Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Python Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £463, 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 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £490 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -18.33% -4.00% +3.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,428 1,729 2,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.92% 92.71% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 1,023 1,373
10th Percentile £206 £198 £230
25th Percentile £362 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 60
10th Percentile £16.51 £12.35 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £24.17 £54.41
90th Percentile £64.60 £45.62 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +70.84%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

Python Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in Scotland

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Data Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 10 £450 - 2
Edinburgh - 2 £463 -
Python Data Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 9 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (66.67%) Finance
3 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 8 (66.67%) Data Engineering
4 7 (58.33%) Databricks
4 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
4 7 (58.33%) ETL
4 7 (58.33%) RESTful
4 7 (58.33%) Big Data
5 6 (50.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (50.00%) SQL
5 6 (50.00%) Apache
5 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (50.00%) Use Case
5 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (41.67%) PySpark
6 5 (41.67%) Apache Spark
6 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
6 5 (41.67%) AWS
6 5 (41.67%) Analytics
6 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (33.33%) Git
7 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
7 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
7 4 (33.33%) REST

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (50.00%) Apache
1 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (41.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (58.33%) Big Data
3 6 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
4 4 (33.33%) Power BI
5 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (25.00%) Redis
5 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (16.67%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) RESTful
2 5 (41.67%) PySpark
3 4 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (25.00%) Flask
4 3 (25.00%) Hugging Face
4 3 (25.00%) Kafka
4 3 (25.00%) LangChain
4 3 (25.00%) LangGraph
4 3 (25.00%) Loki
4 3 (25.00%) NumPy
4 3 (25.00%) OAuth
4 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (25.00%) Pandas
4 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
4 3 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
2 7 (58.33%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Use Case
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (33.33%) API Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (33.33%) Sprint Review
5 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Secure Coding
6 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Grafana
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Kustomize
1 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) Cloudera