FastAPI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

FastAPI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring FastAPI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FastAPI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 315 436
Rank change year-on-year +89 +121 +117
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 78 30 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 0.82% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 17 18
10th Percentile £375 £425 £413
25th Percentile £462 £487 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £881 £600 £741
90th Percentile - - £808
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -7.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

FastAPI 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

FastAPI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FastAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FastAPI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FastAPI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FastAPI.

FastAPI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FastAPI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing FastAPI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

FastAPI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FastAPI
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 1 (1.28%) Apache
1 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.77%) AWS
2 16 (20.51%) Azure
3 7 (8.97%) GitHub
4 6 (7.69%) GCP
5 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.28%) dbt
7 1 (1.28%) SaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.28%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
5 1 (1.28%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 25 (32.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (21.79%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) MLflow
General
1 24 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (29.49%) Banking
3 22 (28.21%) Investment Banking
4 18 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.13%) Marketing
6 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.85%) Finance
8 2 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.28%) Front Office
9 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.28%) Retail
9 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (78.21%) Developer
2 49 (62.82%) Python Developer
3 23 (29.49%) Gen AI Developer
4 22 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Python Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 6 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 4 (5.13%) Backend Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 3 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
11 2 (2.56%) C# Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) Lead
11 2 (2.56%) React Developer
11 2 (2.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (58.97%) Django
2 36 (46.15%) React
3 23 (29.49%) .NET
3 23 (29.49%) Flask
4 11 (14.10%) AngularJS
4 11 (14.10%) HTML
5 10 (12.82%) CSS
6 9 (11.54%) Ajax
6 9 (11.54%) REST
6 9 (11.54%) Vue
7 7 (8.97%) RESTful
8 5 (6.41%) Pandas
9 4 (5.13%) NumPy
9 4 (5.13%) pytest
10 3 (3.85%) OpenID
10 3 (3.85%) PySpark
11 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.56%) SQLAlchemy
11 2 (2.56%) Web Services
12 1 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (5.13%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (56.41%) Agile
2 41 (52.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 35 (44.87%) Generative AI
4 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
5 31 (39.74%) DevOps
6 28 (35.90%) LLM
7 26 (33.33%) Machine Learning
8 24 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (30.77%) Use Case
9 23 (29.49%) Technical Analysis
10 22 (28.21%) SDLC
11 20 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (12.82%) Front End Development
14 9 (11.54%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
14 9 (11.54%) OO
15 8 (10.26%) OOP
15 8 (10.26%) Software Engineering
16 7 (8.97%) API Development
17 6 (7.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 78 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (38.46%) SQL
3 25 (32.05%) TypeScript
4 24 (30.77%) C#
5 22 (28.21%) Java
6 11 (14.10%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 35 (44.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 23 (29.49%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) MIIS
4 2 (2.56%) Terraform
5 1 (1.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (2.56%) Databricks
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle