Python Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Python Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 367 516
Rank change year-on-year +86 +149 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 41 32 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 59
10th Percentile £500 £377 £510
25th Percentile £525 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.57% +6.96%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £688
90th Percentile - £772 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £610
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.79% +6.09%

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 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

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 October 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 October 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 41 (100.00%) Python
2 29 (70.73%) AWS
3 28 (68.29%) Azure
4 26 (63.41%) PySpark
5 24 (58.54%) dbt
5 24 (58.54%) Finance
6 23 (56.10%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (56.10%) Data Engineering
7 22 (53.66%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (53.66%) Agile
7 22 (53.66%) Banking
7 22 (53.66%) Analytics
8 21 (51.22%) Pandas
8 21 (51.22%) GCP
8 21 (51.22%) Data Lake
9 20 (48.78%) Dremio
9 20 (48.78%) Fintech
9 20 (48.78%) Dagster
9 20 (48.78%) SciPy
9 20 (48.78%) NumPy
9 20 (48.78%) Investment Management
9 20 (48.78%) Asset Management
9 20 (48.78%) Front Office
9 20 (48.78%) Software Engineering
9 20 (48.78%) Java
10 13 (31.71%) SQL
11 9 (21.95%) ETL
12 8 (19.51%) Databricks
13 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
13 5 (12.20%) Data Science

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 22 (53.66%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (12.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.32%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 29 (70.73%) AWS
2 28 (68.29%) Azure
3 24 (58.54%) dbt
4 21 (51.22%) GCP
5 20 (48.78%) Dagster
6 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.76%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (7.32%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.44%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (56.10%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (51.22%) Data Lake
3 20 (48.78%) Dremio
4 3 (7.32%) Big Data
4 3 (7.32%) Data Vault
4 3 (7.32%) Power BI
5 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.88%) HBase
5 2 (4.88%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Tableau
6 1 (2.44%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) CircleCI
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 24 (58.54%) Finance
2 22 (53.66%) Banking
3 20 (48.78%) Front Office
4 2 (4.88%) French Language
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (63.41%) PySpark
2 21 (51.22%) Pandas
3 20 (48.78%) NumPy
3 20 (48.78%) SciPy
4 3 (7.32%) Kafka
5 1 (2.44%) Django
5 1 (2.44%) LangChain
5 1 (2.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Data Engineering
2 22 (53.66%) Agile
2 22 (53.66%) Analytics
3 20 (48.78%) Asset Management
3 20 (48.78%) Fintech
3 20 (48.78%) Investment Management
3 20 (48.78%) Software Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) ETL
5 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.20%) Data Science
6 4 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (9.76%) DevOps
6 4 (9.76%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (9.76%) Unit Testing
7 3 (7.32%) Kimball Methodology
8 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (4.88%) Data Architecture
8 2 (4.88%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (4.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) Java
3 13 (31.71%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) R
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) Informatica
3 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle