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 £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 171 189
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 156 373 659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.52% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.59% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 295 469
10th Percentile £425 £417 £425
25th Percentile £541 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% +18.23%
75th Percentile £772 £750 £725
90th Percentile £879 £873 £806
UK median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% - +11.11%
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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 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 17 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.

1 156 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (49.36%) AWS
3 64 (41.03%) Finance
4 60 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 57 (36.54%) Agile
6 51 (32.69%) GCP
7 50 (32.05%) Front Office
8 44 (28.21%) Fixed Income
9 42 (26.92%) Asset Management
10 38 (24.36%) JavaScript
11 36 (23.08%) Derivative
12 35 (22.44%) React
13 34 (21.79%) Azure
14 33 (21.15%) Equities
15 31 (19.87%) Investment Management
15 31 (19.87%) Pandas
16 29 (18.59%) Hedge funds
17 27 (17.31%) Protocol Buffers
17 27 (17.31%) TypeScript
17 27 (17.31%) gRPC
17 27 (17.31%) Apache Airflow
17 27 (17.31%) Banking
18 24 (15.38%) Apache
18 24 (15.38%) NumPy
18 24 (15.38%) CI/CD
19 23 (14.74%) SQL
20 22 (14.10%) SciPy
21 21 (13.46%) Amazon Athena
21 21 (13.46%) Java
21 21 (13.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

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 27 (17.31%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (15.38%) Apache
3 4 (2.56%) Drupal
3 4 (2.56%) WordPress
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.64%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 77 (49.36%) AWS
2 51 (32.69%) GCP
3 34 (21.79%) Azure
4 21 (13.46%) dbt
5 11 (7.05%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.85%) GitHub
7 5 (3.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.56%) Serverless
9 3 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.92%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.69%) SAN
1 12 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.64%) ATM
2 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.46%) Amazon Athena
1 21 (13.46%) Apache Arrow
1 21 (13.46%) Apache Ignite
1 21 (13.46%) Dremio
2 11 (7.05%) Data Lake
2 11 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.49%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.56%) Big Data
6 4 (2.56%) MySQL
7 3 (1.92%) Parquet
8 2 (1.28%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.28%) GIS
8 2 (1.28%) Redis
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.13%) Git
2 8 (5.13%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) Selenium
4 3 (1.92%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.64%) Robot Framework
General
1 64 (41.03%) Finance
2 50 (32.05%) Front Office
3 27 (17.31%) Banking
4 21 (13.46%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.13%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.13%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.44%) React
2 31 (19.87%) Pandas
3 27 (17.31%) gRPC
3 27 (17.31%) Protocol Buffers
4 24 (15.38%) NumPy
5 22 (14.10%) SciPy
6 21 (13.46%) Django
7 16 (10.26%) AngularJS
8 15 (9.62%) Flask
9 14 (8.97%) FastAPI
10 13 (8.33%) Vue
11 11 (7.05%) RESTful
12 9 (5.77%) CSS
12 9 (5.77%) HTML
12 9 (5.77%) Node.js
13 8 (5.13%) REST
14 7 (4.49%) Redux
15 6 (3.85%) Material-UI
16 5 (3.21%) WebSockets
17 4 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.21%) Fixed Income
2 36 (23.08%) Derivative
3 33 (21.15%) Equities
4 29 (18.59%) Hedge funds
5 21 (13.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (5.77%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.49%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.64%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.64%) CUDA
10 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.64%) EMV
10 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.64%) Life Science
10 1 (0.64%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.64%) NHS
10 1 (0.64%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.26%) Linux
2 12 (7.69%) Debian
2 12 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (38.46%) Software Engineering
2 57 (36.54%) Agile
3 42 (26.92%) Asset Management
4 31 (19.87%) Investment Management
5 24 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 17 (10.90%) Data Modelling
7 16 (10.26%) Analytics
8 15 (9.62%) Quantitative Research
9 13 (8.33%) DevOps
10 12 (7.69%) Data Engineering
10 12 (7.69%) Prototyping
11 11 (7.05%) Configuration Management
11 11 (7.05%) Customer Service
11 11 (7.05%) ITIL
11 11 (7.05%) Line Management
11 11 (7.05%) Matrix Organization
11 11 (7.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 10 (6.41%) API Development
13 9 (5.77%) Fintech
13 9 (5.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) Python
2 38 (24.36%) JavaScript
3 27 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 23 (14.74%) SQL
5 21 (13.46%) Java
6 15 (9.62%) R
7 6 (3.85%) C++
8 4 (2.56%) C#
9 3 (1.92%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.28%) Bash
10 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.28%) Ruby
10 2 (1.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.64%) Bicep
11 1 (0.64%) Jython
11 1 (0.64%) Perl
11 1 (0.64%) Rust
11 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (13.46%) SC Cleared
1 21 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 12 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Istio
3 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.97%) Bloomberg
3 13 (8.33%) VMware
4 12 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.77%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.85%) Google
7 4 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.92%) Oracle
9 1 (0.64%) Databricks
9 1 (0.64%) FIS
9 1 (0.64%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.64%) Remedy
9 1 (0.64%) SAP
9 1 (0.64%) VocaLink
9 1 (0.64%) Wincor Nixdorf
9 1 (0.64%) WorldPay