Python Developer Contracts in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer daily rate in England is £675, 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 211 206 191
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 310 423 702
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.14% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.23% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 353 557
10th Percentile £412 £421 £438
25th Percentile £510 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £875 £763 £788
90th Percentile £894 £875 £900
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile £25.25 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £67.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.94% +3.08% +28.90%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £81.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £67.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.94% +3.08% +28.90%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 May 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 May 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 -3 237 £750 +7.14% 124
South East +23 18 £520 -0.95% 44
North of England +2 13 £475 -7.09% 19
South West +47 8 £413 -21.43% 8
East of England +19 8 £468 +8.72% 7
Yorkshire +3 7 £475 -22.13% 8
Midlands +15 6 £550 - 9
North West +5 6 £475 -1.25% 10
East Midlands +8 4 £488 -11.36% 4
West Midlands +9 2 £550 +100.00% 5
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 310 (100.00%) Python
2 124 (40.00%) AWS
3 123 (39.68%) Finance
4 104 (33.55%) Agile
5 96 (30.97%) React
6 88 (28.39%) SQL
7 86 (27.74%) Banking
8 81 (26.13%) CI/CD
9 78 (25.16%) Docker
10 71 (22.90%) Kubernetes
10 71 (22.90%) Front Office
11 66 (21.29%) Software Engineering
12 65 (20.97%) Django
13 63 (20.32%) TypeScript
13 63 (20.32%) FastAPI
14 60 (19.35%) Investment Banking
15 58 (18.71%) Artificial Intelligence
16 57 (18.39%) DevOps
17 55 (17.74%) Java
18 52 (16.77%) Social Skills
19 51 (16.45%) Azure
20 50 (16.13%) JavaScript
21 49 (15.81%) Pandas
22 48 (15.48%) NumPy
23 43 (13.87%) Jenkins
24 42 (13.55%) AngularJS
25 41 (13.23%) Machine Learning
25 41 (13.23%) C#
26 39 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
26 39 (12.58%) GCP

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 (10.65%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.74%) Apache
3 5 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.97%) Confluence
6 2 (0.65%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 124 (40.00%) AWS
2 51 (16.45%) Azure
3 39 (12.58%) GCP
4 29 (9.35%) dbt
5 27 (8.71%) GitHub
6 17 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (5.16%) Serverless
8 11 (3.55%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.26%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.61%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.61%) Sentry
14 4 (1.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) SAN
1 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.65%) Wireless
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (9.35%) Apache Arrow
3 29 (9.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 29 (9.35%) Dremio
4 14 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.55%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (3.55%) MySQL
5 11 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.23%) Redis
7 9 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.58%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (1.61%) GIS
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.29%) Big Data
11 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.29%) Impala
12 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (13.87%) Jenkins
2 34 (10.97%) Git
3 7 (2.26%) GitLab
4 6 (1.94%) JIRA
5 5 (1.61%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.29%) Selenium
6 4 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.65%) MLflow
7 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.32%) Poetry
8 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 123 (39.68%) Finance
2 86 (27.74%) Banking
3 71 (22.90%) Front Office
4 60 (19.35%) Investment Banking
5 52 (16.77%) Social Skills
6 37 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (3.55%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.58%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.94%) Back Office
12 4 (1.29%) Advertising
12 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.29%) Law
12 4 (1.29%) Marketing
12 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Electronics
13 3 (0.97%) Publishing
13 3 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (30.97%) React
2 65 (20.97%) Django
3 63 (20.32%) FastAPI
4 49 (15.81%) Pandas
5 48 (15.48%) NumPy
6 42 (13.55%) AngularJS
7 35 (11.29%) Node.js
8 33 (10.65%) .NET
8 33 (10.65%) SciPy
9 32 (10.32%) Vue
10 28 (9.03%) Flask
11 19 (6.13%) REST
12 17 (5.48%) PySpark
13 14 (4.52%) RESTful
14 13 (4.19%) gRPC
15 12 (3.87%) Protocol Buffers
16 11 (3.55%) CSS
16 11 (3.55%) Kafka
16 11 (3.55%) Redux
17 10 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.61%) Fixed Income
2 30 (9.68%) Hedge funds
3 27 (8.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (7.74%) Equities
5 21 (6.77%) Derivative
6 18 (5.81%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.87%) Market Risk
8 10 (3.23%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.58%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.26%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.97%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 3 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
15 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
15 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.74%) Linux
2 4 (1.29%) Windows
3 3 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.65%) Debian
4 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.55%) Agile
2 81 (26.13%) CI/CD
3 66 (21.29%) Software Engineering
4 58 (18.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 57 (18.39%) DevOps
6 41 (13.23%) Machine Learning
7 38 (12.26%) Generative AI
8 37 (11.94%) Analytics
9 35 (11.29%) Asset Management
10 34 (10.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (10.65%) LLM
11 33 (10.65%) SDLC
12 31 (10.00%) Investment Management
12 31 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 30 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (9.03%) Risk Management
14 28 (9.03%) Use Case
15 27 (8.71%) Technical Analysis
16 25 (8.06%) Microservices
17 23 (7.42%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 310 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (28.39%) SQL
3 63 (20.32%) TypeScript
4 55 (17.74%) Java
5 50 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 41 (13.23%) C#
7 22 (7.10%) C++
8 13 (4.19%) Rust
9 4 (1.29%) Bash
10 3 (0.97%) Groovy
10 3 (0.97%) Jython
11 2 (0.65%) C
11 2 (0.65%) Go
11 2 (0.65%) R
11 2 (0.65%) Ruby
11 2 (0.65%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.84%) Degree
4 8 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.32%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.26%) QA
2 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (25.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (22.90%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.29%) Ansible
3 22 (7.10%) Terraform
4 5 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (2.58%) Google
1 8 (2.58%) Microsoft
1 8 (2.58%) Oracle
2 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
3 3 (0.97%) Bloomberg
3 3 (0.97%) Refinitiv
3 3 (0.97%) Reuters
3 3 (0.97%) SAP
4 2 (0.65%) Databricks
4 2 (0.65%) Dataiku
4 2 (0.65%) DataRobot
4 2 (0.65%) ESRI
4 2 (0.65%) HP
4 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.65%) VMware
5 1 (0.32%) Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) IBM
5 1 (0.32%) Informatica
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir
5 1 (0.32%) Splunk