring
9 9 (20.00%) Windows
9 9 (20.00%) PHP
10 8 (17.78%) Shell Script
10 8 (17.78%) WPF
10 8 (17.78%) Scala
11 7 (15.56%) SOAP
11 7 (15.56%) XML
11 7 (15.56%) Hibernate
12 6 (13.33%) Front Office
12 6 (13.33%) MySQL
12 6 (13.33%) OO
13 5 (11.11%) Sybase
13 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
13 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
13 5 (11.11%) Ruby
13 5 (11.11%) KDB
14 4 (8.889%) Ruby on Rails

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (22.22%) Spring
2 8 (17.78%) WPF
3 7 (15.56%) SOAP
3 7 (15.56%) XML
3 7 (15.56%) Hibernate
4 4 (8.889%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (8.889%) CSS
4 4 (8.889%) J2EE
5 3 (6.667%) HTML
5 3 (6.667%) Smart GWT
5 3 (6.667%) HTML5
5 3 (6.667%) jQuery
5 3 (6.667%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (4.444%) Zend Framework
6 2 (4.444%) Google Maps API
6 2 (4.444%) RESTful
6 2 (4.444%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (4.444%) .NET
6 2 (4.444%) STL
6 2 (4.444%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.667%) Apache
1 3 (6.667%) Tomcat
1 3 (6.667%) nginx
2 2 (4.444%) Drupal
2 2 (4.444%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.667%) SMTP
1 3 (6.667%) TACACS
2 2 (4.444%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) MySQL
2 5 (11.11%) KDB
3 4 (8.889%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.222%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.889%) JUnit
1 4 (8.889%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.444%) JIRA
2 2 (4.444%) Maven
3 1 (2.222%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.222%) Selenium
3 1 (2.222%) QUnit
General
1 12 (26.67%) Banking
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Front Office
4 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.222%) Publishing
5 1 (2.222%) Retail
5 1 (2.222%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (62.22%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 7 (15.56%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Junior
4 5 (11.11%) C++/Java Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Junior Developer
5 4 (8.889%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.667%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.667%) WPF Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) UNIX Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Drupal Developer
7 2 (4.444%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 2 (4.444%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Fixed Income
2 4 (8.889%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.667%) Equities
3 3 (6.667%) Derivative
3 3 (6.667%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.444%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (4.444%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.444%) W3C
5 1 (2.222%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.222%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (2.222%) Neural Network
5 1 (2.222%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.222%) Streaming Media
5 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.00%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) UNIX
3 9 (20.00%) Windows
4 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.222%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.222%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Multithreading
2 6 (13.33%) OO
3 4 (8.889%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (8.889%) MVC
4 2 (4.444%) Information Architecture
4 2 (4.444%) Web Development
4 2 (4.444%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (4.444%) Unit Testing
4 2 (4.444%) Release Management
4 2 (4.444%) MVVM
4 2 (4.444%) Scrum
4 2 (4.444%) Risk Management
4 2 (4.444%) SEO
4 2 (4.444%) Workflow
4 2 (4.444%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (4.444%) OOP
4 2 (4.444%) Code Coverage
5 1 (2.222%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.222%) Validation
5 1 (2.222%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Java
2 26 (57.78%) C#
2 26 (57.78%) Perl
3 19 (42.22%) C++
4 17 (37.78%) SQL
5 9 (20.00%) PHP
6 8 (17.78%) Shell Script
6 8 (17.78%) Scala
7 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 5 (11.11%) Ruby
8 4 (8.889%) Jython
9 3 (6.667%) Korn
9 3 (6.667%) Bash shell
10 2 (4.444%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (4.444%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.444%) WAI
Systems Management
1 2 (4.444%) ZABBIX
1 2 (4.444%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Sybase
2 2 (4.444%) Twitter
2 2 (4.444%) Zend
2 2 (4.444%) Google
2 2 (4.444%) ESRI
3 1 (2.222%) Sencha
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