Python Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Python
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Python 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 21.05% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 80.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Programming Languages
Dumfries and Galloway

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Dumfries and Galloway.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dumfries and Galloway 26.32% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £489 £460
% change year-on-year -7.98% +6.30% -5.15%

Python
Contract Job Locations in Dumfries and Galloway

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Dumfries and Galloway region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. 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
Moffat - 4 - -
Python
Scotland

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dumfries and Galloway by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Webhook
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) RDF
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Cypher
1 2 (50.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality