Python Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Python Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 216 298
Rank change year-on-year +68 +82 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 168 130 183
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.70% 0.85% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 0.91% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 96 156
10th Percentile £461 £433 £450
25th Percentile £553 £520 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% +4.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £838 £800 £775
90th Percentile £875 £888 £788
UK median daily rate £634 £638 £623
% change year-on-year -0.59% +2.41% +3.75%

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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Python Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 May 2025, 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Python
2 120 (71.43%) AWS
3 112 (66.67%) Agile
3 112 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 109 (64.88%) Finance
5 89 (52.98%) Front Office
5 89 (52.98%) Asset Management
6 83 (49.40%) dbt
7 82 (48.81%) Apache Airflow
8 80 (47.62%) Amazon Athena
8 80 (47.62%) Dremio
8 80 (47.62%) Apache Iceberg
9 71 (42.26%) Apache Arrow
10 70 (41.67%) Java
11 66 (39.29%) JavaScript
12 62 (36.90%) Apache
13 57 (33.93%) Pandas
13 57 (33.93%) Apache Ignite
14 56 (33.33%) NumPy
15 55 (32.74%) PySpark
15 55 (32.74%) CI/CD
16 54 (32.14%) Terraform
17 53 (31.55%) Kubernetes
18 52 (30.95%) DevOps
19 51 (30.36%) TypeScript
19 51 (30.36%) Banking
20 48 (28.57%) SciPy
21 46 (27.38%) Docker
22 44 (26.19%) Amazon ECS
23 43 (25.60%) Fixed Income

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 82 (48.81%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (36.90%) Apache
3 31 (18.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.79%) JBoss
5 2 (1.19%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.19%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 120 (71.43%) AWS
2 83 (49.40%) dbt
3 44 (26.19%) Amazon ECS
4 39 (23.21%) GCP
5 38 (22.62%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (22.62%) Serverless
6 31 (18.45%) OpenShift
7 28 (16.67%) Azure
8 24 (14.29%) Snowflake
9 16 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (8.93%) Amazon S3
10 15 (8.93%) Dagster
11 12 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (4.17%) GitHub
14 7 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (47.62%) Amazon Athena
1 80 (47.62%) Apache Iceberg
1 80 (47.62%) Dremio
2 71 (42.26%) Apache Arrow
3 57 (33.93%) Apache Ignite
4 27 (16.07%) Data Lake
5 14 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.79%) GIS
12 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.60%) Power BI
12 1 (0.60%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 14 (8.33%) Git
3 7 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.57%) JIRA
5 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.79%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.79%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.19%) GitLab
6 2 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.60%) MLflow
7 1 (0.60%) Postman
7 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 109 (64.88%) Finance
2 89 (52.98%) Front Office
3 51 (30.36%) Banking
4 33 (19.64%) Investment Banking
5 13 (7.74%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.79%) Back Office
9 3 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Retail
9 3 (1.79%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.93%) Pandas
2 56 (33.33%) NumPy
3 55 (32.74%) PySpark
4 48 (28.57%) SciPy
5 39 (23.21%) Kafka
6 33 (19.64%) React
7 29 (17.26%) gRPC
7 29 (17.26%) Protocol Buffers
8 28 (16.67%) J2EE
9 27 (16.07%) AngularJS
9 27 (16.07%) Vue
10 21 (12.50%) Node.js
11 11 (6.55%) Redux
11 11 (6.55%) REST
12 10 (5.95%) FastAPI
13 9 (5.36%) Django
14 6 (3.57%) Ajax
14 6 (3.57%) CSS
14 6 (3.57%) HTML
14 6 (3.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (25.60%) Fixed Income
2 27 (16.07%) Equities
2 27 (16.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (14.88%) Hedge funds
4 22 (13.10%) Derivative
5 13 (7.74%) Management Information System
6 12 (7.14%) Pricing Data
7 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.79%) NHS
9 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.74%) Linux
2 8 (4.76%) Windows
3 6 (3.57%) Unix
4 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (66.67%) Agile
1 112 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 89 (52.98%) Asset Management
3 55 (32.74%) CI/CD
4 52 (30.95%) DevOps
5 42 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 42 (25.00%) Investment Management
6 39 (23.21%) Fintech
7 38 (22.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 29 (17.26%) Open Source
9 21 (12.50%) Performance Attribution
10 20 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (11.31%) Data Science
12 18 (10.71%) Risk Management
13 15 (8.93%) Analytics
14 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (7.14%) Decision-Making
15 12 (7.14%) Machine Learning
16 11 (6.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 168 (100.00%) Python
2 70 (41.67%) Java
3 66 (39.29%) JavaScript
4 51 (30.36%) TypeScript
5 30 (17.86%) Go
6 18 (10.71%) SQL
7 5 (2.98%) Bash
7 5 (2.98%) C#
8 3 (1.79%) Perl
9 2 (1.19%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.55%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.60%) CCNP
3 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.60%) Degree
3 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.60%) OCA
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (0.60%) RHCA
3 1 (0.60%) RHCE
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (27.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (32.14%) Terraform
2 53 (31.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.38%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.60%) Packer
5 1 (0.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (2.98%) Databricks
2 4 (2.38%) Oracle
3 3 (1.79%) AppDynamics
3 3 (1.79%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.79%) Splunk
4 1 (0.60%) Cisco
4 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.60%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.60%) New Relic
4 1 (0.60%) Palantir
4 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.60%) VMware