Django Contract Job Trends in England

Django
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Django skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 370 450
Rank change year-on-year -93 +80 +49
Contract jobs citing Django 84 120 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 2.04% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 76 73
10th Percentile £328 £369 £425
25th Percentile £372 £459 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% -3.64%
75th Percentile £670 £813 £650
90th Percentile £888 £881 £724
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £69.10
75th Percentile - - £73.65
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £69.10

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Django falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,045 5,868 7,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.05% 22.16% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,713 3,749 5,660
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £670
90th Percentile £737 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 175
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.05
25th Percentile £45.50 £43.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.85 £74.65 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -1.60% +14.09% -15.72%

Django
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Django relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Django job vacancy trend in England

Django
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Django.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Django

Django
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Django in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Django in England

Django
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Django.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Django

Django
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Django within the England region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -48 57 £525 -22.22% 55
Yorkshire -46 6 £500 +25.00% 7
Midlands -49 6 £390 -17.89% 7
North of England -57 6 £500 +25.00% 17
South West -5 3 £225 -62.18% 7
East Midlands -26 3 £385 -16.76% 4
West Midlands -41 3 £650 +26.83% 3
East of England -16 2 £475 - 22
South East -30 2 £325 -27.78% 63
Django
UK

Django
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.95%) Appian
2 2 (2.38%) Apache
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
2 2 (2.38%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.19%) IIS
3 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Maya
1 2 (2.38%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.90%) AWS
2 21 (25.00%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) Serverless
4 12 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 9 (10.71%) GCP
6 8 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.33%) GitHub
8 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.95%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (5.95%) Azure AI
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.95%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.10%) MySQL
4 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.95%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.95%) Pinecone
6 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.38%) Redis
9 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.19%) Big Data
9 1 (1.19%) CockroachDB
9 1 (1.19%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
2 5 (5.95%) MLflow
3 4 (4.76%) JIRA
3 4 (4.76%) PyCharm
3 4 (4.76%) PyUnit
4 2 (2.38%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) Postman
5 1 (1.19%) Selenium
5 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.19%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 19 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.48%) Finance
3 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.57%) Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Automotive
5 2 (2.38%) Games
5 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (61.90%) Developer
2 42 (50.00%) Python Developer
3 16 (19.05%) Senior
4 11 (13.10%) Python Engineer
5 10 (11.90%) Senior Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Senior Python Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Software Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Lead
8 7 (8.33%) Django Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Python/Django Developer
11 4 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Backend Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (35.71%) FastAPI
1 30 (35.71%) Flask
2 28 (33.33%) RESTful
3 25 (29.76%) React
4 13 (15.48%) GraphQL
5 12 (14.29%) pytest
6 11 (13.10%) NumPy
6 11 (13.10%) Pandas
7 10 (11.90%) REST
8 9 (10.71%) CSS
9 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
9 8 (9.52%) Celery
9 8 (9.52%) OAuth
10 7 (8.33%) OpenAPI
10 7 (8.33%) Swagger
10 7 (8.33%) Vue
10 7 (8.33%) Web Services
11 6 (7.14%) HTML
11 6 (7.14%) Next.js
12 5 (5.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.95%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.76%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.57%) NHS
7 2 (2.38%) Animation
7 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Android
2 4 (4.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.19%) CentOS
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 28 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 26 (30.95%) Agile
4 22 (26.19%) AI
5 20 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (16.67%) DevOps
8 14 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (15.48%) Clean Code
9 13 (15.48%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (15.48%) Machine Learning
10 12 (14.29%) API Development
11 11 (13.10%) Data Engineering
11 11 (13.10%) LLM
12 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
12 10 (11.90%) Front End Development
12 10 (11.90%) Microservices
12 10 (11.90%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 83 (98.81%) Python
2 28 (33.33%) SQL
3 25 (29.76%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.29%) Java
5 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 2 (2.38%) C#
8 2 (2.38%) C++
8 2 (2.38%) Go
8 2 (2.38%) PHP
8 2 (2.38%) Ruby
8 2 (2.38%) Tcl
9 1 (1.19%) Bash
9 1 (1.19%) Rust
9 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) ISEB
5 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.05%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.38%) Argo
4 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Ansible
5 1 (1.19%) Bitnami
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 9 (10.71%) OpenAI
2 5 (5.95%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (5.95%) UiPath
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.19%) VMware