Python Contracts in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 19 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing Python 60 62 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.60% 7.61% 16.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.85% 31.16% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 47 168
10th Percentile £417 £434 £422
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +0.76% -5.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £526
90th Percentile £541 £634 £567
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -27.62% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £38.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -37.24% +28.77%

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 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

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 1 May 2025.

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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.33%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (65.00%) AWS
2 21 (35.00%) Amazon S3
3 20 (33.33%) Serverless
4 18 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (23.33%) Azure
7 10 (16.67%) OpenShift
8 9 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 8 (13.33%) Snowflake
10 7 (11.67%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (8.33%) GCP
12 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
13 4 (6.67%) PaaS
13 4 (6.67%) Route 53
13 4 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (6.67%) GIS
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.00%) InfluxDB
6 3 (5.00%) Power BI
6 3 (5.00%) Tableau
7 2 (3.33%) Big Data
7 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.33%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.33%) MySQL
7 2 (3.33%) Power Query
7 2 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) GitLab
2 10 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.67%) Git
4 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.67%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
1 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.33%) Banking
3 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Tech for Good
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Lead
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.33%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.33%) AWS CDK
2 8 (13.33%) REST
3 7 (11.67%) PySpark
4 6 (10.00%) .NET
4 6 (10.00%) PostGIS
4 6 (10.00%) React
5 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET
5 4 (6.67%) Spring
6 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (3.33%) JSON
6 2 (3.33%) Pandas
6 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.33%) YAML
7 1 (1.67%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.67%) Loki
7 1 (1.67%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.67%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) AIX
4 1 (1.67%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (31.67%) Agile
2 19 (31.67%) Data Engineering
3 17 (28.33%) DevOps
4 13 (21.67%) ETL
5 12 (20.00%) Analytics
5 12 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 11 (18.33%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (18.33%) Kanban
7 10 (16.67%) Migration
7 10 (16.67%) Scrum
8 9 (15.00%) Data Transformation
8 9 (15.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
9 8 (13.33%) Data Migration
10 7 (11.67%) Computer Science
10 7 (11.67%) Human-Centred Design
10 7 (11.67%) Inclusive Design
10 7 (11.67%) Microservices
10 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) SQL
2 12 (20.00%) Bash
3 9 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (13.33%) Java
5 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) C#
6 4 (6.67%) Groovy
6 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.00%) Perl
8 2 (3.33%) Bicep
8 2 (3.33%) C
8 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) R
9 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.67%) CEH
3 1 (1.67%) CISSP
3 1 (1.67%) GCFA
3 1 (1.67%) GCIH
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.67%) OCP
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) KVM
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.33%) Ansible
2 11 (18.33%) Grafana
3 6 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (5.00%) Kibana
4 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.33%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.67%) linkerd
6 1 (1.67%) Nagios
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle
2 3 (5.00%) Databricks
2 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.33%) Google
3 2 (3.33%) IBM
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.67%) Commvault
4 1 (1.67%) Confluent
4 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.67%) IDERA
4 1 (1.67%) Imperva
4 1 (1.67%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) NetApp
4 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.67%) Splunk
4 1 (1.67%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.67%) VMware