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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 1,563 2,760 4,575
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.68% 11.45% 10.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.27% 31.34% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 2,072 3,334
10th Percentile £378 £425 £419
25th Percentile £475 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £675
90th Percentile £850 £822 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 41 19
10th Percentile £20.77 £19.00 £19.30
25th Percentile £33.25 £22.16 £22.23
Median hourly rate £66.25 £50.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% +0.50% +60.48%
75th Percentile £78.44 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £71.50 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% +26.83% +34.87%

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 4,999 8,808 16,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.15% 36.55% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,506 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 184
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

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

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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 1 June 2024.

Python daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 1 June 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
1 189 (12.09%) Apache Airflow
2 148 (9.47%) Apache
3 48 (3.07%) Confluence
4 43 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.22%) SAS
6 11 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.51%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
9 5 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.26%) Drupal
10 4 (0.26%) JBoss
10 4 (0.26%) Luigi
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (7.81%) Chatbot
2 37 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.26%) SPSS
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.064%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.064%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.38%) Maximo
2 5 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.19%) FastStats
3 3 (0.19%) Orchestrade
3 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.19%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) Unica
4 2 (0.13%) Endur
5 1 (0.064%) BASE24
5 1 (0.064%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.064%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.064%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 574 (36.72%) AWS
2 358 (22.90%) Azure
3 212 (13.56%) GCP
4 157 (10.04%) dbt
5 143 (9.15%) Snowflake
6 113 (7.23%) Serverless
7 93 (5.95%) GitHub
8 85 (5.44%) Power Platform
9 76 (4.86%) Amazon S3
10 72 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 46 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
16 33 (2.11%) OpenShift
17 30 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
18 28 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
19 25 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.41%) Firewall
2 37 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.86%) DNS
4 23 (1.47%) Network Security
5 17 (1.09%) SAN
6 16 (1.02%) HTTP
7 15 (0.96%) BGP
7 15 (0.96%) DHCP
8 13 (0.83%) Wireless
9 11 (0.70%) VPN
10 10 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (0.64%) OSPF
10 10 (0.64%) SSL
10 10 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.58%) WAN
12 8 (0.51%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.51%) LAN
13 7 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (10.62%) Data Lake
2 146 (9.34%) Amazon Athena
3 134 (8.57%) Dremio
4 132 (8.45%) Apache Arrow
5 114 (7.29%) Apache Ignite
6 93 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (5.25%) Big Data
7 82 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
8 78 (4.99%) Power BI
9 59 (3.77%) NoSQL
10 47 (3.01%) SQL Server
11 44 (2.82%) MongoDB
12 43 (2.75%) Tableau
13 38 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (2.37%) Relational Database
15 34 (2.18%) BigQuery
16 26 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.66%) Hadoop
17 23 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 161 (10.30%) Git
2 151 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 83 (5.31%) JIRA
4 63 (4.03%) GitLab
5 30 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 27 (1.73%) Selenium
7 20 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 18 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 14 (0.90%) JMeter
11 12 (0.77%) JUnit
12 11 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.64%) Maven
14 9 (0.58%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.58%) Subversion
15 7 (0.45%) TestNG
15 7 (0.45%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
16 6 (0.38%) MLflow
16 6 (0.38%) Travis CI
General
1 463 (29.62%) Finance
2 253 (16.19%) Front Office
3 247 (15.80%) Social Skills
4 238 (15.23%) Banking
5 136 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 125 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 95 (6.08%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.24%) Retail
9 34 (2.18%) Back Office
10 33 (2.11%) Marketing
11 23 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 23 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 12 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.51%) Electronics
17 7 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 458 (29.30%) Developer
2 219 (14.01%) Senior
3 172 (11.00%) Software Developer
4 164 (10.49%) Python Developer
5 161 (10.30%) Data Engineer
6 146 (9.34%) Software Engineer
7 144 (9.21%) Python Engineer
8 138 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
9 130 (8.32%) Analyst
10 129 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 113 (7.23%) Lead
12 98 (6.27%) Architect
13 71 (4.54%) Python Software Engineer
14 62 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
15 60 (3.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 51 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
17 50 (3.20%) Data Analyst
18 48 (3.07%) Data Scientist
18 48 (3.07%) Java Engineer
19 46 (2.94%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (10.04%) HTML
2 143 (9.15%) gRPC
3 141 (9.02%) Protocol Buffers
4 137 (8.77%) Pandas
5 121 (7.74%) NumPy
6 111 (7.10%) SciPy
7 100 (6.40%) React
8 79 (5.05%) PySpark
9 67 (4.29%) Node.js
10 60 (3.84%) Kafka
11 55 (3.52%) RESTful
12 45 (2.88%) Django
13 44 (2.82%) .NET
14 42 (2.69%) REST
15 39 (2.50%) AngularJS
16 33 (2.11%) YAML
17 32 (2.05%) CSS
18 31 (1.98%) JSON
19 29 (1.86%) FastAPI
20 28 (1.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 205 (13.12%) Derivative
2 195 (12.48%) Hedge funds
3 175 (11.20%) Fixed Income
4 150 (9.60%) Equities
5 142 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 67 (4.29%) Algorithms
7 53 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 41 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (2.37%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.73%) Clustering
11 25 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 23 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (1.47%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.34%) Cloud Native
13 21 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.09%) Replication
16 15 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.90%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 194 (12.41%) Linux
2 76 (4.86%) Windows
3 57 (3.65%) Unix
4 28 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 18 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.90%) Android
8 12 (0.77%) zOS
9 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.70%) Debian
10 8 (0.51%) Solaris
11 6 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.13%) CentOS
13 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.064%) VMS
14 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (27.77%) Agile
2 386 (24.70%) Software Engineering
3 376 (24.06%) DevOps
4 286 (18.30%) CI/CD
5 228 (14.59%) Asset Management
6 214 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 203 (12.99%) Analytics
8 188 (12.03%) Investment Management
9 172 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
10 144 (9.21%) Code Quality
11 128 (8.19%) Test Automation
12 124 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 123 (7.87%) Conversational UI
14 118 (7.55%) Computer Science
15 117 (7.49%) Data Modelling
16 115 (7.36%) Machine Learning
17 107 (6.85%) Data Science
18 106 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
18 106 (6.78%) ETL
19 104 (6.65%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 522 (33.40%) SQL
2 413 (26.42%) JavaScript
3 325 (20.79%) Java
4 234 (14.97%) C#
5 169 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 130 (8.32%) Bash
7 112 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 94 (6.01%) C++
9 84 (5.37%) Go
10 69 (4.41%) Perl
11 64 (4.09%) R
12 46 (2.94%) Scala
13 43 (2.75%) Shell Script
14 32 (2.05%) C
14 32 (2.05%) Ruby
15 14 (0.90%) Groovy
16 12 (0.77%) JCL
16 12 (0.77%) REXX
16 12 (0.77%) VBA
17 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (15.67%) Degree
2 178 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 151 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 27 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.34%) CCNP
9 17 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
10 15 (0.96%) PhD
11 13 (0.83%) CCNA
12 12 (0.77%) CCIE
13 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.58%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.38%) CEH
16 4 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.43%) QA
3 15 (0.96%) GDPR
4 14 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.58%) NIST
6 6 (0.38%) CDISC
6 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.26%) JTAG
9 3 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.13%) GxP
10 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.064%) GLBA
11 1 (0.064%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.064%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.064%) MiFID
11 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (11.52%) Docker
2 40 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.90%) Firmware
6 12 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 12 (0.77%) NFS
6 12 (0.77%) Time Sharing Option
7 11 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.70%) vSphere
8 9 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.26%) vCloud
10 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.13%) HDFS
12 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.064%) iptables
12 1 (0.064%) Postfix
12 1 (0.064%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 241 (15.42%) Terraform
2 229 (14.65%) Kubernetes
3 169 (10.81%) Ansible
4 78 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 76 (4.86%) Grafana
6 41 (2.62%) Puppet
7 29 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.15%) Kibana
9 16 (1.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 14 (0.90%) Consul
11 7 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.45%) logstash
11 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.38%) Packer
13 5 (0.32%) Argo
13 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (0.32%) Netcool
13 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 121 (7.74%) PayPal
2 101 (6.46%) Microsoft
3 91 (5.82%) Databricks
4 60 (3.84%) Google
5 56 (3.58%) Splunk
6 45 (2.88%) Oracle
7 42 (2.69%) Cisco
7 42 (2.69%) VMware
8 26 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 25 (1.60%) IBM
9 25 (1.60%) SAP
10 23 (1.47%) Dell
11 22 (1.41%) Palo Alto
12 19 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.09%) F5
14 16 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.02%) SolarWinds
15 14 (0.90%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.90%) CA
16 13 (0.83%) CheckPoint