Senior Python Developer Contracts in the City of London

Senior Python Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 124 172
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £663
25th Percentile - £588 £720
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £838
Median % change year-on-year - -28.36% +24.07%
75th Percentile - £700 £875
90th Percentile - £753 £913
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £838
% change year-on-year - -28.36% +24.07%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Senior Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the City of London

Senior Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Python Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Python Developer in the City of London

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Python Developer 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (33.33%) Greeks
3 1 (33.33%) Black-Scholes
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Games
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (33.33%) Black-Scholes
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Greeks
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Monte Carlo Method
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform