Fully-remote I couldn't say (I feel it'd be much harder for client acquisition to build the same level of trust), but pre-pandemic, and shortly after its start I was able to consistently make ~800EUR/day (100EUR/hr) on gigs where I was in the office 1 day/week in Berlin. ~75% of clients accepted that rate on the spot, so with a lot of inbound requests, you could probably even push for more.

That was mostly for full-stack (Node)JS jobs.

Very common, worked Netherlands, Belgium and Germany for ~10 years, doing 200k eur annually on average, contracting, Python, Java, senior dev, devops, etc. My immediate contracting colleagues, about 20 guys and gals are doing comparatively (I.e., ~90 to 120 eur rates, ~2000 hours a year).

Edit: apparently very common for my bubble at least, no idea if this is “normal” In Netherlands, Belgium and Germany..

120/hr? Rates are lower now, at least the ones on the open market. And 2000 hours a year is a stretch, you need to take some holidays. But all in all, still better than..

>For context, I'm a Python dev, in finance. I used to do Java, which I note still seems to offer higher salaries, but I wouldn't be tempted to return. Maybe the AWS route could work?

According to SO surveys Python programmers are better payed than Java programmers: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#work-salary

I'm in the UK (London specifically) and have worked for daily rates between £600 - £950, with durations lasting between 6 months - 2years.

IR35 has certainly thrown a spanner in the works, but i'm noticing more and more businesses offering 'IR35 friendly' contracts.

As an aside, I no longer contract, have gone the startup route instead.