Python Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 1,583 2,860 4,570
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.49% 11.38% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.35% 30.55% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 2,123 3,294
10th Percentile £388 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £485 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +0.88% +10.25%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 45 27
10th Percentile £20.77 £19.00 £19.69
25th Percentile £50.88 £22.16 £24.93
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +0.50% +60.48%
75th Percentile £78.13 £57.03 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.00 £71.00 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.38 £49.88
% change year-on-year -6.80% +29.07% +24.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Python daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Python daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Python hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Python hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python
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
1 153 (9.67%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (6.70%) Apache
3 52 (3.28%) Confluence
4 48 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.14%) SAS
6 11 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Drupal
8 5 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.25%) IIS
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) Luigi
9 4 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (7.71%) Chatbot
2 34 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) SPSS
6 1 (0.063%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.063%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 6 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.38%) Maximo
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.19%) FastStats
2 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.19%) Unica
3 2 (0.13%) Endur
3 2 (0.13%) Orchestrade
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.063%) BASE24
4 1 (0.063%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.063%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.063%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 551 (34.81%) AWS
2 368 (23.25%) Azure
3 205 (12.95%) GCP
4 118 (7.45%) dbt
5 113 (7.14%) Serverless
6 108 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 105 (6.63%) Power Platform
8 93 (5.87%) GitHub
9 77 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (4.42%) Amazon S3
11 69 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 44 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (1.90%) OpenShift
18 28 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 25 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
20 24 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.79%) Firewall
2 43 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.96%) DNS
4 28 (1.77%) SAN
5 21 (1.33%) Network Security
6 18 (1.14%) DHCP
6 18 (1.14%) HTTP
7 16 (1.01%) BGP
8 11 (0.69%) Wireless
9 10 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (0.63%) LAN
9 10 (0.63%) OSPF
9 10 (0.63%) VPN
9 10 (0.63%) WAN
10 9 (0.57%) VLAN
11 8 (0.51%) NAS
11 8 (0.51%) SSL
11 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (8.15%) Data Lake
2 108 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
3 97 (6.13%) Power BI
4 96 (6.06%) Apache Arrow
4 96 (6.06%) Dremio
5 94 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
6 85 (5.37%) Apache Ignite
7 82 (5.18%) Big Data
8 78 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 53 (3.35%) SQL Server
11 44 (2.78%) Tableau
12 41 (2.59%) MongoDB
13 35 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.21%) BigQuery
14 34 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
15 33 (2.08%) Relational Database
16 26 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 158 (9.98%) Jenkins
2 156 (9.85%) Git
3 98 (6.19%) JIRA
4 68 (4.30%) GitLab
5 26 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 23 (1.45%) Selenium
7 18 (1.14%) Artifactory
7 18 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.69%) JMeter
10 11 (0.69%) JUnit
10 11 (0.69%) Maven
10 11 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.63%) Subversion
12 9 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.51%) Gradle
13 8 (0.51%) TestNG
13 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.38%) Travis CI
General
1 435 (27.48%) Finance
2 262 (16.55%) Social Skills
3 230 (14.53%) Front Office
4 208 (13.14%) Banking
5 127 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (7.45%) Investment Banking
7 103 (6.51%) Public Sector
8 43 (2.72%) Marketing
9 42 (2.65%) Back Office
10 29 (1.83%) Retail
11 28 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 26 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.57%) Electronics
18 8 (0.51%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 484 (30.57%) Developer
2 202 (12.76%) Senior
3 175 (11.05%) Software Developer
4 166 (10.49%) Data Engineer
5 165 (10.42%) Python Developer
6 129 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (8.15%) Python Engineer
7 128 (8.09%) Software Engineer
8 125 (7.90%) AWS Engineer
9 123 (7.77%) Analyst
10 110 (6.95%) Lead
11 89 (5.62%) Architect
12 63 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
13 61 (3.85%) Data Scientist
14 56 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
15 54 (3.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 50 (3.16%) Data Analyst
17 44 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
18 41 (2.59%) Senior Developer
19 39 (2.46%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (10.36%) HTML
2 112 (7.08%) Pandas
3 108 (6.82%) gRPC
3 108 (6.82%) Protocol Buffers
4 101 (6.38%) React
5 90 (5.69%) NumPy
6 83 (5.24%) SciPy
7 71 (4.49%) PySpark
8 65 (4.11%) Node.js
9 55 (3.47%) Kafka
10 52 (3.28%) RESTful
11 49 (3.10%) REST
12 48 (3.03%) .NET
13 47 (2.97%) Django
14 40 (2.53%) CSS
15 38 (2.40%) YAML
16 35 (2.21%) AngularJS
17 34 (2.15%) JSON
18 28 (1.77%) FastAPI
19 27 (1.71%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 182 (11.50%) Derivative
2 168 (10.61%) Hedge funds
3 144 (9.10%) Fixed Income
4 119 (7.52%) Equities
5 108 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 68 (4.30%) Algorithms
7 43 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 38 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 33 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.58%) Clustering
13 23 (1.45%) Cloud Native
13 23 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.26%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.07%) Replication
17 16 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
18 13 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
19 12 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 214 (13.52%) Linux
2 82 (5.18%) Windows
3 55 (3.47%) Unix
4 37 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.07%) Debian
8 12 (0.76%) zOS
9 10 (0.63%) Android
9 10 (0.63%) Solaris
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.44%) CentOS
12 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.19%) VMS
15 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (26.91%) Agile
2 371 (23.44%) Software Engineering
3 366 (23.12%) DevOps
4 298 (18.83%) CI/CD
5 211 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 209 (13.20%) Analytics
7 204 (12.89%) Asset Management
8 171 (10.80%) Investment Management
9 169 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
10 144 (9.10%) Code Quality
11 131 (8.28%) Data Modelling
12 129 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 128 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
13 128 (8.09%) Machine Learning
13 128 (8.09%) Test Automation
14 124 (7.83%) Conversational UI
15 121 (7.64%) Data Science
16 120 (7.58%) Computer Science
17 115 (7.26%) Data Engineering
18 111 (7.01%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 537 (33.92%) SQL
2 396 (25.02%) JavaScript
3 295 (18.64%) Java
4 255 (16.11%) C#
5 151 (9.54%) TypeScript
6 139 (8.78%) Bash
7 124 (7.83%) PowerShell
8 88 (5.56%) C++
9 84 (5.31%) R
10 78 (4.93%) Perl
11 75 (4.74%) Go
12 59 (3.73%) Scala
13 41 (2.59%) Shell Script
14 31 (1.96%) Ruby
15 26 (1.64%) C
16 13 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.82%) PHP
17 12 (0.76%) Groovy
17 12 (0.76%) JCL
17 12 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 248 (15.67%) Degree
2 196 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 165 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 35 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.20%) PhD
9 18 (1.14%) CCNP
10 15 (0.95%) CCNA
10 15 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
11 10 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.63%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.44%) CCIE
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.38%) CEH
16 4 (0.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 40 (2.53%) QA
3 18 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 15 (0.95%) GDPR
5 8 (0.51%) NIST
5 8 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.38%) CDISC
8 4 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.25%) JTAG
9 3 (0.19%) GxP
9 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.063%) COPPA
11 1 (0.063%) GLBA
11 1 (0.063%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.063%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 176 (11.12%) Docker
2 41 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.07%) Firmware
6 14 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (0.76%) NFS
7 12 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.63%) vSphere
9 4 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.25%) vCloud
10 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.063%) HDFS
11 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.063%) iptables
11 1 (0.063%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.063%) Postfix
11 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 229 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 224 (14.15%) Terraform
3 166 (10.49%) Ansible
4 75 (4.74%) Prometheus
5 74 (4.67%) Grafana
6 37 (2.34%) Puppet
7 34 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.33%) Kibana
9 18 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 16 (1.01%) Consul
11 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (0.51%) logstash
13 7 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.44%) Nagios
13 7 (0.44%) Netcool
13 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
14 6 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.38%) Packer
14 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.64%) PayPal
3 91 (5.75%) Databricks
4 62 (3.92%) VMware
5 58 (3.66%) Google
6 53 (3.35%) Splunk
7 44 (2.78%) Oracle
8 39 (2.46%) Cisco
8 39 (2.46%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.71%) IBM
9 27 (1.71%) SAP
10 26 (1.64%) Dell
11 21 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.14%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.01%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.01%) F5
13 16 (1.01%) SolarWinds
14 15 (0.95%) CA
15 14 (0.88%) Salesforce