Python Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python 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 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 1,467 1,602 2,921
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.81% 10.44% 11.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.66% 31.21% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,125 2,177
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £689 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 49
10th Percentile £21.25 £20.77 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.63 £48.81 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.32 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.51% +30.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £31.59 £76.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £60.95 £80.50 £72.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year -39.13% -10.68% +29.40%

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 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Python
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Python over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Python over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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
1 126 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (7.57%) Apache
3 76 (5.18%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.64%) Confluence
5 16 (1.09%) nginx
6 10 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.41%) SAS
9 5 (0.34%) Traefik
10 3 (0.20%) IBM Domino
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) JBoss
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.068%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.068%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 29 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.068%) EViews
6 1 (0.068%) Notion
6 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.068%) Synopsys PrimeTime
Business Applications
1 38 (2.59%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.95%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.20%) Endur
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.068%) Kondor
5 1 (0.068%) Maximo
5 1 (0.068%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.068%) Odoo
5 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.068%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.068%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 662 (45.13%) AWS
2 351 (23.93%) Azure
3 245 (16.70%) GCP
4 140 (9.54%) Serverless
5 131 (8.93%) dbt
6 122 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
7 118 (8.04%) GitHub
8 97 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 83 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 83 (5.66%) Snowflake
10 77 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (5.25%) Power Platform
11 76 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
12 64 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
13 56 (3.82%) OpenShift
14 36 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.54%) Firewall
2 45 (3.07%) DNS
3 31 (2.11%) HTTP
4 30 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.70%) VPN
6 17 (1.16%) Network Security
7 15 (1.02%) DHCP
8 13 (0.89%) BGP
9 12 (0.82%) MPLS
9 12 (0.82%) OSPF
10 10 (0.68%) SSL
11 8 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (0.55%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (0.48%) WAN
13 6 (0.41%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.41%) S/MIME
13 6 (0.41%) SSH
14 5 (0.34%) LAN
14 5 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (8.04%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (7.09%) Apache Iceberg
4 97 (6.61%) Dremio
5 86 (5.86%) Apache Arrow
6 75 (5.11%) Power BI
7 73 (4.98%) Relational Database
8 72 (4.91%) Data Lake
9 70 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
9 70 (4.77%) MongoDB
10 68 (4.64%) Apache Ignite
11 46 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (2.93%) Big Data
13 42 (2.86%) Tableau
14 38 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (2.52%) SQL Server
16 35 (2.39%) DB2
17 34 (2.32%) NoSQL
18 33 (2.25%) MySQL
19 30 (2.04%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (10.43%) Jenkins
2 145 (9.88%) Git
3 122 (8.32%) GitLab
4 63 (4.29%) JIRA
5 35 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 34 (2.32%) JUnit
7 24 (1.64%) Selenium
8 23 (1.57%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 12 (0.82%) JMeter
11 10 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.55%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.48%) MLflow
13 7 (0.48%) Postman
13 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.48%) webpack
14 6 (0.41%) Appium
14 6 (0.41%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 415 (28.29%) Finance
2 310 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 234 (15.95%) Front Office
4 229 (15.61%) Banking
5 213 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
6 146 (9.95%) Investment Banking
7 120 (8.18%) Public Sector
8 23 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 22 (1.50%) Marketing
10 21 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.36%) Retail
12 14 (0.95%) Advertising
13 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.61%) Legal
14 9 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 406 (27.68%) Developer
2 197 (13.43%) Senior
3 189 (12.88%) Python Developer
4 188 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 174 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
6 168 (11.45%) Python Engineer
7 155 (10.57%) Software Engineer
8 152 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 140 (9.54%) Analyst
10 75 (5.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 70 (4.77%) AWS DevOps
12 68 (4.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 61 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 58 (3.95%) AWS Software Engineer
15 56 (3.82%) Lead
15 56 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
16 52 (3.54%) Data Scientist
17 51 (3.48%) Java Developer
18 50 (3.41%) Architect
19 47 (3.20%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (12.47%) React
2 113 (7.70%) Kafka
3 112 (7.63%) PySpark
4 95 (6.48%) Pandas
5 90 (6.13%) Node.js
6 84 (5.73%) NumPy
7 81 (5.52%) AngularJS
8 78 (5.32%) FastAPI
9 72 (4.91%) Django
10 64 (4.36%) .NET
11 62 (4.23%) SciPy
12 58 (3.95%) REST
13 57 (3.89%) Redux
14 50 (3.41%) Spring
14 50 (3.41%) Vue
15 42 (2.86%) gRPC
15 42 (2.86%) Protocol Buffers
16 39 (2.66%) HTML
17 35 (2.39%) CSS
17 35 (2.39%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 152 (10.36%) Fixed Income
2 104 (7.09%) Hedge funds
3 93 (6.34%) Derivative
4 90 (6.13%) Equities
5 72 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (3.82%) Cloud Native
7 46 (3.14%) Algorithms
7 46 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 35 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 33 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.91%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.36%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.23%) Data Centre
15 18 (1.23%) PKI
16 16 (1.09%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
17 13 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 241 (16.43%) Linux
2 97 (6.61%) Windows
3 79 (5.39%) Unix
4 40 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.95%) CentOS
7 9 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.41%) SUSE
9 5 (0.34%) VMS
9 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.068%) Android
13 1 (0.068%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (33.06%) Agile
2 429 (29.24%) CI/CD
3 379 (25.84%) DevOps
4 309 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (19.70%) Software Engineering
6 214 (14.59%) Analytics
7 201 (13.70%) Asset Management
8 171 (11.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 164 (11.18%) Containerisation
10 163 (11.11%) Data Science
11 152 (10.36%) Machine Learning
12 151 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 137 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
14 134 (9.13%) Investment Management
15 131 (8.93%) Data Engineering
16 128 (8.73%) Test Automation
17 125 (8.52%) Full-Stack Development
18 119 (8.11%) ETL
19 117 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
20 113 (7.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 460 (31.36%) SQL
2 303 (20.65%) Java
3 264 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 188 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 163 (11.11%) Bash
6 134 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 97 (6.61%) C#
8 75 (5.11%) Go
9 59 (4.02%) C++
10 56 (3.82%) Shell Script
11 42 (2.86%) Perl
12 36 (2.45%) R
13 27 (1.84%) Scala
14 24 (1.64%) Ruby
15 21 (1.43%) PHP
16 17 (1.16%) C
17 15 (1.02%) Groovy
18 10 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 8 (0.55%) Rust
19 8 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 232 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 212 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 135 (9.20%) Degree
4 71 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 28 (1.91%) CISSP
7 26 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (0.89%) CISM
10 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.75%) CEH
10 11 (0.75%) PhD
11 10 (0.68%) CCNP
11 10 (0.68%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.61%) CCIE
12 9 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.55%) GIAC
13 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.48%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.70%) Data Quality
2 64 (4.36%) QA
3 28 (1.91%) GDPR
4 24 (1.64%) NIST
5 17 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 15 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.55%) NCSC
11 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.27%) MiFID
12 3 (0.20%) Basel III
12 3 (0.20%) EMIR
12 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) COSHH
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 296 (20.18%) Docker
2 24 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 5 (0.34%) vSphere
6 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.14%) Ceph
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.14%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.14%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.14%) Platform Symphony
8 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.068%) LXC
9 1 (0.068%) Microcode
9 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 321 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 267 (18.20%) Terraform
3 193 (13.16%) Ansible
4 69 (4.70%) Grafana
5 51 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 36 (2.45%) Puppet
8 18 (1.23%) Kibana
9 15 (1.02%) Packer
10 12 (0.82%) Argo
10 12 (0.82%) Istio
11 11 (0.75%) Consul
12 10 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.68%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.55%) linkerd
14 7 (0.48%) Rancher
15 6 (0.41%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.41%) Nagios
15 6 (0.41%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 75 (5.11%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.04%) Databricks
3 65 (4.43%) Google
4 52 (3.54%) Oracle
5 49 (3.34%) Splunk
6 37 (2.52%) BISAM
7 36 (2.45%) Sybase
8 33 (2.25%) Cisco
9 32 (2.18%) VMware
10 28 (1.91%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.36%) F5
12 18 (1.23%) SAP
13 17 (1.16%) Charles River
14 16 (1.09%) Dynatrace
14 16 (1.09%) IBM
14 16 (1.09%) Okta
15 15 (1.02%) Calypso
16 14 (0.95%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.95%) SimCorp
17 13 (0.89%) ServiceNow