Python Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 283 348
Rank change year-on-year +86 +65 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 151 177 293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.74% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.78% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 242
10th Percentile £450 £438 £463
25th Percentile £550 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £695
90th Percentile £888 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £655 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.80% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.63 £57.50 £35.75
% change year-on-year +14.13% +60.84% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Python
2 93 (61.59%) Software Engineering
3 87 (57.62%) AWS
4 80 (52.98%) Finance
5 74 (49.01%) Agile
6 72 (47.68%) Apache Airflow
7 71 (47.02%) Asset Management
7 71 (47.02%) JavaScript
8 70 (46.36%) Front Office
8 70 (46.36%) Pandas
9 69 (45.70%) Java
10 67 (44.37%) TypeScript
11 65 (43.05%) dbt
12 64 (42.38%) Protocol Buffers
12 64 (42.38%) gRPC
12 64 (42.38%) Fixed Income
13 62 (41.06%) SciPy
13 62 (41.06%) NumPy
13 62 (41.06%) Amazon Athena
13 62 (41.06%) Dremio
14 60 (39.74%) Apache
15 58 (38.41%) Apache Ignite
15 58 (38.41%) Apache Arrow
16 56 (37.09%) Banking
17 54 (35.76%) Derivative
17 54 (35.76%) Investment Management
17 54 (35.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 54 (35.76%) Equities
18 52 (34.44%) Data Lake
19 49 (32.45%) Hedge funds

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 72 (47.68%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (39.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 87 (57.62%) AWS
2 65 (43.05%) dbt
3 49 (32.45%) Snowflake
4 40 (26.49%) GCP
5 36 (23.84%) Azure
6 5 (3.31%) Serverless
7 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.65%) Dagster
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.99%) GitHub
8 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.32%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) BGP
2 1 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.66%) MQTT
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (41.06%) Amazon Athena
1 62 (41.06%) Dremio
2 58 (38.41%) Apache Arrow
2 58 (38.41%) Apache Ignite
3 52 (34.44%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.96%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.65%) Big Data
8 3 (1.99%) Power BI
9 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.32%) Metadata
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.66%) Flink
10 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.97%) Git
3 4 (2.65%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.99%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.32%) git-flow
5 2 (1.32%) GitLab
5 2 (1.32%) Maven
5 2 (1.32%) Selenium
5 2 (1.32%) Subversion
6 1 (0.66%) Gradle
6 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.66%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) RStudio
6 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (52.98%) Finance
2 70 (46.36%) Front Office
3 56 (37.09%) Banking
4 48 (31.79%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.93%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.66%) Aviation
7 1 (0.66%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.66%) Law
7 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (46.36%) Pandas
2 64 (42.38%) gRPC
2 64 (42.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 62 (41.06%) NumPy
3 62 (41.06%) SciPy
4 19 (12.58%) AngularJS
5 17 (11.26%) React
6 16 (10.60%) Vue
7 15 (9.93%) PySpark
8 11 (7.28%) Kafka
8 11 (7.28%) Node.js
9 10 (6.62%) Redux
9 10 (6.62%) RESTful
10 8 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.64%) FastAPI
11 7 (4.64%) Middleware
12 6 (3.97%) Material-UI
13 3 (1.99%) REST
13 3 (1.99%) WebSockets
14 2 (1.32%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 64 (42.38%) Fixed Income
2 54 (35.76%) Derivative
2 54 (35.76%) Equities
2 54 (35.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (32.45%) Hedge funds
4 16 (10.60%) Pricing Data
5 12 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.96%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.30%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.32%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.66%) CUDA
11 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.66%) Machine to Machine
11 1 (0.66%) Omics
11 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.21%) Linux
2 6 (3.97%) Unix
3 5 (3.31%) Windows
4 3 (1.99%) Android
4 3 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (61.59%) Software Engineering
2 74 (49.01%) Agile
3 71 (47.02%) Asset Management
4 54 (35.76%) Investment Management
5 33 (21.85%) DevOps
6 30 (19.87%) CI/CD
7 18 (11.92%) Analytics
8 17 (11.26%) Line Management
9 16 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.93%) Fintech
11 14 (9.27%) Task Automation
12 13 (8.61%) Greeks
13 10 (6.62%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 10 (6.62%) Performance Attribution
13 10 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (5.96%) Containerisation
14 9 (5.96%) Microservices
14 9 (5.96%) OO
14 9 (5.96%) Test Automation
15 8 (5.30%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Python
2 71 (47.02%) JavaScript
3 69 (45.70%) Java
4 67 (44.37%) TypeScript
5 18 (11.92%) SQL
6 11 (7.28%) Shell Script
7 9 (5.96%) Perl
8 8 (5.30%) C++
9 7 (4.64%) Go
10 5 (3.31%) Bash
11 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.99%) C#
12 3 (1.99%) Ruby
12 3 (1.99%) Scala
13 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.31%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.65%) Degree
3 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.93%) Docker
2 8 (5.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) iptables
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.93%) Grafana
3 14 (9.27%) Ansible
3 14 (9.27%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.30%) Consul
4 8 (5.30%) Terraform
5 3 (1.99%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.32%) BladeLogic
6 2 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.96%) Databricks
3 8 (5.30%) SaltStack
4 6 (3.97%) VMware
5 3 (1.99%) BMC
6 2 (1.32%) Altiris
6 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.32%) Citrix
6 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.32%) Reuters
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.66%) Splunk
7 1 (0.66%) Sybase
7 1 (0.66%) TOWER Software