Python Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 1,586 2,857 4,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.54% 11.40% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.50% 30.51% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 2,120 3,256
10th Percentile £383 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £485 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +0.88% +9.62%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.92% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 45 26
10th Percentile £20.77 £19.00 £20.46
25th Percentile £50.88 £22.16 £25.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +0.25% +69.85%
75th Percentile £78.13 £57.03 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.00 £71.00 £62.26
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £64.38 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.41% +28.75% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,035 9,363 16,691
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.47% 37.37% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,855 12,381
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 204 193
10th Percentile £33.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.75 £81.75 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Python daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Python daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python
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.

Python hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Python hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python
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
1 159 (10.03%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (7.00%) Apache
3 53 (3.34%) Confluence
4 44 (2.77%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.13%) SAS
6 11 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
9 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 5 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.32%) nginx
10 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.25%) Luigi
10 4 (0.25%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (7.69%) Chatbot
2 34 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) SPSS
6 1 (0.063%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.063%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 6 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.38%) Maximo
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.19%) FastStats
2 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
2 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.19%) Unica
3 2 (0.13%) Endur
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.063%) BASE24
4 1 (0.063%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.063%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.063%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 559 (35.25%) AWS
2 368 (23.20%) Azure
3 205 (12.93%) GCP
4 124 (7.82%) dbt
5 117 (7.38%) Serverless
6 114 (7.19%) Snowflake
7 101 (6.37%) Power Platform
8 96 (6.05%) GitHub
9 81 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (4.67%) Amazon S3
11 68 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 44 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 37 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (1.89%) OpenShift
18 27 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 26 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
20 25 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.04%) Firewall
2 42 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 32 (2.02%) DNS
4 25 (1.58%) SAN
5 21 (1.32%) Network Security
6 19 (1.20%) HTTP
7 18 (1.13%) DHCP
8 16 (1.01%) BGP
9 11 (0.69%) VPN
9 11 (0.69%) WAN
9 11 (0.69%) Wireless
10 10 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (0.63%) OSPF
11 9 (0.57%) LAN
11 9 (0.57%) SSL
11 9 (0.57%) VLAN
12 8 (0.50%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (8.26%) Data Lake
2 114 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
3 98 (6.18%) Apache Arrow
3 98 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (6.18%) Dremio
4 93 (5.86%) Power BI
5 87 (5.49%) Apache Ignite
6 79 (4.98%) Big Data
7 78 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (3.85%) NoSQL
9 52 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 43 (2.71%) MongoDB
11 42 (2.65%) Tableau
12 39 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
14 33 (2.08%) BigQuery
15 32 (2.02%) Relational Database
16 26 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 158 (9.96%) Git
1 158 (9.96%) Jenkins
2 99 (6.24%) JIRA
3 67 (4.22%) GitLab
4 26 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 22 (1.39%) Selenium
6 18 (1.13%) Artifactory
6 18 (1.13%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.76%) JMeter
9 11 (0.69%) JUnit
9 11 (0.69%) Maven
9 11 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (0.63%) Subversion
11 9 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.50%) Gradle
12 8 (0.50%) TestNG
12 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.44%) Travis CI
General
1 437 (27.55%) Finance
2 266 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 233 (14.69%) Front Office
4 208 (13.11%) Banking
5 131 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (7.44%) Investment Banking
7 97 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 42 (2.65%) Back Office
9 41 (2.59%) Marketing
10 29 (1.83%) Retail
11 28 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 26 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.57%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.57%) Electronics
18 8 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 473 (29.82%) Developer
2 202 (12.74%) Senior
3 172 (10.84%) Software Developer
4 165 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 158 (9.96%) Python Developer
6 131 (8.26%) Python Engineer
7 130 (8.20%) Software Engineer
8 129 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 127 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
10 126 (7.94%) Analyst
11 110 (6.94%) Lead
12 97 (6.12%) Architect
13 61 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 59 (3.72%) Data Scientist
15 58 (3.66%) Python Software Engineer
16 54 (3.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 53 (3.34%) Data Analyst
18 43 (2.71%) Full Stack Developer
19 40 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
20 39 (2.46%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (10.21%) HTML
2 114 (7.19%) Pandas
3 110 (6.94%) gRPC
3 110 (6.94%) Protocol Buffers
4 101 (6.37%) React
5 92 (5.80%) NumPy
6 85 (5.36%) SciPy
7 75 (4.73%) PySpark
8 65 (4.10%) Node.js
9 54 (3.40%) Kafka
10 52 (3.28%) RESTful
11 48 (3.03%) REST
12 47 (2.96%) .NET
13 44 (2.77%) Django
14 38 (2.40%) CSS
14 38 (2.40%) YAML
15 35 (2.21%) JSON
16 34 (2.14%) AngularJS
17 27 (1.70%) AWS CDK
17 27 (1.70%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 185 (11.66%) Derivative
2 172 (10.84%) Hedge funds
3 148 (9.33%) Fixed Income
4 122 (7.69%) Equities
5 111 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 68 (4.29%) Algorithms
7 44 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 43 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
9 39 (2.46%) Data Structures
10 32 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.58%) Clustering
13 23 (1.45%) Cloud Native
13 23 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 20 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.07%) Replication
16 16 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
18 12 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 209 (13.18%) Linux
2 79 (4.98%) Windows
3 52 (3.28%) Unix
4 36 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 26 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.95%) Debian
8 12 (0.76%) Android
8 12 (0.76%) zOS
9 10 (0.63%) Solaris
10 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.44%) CentOS
13 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.19%) VMS
16 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
16 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (26.99%) Agile
2 368 (23.20%) Software Engineering
3 367 (23.14%) DevOps
4 294 (18.54%) CI/CD
5 212 (13.37%) Artificial Intelligence
6 208 (13.11%) Analytics
7 207 (13.05%) Asset Management
8 173 (10.91%) Investment Management
9 169 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
10 144 (9.08%) Code Quality
11 130 (8.20%) Data Modelling
12 128 (8.07%) Machine Learning
13 127 (8.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 126 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
14 126 (7.94%) Test Automation
15 124 (7.82%) Conversational UI
16 121 (7.63%) Computer Science
17 118 (7.44%) Data Engineering
17 118 (7.44%) Data Science
18 115 (7.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 538 (33.92%) SQL
2 393 (24.78%) JavaScript
3 298 (18.79%) Java
4 255 (16.08%) C#
5 152 (9.58%) TypeScript
6 137 (8.64%) Bash
7 120 (7.57%) PowerShell
8 91 (5.74%) C++
9 81 (5.11%) R
10 77 (4.85%) Perl
11 75 (4.73%) Go
12 60 (3.78%) Scala
13 41 (2.59%) Shell Script
14 30 (1.89%) Ruby
15 29 (1.83%) C
16 13 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.82%) PHP
17 12 (0.76%) Groovy
17 12 (0.76%) JCL
17 12 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 248 (15.64%) Degree
2 195 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 166 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.20%) CCNP
9 18 (1.13%) PhD
10 15 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.88%) CCNA
12 10 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.57%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.57%) CCIE
14 8 (0.50%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.38%) CEH
16 4 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 41 (2.59%) QA
3 17 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 15 (0.95%) GDPR
5 8 (0.50%) NIST
5 8 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.38%) CDISC
8 4 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.25%) JTAG
9 3 (0.19%) GxP
9 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.063%) COPPA
11 1 (0.063%) GLBA
11 1 (0.063%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.063%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 177 (11.16%) Docker
2 40 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.07%) Firmware
6 13 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (0.76%) NFS
7 12 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
7 12 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.63%) vSphere
9 4 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.25%) vCloud
10 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.063%) HDFS
11 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.063%) iptables
11 1 (0.063%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.063%) Postfix
11 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 230 (14.50%) Terraform
2 226 (14.25%) Kubernetes
3 166 (10.47%) Ansible
4 76 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 75 (4.73%) Grafana
6 37 (2.33%) Puppet
7 34 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.39%) Kibana
9 18 (1.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 16 (1.01%) Consul
11 9 (0.57%) logstash
12 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.44%) Nagios
13 7 (0.44%) Netcool
13 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
14 6 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.38%) Packer
15 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (7.63%) PayPal
2 117 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 90 (5.67%) Databricks
4 58 (3.66%) VMware
5 57 (3.59%) Google
6 54 (3.40%) Splunk
7 43 (2.71%) Oracle
8 41 (2.59%) Cisco
9 36 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.70%) IBM
10 27 (1.70%) SAP
11 26 (1.64%) Dell
12 21 (1.32%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.32%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.13%) Atlassian
14 16 (1.01%) Bloomberg
14 16 (1.01%) F5
14 16 (1.01%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.95%) CA
16 13 (0.82%) Dynatrace