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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 486 461
Rank change year-on-year -62 -25 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 94 32 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 24 46
10th Percentile £475 £463 £563
25th Percentile £560 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.74%
75th Percentile £813 £681 £825
90th Percentile £1,075 £775 £950
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £685
% change year-on-year +12.50% -12.41% +5.38%

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 42,964 25,407 30,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 91.30% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,379 18,703
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,556 1,389 1,420
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -18 80 £725 - 34
North of England -66 5 £425 -19.05% 3
Yorkshire -36 4 £425 -19.05% 2
South East -67 4 £560 -6.67% 3
South West -37 3 £550 - 1
West Midlands -44 1 - - 1
Midlands -46 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £525 - 1
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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 94 (100.00%) Python
2 34 (36.17%) Agile
3 28 (29.79%) Django
4 27 (28.72%) Software Engineering
5 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
6 23 (24.47%) AI
6 23 (24.47%) SQL
7 18 (19.15%) REST
8 16 (17.02%) AWS
8 16 (17.02%) Git
8 16 (17.02%) SC Cleared
8 16 (17.02%) Security Cleared
9 15 (15.96%) Azure
10 13 (13.83%) Analytics
10 13 (13.83%) FastAPI
11 12 (12.77%) Docker
11 12 (12.77%) GitHub
11 12 (12.77%) Microservices
12 11 (11.70%) Data Analysis
13 10 (10.64%) API Development
13 10 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (9.57%) Data Science
14 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
14 9 (9.57%) Pandas
15 8 (8.51%) Code Quality
15 8 (8.51%) Event-Driven
15 8 (8.51%) Performance Optimisation
15 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving

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 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.02%) AWS
2 15 (15.96%) Azure
3 12 (12.77%) GitHub
4 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.38%) Serverless
6 4 (4.26%) GCP
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.19%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (3.19%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.13%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.13%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.06%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (17.02%) Git
2 3 (3.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.19%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (1.06%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (32.98%) Finance
2 17 (18.09%) Front Office
3 16 (17.02%) Retail
4 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.64%) Banking
6 8 (8.51%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.32%) Social Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Law
10 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.79%) Django
2 18 (19.15%) REST
3 13 (13.83%) FastAPI
4 9 (9.57%) Pandas
5 6 (6.38%) .NET
5 6 (6.38%) Flask
5 6 (6.38%) JSON
5 6 (6.38%) RESTful
6 5 (5.32%) Kafka
6 5 (5.32%) NumPy
6 5 (5.32%) Terraform
7 4 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.26%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.26%) PySpark
7 4 (4.26%) React
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.19%) Next.js
8 3 (3.19%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.19%) Swagger
9 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Equities
2 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.32%) Derivative
3 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.26%) Market Risk
4 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Unix
2 7 (7.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.17%) Agile
2 27 (28.72%) Software Engineering
3 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
4 23 (24.47%) AI
5 13 (13.83%) Analytics
6 12 (12.77%) Microservices
7 11 (11.70%) Data Analysis
8 10 (10.64%) API Development
8 10 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (9.57%) Data Science
10 8 (8.51%) Code Quality
10 8 (8.51%) Event-Driven
10 8 (8.51%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.45%) Clean Code
11 7 (7.45%) Containerisation
11 7 (7.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (7.45%) Lean Software Development
12 6 (6.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 94 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) SQL
3 7 (7.45%) Java
3 7 (7.45%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.38%) C#
5 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.19%) Go
7 1 (1.06%) Cypher
7 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 16 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) Degree
3 4 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.06%) EMIR
2 1 (1.06%) MiFID
2 1 (1.06%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.38%) Databricks
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.13%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle
3 1 (1.06%) Sybase