Python Developer Contracts in Scotland

Python Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Python Developer daily rate in Scotland is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 94 154
Rank change year-on-year -14 +60 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 14 76 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.65% 2.82% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 2.96% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 56 7
10th Percentile - £425 £438
25th Percentile £475 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% +4.21% +6.74%
75th Percentile £630 £691 £500
90th Percentile £675 £750 £521
UK median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,020 2,570 3,265
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 95.40% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,816 2,312
10th Percentile £200 £231 £215
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 44 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.86 £15.60
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.71 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -34.21% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.87
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in Scotland

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in Scotland

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in Scotland

Python Developer
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 Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 -8 13 £538 -25.86% 7
Edinburgh +13 1 £638 +30.37% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Python Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) PySpark
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 5 (35.71%) Finance
5 4 (28.57%) AWS
5 4 (28.57%) Big Data
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Parquet
6 3 (21.43%) Terraform
6 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (21.43%) Apache Avro
6 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
6 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
6 3 (21.43%) Scala
6 3 (21.43%) Git
6 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
6 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
6 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) ETL
7 2 (14.29%) SSL
7 2 (14.29%) Sage
7 2 (14.29%) Oracle
7 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 2 (14.29%) VMware
7 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
7 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud

Python Developer 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Parquet
3 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.14%) Flink
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) PySpark
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Avro
3 2 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
6 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.14%) SDLC
6 1 (7.14%) Secure Coding
6 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Sage
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Google