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 £678 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 291 340
Rank change year-on-year +82 +49 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 140 179 312
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.73% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.76% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 153 260
10th Percentile £436 £450 £437
25th Percentile £523 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £675
90th Percentile £888 £788 £739
UK median daily rate £644 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +3.41% +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 £65.63 £57.50 £22.64
% change year-on-year +14.13% +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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 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 17 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Python
2 73 (52.14%) Software Engineering
3 68 (48.57%) AWS
4 61 (43.57%) Finance
5 55 (39.29%) Agile
6 54 (38.57%) JavaScript
7 52 (37.14%) Apache Airflow
8 50 (35.71%) Java
8 50 (35.71%) Asset Management
9 49 (35.00%) TypeScript
10 48 (34.29%) Pandas
10 48 (34.29%) Front Office
11 46 (32.86%) gRPC
11 46 (32.86%) Protocol Buffers
12 45 (32.14%) Fixed Income
13 44 (31.43%) dbt
14 42 (30.00%) Apache
15 40 (28.57%) SciPy
15 40 (28.57%) NumPy
15 40 (28.57%) Dremio
15 40 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (28.57%) Apache Ignite
15 40 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
16 38 (27.14%) DevOps
16 38 (27.14%) Linux
16 38 (27.14%) Equities
16 38 (27.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 38 (27.14%) Derivative
16 38 (27.14%) Investment Management
17 37 (26.43%) Banking

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 52 (37.14%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (30.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.57%) AWS
2 44 (31.43%) dbt
3 34 (24.29%) Azure
3 34 (24.29%) Snowflake
4 29 (20.71%) GCP
5 5 (3.57%) Serverless
6 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.86%) GitHub
6 4 (2.86%) IaaS
7 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.43%) PaaS
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) BGP
2 1 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.71%) MQTT
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (28.57%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (28.57%) Dremio
2 33 (23.57%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.57%) Big Data
4 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.14%) Power BI
6 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.71%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Flink
7 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.71%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.00%) Git
3 4 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 4 (2.86%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.14%) GitLab
4 3 (2.14%) Maven
5 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.43%) git-flow
5 2 (1.43%) Gradle
5 2 (1.43%) Selenium
5 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.43%) Subversion
6 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.71%) JIRA
6 1 (0.71%) JUnit
6 1 (0.71%) RStudio
General
1 61 (43.57%) Finance
2 48 (34.29%) Front Office
3 37 (26.43%) Banking
4 33 (23.57%) Investment Banking
5 17 (12.14%) Social Skills
6 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Aviation
10 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (34.29%) Pandas
2 46 (32.86%) gRPC
2 46 (32.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 40 (28.57%) NumPy
3 40 (28.57%) SciPy
4 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.00%) React
6 13 (9.29%) Vue
7 12 (8.57%) Kafka
8 10 (7.14%) RESTful
9 9 (6.43%) PySpark
9 9 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (5.71%) Middleware
10 8 (5.71%) Node.js
11 7 (5.00%) FastAPI
11 7 (5.00%) Redux
12 6 (4.29%) Material-UI
13 4 (2.86%) REST
14 3 (2.14%) WebSockets
15 2 (1.43%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 45 (32.14%) Fixed Income
2 38 (27.14%) Derivative
2 38 (27.14%) Equities
2 38 (27.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (24.29%) Hedge funds
4 13 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (7.14%) Pricing Data
6 9 (6.43%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.71%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.43%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.71%) Machine to Machine
11 1 (0.71%) NHS
11 1 (0.71%) Omics
11 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (27.14%) Linux
2 7 (5.00%) Unix
3 5 (3.57%) Windows
4 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.14%) Android
5 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.14%) Software Engineering
2 55 (39.29%) Agile
3 50 (35.71%) Asset Management
4 38 (27.14%) DevOps
4 38 (27.14%) Investment Management
5 32 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 16 (11.43%) Analytics
6 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (11.43%) Task Automation
7 12 (8.57%) Test Automation
8 11 (7.86%) Line Management
8 11 (7.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (7.14%) Containerisation
9 10 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (7.14%) OO
10 9 (6.43%) Greeks
10 9 (6.43%) Microservices
11 8 (5.71%) Analytical Thinking
11 8 (5.71%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (5.71%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Python
2 54 (38.57%) JavaScript
3 50 (35.71%) Java
4 49 (35.00%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.57%) SQL
6 14 (10.00%) Perl
7 12 (8.57%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.71%) C++
9 7 (5.00%) Go
9 7 (5.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.86%) Bash
10 4 (2.86%) Scala
11 3 (2.14%) C#
12 2 (1.43%) Ruby
13 1 (0.71%) C
13 1 (0.71%) R
13 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.57%) Degree
1 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 9 (6.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 9 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) iptables
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (19.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.14%) Ansible
3 16 (11.43%) Grafana
4 15 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.43%) Consul
5 9 (6.43%) Terraform
6 3 (2.14%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.43%) BladeLogic
7 2 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.14%) Databricks
2 10 (7.14%) VMware
3 9 (6.43%) SaltStack
4 4 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.14%) BMC
6 2 (1.43%) Altiris
6 2 (1.43%) Citrix
6 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco
7 1 (0.71%) Google
7 1 (0.71%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.71%) Splunk
7 1 (0.71%) Sybase
7 1 (0.71%) TOWER Software