Python Contracts in Scotland

Python
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 235 429 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.65% 15.03% 8.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.07% 43.20% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 306 211
10th Percentile £412 £425 £400
25th Percentile £453 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% +11.67%
75th Percentile £613 £586 £593
90th Percentile £650 £676 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile - £51.25 £24.60
25th Percentile - £56.25 £35.63
Median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £47.02
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% +28.77% -18.23%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £49.85
90th Percentile - £72.00 £50.40
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Scotland

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Scotland

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Scotland

Python
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +3 154 £514 -14.33% 34
Edinburgh -10 62 £500 +1.01% 49
South Lanarkshire - 6 - -
Perthshire +12 2 £488 -11.36% 2
Lanarkshire +1 1 £460 -4.17% 4
West Lothian -7 1 - -
Python
UK

Python
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 18 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.40%) Confluence
3 7 (2.98%) SAS
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.28%) IIS
4 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (4.68%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.40%) Sketch
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.70%) AWS
2 40 (17.02%) Azure
3 38 (16.17%) OpenShift
4 37 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (15.32%) Serverless
6 33 (14.04%) Amazon S3
6 33 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (5.11%) Snowflake
8 9 (3.83%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (3.83%) IaaS
9 8 (3.40%) AWS CodePipeline
9 8 (3.40%) Figma
10 7 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.98%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (2.55%) GCP
12 5 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (1.70%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.38%) SAN
2 12 (5.11%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.68%) SSL
4 10 (4.26%) DNS
5 9 (3.83%) HTTP
6 8 (3.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (3.40%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (3.40%) iSCSI
7 7 (2.98%) DHCP
7 7 (2.98%) Firewall
7 7 (2.98%) NAS
7 7 (2.98%) NetScaler
8 3 (1.28%) LAN
8 3 (1.28%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) BGP
9 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.43%) MPLS
9 1 (0.43%) Network Security
9 1 (0.43%) VPLS
9 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.09%) MongoDB
3 18 (7.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (5.53%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.40%) GIS
7 7 (2.98%) Big Data
7 7 (2.98%) DB2
7 7 (2.98%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.98%) Power BI
8 5 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.70%) Parquet
10 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.28%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.28%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.85%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (18.72%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.77%) Git
3 17 (7.23%) GitLab
4 12 (5.11%) JIRA
5 8 (3.40%) Artifactory
5 8 (3.40%) Gradle
5 8 (3.40%) Maven
6 4 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.28%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.85%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.43%) gulp
9 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.43%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 43 (18.30%) Finance
2 41 (17.45%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.60%) Public Sector
4 36 (15.32%) Banking
5 19 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.96%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (29.79%) Developer
2 34 (14.47%) Python Engineer
3 32 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (10.64%) Linux Engineer
5 21 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (8.09%) Software Developer
8 18 (7.66%) Data Engineer
8 18 (7.66%) Python Developer
9 12 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.26%) Windows Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Hardware Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.74%) AWS CDK
2 31 (13.19%) REST
3 23 (9.79%) HTML
3 23 (9.79%) React
4 15 (6.38%) PySpark
5 12 (5.11%) CSS
6 10 (4.26%) Spring
7 8 (3.40%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.98%) Flash
8 7 (2.98%) Middleware
8 7 (2.98%) POSIX
9 6 (2.55%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.55%) Node.js
9 6 (2.55%) PostGIS
9 6 (2.55%) Spring Security
10 5 (2.13%) OAuth
10 5 (2.13%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.13%) Twisted
11 4 (1.70%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.13%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.13%) NVMe
5 5 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.28%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.28%) PKI
7 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (37.45%) Linux
2 43 (18.30%) Unix
3 35 (14.89%) Windows
4 24 (10.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (6.38%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.40%) Android
6 8 (3.40%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.98%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.13%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.70%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.28%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (40.00%) DevOps
2 90 (38.30%) Agile
3 57 (24.26%) CI/CD
4 45 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (14.04%) Software Engineering
6 26 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence
7 25 (10.64%) Roadmaps
7 25 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 24 (10.21%) Code Quality
9 23 (9.79%) User Experience
10 22 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (8.94%) Computer Science
11 21 (8.94%) Data Protection
11 21 (8.94%) Observability
11 21 (8.94%) Test Automation
12 20 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (7.66%) ETL
13 18 (7.66%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (7.23%) Containerisation
14 17 (7.23%) OO
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.83%) Java
2 54 (22.98%) Perl
3 45 (19.15%) SQL
4 44 (18.72%) Bash
5 35 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.06%) TypeScript
7 19 (8.09%) PowerShell
8 17 (7.23%) C#
9 15 (6.38%) Groovy
10 13 (5.53%) Scala
10 13 (5.53%) Shell Script
11 10 (4.26%) Ruby
12 4 (1.70%) PHP
13 3 (1.28%) C
14 2 (0.85%) Go
15 1 (0.43%) Elixir
15 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (6.81%) Degree
2 15 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.28%) CCNA
4 3 (1.28%) CCNP
4 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.28%) OSCP
5 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.81%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (17.02%) Docker
2 12 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.98%) NFS
4 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.70%) Firmware
4 4 (1.70%) GPFS
4 4 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 44 (18.72%) Terraform
3 35 (14.89%) Ansible
4 33 (14.04%) Grafana
5 12 (5.11%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.68%) SCCM
7 8 (3.40%) Kibana
8 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.13%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.70%) Packer
10 4 (1.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.43%) Argo
13 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.43%) Istio
13 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (6.81%) Databricks
2 15 (6.38%) VMware
3 13 (5.53%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.68%) F5
4 11 (4.68%) PayPal
5 10 (4.26%) Splunk
6 9 (3.83%) Oracle
6 9 (3.83%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.83%) Veritas
7 8 (3.40%) Google
8 6 (2.55%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.13%) EMC
9 5 (2.13%) IBM
9 5 (2.13%) NetApp
10 4 (1.70%) Brocade
10 4 (1.70%) Sybase
11 2 (0.85%) BMC
11 2 (0.85%) HP
11 2 (0.85%) IDERA
11 2 (0.85%) Sage