Python Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £680 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 293 335
Rank change year-on-year +75 +42 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 132 181 317
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.72% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.75% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 154 264
10th Percentile £440 £450 £441
25th Percentile £525 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £675
90th Percentile £888 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £650 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +4.42% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.21
25th Percentile - - £20.28
Median hourly rate - - £22.64
75th Percentile - - £25.05
90th Percentile - - £26.16
UK median hourly rate £65.63 £57.50 £22.64
% change year-on-year +14.13% +154.03% -17.69%

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 13,973 24,016 42,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,364 16,958 30,661
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 547 602
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £19.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +43.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Python Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Engineer
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 Engineer.

Python Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Python Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python Engineer
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 Engineer.

Python Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Python Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 132 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (52.27%) Software Engineering
3 65 (49.24%) AWS
4 58 (43.94%) Finance
5 52 (39.39%) Agile
6 49 (37.12%) JavaScript
6 49 (37.12%) Apache Airflow
7 47 (35.61%) Asset Management
8 46 (34.85%) Java
9 45 (34.09%) TypeScript
10 44 (33.33%) Pandas
10 44 (33.33%) Front Office
11 42 (31.82%) gRPC
11 42 (31.82%) Protocol Buffers
12 41 (31.06%) Fixed Income
12 41 (31.06%) dbt
13 38 (28.79%) Apache
14 36 (27.27%) Linux
14 36 (27.27%) DevOps
14 36 (27.27%) SciPy
14 36 (27.27%) NumPy
14 36 (27.27%) Dremio
14 36 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
14 36 (27.27%) Apache Arrow
15 35 (26.52%) Equities
15 35 (26.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 35 (26.52%) Derivative
15 35 (26.52%) Investment Management
16 33 (25.00%) Banking

Python Engineer 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 49 (37.12%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (28.79%) Apache
3 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 65 (49.24%) AWS
2 41 (31.06%) dbt
3 33 (25.00%) Azure
4 31 (23.48%) Snowflake
5 29 (21.97%) GCP
6 5 (3.79%) GitHub
6 5 (3.79%) Serverless
7 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.03%) IaaS
8 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.52%) PaaS
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.76%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) BGP
2 1 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.76%) MQTT
2 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
1 36 (27.27%) Apache Arrow
1 36 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
1 36 (27.27%) Dremio
2 31 (23.48%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.58%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.79%) Big Data
4 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.27%) Power BI
7 2 (1.52%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.52%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.52%) Metadata
7 2 (1.52%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.76%) Flink
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.55%) Git
3 5 (3.79%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.03%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.03%) GitLab
4 4 (3.03%) Maven
5 3 (2.27%) Gradle
5 3 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.52%) git-flow
6 2 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.52%) Subversion
7 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.76%) JIRA
7 1 (0.76%) JUnit
7 1 (0.76%) RStudio
General
1 58 (43.94%) Finance
2 44 (33.33%) Front Office
3 33 (25.00%) Banking
4 30 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 17 (12.88%) Social Skills
6 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Aviation
9 1 (0.76%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (33.33%) Pandas
2 42 (31.82%) gRPC
2 42 (31.82%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (27.27%) NumPy
3 36 (27.27%) SciPy
4 15 (11.36%) AngularJS
5 13 (9.85%) React
6 12 (9.09%) Kafka
6 12 (9.09%) Vue
7 10 (7.58%) RESTful
8 9 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (6.06%) Middleware
9 8 (6.06%) PySpark
10 7 (5.30%) Node.js
11 6 (4.55%) FastAPI
11 6 (4.55%) Material-UI
11 6 (4.55%) Redux
12 5 (3.79%) REST
13 3 (2.27%) WebSockets
14 2 (1.52%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 41 (31.06%) Fixed Income
2 35 (26.52%) Derivative
2 35 (26.52%) Equities
2 35 (26.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 31 (23.48%) Hedge funds
4 13 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Data Structures
6 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
6 8 (6.06%) Pricing Data
7 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.52%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.76%) Machine to Machine
10 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.76%) NHS
10 1 (0.76%) Omics
10 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.27%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) Windows
4 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.27%) Android
5 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (52.27%) Software Engineering
2 52 (39.39%) Agile
3 47 (35.61%) Asset Management
4 36 (27.27%) DevOps
5 35 (26.52%) Investment Management
6 29 (21.97%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.88%) Analytics
7 17 (12.88%) Task Automation
8 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 11 (8.33%) Line Management
10 11 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.82%) Containerisation
12 9 (6.82%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (6.82%) Microservices
12 9 (6.82%) OO
13 8 (6.06%) Analytical Thinking
13 8 (6.06%) Greeks
13 8 (6.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Python
2 49 (37.12%) JavaScript
3 46 (34.85%) Java
4 45 (34.09%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.39%) SQL
6 13 (9.85%) Perl
7 11 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.06%) C++
9 7 (5.30%) Go
10 6 (4.55%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.79%) Scala
12 4 (3.03%) Bash
13 3 (2.27%) C#
14 2 (1.52%) R
14 2 (1.52%) Ruby
15 1 (0.76%) C
15 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.55%) Degree
2 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.12%) Docker
2 9 (6.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 9 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) iptables
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.36%) Ansible
3 14 (10.61%) Grafana
3 14 (10.61%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.58%) Terraform
5 9 (6.82%) Consul
6 2 (1.52%) BladeLogic
6 2 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) VMware
3 9 (6.82%) Databricks
3 9 (6.82%) SaltStack
4 4 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.52%) Altiris
5 2 (1.52%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.52%) BMC
5 2 (1.52%) Citrix
5 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco
6 1 (0.76%) Google
6 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.76%) Sybase
6 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software