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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 1,566 2,747 4,617
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.67% 11.51% 10.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.07% 31.51% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 2,065 3,369
10th Percentile £375 £425 £420
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 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 42 19
10th Percentile £20.77 £19.00 £19.30
25th Percentile £46.75 £23.06 £22.23
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +11.11% +53.24%
75th Percentile £78.75 £59.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.38 £59.15
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £64.69 £50.85
% change year-on-year -5.70% +27.21% +35.60%

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 5,040 8,719 16,856
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.35% 36.53% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 6,429 12,573
10th Percentile £350 £384 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £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 133 190 183
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.07 £20.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

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 9 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 9 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
1 204 (13.03%) Apache Airflow
2 166 (10.60%) Apache
3 47 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 47 (3.00%) Confluence
4 20 (1.28%) SAS
5 11 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.51%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 6 (0.38%) Drupal
7 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 4 (0.26%) Luigi
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (7.79%) Chatbot
2 36 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.26%) SPSS
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
6 1 (0.064%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.064%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.38%) Maximo
2 4 (0.26%) 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
1 583 (37.23%) AWS
2 355 (22.67%) Azure
3 219 (13.98%) GCP
4 174 (11.11%) dbt
5 156 (9.96%) Snowflake
6 109 (6.96%) Serverless
7 90 (5.75%) GitHub
8 84 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 75 (4.79%) Amazon S3
10 68 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
11 66 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 48 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (2.11%) OpenShift
18 30 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
19 29 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
20 28 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.28%) Firewall
2 36 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.85%) DNS
4 23 (1.47%) Network Security
5 16 (1.02%) HTTP
5 16 (1.02%) SAN
6 15 (0.96%) DHCP
7 14 (0.89%) BGP
8 12 (0.77%) Wireless
9 11 (0.70%) VPN
10 10 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (0.64%) SSL
10 10 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.57%) OSPF
12 8 (0.51%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.51%) WAN
13 7 (0.45%) LAN
13 7 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (11.49%) Data Lake
2 160 (10.22%) Amazon Athena
3 150 (9.58%) Dremio
4 147 (9.39%) Apache Arrow
5 128 (8.17%) Apache Ignite
6 92 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
7 83 (5.30%) Big Data
8 82 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
9 77 (4.92%) Power BI
10 60 (3.83%) NoSQL
11 48 (3.07%) SQL Server
12 46 (2.94%) Tableau
13 44 (2.81%) MongoDB
14 37 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (2.36%) Relational Database
15 36 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (2.23%) BigQuery
17 28 (1.79%) Hadoop
18 27 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
19 23 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 162 (10.34%) Git
2 146 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 81 (5.17%) JIRA
4 62 (3.96%) GitLab
5 29 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 26 (1.66%) Selenium
7 20 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 18 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (0.83%) JMeter
11 11 (0.70%) JUnit
11 11 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.57%) Maven
12 9 (0.57%) Subversion
13 8 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.45%) MLflow
15 6 (0.38%) TestNG
15 6 (0.38%) Travis CI
15 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 469 (29.95%) Finance
2 265 (16.92%) Front Office
3 248 (15.84%) Banking
4 245 (15.64%) Social Skills
5 150 (9.58%) Investment Banking
6 126 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
7 92 (5.87%) Public Sector
8 37 (2.36%) Retail
9 33 (2.11%) Marketing
10 30 (1.92%) Back Office
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 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.51%) Electronics
17 7 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 464 (29.63%) Developer
2 222 (14.18%) Senior
3 176 (11.24%) Software Developer
4 171 (10.92%) Python Developer
5 158 (10.09%) Data Engineer
6 156 (9.96%) Software Engineer
7 149 (9.51%) Python Engineer
8 142 (9.07%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (8.37%) Analyst
10 128 (8.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 117 (7.47%) Lead
12 99 (6.32%) Architect
13 77 (4.92%) Python Software Engineer
14 65 (4.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 61 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
16 56 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (3.38%) AWS Software Engineer
17 53 (3.38%) Java Engineer
18 50 (3.19%) Data Analyst
19 49 (3.13%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (10.09%) HTML
2 157 (10.03%) gRPC
3 155 (9.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 151 (9.64%) Pandas
5 135 (8.62%) NumPy
6 125 (7.98%) SciPy
7 99 (6.32%) React
8 83 (5.30%) PySpark
9 67 (4.28%) Node.js
10 61 (3.90%) Kafka
11 55 (3.51%) RESTful
12 47 (3.00%) Django
13 42 (2.68%) .NET
14 40 (2.55%) REST
15 39 (2.49%) AngularJS
16 32 (2.04%) CSS
17 30 (1.92%) FastAPI
17 30 (1.92%) JSON
17 30 (1.92%) YAML
18 29 (1.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 216 (13.79%) Derivative
2 204 (13.03%) Hedge funds
3 191 (12.20%) Fixed Income
4 164 (10.47%) Equities
5 159 (10.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 69 (4.41%) Algorithms
7 55 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 39 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 38 (2.43%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.72%) Clustering
11 23 (1.47%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.34%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.09%) Replication
16 16 (1.02%) Pricing Data
17 15 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 188 (12.01%) Linux
2 76 (4.85%) Windows
3 59 (3.77%) Unix
4 27 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 18 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.89%) Android
7 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.64%) Debian
8 10 (0.64%) zOS
9 9 (0.57%) Solaris
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (28.48%) Agile
2 404 (25.80%) Software Engineering
3 379 (24.20%) DevOps
4 282 (18.01%) CI/CD
5 240 (15.33%) Asset Management
6 222 (14.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 203 (12.96%) Analytics
8 193 (12.32%) Investment Management
9 171 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
10 144 (9.20%) Code Quality
11 125 (7.98%) Test Automation
12 123 (7.85%) Conversational UI
13 122 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 120 (7.66%) Machine Learning
15 116 (7.41%) Computer Science
15 116 (7.41%) Data Modelling
16 108 (6.90%) ETL
17 106 (6.77%) Data Science
18 104 (6.64%) Data Pipeline
19 103 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 526 (33.59%) SQL
2 426 (27.20%) JavaScript
3 336 (21.46%) Java
4 227 (14.50%) C#
5 180 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 128 (8.17%) Bash
7 111 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 92 (5.87%) C++
9 85 (5.43%) Go
10 66 (4.21%) R
11 63 (4.02%) Perl
12 48 (3.07%) Scala
13 45 (2.87%) Shell Script
14 33 (2.11%) Ruby
15 32 (2.04%) C
16 14 (0.89%) Groovy
17 12 (0.77%) VBA
18 11 (0.70%) Bicep
18 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
19 10 (0.64%) REXX
Qualifications
1 245 (15.64%) Degree
2 172 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 145 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.28%) CCNP
10 19 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.83%) PhD
12 12 (0.77%) CCIE
12 12 (0.77%) CCNA
13 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.57%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.38%) CEH
16 4 (0.26%) CISSP
16 4 (0.26%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 37 (2.36%) QA
3 15 (0.96%) GDPR
4 14 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.57%) 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%) COPPA
11 1 (0.064%) GLBA
11 1 (0.064%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.064%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 179 (11.43%) Docker
2 40 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.89%) Firmware
6 12 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 11 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.70%) vSphere
8 10 (0.64%) NFS
8 10 (0.64%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.26%) vCloud
11 3 (0.19%) HDFS
11 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.064%) iptables
12 1 (0.064%) Postfix
12 1 (0.064%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 239 (15.26%) Terraform
2 230 (14.69%) Kubernetes
3 161 (10.28%) Ansible
4 77 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 75 (4.79%) Grafana
6 41 (2.62%) Puppet
7 30 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.15%) Kibana
9 14 (0.89%) Consul
9 14 (0.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 7 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.45%) logstash
10 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.38%) Packer
12 5 (0.32%) Argo
12 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.32%) Nagios
12 5 (0.32%) Netcool
12 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 121 (7.73%) PayPal
2 99 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 90 (5.75%) Databricks
4 61 (3.90%) Google
5 56 (3.58%) Splunk
6 45 (2.87%) Oracle
7 41 (2.62%) Cisco
8 40 (2.55%) VMware
9 25 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.47%) IBM
10 23 (1.47%) SAP
11 22 (1.40%) Palo Alto
12 20 (1.28%) Dell
12 20 (1.28%) OpenAI
13 16 (1.02%) F5
13 16 (1.02%) SolarWinds
14 15 (0.96%) Bloomberg
14 15 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.83%) CheckPoint