Python Contracts in Glasgow

Python
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 9 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 121 144 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.92% 16.20% 10.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.35% 43.50% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 81 71
10th Percentile £400 £425 £360
25th Percentile £429 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +23.17%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £575
90th Percentile £623 £750 £673
Scotland median daily rate £491 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.85% -4.76% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £60.55 -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.00 £60.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +42.47% -26.09%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 324 331 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.95% 37.23% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 214 200
10th Percentile £333 £400 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £525 £496
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +5.74% +16.82%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £550
90th Percentile £623 £749 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £494 £488
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.33% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £42.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £43.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +31.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £46.88
90th Percentile - £67.66 £47.55
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £43.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +34.93% -3.85%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Glasgow

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Glasgow

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Glasgow

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Glasgow

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 16 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.48%) SAS
2 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Chatbot
2 10 (8.26%) Sketch
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.06%) AWS
2 29 (23.97%) Azure
3 10 (8.26%) Figma
3 10 (8.26%) OpenShift
3 10 (8.26%) Snowflake
4 7 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.79%) Serverless
5 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.48%) SaaS
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) SAN
2 6 (4.96%) NAS
3 3 (2.48%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (2.48%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.65%) DHCP
4 2 (1.65%) DNS
4 2 (1.65%) SSL
5 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.92%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.31%) Big Data
3 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.31%) Parquet
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.65%) DB2
5 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.83%) GIS
6 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.83%) Informix
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Git
2 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.48%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.48%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) JUnit
4 1 (0.83%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Finance
3 17 (14.05%) Banking
4 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (26.45%) Developer
2 24 (19.83%) Python Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (13.22%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 11 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 10 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (8.26%) Designer
7 10 (8.26%) UX Designer
7 10 (8.26%) Windows Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Snowflake Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Unix Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Network Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Security Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.05%) PySpark
2 13 (10.74%) React
3 12 (9.92%) HTML
4 6 (4.96%) REST
5 5 (4.13%) Middleware
6 4 (3.31%) Apache Avro
6 4 (3.31%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.31%) Pandas
6 4 (3.31%) Spring
7 3 (2.48%) Flash
7 3 (2.48%) POSIX
8 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.65%) Kafka
8 2 (1.65%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.65%) NumPy
8 2 (1.65%) RESTful
8 2 (1.65%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.83%) Node.js
9 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.83%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.48%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.48%) NVMe
4 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) PKI
5 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (32.23%) Linux
2 20 (16.53%) Unix
2 20 (16.53%) Windows
3 10 (8.26%) Android
3 10 (8.26%) Apple iOS
4 7 (5.79%) Mac OS
5 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.13%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.48%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.71%) DevOps
2 41 (33.88%) Agile
3 28 (23.14%) Software Engineering
4 18 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
4 18 (14.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 16 (13.22%) Computer Science
6 15 (12.40%) Observability
7 14 (11.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (11.57%) OO
8 13 (10.74%) CI/CD
8 13 (10.74%) Code Quality
8 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (9.92%) User Experience
9 12 (9.92%) Visualisation
10 11 (9.09%) Conversational UI
10 11 (9.09%) GitOps
11 10 (8.26%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (8.26%) DataOps
11 10 (8.26%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.79%) Perl
2 20 (16.53%) Java
2 20 (16.53%) SQL
3 13 (10.74%) Scala
4 12 (9.92%) C#
4 12 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.48%) Bash
5 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (10.74%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.48%) OSCP
4 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.48%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (11.57%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.48%) NFS
4 2 (1.65%) GPFS
5 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (20.66%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.83%) Terraform
3 14 (11.57%) Ansible
4 12 (9.92%) Grafana
5 10 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.79%) SCCM
7 4 (3.31%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.48%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.65%) Packer
9 2 (1.65%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 1 (0.83%) Argo
10 1 (0.83%) Istio
10 1 (0.83%) Kibana
10 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) PayPal
1 11 (9.09%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) Databricks
3 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.96%) Oracle
4 6 (4.96%) Veritas
5 5 (4.13%) VMware
6 3 (2.48%) BMC
6 3 (2.48%) Google
7 2 (1.65%) Brocade
7 2 (1.65%) EMC
7 2 (1.65%) IBM
7 2 (1.65%) NetApp
7 2 (1.65%) Sage
7 2 (1.65%) Sybase
8 1 (0.83%) Dell
8 1 (0.83%) HP
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat