Python Contracts in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 8 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 62 210 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.66% 16.17% 7.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.16% 43.30% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 167 106
10th Percentile £434 £421 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -4.58% +15.28%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £644
90th Percentile £634 £562 £769
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £38.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £47.02
% change year-on-year -37.24% +28.77% -18.23%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 485 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.60% 37.34% 27.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 381 356
10th Percentile £400 £404 £399
25th Percentile £421 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £535 £550
90th Percentile £634 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £486 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £33.20 £42.68 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £48.19 £26.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £45.56
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +15.23% -5.08%
75th Percentile £60.75 £57.19 £53.75
90th Percentile - £63.38 £54.45
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £47.00
% change year-on-year -3.83% +27.21% +4.44%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.84%) IIS
2 2 (3.23%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) AWS
2 24 (38.71%) Amazon S3
2 24 (38.71%) Serverless
3 23 (37.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (33.87%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (30.65%) OpenShift
6 10 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (11.29%) Azure
8 6 (9.68%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (6.45%) GCP
10 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (4.84%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (4.84%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (4.84%) iPaaS
12 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.61%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) LAN
2 3 (4.84%) SAN
2 3 (4.84%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (33.87%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (14.52%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (11.29%) MongoDB
6 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
6 4 (6.45%) Power BI
6 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.84%) GIS
7 3 (4.84%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.23%) Big Data
8 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.61%) Flink
9 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.74%) GitLab
3 8 (12.90%) Git
3 8 (12.90%) Gradle
3 8 (12.90%) Maven
4 4 (6.45%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.23%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.61%) gulp
7 1 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.61%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (37.10%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Data Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (8.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Site Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Automation Developer
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.94%) AWS CDK
2 12 (19.35%) REST
3 10 (16.13%) CSS
3 10 (16.13%) HTML
3 10 (16.13%) React
4 5 (8.06%) Node.js
4 5 (8.06%) PostGIS
4 5 (8.06%) Spring
4 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.45%) Spring Security
6 3 (4.84%) Django
6 3 (4.84%) Kafka
6 3 (4.84%) Laravel
6 3 (4.84%) OAuth
6 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.84%) OpenAPI
6 3 (4.84%) Spring MVC
6 3 (4.84%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (4.84%) Swagger
6 3 (4.84%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) PKI
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) Windows
3 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Unix
4 5 (8.06%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) DevOps
2 26 (41.94%) Agile
3 25 (40.32%) CI/CD
4 17 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (16.13%) Kanban
5 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (14.52%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (14.52%) Machine Learning
6 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.52%) Scrum
6 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.90%) Analytics
7 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 8 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (12.90%) ETL
7 8 (12.90%) Inclusive Design
7 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 8 (12.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) Bash
2 18 (29.03%) TypeScript
3 15 (24.19%) Java
4 14 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 14 (22.58%) SQL
5 12 (19.35%) Groovy
6 11 (17.74%) Shell Script
7 9 (14.52%) Ruby
8 4 (6.45%) PHP
8 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.61%) C#
9 1 (1.61%) Go
9 1 (1.61%) Perl
9 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.84%) CCNA
1 3 (4.84%) CCNP
1 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 16 (25.81%) Ansible
3 15 (24.19%) Terraform
4 14 (22.58%) Grafana
5 5 (8.06%) Kibana
6 3 (4.84%) SCCM
7 1 (1.61%) Packer
7 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Databricks
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) F5
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.84%) VMware
4 2 (3.23%) Google
4 2 (3.23%) IDERA
5 1 (1.61%) Confluent
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) StreamSets