Flask Contract Job Trends

Flask
UK

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 463 491
Rank change year-on-year -96 +28 +50
Contract jobs citing Flask 123 97 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 1.14% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 47 40
10th Percentile £339 £319 £400
25th Percentile £419 £391 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.67% +4.90%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £660 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £458 £515
% change year-on-year +9.29% -11.08% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Flask 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 11,828 8,514 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 5,649 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.53%

Flask
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Flask job vacancy trend in the UK

Flask
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Flask
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flask over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Flask in the UK

Flask
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flask.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flask

Flask
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flask within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 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
England -91 108 £550 +2.33% 131
London -64 73 £625 +6.38% 74
Work from Home -57 43 £600 +28.69% 92
UK excluding London -107 37 £500 +9.29% 88
North of England -69 17 £563 +38.89% 19
Yorkshire -32 12 £600 +9.09% 5
South East -53 7 £358 +25.00% 16
North West -48 5 £550 +38.80% 10
East of England - 4 £425 - 9
Wales - 4 - - 3
South West -38 3 £563 -13.46% 10
Midlands -50 2 £405 -37.69% 6
West Midlands -54 2 £405 -37.69% 2
Scotland -32 1 £500 -0.99% 20

Flask
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 5 (4.07%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 65 (52.85%) AWS
2 39 (31.71%) Azure
3 33 (26.83%) Serverless
4 31 (25.20%) GitHub
5 24 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (16.26%) GCP
8 12 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (8.94%) Amazon S3
10 10 (8.13%) Amazon EventBridge
10 10 (8.13%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.07%) Cloud Run
15 3 (2.44%) OpenShift
16 2 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.88%) 5G
1 6 (4.88%) DNS
1 6 (4.88%) HTTP
1 6 (4.88%) SSH
1 6 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.07%) 4G
2 5 (4.07%) SD-WAN
2 5 (4.07%) WAN
2 5 (4.07%) Wireless
3 3 (2.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.20%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (17.89%) MongoDB
3 21 (17.07%) NoSQL
4 19 (15.45%) MySQL
5 18 (14.63%) Relational Database
6 12 (9.76%) Redis
7 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.63%) Chroma
11 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.63%) Milvus
11 2 (1.63%) Parquet
11 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.63%) Trino
12 1 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (41.46%) Git
2 28 (22.76%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.45%) GitLab
4 7 (5.69%) JIRA
5 5 (4.07%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.07%) Selenium
6 3 (2.44%) Subversion
6 3 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.81%) Gradle
8 1 (0.81%) JUnit
8 1 (0.81%) Mockito
8 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (26.83%) Finance
2 32 (26.02%) Public Sector
3 21 (17.07%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.63%) Banking
5 14 (11.38%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.69%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.07%) Publishing
9 4 (3.25%) Military
10 2 (1.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Front Office
11 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 89 (72.36%) Developer
2 72 (58.54%) Python Developer
3 25 (20.33%) Senior
4 23 (18.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (17.89%) Software Engineer
6 19 (15.45%) Python Engineer
7 15 (12.20%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 14 (11.38%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (9.76%) AWS Developer
9 12 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (8.94%) Senior Developer
11 10 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (7.32%) AWS Software Engineer
12 9 (7.32%) Lead
13 8 (6.50%) Lead Developer
14 6 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (4.88%) Lead Python Developer
14 6 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 6 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
15 5 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (55.28%) FastAPI
2 54 (43.90%) REST
3 52 (42.28%) Django
4 45 (36.59%) RESTful
5 43 (34.96%) React
6 35 (28.46%) Pandas
6 35 (28.46%) Terraform
7 31 (25.20%) CSS
7 31 (25.20%) HTML
8 24 (19.51%) Kafka
9 21 (17.07%) NumPy
10 18 (14.63%) Vue
11 15 (12.20%) pytest
12 14 (11.38%) Jinja
12 14 (11.38%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (10.57%) AngularJS
14 11 (8.94%) CSS3
14 11 (8.94%) HTML5
15 9 (7.32%) Polars
16 8 (6.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.20%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.13%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.32%) Hedge funds
4 9 (7.32%) Market Risk
5 8 (6.50%) Derivative
6 6 (4.88%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.88%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.88%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.07%) Equities
8 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.44%) NHS
10 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.46%) Linux
2 16 (13.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (76.42%) CI/CD
2 54 (43.90%) Agile
3 48 (39.02%) Containerisation
3 48 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (35.77%) DevOps
5 41 (33.33%) Microservices
6 37 (30.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (27.64%) Software Engineering
8 32 (26.02%) Event-Driven
9 25 (20.33%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (20.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 24 (19.51%) API Development
11 23 (18.70%) Observability
11 23 (18.70%) Performance Optimisation
11 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (17.07%) OOP
13 20 (16.26%) Analytics
13 20 (16.26%) Code Quality
13 20 (16.26%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (16.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (47.97%) SQL
3 37 (30.08%) JavaScript
4 28 (22.76%) Shell Script
5 23 (18.70%) TypeScript
6 18 (14.63%) Bash
7 9 (7.32%) Java
8 4 (3.25%) Bicep
8 4 (3.25%) C#
9 3 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.63%) C
11 1 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (30.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (9.76%) Degree
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.07%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) EMIR
2 3 (2.44%) MiFID
3 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) GRC
4 1 (0.81%) HL7
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (64.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (35.77%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.76%) Grafana
3 7 (5.69%) Ansible
3 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.63%) systemd
5 1 (0.81%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 6 (4.88%) Splunk
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle
3 3 (2.44%) Google
3 3 (2.44%) NEC
4 2 (1.63%) Databricks
4 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.81%) FactSet
5 1 (0.81%) Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) Murex
5 1 (0.81%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.81%) VMware