Python Contracts in Edinburgh

Python
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 58 169 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.71% 14.36% 10.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.21% 41.52% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 139 149
10th Percentile £433 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £459 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £499 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -5.05% +12.30%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £613
90th Percentile £634 £582 £750
Scotland median daily rate £491 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.85% -4.76% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £38.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +42.47% -26.09%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 407 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.20% 34.58% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 314 419
10th Percentile £369 £410 £406
25th Percentile £415 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -0.51% +15.29%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £550
90th Percentile £603 £589 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £493 £488
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £33.20 £40.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £42.06 £19.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% +56.78% -38.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.56 £49.86
90th Percentile - £52.48 £55.03
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Edinburgh

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (74.14%) AWS
2 22 (37.93%) Amazon S3
2 22 (37.93%) Serverless
3 21 (36.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (32.76%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (31.03%) OpenShift
6 10 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (12.07%) Azure
8 6 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
9 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (8.62%) GCP
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (5.17%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (5.17%) Textract
12 2 (3.45%) Adverity
12 2 (3.45%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (3.45%) Google Sheets
12 2 (3.45%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) DSL
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.34%) Power BI
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.17%) GIS
5 3 (5.17%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.45%) Tableau
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.72%) Big Data
7 1 (1.72%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.69%) GitLab
3 7 (12.07%) Git
3 7 (12.07%) Gradle
3 7 (12.07%) Maven
4 4 (6.90%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.45%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.72%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (32.76%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Developer
2 13 (22.41%) Data Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Automation Developer
4 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Site Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Modeller
8 2 (3.45%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (3.45%) Lead
8 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Social Media Analyst
9 1 (1.72%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (41.38%) AWS CDK
2 7 (12.07%) React
3 6 (10.34%) REST
4 5 (8.62%) Node.js
4 5 (8.62%) PostGIS
4 5 (8.62%) SpaCy
5 4 (6.90%) CSS
5 4 (6.90%) HTML
6 3 (5.17%) Kafka
6 3 (5.17%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.45%) Regular Expression
7 2 (3.45%) Spring
7 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.72%) Java EE
8 1 (1.72%) OAuth
8 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.72%) PySpark
8 1 (1.72%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) PKI
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.45%) Social Media
6 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.34%) Unix
4 5 (8.62%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
2 24 (41.38%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
4 19 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.97%) Kanban
6 11 (18.97%) Scrum
7 10 (17.24%) Machine Learning
8 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.52%) ETL
9 8 (13.79%) Analytics
9 8 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (13.79%) Natural Language Processing
10 7 (12.07%) Data Modelling
11 6 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (10.34%) Data Integration
11 6 (10.34%) OWASP
11 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) Bash
2 15 (25.86%) SQL
2 15 (25.86%) TypeScript
3 12 (20.69%) Shell Script
4 11 (18.97%) Groovy
5 10 (17.24%) Java
6 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 8 (13.79%) Ruby
7 2 (3.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) Rust
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.72%) Degree
1 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Kubernetes
2 16 (27.59%) Ansible
3 15 (25.86%) Terraform
4 13 (22.41%) Grafana
5 6 (10.34%) Kibana
6 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.72%) logstash
6 1 (1.72%) Packer
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) SCOM
6 1 (1.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Brandwatch
4 2 (3.45%) Facebook
4 2 (3.45%) Hootsuite
4 2 (3.45%) IDERA
4 2 (3.45%) Instagram
4 2 (3.45%) Twitter
4 2 (3.45%) YouTube
5 1 (1.72%) Confluent
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) StreamSets