Hybrid/Remote Python Software Engineer Contract Job Trends

Python Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 243 338
Rank change year-on-year -25 +95 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 50 73 53
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.60% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.65% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 68 48
10th Percentile - £613 £538
25th Percentile £675 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £750
90th Percentile - - £788
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +8.33%

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 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 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Python Software Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python Software Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Python Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Python Software Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Python Software Engineer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Python Software 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 Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Python
1 50 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 45 (90.00%) AWS
3 43 (86.00%) Agile
3 43 (86.00%) JavaScript
3 43 (86.00%) TypeScript
4 41 (82.00%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (82.00%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (82.00%) Apache Arrow
4 41 (82.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 41 (82.00%) Asset Management
4 41 (82.00%) dbt
4 41 (82.00%) Dremio
4 41 (82.00%) Investment Management
4 41 (82.00%) NumPy
4 41 (82.00%) Pandas
4 41 (82.00%) SciPy
5 32 (64.00%) Java
6 28 (56.00%) Apache
6 28 (56.00%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (56.00%) Data Lake
6 28 (56.00%) gRPC
6 28 (56.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 28 (56.00%) Snowflake
7 15 (30.00%) GCP
8 14 (28.00%) Risk Management
9 13 (26.00%) AngularJS
9 13 (26.00%) Fintech
9 13 (26.00%) Node.js
9 13 (26.00%) Order Management

Python Software 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 41 (82.00%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (56.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 45 (90.00%) AWS
2 41 (82.00%) dbt
3 28 (56.00%) Snowflake
4 15 (30.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Azure
5 2 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (82.00%) Amazon Athena
1 41 (82.00%) Apache Arrow
1 41 (82.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 41 (82.00%) Dremio
2 28 (56.00%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (56.00%) Data Lake
3 13 (26.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) Liquibase
General
1 45 (90.00%) Finance
2 41 (82.00%) Front Office
3 32 (64.00%) Banking
4 29 (58.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Back Office
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (82.00%) NumPy
1 41 (82.00%) Pandas
1 41 (82.00%) SciPy
2 28 (56.00%) gRPC
2 28 (56.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 13 (26.00%) AngularJS
3 13 (26.00%) Node.js
3 13 (26.00%) React
3 13 (26.00%) Vue
4 3 (6.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.00%) REST
6 1 (2.00%) boto
6 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.00%) Flake8
6 1 (2.00%) LDAP
6 1 (2.00%) mypy
6 1 (2.00%) pytest
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 41 (82.00%) Equities
1 41 (82.00%) Fixed Income
1 41 (82.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (56.00%) Derivative
2 28 (56.00%) Hedge funds
2 28 (56.00%) Pricing Data
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 43 (86.00%) Agile
3 41 (82.00%) Asset Management
3 41 (82.00%) Investment Management
4 14 (28.00%) Risk Management
5 13 (26.00%) Fintech
5 13 (26.00%) Order Management
5 13 (26.00%) Performance Attribution
6 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (6.00%) DevOps
8 2 (4.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (4.00%) Microservices
8 2 (4.00%) SDLC
9 1 (2.00%) Analytical Thinking
9 1 (2.00%) Automated Trading
9 1 (2.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 1 (2.00%) Data Pipeline
9 1 (2.00%) Scorecard
9 1 (2.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) Python
2 43 (86.00%) JavaScript
2 43 (86.00%) TypeScript
3 32 (64.00%) Java
4 2 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (2.00%) DAML
5 1 (2.00%) R
5 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.00%) MCP
2 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.00%) Google
1 1 (2.00%) Okta
1 1 (2.00%) Splunk