Python Developer Contracts in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 194 183
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 320 470 662
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.25% 1.27% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.36% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 385 527
10th Percentile £402 £425 £425
25th Percentile £488 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £825 £788 £788
90th Percentile £879 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £67.80 £52.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £69.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £71.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.08% +9.23% +39.25%
75th Percentile £25.75 £73.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - £74.20 £81.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £71.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.08% +9.23% +44.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 23,627 34,496 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.91% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,455 22,543 31,717
10th Percentile £290 £298 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £748 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,588 1,360
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.72 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.51 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in England

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in England

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in England

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in England

Python Developer
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 Python Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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 -6 247 £700 - 314
South East +26 22 £523 -0.48% 94
North of England -14 13 £500 -9.09% 34
South West +32 8 £413 -23.26% 17
East of England +19 8 £489 +23.34% 18
Midlands +15 8 £525 -4.55% 5
Yorkshire -12 8 £500 -9.09% 6
West Midlands +8 4 £500 +42.86% 2
East Midlands +4 4 £550 - 3
North West -3 4 £470 +4.44% 27
North East - 1 - - 1
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, 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 England region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 320 (100.00%) Python
2 140 (43.75%) AWS
3 128 (40.00%) Finance
4 108 (33.75%) Agile
5 87 (27.19%) CI/CD
6 86 (26.88%) React
7 85 (26.56%) SQL
8 75 (23.44%) Software Engineering
9 73 (22.81%) Banking
10 71 (22.19%) Front Office
11 66 (20.63%) Docker
12 64 (20.00%) JavaScript
13 62 (19.38%) FastAPI
14 61 (19.06%) PostgreSQL
15 60 (18.75%) NumPy
15 60 (18.75%) Pandas
15 60 (18.75%) Kubernetes
16 57 (17.81%) Artificial Intelligence
17 55 (17.19%) Investment Banking
17 55 (17.19%) Django
17 55 (17.19%) TypeScript
18 51 (15.94%) Java
18 51 (15.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 49 (15.31%) Azure
20 48 (15.00%) DevOps
21 47 (14.69%) Social Skills
21 47 (14.69%) AngularJS
22 44 (13.75%) Fixed Income
22 44 (13.75%) GCP
23 41 (12.81%) C#

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (10.31%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.31%) Apache
3 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.25%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.94%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 140 (43.75%) AWS
2 49 (15.31%) Azure
3 44 (13.75%) GCP
4 30 (9.38%) dbt
5 28 (8.75%) GitHub
6 16 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.69%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.75%) Serverless
9 10 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.56%) PaaS
13 4 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.25%) Sentry
14 3 (0.94%) Amazon Bedrock
14 3 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.88%) SAN
3 2 (0.63%) Wireless
4 1 (0.31%) DNS
4 1 (0.31%) HTTP
4 1 (0.31%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (19.06%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (9.38%) Apache Arrow
3 30 (9.38%) Apache Iceberg
3 30 (9.38%) Dremio
4 19 (5.94%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 13 (4.06%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.75%) MySQL
7 12 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.50%) Redis
9 6 (1.88%) Big Data
9 6 (1.88%) GIS
10 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.25%) KDB
10 4 (1.25%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 41 (12.81%) Git
2 27 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.25%) CircleCI
4 4 (1.25%) JIRA
5 3 (0.94%) MLflow
5 3 (0.94%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.31%) Poetry
7 1 (0.31%) Selenium
7 1 (0.31%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 128 (40.00%) Finance
2 73 (22.81%) Banking
3 71 (22.19%) Front Office
4 55 (17.19%) Investment Banking
5 47 (14.69%) Social Skills
6 33 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.88%) Back Office
12 5 (1.56%) Retail
13 4 (1.25%) Advertising
14 3 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.63%) Law
15 2 (0.63%) Legal
15 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (26.88%) React
2 62 (19.38%) FastAPI
3 60 (18.75%) NumPy
3 60 (18.75%) Pandas
4 55 (17.19%) Django
5 47 (14.69%) AngularJS
6 40 (12.50%) Flask
7 39 (12.19%) SciPy
8 38 (11.88%) Vue
9 36 (11.25%) Node.js
10 26 (8.13%) REST
11 22 (6.88%) .NET
12 16 (5.00%) CSS
12 16 (5.00%) HTML
12 16 (5.00%) Polars
12 16 (5.00%) RESTful
13 15 (4.69%) PySpark
14 12 (3.75%) Kafka
15 11 (3.44%) SQLAlchemy
16 9 (2.81%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 44 (13.75%) Fixed Income
3 33 (10.31%) Hedge funds
4 31 (9.69%) Equities
5 21 (6.56%) Algorithms
6 19 (5.94%) Derivative
7 16 (5.00%) Data Structures
8 13 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.13%) Market Risk
10 9 (2.81%) Credit Risk
11 8 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.50%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
14 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
14 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.63%) NHS
14 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.19%) Unix
3 6 (1.88%) Debian
3 6 (1.88%) Ubuntu
3 6 (1.88%) Windows
4 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.75%) Agile
2 87 (27.19%) CI/CD
3 75 (23.44%) Software Engineering
4 57 (17.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 48 (15.00%) DevOps
6 37 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 37 (11.56%) Machine Learning
7 36 (11.25%) Asset Management
8 35 (10.94%) Risk Management
9 34 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (10.00%) Clean Code
10 32 (10.00%) Generative AI
11 30 (9.38%) Investment Management
12 29 (9.06%) Analytics
13 27 (8.44%) Data Engineering
13 27 (8.44%) Mathematics
14 25 (7.81%) Computer Science
14 25 (7.81%) Fintech
15 22 (6.88%) Performance Attribution
15 22 (6.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 320 (100.00%) Python
2 85 (26.56%) SQL
3 64 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 55 (17.19%) TypeScript
5 51 (15.94%) Java
6 41 (12.81%) C#
7 30 (9.38%) C++
8 18 (5.63%) Rust
9 7 (2.19%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.88%) Bash
11 3 (0.94%) Go
11 3 (0.94%) Jython
11 3 (0.94%) Ruby
12 2 (0.63%) C
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) R
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
13 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.25%) Degree
4 11 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.31%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.19%) QA
2 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (20.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) zsh
Systems Management
1 60 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.50%) Ansible
3 23 (7.19%) Terraform
4 5 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (3.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.81%) Databricks
2 9 (2.81%) Oracle
3 8 (2.50%) Google
4 6 (1.88%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.88%) VMware
5 5 (1.56%) Virgin Media
6 3 (0.94%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.94%) Dataiku
6 3 (0.94%) DataRobot
6 3 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.94%) Reuters
7 2 (0.63%) ESRI
8 1 (0.31%) Brio
8 1 (0.31%) Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) IBM
8 1 (0.31%) Informatica
8 1 (0.31%) Remedy
8 1 (0.31%) SAP
8 1 (0.31%) Splunk