Python Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 161 187
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 162 389 656
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.07% 1.55% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.63% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 308 472
10th Percentile £425 £418 £425
25th Percentile £513 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £598
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% +17.44%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £725
90th Percentile £875 £863 £805
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £50.43
% change year-on-year +9.23% +28.90% +75.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python Developer.

Python Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Python Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python Developer.

Python Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 162 (100.00%) Python
2 76 (46.91%) AWS
3 64 (39.51%) Agile
4 61 (37.65%) Software Engineering
5 60 (37.04%) Finance
6 50 (30.86%) GCP
7 46 (28.40%) Front Office
8 43 (26.54%) Fixed Income
9 41 (25.31%) Asset Management
10 36 (22.22%) JavaScript
10 36 (22.22%) Azure
11 35 (21.60%) Derivative
12 34 (20.99%) React
13 32 (19.75%) Equities
14 31 (19.14%) Investment Management
15 29 (17.90%) Hedge funds
15 29 (17.90%) Pandas
16 27 (16.67%) SQL
17 26 (16.05%) Banking
18 25 (15.43%) SC Cleared
18 25 (15.43%) Django
18 25 (15.43%) Security Cleared
18 25 (15.43%) Protocol Buffers
18 25 (15.43%) TypeScript
18 25 (15.43%) gRPC
18 25 (15.43%) Apache Airflow
19 23 (14.20%) CI/CD
19 23 (14.20%) Linux
19 23 (14.20%) Data Modelling
20 22 (13.58%) Apache

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (15.43%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (13.58%) Apache
3 5 (3.09%) Drupal
4 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.47%) WordPress
5 1 (0.62%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 76 (46.91%) AWS
2 50 (30.86%) GCP
3 36 (22.22%) Azure
4 19 (11.73%) dbt
5 10 (6.17%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.70%) GitHub
7 5 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.85%) SaaS
9 3 (1.85%) Serverless
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.49%) SAN
1 17 (10.49%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.23%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.73%) Amazon Athena
1 19 (11.73%) Apache Arrow
1 19 (11.73%) Apache Ignite
1 19 (11.73%) Dremio
2 11 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.17%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.32%) Big Data
5 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.47%) MySQL
9 3 (1.85%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.85%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.85%) Impala
9 3 (1.85%) Parquet
10 2 (1.23%) GIS
10 2 (1.23%) Redis
11 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) GitLab
1 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (1.85%) Selenium
3 3 (1.85%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.62%) Robot Framework
General
1 60 (37.04%) Finance
2 46 (28.40%) Front Office
3 26 (16.05%) Banking
4 21 (12.96%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.94%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.94%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.85%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.99%) React
2 29 (17.90%) Pandas
3 25 (15.43%) Django
3 25 (15.43%) gRPC
3 25 (15.43%) Protocol Buffers
4 22 (13.58%) NumPy
5 20 (12.35%) SciPy
6 16 (9.88%) AngularJS
6 16 (9.88%) Flask
7 14 (8.64%) FastAPI
8 12 (7.41%) Vue
9 11 (6.79%) RESTful
10 10 (6.17%) REST
11 9 (5.56%) CSS
11 9 (5.56%) HTML
12 8 (4.94%) Node.js
13 6 (3.70%) Material-UI
13 6 (3.70%) Redux
14 5 (3.09%) WebSockets
15 4 (2.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (26.54%) Fixed Income
2 35 (21.60%) Derivative
3 32 (19.75%) Equities
4 29 (17.90%) Hedge funds
5 19 (11.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (5.56%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.32%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
10 2 (1.23%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.62%) EMV
11 1 (0.62%) Life Science
11 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.62%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.62%) NHS
11 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.20%) Linux
2 17 (10.49%) Debian
2 17 (10.49%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (39.51%) Agile
2 61 (37.65%) Software Engineering
3 41 (25.31%) Asset Management
4 31 (19.14%) Investment Management
5 23 (14.20%) CI/CD
5 23 (14.20%) Data Modelling
6 16 (9.88%) Data Engineering
6 16 (9.88%) ITIL
6 16 (9.88%) Quantitative Research
7 15 (9.26%) Analytics
7 15 (9.26%) Customer Service
7 15 (9.26%) Prototyping
8 14 (8.64%) Configuration Management
8 14 (8.64%) Matrix Organization
8 14 (8.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 12 (7.41%) DevOps
10 11 (6.79%) API Development
10 11 (6.79%) Machine Learning
11 10 (6.17%) Line Management
12 9 (5.56%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 162 (100.00%) Python
2 36 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.67%) SQL
4 25 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 19 (11.73%) Java
6 16 (9.88%) R
7 5 (3.09%) C++
7 5 (3.09%) Scala
8 4 (2.47%) C#
9 3 (1.85%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.23%) Bash
10 2 (1.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.62%) Bicep
11 1 (0.62%) Jython
11 1 (0.62%) Perl
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.62%) Rust
11 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (15.43%) SC Cleared
1 25 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.62%) GDPR
2 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 11 (6.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.32%) Terraform
3 1 (0.62%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) Istio
3 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.11%) VMware
3 17 (10.49%) Red Hat
4 14 (8.64%) Bloomberg
5 9 (5.56%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.70%) Google
7 4 (2.47%) Oracle
7 4 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.23%) Databricks
8 2 (1.23%) Remedy
9 1 (0.62%) FIS
9 1 (0.62%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.62%) SAP
9 1 (0.62%) VocaLink
9 1 (0.62%) Wincor Nixdorf
9 1 (0.62%) WorldPay