Hybrid/Remote Poetry Contract Job Trends

Poetry
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Poetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 310 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.035% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.13% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £382 - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% - -
75th Percentile £399 - -
90th Percentile £401 - -
UK median daily rate £390 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -24.00% -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Poetry falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,553 1,471 2,126
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.19% 12.89% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 950 1,565
10th Percentile £333 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £586 £620 £615
90th Percentile £668 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 59
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.11 £48.25
25th Percentile - £45.31 £60.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -20.97% +19.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.19 £90.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.63 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Poetry and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Poetry job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Poetry
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Poetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Poetry

Poetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Parquet
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
1 2 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Flask
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat