Python Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £655 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 296 331
Rank change year-on-year +76 +35 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 128 186 320
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.73% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.76% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 159 267
10th Percentile £431 £450 £445
25th Percentile £520 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £666
90th Percentile £888 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £638 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.21
25th Percentile - - £20.28
Median hourly rate - - £22.64
75th Percentile - - £25.05
90th Percentile - - £26.16
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £22.64
% change year-on-year +13.91% +154.03% -17.69%

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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
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 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Python Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python 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 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 a work from home option citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 5 May 2024, 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.

1 128 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (49.22%) Software Engineering
3 61 (47.66%) AWS
4 53 (41.41%) Finance
5 47 (36.72%) Agile
6 44 (34.38%) JavaScript
7 43 (33.59%) Apache Airflow
8 41 (32.03%) Java
8 41 (32.03%) Asset Management
9 39 (30.47%) TypeScript
10 38 (29.69%) Pandas
10 38 (29.69%) Front Office
11 36 (28.13%) Linux
11 36 (28.13%) DevOps
11 36 (28.13%) Protocol Buffers
11 36 (28.13%) gRPC
12 35 (27.34%) dbt
12 35 (27.34%) Fixed Income
13 33 (25.78%) Azure
14 32 (25.00%) Apache
15 31 (24.22%) Investment Management
16 30 (23.44%) Derivative
16 30 (23.44%) Equities
16 30 (23.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 30 (23.44%) SciPy
16 30 (23.44%) NumPy
16 30 (23.44%) Dremio
16 30 (23.44%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (23.44%) Apache Ignite
16 30 (23.44%) Apache Arrow

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 43 (33.59%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (25.00%) Apache
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 61 (47.66%) AWS
2 35 (27.34%) dbt
3 33 (25.78%) Azure
4 26 (20.31%) GCP
4 26 (20.31%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.91%) GitHub
5 5 (3.91%) IaaS
5 5 (3.91%) Serverless
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.56%) PaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
1 2 (1.56%) HTTP
1 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.78%) BGP
2 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.78%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.78%) MQTT
2 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.44%) Amazon Athena
1 30 (23.44%) Apache Arrow
1 30 (23.44%) Apache Ignite
1 30 (23.44%) Dremio
2 26 (20.31%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.03%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.91%) Big Data
4 5 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.34%) Power BI
7 2 (1.56%) Data Hub
7 2 (1.56%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.56%) Metadata
7 2 (1.56%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.78%) Flink
8 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.69%) Git
3 5 (3.91%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.13%) GitLab
4 4 (3.13%) Maven
5 3 (2.34%) Gradle
5 3 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.56%) git-flow
6 2 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.56%) Subversion
7 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.78%) JIRA
7 1 (0.78%) JUnit
7 1 (0.78%) RStudio
General
1 53 (41.41%) Finance
2 38 (29.69%) Front Office
3 28 (21.88%) Banking
4 25 (19.53%) Investment Banking
5 18 (14.06%) Social Skills
6 13 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.34%) Law
8 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Aviation
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.69%) Pandas
2 36 (28.13%) gRPC
2 36 (28.13%) Protocol Buffers
3 30 (23.44%) NumPy
3 30 (23.44%) SciPy
4 15 (11.72%) AngularJS
5 12 (9.38%) React
6 11 (8.59%) Kafka
6 11 (8.59%) Vue
7 9 (7.03%) RESTful
8 8 (6.25%) Middleware
8 8 (6.25%) PySpark
8 8 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.69%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.69%) Material-UI
9 6 (4.69%) Node.js
10 5 (3.91%) Redux
10 5 (3.91%) REST
11 3 (2.34%) WebSockets
12 2 (1.56%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.34%) Fixed Income
2 30 (23.44%) Derivative
2 30 (23.44%) Equities
2 30 (23.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 26 (20.31%) Hedge funds
4 12 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 7 (5.47%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.69%) Pricing Data
8 5 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.56%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.78%) Machine to Machine
12 1 (0.78%) NHS
12 1 (0.78%) Omics
12 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.13%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Unix
3 5 (3.91%) Windows
4 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.34%) Android
5 3 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (49.22%) Software Engineering
2 47 (36.72%) Agile
3 41 (32.03%) Asset Management
4 36 (28.13%) DevOps
5 31 (24.22%) Investment Management
6 28 (21.88%) CI/CD
7 17 (13.28%) Analytics
8 16 (12.50%) Task Automation
9 14 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.16%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (7.03%) Containerisation
12 9 (7.03%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (7.03%) Line Management
12 9 (7.03%) OO
13 8 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 8 (6.25%) Microservices
14 7 (5.47%) ETL
14 7 (5.47%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 41 (32.03%) Java
4 39 (30.47%) TypeScript
5 20 (15.63%) SQL
6 14 (10.94%) Perl
7 10 (7.81%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.25%) C++
9 7 (5.47%) Go
10 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.91%) Bash
11 5 (3.91%) Scala
12 3 (2.34%) C#
13 2 (1.56%) R
13 2 (1.56%) Ruby
14 1 (0.78%) C
14 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.69%) Degree
2 5 (3.91%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.50%) Docker
2 9 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.78%) iptables
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.72%) Ansible
3 13 (10.16%) Grafana
3 13 (10.16%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.81%) Terraform
5 8 (6.25%) Consul
6 2 (1.56%) BladeLogic
6 2 (1.56%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) VMware
3 9 (7.03%) Databricks
4 8 (6.25%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.56%) Altiris
6 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.56%) BMC
6 2 (1.56%) Citrix
6 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.78%) Sybase
7 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software