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 £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 404 515
Rank change year-on-year +78 +111 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 20 61 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 56 93
10th Percentile £432 £450 £489
25th Percentile £463 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £594 £775 £650
90th Percentile £805 £788 £722
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.24% +6.74%
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 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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 31 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 31 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 20 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (80.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) Databricks
3 9 (45.00%) PySpark
3 9 (45.00%) SQL
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (25.00%) dbt
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Java
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
7 3 (15.00%) Kafka
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Power BI
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Pandas
7 3 (15.00%) GCP
7 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
7 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.00%) Dremio

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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) dbt
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (10.00%) Dagster
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (15.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) Dremio
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) RStudio
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) PySpark
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) Pandas
3 2 (10.00%) NumPy
3 2 (10.00%) SciPy
4 1 (5.00%) ADO
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Flask
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
5 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.00%) Fintech
5 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft