Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £681, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 447 508
Rank change year-on-year -54 +61 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 66 33 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 29 33
10th Percentile £417 £585 £502
25th Percentile £571 £675 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £840 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +20.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £809 £938 £800
90th Percentile £894 - £870
UK median daily rate £638 £775 £700
% change year-on-year -17.74% +10.71% -6.67%

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 33,397 23,567 34,774
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,135 15,150 23,280
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,153 742 2,208
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.01 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.47 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +7.20% -19.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.18 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -1.47% - -16.05%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -28 51 £700 -20.57% 11
North of England -54 6 £569 -10.78% 7
South East - 4 £560 - 8
North West -33 3 £500 -21.57% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £638 - 4
West Midlands -53 2 £638 +15.91% 1
Midlands -59 2 £638 +15.91% 3
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 March 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 66 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (31.82%) Docker
3 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (27.27%) Git
5 17 (25.76%) AWS
5 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
6 16 (24.24%) SC Cleared
6 16 (24.24%) SQL
7 15 (22.73%) Kubernetes
8 14 (21.21%) Agile
8 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
9 13 (19.70%) NumPy
9 13 (19.70%) Pandas
10 12 (18.18%) Analytics
10 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
11 11 (16.67%) Design Patterns
11 11 (16.67%) Django
11 11 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
12 9 (13.64%) Data Hub
12 9 (13.64%) Web Services
13 8 (12.12%) AI
13 8 (12.12%) Azure
13 8 (12.12%) Electronic Trading
13 8 (12.12%) Fintech
13 8 (12.12%) Kafka
13 8 (12.12%) REST
13 8 (12.12%) Unit Testing
14 7 (10.61%) CSS
14 7 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development

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 4 (6.06%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) AWS
2 8 (12.12%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) GCP
3 6 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.06%) Serverless
5 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.03%) Cloud Run
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.52%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.52%) Dagster
7 1 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Data Hub
2 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Power BI
4 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 18 (27.27%) Git
General
1 25 (37.88%) Finance
2 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Banking
5 3 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.03%) Front Office
7 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) NumPy
1 13 (19.70%) Pandas
2 11 (16.67%) Django
3 9 (13.64%) Web Services
4 8 (12.12%) Kafka
4 8 (12.12%) REST
5 7 (10.61%) CSS
5 7 (10.61%) HTML
6 6 (9.09%) FastAPI
6 6 (9.09%) React
7 5 (7.58%) Flask
7 5 (7.58%) Plotly
7 5 (7.58%) RESTful
8 4 (6.06%) Node.js
8 4 (6.06%) pytest
9 2 (3.03%) Celery
9 2 (3.03%) OpenID
9 2 (3.03%) scikit-learn
9 2 (3.03%) SciPy
9 2 (3.03%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Equities
1 8 (12.12%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.55%) Life Science
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.21%) Agile
2 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
3 12 (18.18%) Analytics
4 11 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 11 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.12%) AI
6 8 (12.12%) Electronic Trading
6 8 (12.12%) Fintech
6 8 (12.12%) Unit Testing
7 7 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (9.09%) Code Quality
8 6 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 6 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 6 (9.09%) OOP
8 6 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.58%) ETL
9 5 (7.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (24.24%) SQL
3 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.61%) Ruby
5 2 (3.03%) C#
5 2 (3.03%) Go
5 2 (3.03%) Java
5 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) GDPR
1 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Argo
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.55%) Dataiku
1 3 (4.55%) Google
2 2 (3.03%) Databricks