Python Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 417 566
Rank change year-on-year +127 +149 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 54 57 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 43
10th Percentile £570 £438 £401
25th Percentile £700 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +28.57% -2.33%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £656
90th Percentile - - £723
UK median daily rate £725 £683 £600
% change year-on-year +6.23% +13.75% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.64
Median hourly rate - - £26.27
75th Percentile - - £26.91
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 - £26.27
% change year-on-year - - -4.47%

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 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Software 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 Software Engineer.

Python Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 54 (100.00%) Python
1 54 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 47 (87.04%) AWS
3 42 (77.78%) JavaScript
4 41 (75.93%) Finance
5 40 (74.07%) TypeScript
6 39 (72.22%) Front Office
7 37 (68.52%) Asset Management
7 37 (68.52%) Protocol Buffers
7 37 (68.52%) Pandas
7 37 (68.52%) gRPC
7 37 (68.52%) Apache Airflow
8 36 (66.67%) Fixed Income
9 34 (62.96%) Agile
10 31 (57.41%) Equities
10 31 (57.41%) Apache
10 31 (57.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (57.41%) SciPy
10 31 (57.41%) NumPy
10 31 (57.41%) Derivative
10 31 (57.41%) Dremio
10 31 (57.41%) dbt
10 31 (57.41%) Apache Arrow
10 31 (57.41%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (57.41%) Apache Ignite
11 27 (50.00%) Investment Management
11 27 (50.00%) Java
11 27 (50.00%) Banking
12 26 (48.15%) Investment Banking
13 25 (46.30%) Hedge funds

Python Software 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 37 (68.52%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (57.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 47 (87.04%) AWS
2 31 (57.41%) dbt
3 24 (44.44%) GCP
4 23 (42.59%) Snowflake
5 10 (18.52%) Azure
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (57.41%) Amazon Athena
1 31 (57.41%) Apache Arrow
1 31 (57.41%) Apache Ignite
1 31 (57.41%) Dremio
2 23 (42.59%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Metadata
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.85%) JUnit
1 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 41 (75.93%) Finance
2 39 (72.22%) Front Office
3 27 (50.00%) Banking
4 26 (48.15%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.70%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (68.52%) gRPC
1 37 (68.52%) Pandas
1 37 (68.52%) Protocol Buffers
2 31 (57.41%) NumPy
2 31 (57.41%) SciPy
3 14 (25.93%) AngularJS
4 12 (22.22%) React
5 11 (20.37%) Vue
6 6 (11.11%) Material-UI
6 6 (11.11%) Node.js
7 5 (9.26%) Redux
8 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
9 3 (5.56%) WebSockets
10 1 (1.85%) JSON
10 1 (1.85%) RESTful
10 1 (1.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 1 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 36 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 31 (57.41%) Derivative
2 31 (57.41%) Equities
2 31 (57.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (46.30%) Hedge funds
4 6 (11.11%) Pricing Data
5 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 37 (68.52%) Asset Management
3 34 (62.96%) Agile
4 27 (50.00%) Investment Management
5 12 (22.22%) Analytics
6 10 (18.52%) Line Management
7 7 (12.96%) Greeks
8 6 (11.11%) Fintech
9 5 (9.26%) Credit Risk Analysis
9 5 (9.26%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (9.26%) Performance Attribution
10 4 (7.41%) Software Deployment
11 3 (5.56%) API Development
11 3 (5.56%) Containerisation
11 3 (5.56%) Data Architecture
11 3 (5.56%) Data Encryption
11 3 (5.56%) End-to-End Testing
11 3 (5.56%) Integration Testing
11 3 (5.56%) Mentoring
11 3 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Python
2 42 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 40 (74.07%) TypeScript
4 27 (50.00%) Java
5 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Ruby
6 2 (3.70%) Scala
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.85%) Google
1 1 (1.85%) NVIDIA