Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 472 474
Rank change year-on-year -52 +2 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 89 36 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 26 45
10th Percentile £454 £449 £578
25th Percentile £543 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -1.75%
75th Percentile £806 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,075 £845 £950
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,165 25,369 30,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,544 16,436 20,307
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,170 1,324 1,794
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.47 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.45% -43.94% +8.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +2.87%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies 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 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Python Developer in England

Senior Python Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies 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 12 August 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 -12 76 £725 -3.33% 22
South East -70 5 £560 -6.67%
North of England -72 5 £425 -19.05% 10
Yorkshire -44 4 £425 -19.05% 3
South West -42 2 £575 - 3
North West - 1 £525 - 7
Senior Python Developer
UK

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 August 2026, Senior Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (33.71%) Agile
3 29 (32.58%) Django
4 23 (25.84%) Software Engineering
5 22 (24.72%) SQL
6 21 (23.60%) CI/CD
7 19 (21.35%) AI
8 18 (20.22%) SC Cleared
8 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
9 17 (19.10%) Azure
10 16 (17.98%) Git
10 16 (17.98%) REST
11 14 (15.73%) Microservices
12 13 (14.61%) API Development
13 12 (13.48%) Analytics
13 12 (13.48%) AWS
13 12 (13.48%) Docker
13 12 (13.48%) FastAPI
14 11 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 10 (11.24%) Code Quality
15 10 (11.24%) GitHub
16 9 (10.11%) C#
16 9 (10.11%) Data Science
16 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
16 9 (10.11%) Serverless
16 9 (10.11%) Terraform
17 8 (8.99%) .NET
17 8 (8.99%) Containerisation
17 8 (8.99%) Data Analysis
17 8 (8.99%) Data Pipeline

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
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 2 (2.25%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.37%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) AWS
3 10 (11.24%) GitHub
4 9 (10.11%) Serverless
5 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.62%) GCP
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.49%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.37%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.12%) Big Data
4 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.12%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.12%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (28.09%) Finance
2 16 (17.98%) Retail
3 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.48%) Front Office
5 10 (11.24%) Banking
6 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.87%) Investment Banking
8 5 (5.62%) Social Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.58%) Django
2 16 (17.98%) REST
3 12 (13.48%) FastAPI
4 8 (8.99%) .NET
4 8 (8.99%) Pandas
4 8 (8.99%) RESTful
5 7 (7.87%) Flask
5 7 (7.87%) NumPy
5 7 (7.87%) React
6 6 (6.74%) JSON
7 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.62%) PySpark
8 4 (4.49%) Next.js
9 3 (3.37%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.37%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.37%) Swagger
10 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (2.25%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Derivative
2 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.62%) Equities
3 4 (4.49%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.49%) Market Risk
4 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Linux
1 7 (7.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Agile
2 23 (25.84%) Software Engineering
3 21 (23.60%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.35%) AI
5 14 (15.73%) Microservices
6 13 (14.61%) API Development
7 12 (13.48%) Analytics
8 11 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (11.24%) Code Quality
10 9 (10.11%) Data Science
11 8 (8.99%) Containerisation
11 8 (8.99%) Data Analysis
11 8 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (8.99%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (7.87%) Clean Code
12 7 (7.87%) Data Integration
12 7 (7.87%) Lean Software Development
12 7 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (6.74%) Architectural Patterns
13 6 (6.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) SQL
3 9 (10.11%) C#
4 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.62%) Java
5 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.49%) Go
6 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.12%) Cypher
7 1 (1.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) SC Cleared
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Degree
3 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (13.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
1 9 (10.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Databricks
2 3 (3.37%) SimCorp
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.12%) Splunk