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 21 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
21 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 434 499
Rank change year-on-year -72 +65 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 71 37 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 33 36
10th Percentile £419 £505 £505
25th Percentile £560 £619 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £825 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £825 £938 £800
90th Percentile £894 - £875
UK median daily rate £638 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% -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 34,460 22,787 34,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 93.03% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,776 15,097 23,367
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 791 2,280
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.61
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.54% -23.53%

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 21 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 21 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 -29 56 £700 -18.25% 8
North of England -63 6 £569 -10.78%
South East - 4 £560 -
North West -26 3 £500 -21.57%
Yorkshire - 3 £638 -
Midlands -61 2 £638 +15.91%
West Midlands -61 2 £638 +15.91%
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 71 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (30.99%) Docker
3 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (28.17%) Git
5 19 (26.76%) AWS
5 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
6 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
7 17 (23.94%) SQL
8 16 (22.54%) Agile
9 15 (21.13%) Containerisation
9 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
10 14 (19.72%) Django
10 14 (19.72%) NumPy
10 14 (19.72%) Pandas
11 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
12 12 (16.90%) Analytics
13 11 (15.49%) Design Patterns
13 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
14 10 (14.08%) Azure
14 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
15 9 (12.68%) Data Hub
15 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (12.68%) React
15 9 (12.68%) Web Services
16 8 (11.27%) AI
16 8 (11.27%) Code Quality
16 8 (11.27%) Electronic Trading
16 8 (11.27%) Fintech
16 8 (11.27%) GitHub
16 8 (11.27%) Kafka

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 (5.63%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) AWS
2 10 (14.08%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) GitHub
4 6 (8.45%) GCP
4 6 (8.45%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Data Hub
2 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.63%) Power BI
4 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.41%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 25 (35.21%) Finance
2 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.82%) Front Office
7 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) Django
1 14 (19.72%) NumPy
1 14 (19.72%) Pandas
2 9 (12.68%) React
2 9 (12.68%) Web Services
3 8 (11.27%) Kafka
3 8 (11.27%) REST
4 7 (9.86%) CSS
4 7 (9.86%) HTML
5 6 (8.45%) Flask
6 5 (7.04%) FastAPI
6 5 (7.04%) Plotly
6 5 (7.04%) RESTful
7 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.63%) Node.js
7 4 (5.63%) pytest
8 3 (4.23%) .NET
9 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.82%) OpenID
9 2 (2.82%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Equities
1 8 (11.27%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.23%) Life Science
3 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Derivative
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (22.54%) Agile
3 15 (21.13%) Containerisation
4 12 (16.90%) Analytics
5 11 (15.49%) Design Patterns
5 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.27%) AI
8 8 (11.27%) Code Quality
8 8 (11.27%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (11.27%) Fintech
8 8 (11.27%) Unit Testing
8 8 (11.27%) Visualisation
9 7 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (9.86%) Test Automation
9 7 (9.86%) User Experience
10 6 (8.45%) Data Analysis
10 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (23.94%) SQL
3 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.86%) Ruby
5 4 (5.63%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) Java
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) GDPR
1 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Argo
3 1 (1.41%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Databricks
2 3 (4.23%) Dataiku
2 3 (4.23%) Google
3 1 (1.41%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.41%) Splunk
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