Python Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Python
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Python 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 3.23% - 4.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £470 £510
% change year-on-year -9.57% -7.84% +2.00%

All Programming Languages
South Lanarkshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3 0 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 9.68% - 27.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 19
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile - - £694
90th Percentile - - £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.17% -7.05% +1.01%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

Python job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
East Kilbride - 1 - - 2
Python
Scotland

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware