Python Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Python Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Developer daily rate in the City of London is £644, 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 113 104 99
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 14 24 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 1.12% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.21% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 22
10th Percentile £510 £355 £451
25th Percentile £547 £434 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £756 £584 £828
90th Percentile £788 £758 £850
Central London median daily rate £638 £515 £625
% change year-on-year +23.79% -17.60% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,677 1,989 2,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.12% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,227 1,762
10th Percentile £325 £363 £353
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £771 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +95.92% -42.35%
75th Percentile £52.19 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £64.30 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -20.00% +40.08% -40.51%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Python Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Python Developer 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) AI
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) OO
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Git
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Kafka
5 3 (21.43%) OOP
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Terraform
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (14.29%) Ansible
6 2 (14.29%) API Development
6 2 (14.29%) Azure
6 2 (14.29%) C#
6 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (14.29%) ETL

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Run
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Front Office
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 2 (14.29%) NumPy
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) Django
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 2 (14.29%) Life Science
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) AI
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) OO
3 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) OOP
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) API Development
5 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
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