Hybrid/Remote Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends

Python Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 294 369
Rank change year-on-year -11 +75 +160
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 12 36 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.31% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 32 50
10th Percentile - £500 £422
25th Percentile £413 £509 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £825 £784
90th Percentile £538 - £788
UK median daily rate £483 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -19.58% -4.00% +4.17%

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 9,041 11,725 19,208
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 93.49% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,960 7,505 13,575
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 286 436
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.13 £16.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £32.01 £24.74
Median hourly rate £38.70 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £69.06
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Python Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Python Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Python Data Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Python Data Engineer job vacancies

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

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 22 September 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (66.67%) Finance
3 8 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 8 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (50.00%) ETL
4 6 (50.00%) Apache
4 6 (50.00%) SQL
4 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (41.67%) Big Data
5 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (41.67%) Databricks
5 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
5 5 (41.67%) Hadoop
5 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Git
6 4 (33.33%) RESTful
6 4 (33.33%) Business Development
6 4 (33.33%) REST
6 4 (33.33%) Tableau
6 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (33.33%) Telecoms

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 6 (50.00%) Apache
1 6 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Big Data
1 5 (41.67%) Hadoop
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Flink
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Pandas
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) ETL
4 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) API Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Business Development
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 4 (33.33%) Data Science
5 4 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 4 (33.33%) Fintech
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (33.33%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow