Python Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Python Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 96 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 38 34 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.33% 1.53% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 1.62% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 4
10th Percentile £393 £443 £431
25th Percentile £410 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £544
90th Percentile £558 £715 £668
UK median daily rate £628 £638 £623
% change year-on-year -1.49% +2.41% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.91% +154.03%

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 1,539 2,098 2,712
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 94.68% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 1,280 1,946
10th Percentile £263 £200 £234
25th Percentile £370 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £554
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 115 45
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.33 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £20.94 £24.29 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +7.96% -13.15%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.03
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in Scotland

Python 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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 -1 36 £450 -21.74% 2
Edinburgh +5 2 £463 +2.78% 2
Python Engineer
UK

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
3 19 (50.00%) Linux
4 18 (47.37%) Management Information System
5 16 (42.11%) Unix
5 16 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (36.84%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (34.21%) Windows
7 13 (34.21%) SQL
7 13 (34.21%) Finance
8 11 (28.95%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
8 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
8 11 (28.95%) Decision-Making
9 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
9 10 (26.32%) Git
9 10 (26.32%) Agile
9 10 (26.32%) Java
10 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
10 9 (23.68%) Data Security
10 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
11 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
11 8 (21.05%) Experimental Design
11 8 (21.05%) Natural Language Processing
11 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
11 8 (21.05%) Statistical Analysis
11 8 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (21.05%) Banking
11 8 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 6 (15.79%) IaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Serverless
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) GCP
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Network Security
1 4 (10.53%) SAN
1 4 (10.53%) VPN
2 3 (7.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Big Data
2 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) DB2
3 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (26.32%) Git
3 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.63%) PyCharm
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Investment Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) PySpark
2 1 (2.63%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (47.37%) Management Information System
2 14 (36.84%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (18.42%) Virtual Team
4 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (10.53%) Mainframe
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Linux
2 16 (42.11%) Unix
3 13 (34.21%) Windows
4 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.95%) Decision-Making
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 9 (23.68%) Data Security
5 8 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (21.05%) Community of Practice
5 8 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (21.05%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (21.05%) Data Science
5 8 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 8 (21.05%) Experimental Design
5 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
5 8 (21.05%) Natural Language Processing
5 8 (21.05%) Risk Management
5 8 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 8 (21.05%) Statistical Analysis
5 8 (21.05%) Task Automation
6 7 (18.42%) DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 10 (26.32%) Java
3 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.79%) Erlang
5 6 (15.79%) Perl
5 6 (15.79%) Prolog
6 2 (5.26%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.16%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) NetBackup
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) Veritas
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Brocade
4 1 (2.63%) EMC
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) NetApp
4 1 (2.63%) Sybase
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