Hybrid/Remote Palantir Engineer Contract Job Trends

Palantir Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Palantir Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 302 330
Rank change year-on-year -60 +28 -
Contract jobs requiring a Palantir Engineer 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.022% 0.031% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.033% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £443 £466 -
25th Percentile £469 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £569 £666 -
90th Percentile £588 £709 -
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +56.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 12,503 9,200 12,120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.76% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,876 6,082 8,022
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £427 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 305 336
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.10 £17.29
25th Percentile £26.78 £17.80 £28.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.86 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

Palantir Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Palantir Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Palantir Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Palantir Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Palantir Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Palantir Engineer job vacancies

Palantir Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Palantir Engineer over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Palantir Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Palantir Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 27 August 2026, Palantir Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Palantir Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) Palantir
1 3 (100.00%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Ontologies
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions

Palantir Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Parallel Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) Palantir
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks