Hybrid/Remote Python Contract Job Trends

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 1,542 1,425 1,562
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.40% 14.45% 12.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.22% 39.50% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 956 1,141
10th Percentile £381 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £420 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £788
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 12 16
10th Percentile £37.24 £28.89 £21.93
25th Percentile £53.00 £35.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -28.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £59.81 £80.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £63.15 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +26.27% -20.00% -3.85%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,143 3,608 4,521
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 30.64% 36.60% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,703 2,454 3,158
10th Percentile £363 £336 £325
25th Percentile £425 £412 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 81 64
10th Percentile £41.40 £31.25 £32.53
25th Percentile £62.50 £53.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.17% +2.80%
75th Percentile £71.96 £68.00 £75.31
90th Percentile £86.00 £87.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Python job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Python
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Python
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Python daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Python
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Python over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Python hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Python
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 82 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 80 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.54%) Apache
4 57 (3.70%) Confluence
5 21 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.10%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.78%) nginx
7 12 (0.78%) SAS
8 10 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.58%) IIS
10 7 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Superset
11 4 (0.26%) CICS
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.065%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.065%) Houdini
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.065%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.065%) Weka
5 1 (0.065%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.45%) SAP IBP
3 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.32%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.13%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.13%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.065%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.065%) OneSumX
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.065%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.065%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 628 (40.73%) AWS
2 575 (37.29%) Azure
3 246 (15.95%) GCP
4 225 (14.59%) GitHub
5 152 (9.86%) Power Platform
6 148 (9.60%) Serverless
7 145 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (8.95%) GitHub Actions
9 137 (8.88%) Amazon S3
10 109 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (5.64%) Snowflake
12 76 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 72 (4.67%) dbt
14 69 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
15 66 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
16 60 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 58 (3.76%) Entra ID
18 53 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
19 51 (3.31%) SaaS
20 48 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (6.36%) Firewall
2 61 (3.96%) DNS
3 55 (3.57%) Network Security
4 35 (2.27%) VPN
5 33 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 32 (2.08%) WAN
7 29 (1.88%) BGP
8 28 (1.82%) Broadband
9 27 (1.75%) DHCP
9 27 (1.75%) SD-WAN
10 22 (1.43%) OSPF
11 21 (1.36%) BIG-IP
12 20 (1.30%) VXLAN
13 19 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
14 16 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.97%) VLAN
16 14 (0.91%) SSL
17 12 (0.78%) SSH
18 10 (0.65%) HTTP
18 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (8.95%) Power BI
2 101 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 55 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.50%) Metadata
7 53 (3.44%) Big Data
8 52 (3.37%) Tableau
9 51 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (3.11%) BigQuery
12 46 (2.98%) Delta Lake
13 45 (2.92%) Relational Database
14 40 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
14 40 (2.59%) DynamoDB
15 39 (2.53%) NoSQL
16 33 (2.14%) MySQL
17 24 (1.56%) MongoDB
17 24 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (1.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 210 (13.62%) Git
2 161 (10.44%) GitLab
3 142 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 86 (5.58%) JIRA
5 24 (1.56%) MLflow
6 23 (1.49%) Selenium
7 20 (1.30%) JMeter
8 17 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.04%) Postman
10 12 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.65%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.58%) Maven
13 8 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.45%) Gatling
14 7 (0.45%) Robot Framework
14 7 (0.45%) Zephyr
15 6 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 355 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 271 (17.57%) Finance
3 224 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (14.27%) Public Sector
5 123 (7.98%) Banking
6 41 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (2.33%) Front Office
8 35 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 29 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (1.88%) Marketing
10 28 (1.82%) Military
11 27 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 26 (1.69%) Retail
13 20 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.10%) Legal
15 15 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.78%) Law
17 12 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 276 (17.90%) Senior
2 260 (16.86%) Developer
3 235 (15.24%) Data Engineer
4 139 (9.01%) Python Developer
5 110 (7.13%) Python Engineer
6 109 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 109 (7.07%) Lead
7 90 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 88 (5.71%) Architect
8 88 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 79 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
10 66 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 63 (4.09%) Analyst
11 63 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
12 56 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
13 50 (3.24%) Senior Developer
14 47 (3.05%) Databricks Engineer
15 46 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
16 43 (2.79%) Consultant
16 43 (2.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (28.27%) Terraform
2 134 (8.69%) REST
3 118 (7.65%) PySpark
4 90 (5.84%) Kafka
5 81 (5.25%) React
6 71 (4.60%) .NET
7 62 (4.02%) JSON
8 55 (3.57%) RESTful
9 53 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 46 (2.98%) Django
11 44 (2.85%) Node.js
12 37 (2.40%) OAuth
13 36 (2.33%) Pandas
14 35 (2.27%) LangChain
14 35 (2.27%) pytest
15 32 (2.08%) OAuth2
15 32 (2.08%) YAML
16 31 (2.01%) AngularJS
17 30 (1.95%) Flask
17 30 (1.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 268 (17.38%) Cloud Native
2 107 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.25%) AI Agents
4 72 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 44 (2.85%) Management Information System
8 41 (2.66%) Algorithms
9 39 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (2.46%) Data Structures
11 34 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.75%) Derivative
13 26 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.43%) Social Media
17 20 (1.30%) Public Cloud
18 18 (1.17%) Equities
19 17 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 203 (13.16%) Linux
2 92 (5.97%) Windows
3 55 (3.57%) Unix
4 36 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.97%) VMS
7 8 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.32%) AIX
8 5 (0.32%) Android
8 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.26%) CentOS
9 4 (0.26%) Solaris
9 4 (0.26%) zOS
10 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (46.04%) CI/CD
2 494 (32.04%) DevOps
3 413 (26.78%) AI
4 407 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 365 (23.67%) Agile
6 279 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
7 266 (17.25%) Data Engineering
8 263 (17.06%) Analytics
9 259 (16.80%) Software Engineering
10 244 (15.82%) Containerisation
11 238 (15.43%) Machine Learning
12 237 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
13 210 (13.62%) Observability
14 200 (12.97%) Data Modelling
15 186 (12.06%) ETL
16 172 (11.15%) Test Automation
17 169 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
18 159 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
19 158 (10.25%) Validation
20 155 (10.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 512 (33.20%) SQL
2 258 (16.73%) Bash
3 253 (16.41%) PowerShell
4 213 (13.81%) Java
5 114 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 81 (5.25%) C#
7 77 (4.99%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.31%) Scala
9 47 (3.05%) Bicep
10 45 (2.92%) Go
11 37 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 36 (2.33%) R
13 34 (2.20%) C++
14 28 (1.82%) Ruby
15 23 (1.49%) Perl
16 18 (1.17%) C
16 18 (1.17%) PL/SQL
17 17 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (1.04%) Rust
19 12 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 442 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 402 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 96 (6.23%) Degree
4 57 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 54 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.46%) CISSP
7 38 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.84%) CISM
12 11 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.58%) GIAC
14 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (11.41%) Data Quality
2 89 (5.77%) QA
3 44 (2.85%) NIST
4 36 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.62%) GDPR
6 17 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.52%) SLA
10 7 (0.45%) NCSC
10 7 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.19%) WCAG
13 2 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.13%) PMO
13 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 295 (19.13%) Docker
2 56 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.65%) vSphere
8 5 (0.32%) NFS
9 3 (0.19%) Ceph
9 3 (0.19%) Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) HDFS
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) Postfix
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.13%) Varnish
10 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 316 (20.49%) Kubernetes
2 166 (10.77%) Ansible
3 106 (6.87%) Grafana
4 76 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 22 (1.43%) Puppet
7 21 (1.36%) Argo
8 17 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.04%) Kibana
10 11 (0.71%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.58%) QRadar
12 8 (0.52%) Consul
12 8 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.45%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.45%) Nagios
13 7 (0.45%) Packer
14 6 (0.39%) Istio
14 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.32%) Control-M
15 5 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 221 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 181 (11.74%) Databricks
3 95 (6.16%) Google
4 85 (5.51%) Oracle
5 75 (4.86%) Splunk
6 52 (3.37%) VMware
7 43 (2.79%) OpenAI
8 41 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 34 (2.20%) Cisco
11 31 (2.01%) Foundry
12 28 (1.82%) Informatica
12 28 (1.82%) SAP
13 24 (1.56%) F5
13 24 (1.56%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.43%) Fortinet
14 22 (1.43%) Salesforce
15 20 (1.30%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.23%) CyberArk
17 15 (0.97%) BeyondTrust