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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 136 143 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 16.09% 16.23% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.48% 42.69% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 66
10th Percentile £400 £450 £355
25th Percentile £440 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +17.30%
75th Percentile £613 £676 £560
90th Percentile £695 £748 £631
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £60.55 -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +36.07% -22.61%

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 336 335 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.76% 38.02% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 223 191
10th Percentile £346 £410 £350
25th Percentile £400 £428 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +12.94%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £540
90th Percentile £675 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £38.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +37.27% -35.34%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £45.75
90th Percentile - £67.66 £47.10
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%

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 14 May 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 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.68%) SAS
3 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Chatbot
2 10 (7.35%) Sketch
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 43 (31.62%) AWS
2 33 (24.26%) Azure
3 13 (9.56%) OpenShift
4 10 (7.35%) Figma
4 10 (7.35%) Snowflake
5 7 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.15%) IaaS
5 7 (5.15%) Serverless
6 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.21%) SaaS
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.47%) GCP
8 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) SAN
2 8 (5.88%) DNS
3 7 (5.15%) NAS
4 6 (4.41%) DHCP
5 5 (3.68%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (3.68%) iSCSI
5 5 (3.68%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.94%) SSL
7 2 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.47%) HTTP
7 2 (1.47%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.56%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.68%) Big Data
3 5 (3.68%) DB2
4 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.94%) Parquet
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.47%) Power BI
5 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.74%) HBase
6 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.74%) Informix
6 1 (0.74%) MySQL
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.03%) Git
2 13 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.41%) JIRA
4 3 (2.21%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.21%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) JUnit
5 1 (0.74%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Finance
3 25 (18.38%) Banking
4 14 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.35%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (25.74%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Python Engineer
3 23 (16.91%) Linux Engineer
4 21 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Python Developer
8 11 (8.09%) Software Developer
9 10 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.35%) Designer
9 10 (7.35%) UX Designer
9 10 (7.35%) Windows Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Linux Scripter
12 7 (5.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) PySpark
2 13 (9.56%) React
3 12 (8.82%) HTML
4 9 (6.62%) REST
5 7 (5.15%) Middleware
6 5 (3.68%) Flash
6 5 (3.68%) POSIX
7 4 (2.94%) Apache Avro
7 4 (2.94%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.94%) Spring
8 3 (2.21%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.47%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.47%) NumPy
9 2 (1.47%) Pandas
9 2 (1.47%) Redfish
9 2 (1.47%) RESTful
9 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.74%) Node.js
10 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.68%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.68%) NVMe
4 4 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.21%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (38.97%) Linux
2 27 (19.85%) Unix
3 21 (15.44%) Windows
4 10 (7.35%) Android
4 10 (7.35%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.68%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (2.21%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.50%) DevOps
2 48 (35.29%) Agile
3 30 (22.06%) Software Engineering
4 20 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 19 (13.97%) Computer Science
6 18 (13.24%) Observability
7 17 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.50%) OO
7 17 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (9.56%) Code Quality
10 13 (9.56%) Data Protection
10 13 (9.56%) SDLC
11 12 (8.82%) GitOps
11 12 (8.82%) User Experience
11 12 (8.82%) Visualisation
12 11 (8.09%) Conversational UI
12 11 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 43 (31.62%) Perl
2 25 (18.38%) Java
3 23 (16.91%) SQL
4 14 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.56%) Scala
6 12 (8.82%) C#
7 6 (4.41%) Bash
8 3 (2.21%) C
8 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Elixir
10 1 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.56%) Degree
2 5 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.21%) OSCP
4 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (12.50%) Docker
2 10 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.68%) NFS
4 4 (2.94%) GPFS
5 3 (2.21%) Firmware
6 2 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 28 (20.59%) Terraform
3 17 (12.50%) Ansible
4 13 (9.56%) Grafana
5 11 (8.09%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.15%) SCCM
7 5 (3.68%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.94%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.47%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.47%) Packer
10 2 (1.47%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.74%) Argo
11 1 (0.74%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.74%) Istio
11 1 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.74%) Kibana
11 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (8.09%) PayPal
2 10 (7.35%) Databricks
2 10 (7.35%) Splunk
2 10 (7.35%) VMware
3 9 (6.62%) Veritas
4 8 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.41%) Google
6 5 (3.68%) Oracle
7 4 (2.94%) Brocade
7 4 (2.94%) EMC
7 4 (2.94%) IBM
7 4 (2.94%) NetApp
7 4 (2.94%) Sybase
8 2 (1.47%) BMC
8 2 (1.47%) F5
8 2 (1.47%) HP
8 2 (1.47%) Sage
9 1 (0.74%) Dell
9 1 (0.74%) Red Hat