Python Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 172 188
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 0
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 153 384 663
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.52% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.60% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 304 475
10th Percentile £425 £416 £425
25th Percentile £525 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +18.52%
75th Percentile £781 £750 £725
90th Percentile £883 £863 £806
UK median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £50.43
% change year-on-year +9.23% +28.90% +75.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,973 24,016 42,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,364 16,958 30,661
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 547 602
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £19.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +43.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Python Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer
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 Developer.

Python Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python Developer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Python Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer
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 Developer.

Python Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 153 (100.00%) Python
2 76 (49.67%) AWS
3 60 (39.22%) Software Engineering
3 60 (39.22%) Finance
4 58 (37.91%) Agile
5 50 (32.68%) GCP
6 46 (30.07%) Front Office
7 43 (28.10%) Fixed Income
8 41 (26.80%) Asset Management
9 37 (24.18%) JavaScript
10 35 (22.88%) Derivative
10 35 (22.88%) Azure
11 33 (21.57%) Equities
11 33 (21.57%) React
12 30 (19.61%) Pandas
12 30 (19.61%) Investment Management
13 29 (18.95%) Hedge funds
14 26 (16.99%) Protocol Buffers
14 26 (16.99%) TypeScript
14 26 (16.99%) gRPC
14 26 (16.99%) Apache Airflow
15 25 (16.34%) Banking
16 23 (15.03%) Apache
16 23 (15.03%) NumPy
16 23 (15.03%) CI/CD
17 22 (14.38%) SQL
17 22 (14.38%) Django
18 21 (13.73%) SC Cleared
18 21 (13.73%) Security Cleared
18 21 (13.73%) SciPy

Python Developer Skill Set
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 26 (16.99%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (15.03%) Apache
3 5 (3.27%) Drupal
4 4 (2.61%) WordPress
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.65%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 76 (49.67%) AWS
2 50 (32.68%) GCP
3 35 (22.88%) Azure
4 20 (13.07%) dbt
5 11 (7.19%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.92%) GitHub
7 5 (3.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.96%) Serverless
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.31%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) SAN
1 13 (8.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) ATM
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.07%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (13.07%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (13.07%) Apache Ignite
1 20 (13.07%) Dremio
2 11 (7.19%) Data Lake
2 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.61%) Big Data
6 4 (2.61%) MySQL
7 3 (1.96%) Parquet
8 2 (1.31%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.31%) GIS
8 2 (1.31%) Redis
9 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.65%) Flink
9 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) GitLab
1 8 (5.23%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.92%) Git
3 3 (1.96%) Selenium
3 3 (1.96%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.65%) Robot Framework
General
1 60 (39.22%) Finance
2 46 (30.07%) Front Office
3 25 (16.34%) Banking
4 20 (13.07%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.23%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.23%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.57%) React
2 30 (19.61%) Pandas
3 26 (16.99%) gRPC
3 26 (16.99%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (15.03%) NumPy
5 22 (14.38%) Django
6 21 (13.73%) SciPy
7 15 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 15 (9.80%) Flask
8 13 (8.50%) FastAPI
9 12 (7.84%) Vue
10 11 (7.19%) RESTful
11 9 (5.88%) CSS
11 9 (5.88%) HTML
11 9 (5.88%) REST
12 8 (5.23%) Node.js
13 6 (3.92%) Material-UI
13 6 (3.92%) Redux
14 5 (3.27%) WebSockets
15 4 (2.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.10%) Fixed Income
2 35 (22.88%) Derivative
3 33 (21.57%) Equities
4 29 (18.95%) Hedge funds
5 20 (13.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (5.88%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.58%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.65%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.65%) CUDA
10 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.65%) EMV
10 1 (0.65%) Life Science
10 1 (0.65%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.65%) NHS
10 1 (0.65%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.46%) Linux
2 13 (8.50%) Debian
2 13 (8.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (39.22%) Software Engineering
2 58 (37.91%) Agile
3 41 (26.80%) Asset Management
4 30 (19.61%) Investment Management
5 23 (15.03%) CI/CD
6 18 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 15 (9.80%) Analytics
7 15 (9.80%) Quantitative Research
8 13 (8.50%) Data Engineering
9 12 (7.84%) Customer Service
9 12 (7.84%) DevOps
9 12 (7.84%) ITIL
9 12 (7.84%) Prototyping
10 11 (7.19%) Configuration Management
10 11 (7.19%) Line Management
10 11 (7.19%) Machine Learning
10 11 (7.19%) Matrix Organization
10 11 (7.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 10 (6.54%) API Development
11 10 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) Python
2 37 (24.18%) JavaScript
3 26 (16.99%) TypeScript
4 22 (14.38%) SQL
5 20 (13.07%) Java
6 15 (9.80%) R
7 5 (3.27%) C++
8 4 (2.61%) C#
9 3 (1.96%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.31%) Bash
10 2 (1.31%) Ruby
10 2 (1.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.65%) Bicep
11 1 (0.65%) Jython
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (13.73%) SC Cleared
1 21 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.65%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 12 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.15%) Bloomberg
2 14 (9.15%) VMware
3 13 (8.50%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.88%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.92%) Google
6 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.31%) Databricks
7 2 (1.31%) Oracle
7 2 (1.31%) Remedy
8 1 (0.65%) FIS
8 1 (0.65%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.65%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) VocaLink
8 1 (0.65%) Wincor Nixdorf
8 1 (0.65%) WorldPay