Flake8 Contract Job Trends

Flake8
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Flake8 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 - 597
Rank change year-on-year - - +168
Contract jobs citing Flake8 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.086% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £639 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.84%
75th Percentile £674 - -
90th Percentile £678 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Flake8 falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,101 6,934 9,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.35% 22.00% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 4,405 6,555
10th Percentile £356 £353 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 82 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.36 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +16.82% -17.69%

Flake8
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Flake8 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Flake8 job vacancy trend in the UK

Flake8
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flake8.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flake8

Flake8
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flake8 over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Flake8 in the UK

Flake8
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flake8 within the UK over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
London - 6 £670 - 1
England - 6 £670 - 1
Work from Home - 4 £635 - 1

Flake8
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub Actions
1 6 (85.71%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
2 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Pylint
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) mypy
2 6 (85.71%) boto
2 6 (85.71%) LDAP
2 6 (85.71%) pytest
3 5 (71.43%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 1 (14.29%) Pandas
4 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) API Integration
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Code Coverage
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks