Python Contracts in Glasgow

Python
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 154 148 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.56% 16.17% 10.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.38% 43.15% 35.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 87 74
10th Percentile £400 £456 £353
25th Percentile £452 £519 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £623 £676 £558
90th Percentile £699 £747 £634
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -25.50%
Scotland median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £47.02
% change year-on-year -37.24% +28.77% -18.23%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 355 343 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.48% 37.49% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 229 201
10th Percentile £363 £410 £350
25th Percentile £413 £435 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +14.35% +13.18%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £538
90th Percentile £690 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £486 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +31.17% -32.33%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £48.39
90th Percentile - £67.66 £49.08
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
% change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Glasgow

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Python in Glasgow

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Glasgow

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Glasgow

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 16 (10.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.55%) SAS
3 3 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 8 (5.19%) Sketch
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.87%) AWS
2 32 (20.78%) Azure
3 13 (8.44%) OpenShift
4 11 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 9 (5.84%) IaaS
6 8 (5.19%) Figma
7 7 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.90%) Serverless
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.95%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.30%) GCP
10 2 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.79%) SAN
1 12 (7.79%) TCP/IP
2 11 (7.14%) SSL
3 10 (6.49%) DNS
4 9 (5.84%) HTTP
5 8 (5.19%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (5.19%) iSCSI
6 7 (4.55%) DHCP
6 7 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (4.55%) NAS
6 7 (4.55%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.55%) DB2
2 7 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.25%) Big Data
3 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.60%) Parquet
5 3 (1.95%) Power BI
6 2 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.65%) GIS
7 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.65%) HBase
7 1 (0.65%) Informix
7 1 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.64%) Git
2 19 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.90%) JIRA
4 3 (1.95%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.95%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.95%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.08%) Banking
2 34 (22.08%) Finance
3 14 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (29.22%) Developer
2 32 (20.78%) Python Engineer
3 25 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (16.23%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (12.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (11.04%) Python Developer
6 15 (9.74%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.49%) Windows Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Hardware Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Unix Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Designer
10 8 (5.19%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) UX Designer
10 8 (5.19%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) REST
2 14 (9.09%) PySpark
3 12 (7.79%) HTML
4 11 (7.14%) React
5 7 (4.55%) Flash
5 7 (4.55%) Middleware
5 7 (4.55%) POSIX
6 6 (3.90%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.25%) Twisted
8 4 (2.60%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.60%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.95%) Spring
10 2 (1.30%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.30%) JSON
10 2 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (1.30%) NumPy
10 2 (1.30%) Pandas
10 2 (1.30%) Redfish
10 2 (1.30%) XML
11 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.90%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.25%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.25%) NVMe
6 4 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.95%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 69 (44.81%) Linux
2 37 (24.03%) Unix
3 26 (16.88%) Windows
4 12 (7.79%) Windows Server
5 11 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.19%) Android
6 8 (5.19%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.25%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.60%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.95%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.66%) DevOps
2 53 (34.42%) Agile
3 29 (18.83%) Software Engineering
4 27 (17.53%) CI/CD
5 23 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (12.99%) Computer Science
6 20 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 18 (11.69%) Observability
8 17 (11.04%) Data Protection
8 17 (11.04%) OO
8 17 (11.04%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (10.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (10.39%) SDLC
10 14 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (9.09%) Code Quality
10 14 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (7.79%) GitOps
11 12 (7.79%) High Availability
12 11 (7.14%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.14%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 52 (33.77%) Perl
2 37 (24.03%) Java
3 28 (18.18%) SQL
4 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.74%) Bash
5 15 (9.74%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.79%) C#
6 12 (7.79%) Scala
7 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.95%) C
9 2 (1.30%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) Elixir
10 1 (0.65%) Go
10 1 (0.65%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (9.09%) Degree
2 8 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.95%) OSCP
5 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.60%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (11.04%) Docker
2 12 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.55%) NFS
4 4 (2.60%) Firmware
4 4 (2.60%) GPFS
5 2 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.65%) HDFS
6 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.18%) Terraform
3 18 (11.69%) Ansible
4 13 (8.44%) Grafana
5 11 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.19%) SCCM
7 5 (3.25%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.60%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.95%) Packer
10 2 (1.30%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.65%) Argo
11 1 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.65%) Istio
11 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.65%) Kibana
11 1 (0.65%) Puppet
11 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (7.79%) VMware
2 11 (7.14%) PayPal
3 10 (6.49%) Databricks
3 10 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.49%) Splunk
4 9 (5.84%) Veritas
5 7 (4.55%) F5
6 6 (3.90%) Google
7 5 (3.25%) EMC
7 5 (3.25%) NetApp
8 4 (2.60%) Brocade
8 4 (2.60%) IBM
8 4 (2.60%) Oracle
8 4 (2.60%) Sybase
9 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.30%) BMC
10 2 (1.30%) HP
10 2 (1.30%) Sage
11 1 (0.65%) Dell