Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Python Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.35% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £319 - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 694 640 762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 92.09% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 441 520
10th Percentile £263 £230 £325
25th Percentile £363 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -10.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £580
90th Percentile £613 £663 £689
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 19
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.51 £12.71
Median hourly rate £23.75 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £32.12 £26.76 £18.24
90th Percentile £58.50 £43.27 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Python Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in Glasgow

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 12 October 2025, Python Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (70.00%) RESTful
3 7 (70.00%) Big Data
3 7 (70.00%) Databricks
3 7 (70.00%) Snowflake
4 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
4 6 (60.00%) SQL
4 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Use Case
5 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (50.00%) ETL
5 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
6 4 (40.00%) Git
6 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (40.00%) REST
6 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
6 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (40.00%) Linux
6 4 (40.00%) Apache
6 4 (40.00%) API Integration
6 4 (40.00%) Power BI
6 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Big Data
1 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (40.00%) Power BI
4 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (30.00%) Redis
4 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (30.00%) Flask
3 3 (30.00%) Hugging Face
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) LangChain
3 3 (30.00%) LangGraph
3 3 (30.00%) Loki
3 3 (30.00%) NumPy
3 3 (30.00%) OAuth
3 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (30.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (30.00%) Pandas
3 3 (30.00%) PySpark
3 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Use Case
3 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) API Integration
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Sprint Review
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (30.00%) LLM
5 3 (30.00%) ModelOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Kustomize
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (30.00%) Cloudera