Python Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Python Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Python Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £467, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 59 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 41 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.44% 2.95% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.75% 3.14% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 16
10th Percentile £428 £434 £425
25th Percentile £459 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £480 £575 £614
90th Percentile £515 £584 £675
Scotland median daily rate £467 £500 £581
% change year-on-year -6.60% -13.98% -16.96%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,093 700 633
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 93.83% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 415 443
10th Percentile £300 £264 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +1.65% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 19 16
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.78
25th Percentile £21.13 £16.84 £14.51
Median hourly rate £40.32 £23.75 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +69.77% +21.24% +35.10%
75th Percentile £60.91 £32.12 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.50 £43.27
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £18.07
% change year-on-year -3.35% +10.71% +1.95%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Python Developer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 2026, Python Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
3 17 (41.46%) AI
4 14 (34.15%) Metadata
4 14 (34.15%) SQL
5 12 (29.27%) ChatGPT
5 12 (29.27%) GitHub
5 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
6 11 (26.83%) Relational Database
6 11 (26.83%) REST
6 11 (26.83%) Risk Management
7 10 (24.39%) Anthropic Claude
7 10 (24.39%) Data Lineage
7 10 (24.39%) Generative AI
7 10 (24.39%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (24.39%) Java
7 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (21.95%) BDD
8 9 (21.95%) Data Governance
8 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
8 9 (21.95%) Db2
8 9 (21.95%) IBM
8 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
8 9 (21.95%) LLM
8 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
8 9 (21.95%) Sybase
8 9 (21.95%) TDD
9 8 (19.51%) FastAPI
9 8 (19.51%) Machine Learning
9 8 (19.51%) pydantic

Python Developer 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 1 (2.44%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) ChatGPT
1 12 (29.27%) GitHub
2 10 (24.39%) Anthropic Claude
2 10 (24.39%) GitHub Copilot
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
4 4 (9.76%) Collibra
4 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.32%) Azure
5 3 (7.32%) GCP
5 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.88%) IaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) iSCSI
2 2 (4.88%) NAS
2 2 (4.88%) SAN
3 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Metadata
2 11 (26.83%) Relational Database
3 9 (21.95%) Db2
4 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.44%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 26 (63.41%) Finance
2 22 (53.66%) Banking
3 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
4 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (14.63%) Front Office
5 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) REST
2 8 (19.51%) FastAPI
2 8 (19.51%) pydantic
3 5 (12.20%) JSON
4 4 (9.76%) YAML
5 3 (7.32%) Celery
5 3 (7.32%) Kafka
5 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.32%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) Playwright
6 2 (4.88%) Terraform
7 1 (2.44%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (2.44%) Flash
7 1 (2.44%) LDAP
7 1 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (2.44%) POSIX
7 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Equity Derivative
2 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
2 8 (19.51%) Legacy Code
3 6 (14.63%) Derivative
4 5 (12.20%) Market Risk
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.88%) Taxonomies
7 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.44%) NVMe
7 1 (2.44%) PKI
7 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Unix
2 7 (17.07%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 17 (41.46%) AI
3 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
4 11 (26.83%) Risk Management
5 10 (24.39%) Data Lineage
5 10 (24.39%) Generative AI
5 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.95%) BDD
6 9 (21.95%) Data Governance
6 9 (21.95%) LLM
6 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.95%) TDD
7 8 (19.51%) Machine Learning
8 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
8 7 (17.07%) Metadata Management
9 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
9 6 (14.63%) DevOps
10 5 (12.20%) Agile
10 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (34.15%) SQL
3 10 (24.39%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) C++
5 5 (12.20%) Perl
5 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) NFS
3 2 (4.88%) GPFS
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) IBM
1 9 (21.95%) Sybase
2 1 (2.44%) Brocade
2 1 (2.44%) Databricks
2 1 (2.44%) EMC
2 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (2.44%) Informatica
2 1 (2.44%) NetApp
2 1 (2.44%) SaltStack
2 1 (2.44%) VMware