Senior Python Developer Contracts 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 4 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 510 562
Rank change year-on-year +51 +52 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 36 49 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 37 59
10th Percentile £449 £600 £473
25th Percentile £519 £650 £637
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +10.29%
75th Percentile £831 £825 £899
90th Percentile £911 £950 £917
UK median daily rate £700 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +11.11%

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 24,278 34,696 45,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.91% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,841 22,709 31,930
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 2,561 1,374
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

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 4 July 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 4 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 +11 23 £775 +3.33% 66
South East - 7 £568 - 5
South West +38 2 - -
North of England +9 2 £475 +18.75% 4
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 4
Midlands - 2 £550 -
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 36 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (50.00%) Finance
3 15 (41.67%) Agile
4 14 (38.89%) AWS
5 11 (30.56%) Front Office
5 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
6 10 (27.78%) Banking
6 10 (27.78%) Azure
6 10 (27.78%) Analytics
7 8 (22.22%) Django
7 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
7 8 (22.22%) Linux
7 8 (22.22%) SQL
7 8 (22.22%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Docker
8 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
8 7 (19.44%) RESTful
9 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
9 6 (16.67%) OO
9 6 (16.67%) Microservices
9 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
9 6 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
10 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (13.89%) React
10 5 (13.89%) Oracle
10 5 (13.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

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 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) Boomi
6 2 (5.56%) OCI
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) SAN
1 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.56%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) Riak
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Front Office
3 10 (27.78%) Banking
3 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Games
7 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Django
2 7 (19.44%) RESTful
3 5 (13.89%) React
4 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 4 (11.11%) FastAPI
5 3 (8.33%) NumPy
5 3 (8.33%) Pandas
6 2 (5.56%) .NET
6 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.56%) CSS
6 2 (5.56%) HTML
6 2 (5.56%) MACH
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js
6 2 (5.56%) REST
7 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.78%) FpML
7 1 (2.78%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.78%) Middleware
7 1 (2.78%) PySpark
7 1 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (13.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.33%) Hedge funds
5 2 (5.56%) Derivative
5 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.56%) Market Risk
5 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.78%) Equities
6 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Debian
3 3 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) Analytics
4 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 8 (22.22%) DevOps
5 6 (16.67%) Microservices
5 6 (16.67%) OO
5 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) Build Automation
7 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven
7 4 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 4 (11.11%) Kanban
7 4 (11.11%) Scrum
7 4 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Databricks
2 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Reuters
4 1 (2.78%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.78%) Remedy