Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £763, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 447 493
Rank change year-on-year -69 +46 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 77 34 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 28 33
10th Percentile £454 £458 £550
25th Percentile £560 £656 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £813 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £888 £938 £825
90th Percentile £894 - £950
UK median daily rate £700 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +3.45%

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 38,335 21,999 33,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.32% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,771 14,636 22,380
10th Percentile £320 £290 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 881 2,449
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.31% -23.38% -18.89%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -29 67 £775 -8.28% 11
South East -63 6 £560 +72.31% 1
North of England -73 3 £475 -
North West - 2 £488 -
South West -34 1 £575 -
Yorkshire -62 1 £465 -2.11%
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 77 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (32.47%) Agile
3 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 18 (23.38%) AWS
4 18 (23.38%) Django
5 17 (22.08%) Software Engineering
6 16 (20.78%) Docker
6 16 (20.78%) Git
7 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
7 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
7 15 (19.48%) SQL
8 13 (16.88%) Containerisation
9 12 (15.58%) Azure
9 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
9 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (14.29%) Terraform
11 9 (11.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (11.69%) Microservices
11 9 (11.69%) NumPy
11 9 (11.69%) Pandas
11 9 (11.69%) React
12 8 (10.39%) Analytics
13 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
13 7 (9.09%) C#
13 7 (9.09%) Databricks
13 7 (9.09%) GitHub
13 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (9.09%) Lean Software Development
13 7 (9.09%) Serverless

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 (2.60%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.90%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) AWS
2 12 (15.58%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) GitHub
3 7 (9.09%) Serverless
4 5 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.90%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (3.90%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.60%) GCP
7 2 (2.60%) Sentry
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.30%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.90%) Data Hub
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.30%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.90%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 30 (38.96%) Finance
2 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.69%) Front Office
5 6 (7.79%) Banking
5 6 (7.79%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) Django
2 9 (11.69%) NumPy
2 9 (11.69%) Pandas
2 9 (11.69%) React
3 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 6 (7.79%) .NET
4 6 (7.79%) RESTful
5 5 (6.49%) CSS
5 5 (6.49%) HTML
5 5 (6.49%) REST
6 4 (5.19%) Flask
6 4 (5.19%) Kafka
6 4 (5.19%) Web Services
7 3 (3.90%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.90%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.90%) JSON
7 3 (3.90%) Node.js
8 2 (2.60%) Celery
8 2 (2.60%) pytest
8 2 (2.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Equities
2 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.19%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Linux
1 2 (2.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.47%) Agile
2 17 (22.08%) Software Engineering
3 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.88%) Containerisation
5 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (11.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (11.69%) Microservices
7 8 (10.39%) Analytics
8 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.09%) Lean Software Development
9 6 (7.79%) AI
9 6 (7.79%) ETL
10 5 (6.49%) API Development
10 5 (6.49%) Code Quality
10 5 (6.49%) Data Analysis
10 5 (6.49%) Data Integration
10 5 (6.49%) Open Source
10 5 (6.49%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (6.49%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (6.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
2 15 (19.48%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) C#
4 6 (7.79%) Java
5 5 (6.49%) Go
6 4 (5.19%) Ruby
6 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (20.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Databricks
2 3 (3.90%) SimCorp
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.30%) Google
4 1 (1.30%) Splunk
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