Python Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £523 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 414 495
Rank change year-on-year +83 +81 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 18 60 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 54 116
10th Percentile £397 £450 £498
25th Percentile £463 £500 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £663
90th Percentile £623 £788 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%
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 - - £19.00

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 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £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 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Python Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Data 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 Data Engineer.

Python Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

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

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Python Data 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 12 (66.67%) SQL
4 8 (44.44%) Databricks
5 6 (33.33%) PySpark
5 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (33.33%) AWS
6 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) dbt
7 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
7 4 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (22.22%) Agile
7 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
7 4 (22.22%) ETL
7 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (16.67%) Investment Management
8 3 (16.67%) Power BI
8 3 (16.67%) Big Data
8 3 (16.67%) Kafka
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
8 3 (16.67%) GCP
8 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
9 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake

Python Data 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 4 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) dbt
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Data Hub
3 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.56%) Flink
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) RStudio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) PySpark
2 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) ADO
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) ETL
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Management
5 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.11%) Data Design
5 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 2 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) R
3 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft