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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 1,597 2,811 4,512
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.79% 11.41% 10.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.93% 30.64% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 2,095 3,259
10th Percentile £388 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £486 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +1.74% +11.22%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 25
10th Percentile £20.77 £19.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £52.13 £22.16 £25.64
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - +59.49%
75th Percentile £78.13 £57.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.00 £70.38 £62.96
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.38 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% +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 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

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 16 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 16 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
1 170 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
2 123 (7.70%) Apache
3 52 (3.26%) Confluence
4 43 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.13%) SAS
6 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
10 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.31%) nginx
11 4 (0.25%) Drupal
11 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.25%) Luigi
11 4 (0.25%) WordPress
12 3 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 122 (7.64%) Chatbot
2 34 (2.13%) 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
1 580 (36.32%) AWS
2 371 (23.23%) Azure
3 211 (13.21%) GCP
4 134 (8.39%) dbt
5 124 (7.76%) Snowflake
6 121 (7.58%) Serverless
7 98 (6.14%) Power Platform
8 94 (5.89%) GitHub
9 82 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 71 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 46 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
14 44 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 42 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (2.19%) OpenShift
17 34 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 26 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
18 26 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.13%) Firewall
2 39 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.94%) DNS
4 21 (1.31%) Network Security
5 19 (1.19%) SAN
6 18 (1.13%) HTTP
7 16 (1.00%) BGP
7 16 (1.00%) DHCP
8 11 (0.69%) VPN
8 11 (0.69%) Wireless
9 10 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (0.63%) OSPF
10 9 (0.56%) WAN
11 8 (0.50%) SSL
11 8 (0.50%) VLAN
11 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.44%) Internet
12 7 (0.44%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (8.89%) Data Lake
2 127 (7.95%) Amazon Athena
3 110 (6.89%) Apache Arrow
3 110 (6.89%) Dremio
4 97 (6.07%) Apache Ignite
5 96 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
6 91 (5.70%) Power BI
7 85 (5.32%) Big Data
8 83 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
9 63 (3.94%) NoSQL
10 49 (3.07%) SQL Server
11 43 (2.69%) MongoDB
12 41 (2.57%) Tableau
13 39 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (2.19%) BigQuery
16 32 (2.00%) Relational Database
17 26 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
17 26 (1.63%) Hadoop
18 25 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 167 (10.46%) Git
2 161 (10.08%) Jenkins
3 96 (6.01%) JIRA
4 66 (4.13%) GitLab
5 26 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 23 (1.44%) Selenium
7 19 (1.19%) Artifactory
8 18 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.75%) JMeter
11 11 (0.69%) JUnit
11 11 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.63%) Maven
12 10 (0.63%) Subversion
13 9 (0.56%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.50%) TestNG
15 7 (0.44%) Gradle
15 7 (0.44%) Travis CI
15 7 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 453 (28.37%) Finance
2 257 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 244 (15.28%) Front Office
4 223 (13.96%) Banking
5 128 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (7.83%) Investment Banking
7 100 (6.26%) Public Sector
8 42 (2.63%) Back Office
9 39 (2.44%) Marketing
10 30 (1.88%) Retail
11 28 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 26 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.56%) Electronics
17 8 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 472 (29.56%) Developer
2 212 (13.27%) Senior
3 172 (10.77%) Software Developer
4 162 (10.14%) Data Engineer
5 156 (9.77%) Python Developer
6 140 (8.77%) Python Engineer
7 135 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 132 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
8 132 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 126 (7.89%) Analyst
10 111 (6.95%) Lead
11 100 (6.26%) Architect
12 63 (3.94%) Python Software Engineer
13 61 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
14 58 (3.63%) Data Scientist
15 57 (3.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 52 (3.26%) Data Analyst
17 43 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
18 42 (2.63%) Java Engineer
19 41 (2.57%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (9.89%) HTML
2 124 (7.76%) gRPC
3 122 (7.64%) Protocol Buffers
4 120 (7.51%) Pandas
5 103 (6.45%) NumPy
6 101 (6.32%) React
7 94 (5.89%) SciPy
8 75 (4.70%) PySpark
9 65 (4.07%) Node.js
10 57 (3.57%) Kafka
11 54 (3.38%) RESTful
12 47 (2.94%) .NET
13 42 (2.63%) REST
14 40 (2.50%) Django
15 35 (2.19%) AngularJS
15 35 (2.19%) YAML
16 34 (2.13%) CSS
17 33 (2.07%) JSON
18 31 (1.94%) AWS CDK
19 29 (1.82%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 194 (12.15%) Derivative
2 182 (11.40%) Hedge funds
3 156 (9.77%) Fixed Income
4 131 (8.20%) Equities
5 120 (7.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 69 (4.32%) Algorithms
7 46 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 43 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 39 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 28 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
11 26 (1.63%) Clustering
12 23 (1.44%) Cloud Native
12 23 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 20 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.00%) Replication
15 13 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 208 (13.02%) Linux
2 78 (4.88%) Windows
3 53 (3.32%) Unix
4 33 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.81%) Android
8 12 (0.75%) Debian
8 12 (0.75%) zOS
9 10 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.56%) Solaris
11 7 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.38%) CentOS
13 4 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.19%) VMS
15 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (26.93%) Agile
2 384 (24.05%) DevOps
3 373 (23.36%) Software Engineering
4 300 (18.79%) CI/CD
5 217 (13.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 216 (13.53%) Asset Management
7 210 (13.15%) Analytics
8 179 (11.21%) Investment Management
9 170 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
10 146 (9.14%) Code Quality
11 131 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 129 (8.08%) Data Modelling
12 129 (8.08%) Machine Learning
13 127 (7.95%) Test Automation
14 124 (7.76%) Conversational UI
15 122 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
16 121 (7.58%) Computer Science
17 117 (7.33%) ETL
18 115 (7.20%) Data Science
19 111 (6.95%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 535 (33.50%) SQL
2 403 (25.23%) JavaScript
3 314 (19.66%) Java
4 252 (15.78%) C#
5 164 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 136 (8.52%) Bash
7 118 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 92 (5.76%) C++
9 80 (5.01%) Go
10 78 (4.88%) Perl
11 76 (4.76%) R
12 55 (3.44%) Scala
13 44 (2.76%) Shell Script
14 32 (2.00%) C
15 31 (1.94%) Ruby
16 13 (0.81%) Groovy
17 12 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.75%) JCL
17 12 (0.75%) REXX
17 12 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 246 (15.40%) Degree
2 196 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 164 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 21 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.13%) CCNP
9 17 (1.06%) PhD
10 15 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.81%) CCNA
12 10 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.56%) CCIE
14 8 (0.50%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.38%) CEH
16 4 (0.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 39 (2.44%) QA
3 19 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 15 (0.94%) GDPR
5 8 (0.50%) NIST
6 7 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.38%) CDISC
7 6 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.25%) JTAG
10 3 (0.19%) GxP
10 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.063%) COPPA
12 1 (0.063%) GLBA
12 1 (0.063%) ISAE 3402
12 1 (0.063%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 183 (11.46%) Docker
2 39 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.94%) Firmware
6 12 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 12 (0.75%) NFS
6 12 (0.75%) Time Sharing Option
7 11 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.63%) vSphere
9 8 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.25%) vCloud
11 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.063%) HDFS
12 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.063%) iptables
12 1 (0.063%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.063%) Postfix
12 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 236 (14.78%) Kubernetes
1 236 (14.78%) Terraform
2 169 (10.58%) Ansible
3 82 (5.13%) Grafana
4 80 (5.01%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.50%) Puppet
6 33 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.31%) Kibana
8 17 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 16 (1.00%) Consul
10 8 (0.50%) logstash
10 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.44%) Nagios
11 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.38%) Netcool
12 6 (0.38%) Packer
12 6 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 121 (7.58%) PayPal
2 110 (6.89%) Microsoft
3 88 (5.51%) Databricks
4 60 (3.76%) Google
5 56 (3.51%) Splunk
6 50 (3.13%) VMware
7 43 (2.69%) Oracle
8 41 (2.57%) Cisco
9 31 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.75%) SAP
11 26 (1.63%) IBM
12 24 (1.50%) Dell
13 22 (1.38%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.31%) OpenAI
15 17 (1.06%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.94%) Bloomberg
16 15 (0.94%) CA
16 15 (0.94%) F5
16 15 (0.94%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.81%) Dynatrace