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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 60 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 34 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.86% 2.88% 2.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 3.07% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 15
10th Percentile £408 £465 £423
25th Percentile £413 £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 £594
90th Percentile - £585 £675
Scotland median daily rate £467 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -6.60% -13.04% -1.50%

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 1,093 685 641
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.09% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 409 449
10th Percentile £285 £265 £223
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £570
90th Percentile £675 £623 £665
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 18
10th Percentile £13.65 - £11.78
25th Percentile £35.00 £16.84 £15.65
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.86 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +151.60% +11.59% +22.44%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 £32.17
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £46.58
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £18.13
% change year-on-year -3.35% +10.31% +2.31%

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 24 September 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 34 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) AI
4 13 (38.24%) SQL
5 11 (32.35%) ChatGPT
5 11 (32.35%) GitHub
5 11 (32.35%) Risk Management
6 10 (29.41%) Data Lineage
6 10 (29.41%) Metadata
6 10 (29.41%) Relational Database
6 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 9 (26.47%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (26.47%) BDD
7 9 (26.47%) Db2
7 9 (26.47%) Generative AI
7 9 (26.47%) Java
7 9 (26.47%) LLM
7 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
7 9 (26.47%) REST
7 9 (26.47%) Sybase
7 9 (26.47%) TDD
7 9 (26.47%) Unix
8 8 (23.53%) Data Governance
8 8 (23.53%) Data Quality
8 8 (23.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (23.53%) IBM
8 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
8 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (20.59%) AWS
9 7 (20.59%) Metadata Management

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 (2.94%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) ChatGPT
1 11 (32.35%) GitHub
2 9 (26.47%) Anthropic Claude
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub Copilot
4 7 (20.59%) AWS
5 4 (11.76%) Collibra
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.88%) Azure
7 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.94%) NAS
2 1 (2.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Metadata
1 10 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 9 (26.47%) Db2
3 4 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.94%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 25 (73.53%) Finance
2 19 (55.88%) Banking
3 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (17.65%) Front Office
6 5 (14.71%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) Celery
2 4 (11.76%) FastAPI
2 4 (11.76%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) pydantic
2 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (11.76%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) JSON
3 3 (8.82%) YAML
4 2 (5.88%) Playwright
4 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.94%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (2.94%) Jest
5 1 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) Redux
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Equity Derivative
2 7 (20.59%) Legacy Code
3 6 (17.65%) Derivative
4 5 (14.71%) Market Risk
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.94%) NVMe
7 1 (2.94%) PKI
7 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 15 (44.12%) AI
3 11 (32.35%) Risk Management
4 10 (29.41%) Data Lineage
4 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 9 (26.47%) BDD
5 9 (26.47%) Generative AI
5 9 (26.47%) LLM
5 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
5 9 (26.47%) TDD
6 8 (23.53%) Data Governance
6 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Metadata Management
7 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Agile
9 5 (14.71%) Data Architecture
9 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
10 4 (11.76%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) Java
4 5 (14.71%) C++
5 4 (11.76%) Perl
5 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) NFS
3 1 (2.94%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Sybase
2 8 (23.53%) IBM
3 1 (2.94%) Brocade
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) EMC
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) NetApp