Senior Python Developer Contracts in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £825, 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 447 493 565
Rank change year-on-year +46 +72 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 38 49 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 72
10th Percentile £463 £511 £514
25th Percentile £675 £578 £637
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £938 £800 £900
90th Percentile - £919 £947
UK median daily rate £800 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +7.41%

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%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in England

Senior Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Python Developer in England

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Python Developer in England

Senior 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 Senior 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 +28 31 £850 +13.33% 26
North of England +20 3 £475 - 20
South West +46 2 £450 - 11
Midlands +22 2 £550 - 18
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 9
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 9
North West +16 1 £638 +34.21% 9
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (65.79%) Finance
3 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
4 16 (42.11%) Front Office
5 14 (36.84%) Banking
6 12 (31.58%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (26.32%) OO
7 10 (26.32%) AWS
7 10 (26.32%) Analytics
8 9 (23.68%) Azure
8 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
9 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 8 (21.05%) Docker
9 8 (21.05%) DevOps
9 8 (21.05%) Agile
10 7 (18.42%) Django
11 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
11 6 (15.79%) SQL
11 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
11 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
11 6 (15.79%) React
12 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
12 5 (13.16%) Microservices
12 5 (13.16%) Linux
12 5 (13.16%) QA
13 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
13 4 (10.53%) Oracle
13 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
13 4 (10.53%) Relational Database

Senior 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 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Serverless
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.26%) Boomi
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.26%) OCI
5 2 (5.26%) PaaS
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.89%) MySQL
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 25 (65.79%) Finance
2 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
3 16 (42.11%) Front Office
4 14 (36.84%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Django
2 6 (15.79%) React
3 4 (10.53%) NumPy
3 4 (10.53%) Pandas
4 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.89%) Node.js
4 3 (7.89%) RESTful
5 2 (5.26%) .NET
5 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.26%) CSS
5 2 (5.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (5.26%) HTML
5 2 (5.26%) Kafka
5 2 (5.26%) MACH
6 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.63%) gRPC
6 1 (2.63%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (2.63%) PySpark
6 1 (2.63%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.89%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.26%) Market Risk
4 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Analytics
1 10 (26.32%) OO
2 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.05%) Agile
3 8 (21.05%) DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
4 5 (13.16%) Microservices
5 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (10.53%) Financial Modelling
5 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
6 3 (7.89%) ETL
6 3 (7.89%) Investment Management
6 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.89%) Release Management
6 3 (7.89%) Risk Management
6 3 (7.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) R
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
1 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Refinitiv
2 1 (2.63%) Reuters