Python Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 86 73 76
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 14.38% 11.08% 8.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 36.32% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 55
10th Percentile £418 £436 £400
25th Percentile £468 £469 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.57% +1.60%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £550
90th Percentile £625 £685 £615
Scotland median daily rate £473 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -8.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.77%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 215 201 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.95% 30.50% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 111 179
10th Percentile £395 £380 £398
25th Percentile £431 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -1.04% +2.13%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £543
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £496 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £58.25 - £44.99
25th Percentile £65.00 - £50.59
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £56.85
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +31.93% +16.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Python job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.81%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.16%) CICS
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.16%) nginx
4 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (48.84%) AWS
2 21 (24.42%) Amazon S3
3 20 (23.26%) Azure
3 20 (23.26%) Serverless
4 14 (16.28%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.47%) OpenShift
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (9.30%) Snowflake
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.14%) GCP
10 6 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (5.81%) Collibra
11 5 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (4.65%) GitHub
12 4 (4.65%) Textract
13 2 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) HTTP
2 3 (3.49%) MQTT
3 1 (1.16%) Firewall
3 1 (1.16%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.49%) Data Vault
5 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.33%) Data Mart
6 2 (2.33%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.33%) Tableau
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.16%) Power BI
7 1 (1.16%) Redis
7 1 (1.16%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) GitLab
1 9 (10.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.81%) Git
3 4 (4.65%) ER Studio
3 4 (4.65%) ERwin
3 4 (4.65%) Liquibase
4 3 (3.49%) JIRA
5 2 (2.33%) MLflow
6 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 24 (27.91%) Finance
2 19 (22.09%) Banking
3 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (16.28%) Developer
1 14 (16.28%) Python Engineer
2 13 (15.12%) Data Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Data Modeller
5 7 (8.14%) Senior
6 4 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Site Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) PyTorch
2 14 (16.28%) AWS CDK
2 14 (16.28%) FastAPI
3 12 (13.95%) Pandas
4 11 (12.79%) NumPy
4 11 (12.79%) REST
5 10 (11.63%) SQLAlchemy
6 9 (10.47%) Hugging Face
6 9 (10.47%) OpenCV
7 8 (9.30%) RESTful
8 7 (8.14%) boto
8 7 (8.14%) OAuth
9 5 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (5.81%) JWT
9 5 (5.81%) PySpark
10 4 (4.65%) SpaCy
11 3 (3.49%) React
12 2 (2.33%) Flask
12 2 (2.33%) Kafka
12 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) BBC
7 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.16%) Derivative
8 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) Unix
3 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (55.81%) Agile
2 33 (38.37%) CI/CD
3 27 (31.40%) AI
4 26 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (26.74%) DevOps
5 23 (26.74%) Machine Learning
6 20 (23.26%) Software Engineering
7 16 (18.60%) Containerisation
8 15 (17.44%) Data Modelling
8 15 (17.44%) LLM
9 14 (16.28%) OCR
9 14 (16.28%) Scrum
10 13 (15.12%) Analytics
11 10 (11.63%) Data Protection
11 10 (11.63%) Kanban
11 10 (11.63%) Migration
11 10 (11.63%) OOP
12 9 (10.47%) Data Analysis
12 9 (10.47%) Microservices
12 9 (10.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) SQL
2 13 (15.12%) TypeScript
3 7 (8.14%) Bash
3 7 (8.14%) Java
3 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.81%) Go
4 5 (5.81%) Perl
4 5 (5.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.33%) Groovy
5 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.16%) C#
6 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.16%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (5.81%) Degree
2 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.49%) MCP
3 3 (3.49%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) HND
5 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) COREP
4 1 (1.16%) IFRS
4 1 (1.16%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.16%) PSD2
4 1 (1.16%) QA
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (16.28%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) KVM
3 1 (1.16%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 24 (27.91%) Grafana
2 20 (23.26%) Kubernetes
3 16 (18.60%) Terraform
4 11 (12.79%) Ansible
5 10 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.33%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.33%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.33%) Nagios
8 1 (1.16%) Argo
8 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.16%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.16%) Kibana
8 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.16%) linkerd
8 1 (1.16%) logstash
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.16%) vRealize
8 1 (1.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Databricks
2 5 (5.81%) Splunk
3 4 (4.65%) Google
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) Commvault
4 3 (3.49%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.16%) Apple
6 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.16%) IBM
6 1 (1.16%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.16%) VMware