Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 457 531
Rank change year-on-year -21 +74 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 54 53 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 33
10th Percentile £440 £563 £478
25th Percentile £533 £613 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £750
90th Percentile £775 £950 £895
UK median daily rate £638 £685 £600
% change year-on-year -6.93% +14.17% -20.00%

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 28,058 28,947 36,204
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 92.98% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,977 17,729 24,955
10th Percentile £282 £300 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,690 1,071 1,407
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.25 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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 -5 32 £681 -2.68% 12
South East - 9 £600 - 4
North of England -35 7 £550 -13.73% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 2
Midlands - 2 £638 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £638 - 2
South West +1 1 - -
North West -19 1 £638 - 2
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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 54 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) AWS
3 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (29.63%) Git
5 15 (27.78%) Agile
5 15 (27.78%) Azure
6 14 (25.93%) Docker
6 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
7 13 (24.07%) Design Patterns
7 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
8 12 (22.22%) Analytics
8 12 (22.22%) SQL
9 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
9 10 (18.52%) DevOps
9 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
10 9 (16.67%) AI
10 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 9 (16.67%) FastAPI
10 9 (16.67%) OO
10 9 (16.67%) RESTful
11 8 (14.81%) Databricks
11 8 (14.81%) GCP
11 8 (14.81%) Terraform
11 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
12 7 (12.96%) Data Engineering
12 7 (12.96%) Data Hub
12 7 (12.96%) GitHub
12 7 (12.96%) Relational Database
12 7 (12.96%) REST
12 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering

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 (7.41%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 15 (27.78%) Azure
3 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) GitHub
5 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.85%) Apigee
9 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.85%) Serverless
9 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) SAN
1 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Data Hub
1 7 (12.96%) Relational Database
2 6 (11.11%) Power BI
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Power Query
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Riak
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
General
1 16 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 15 (27.78%) Finance
3 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Banking
4 8 (14.81%) Front Office
4 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.85%) Military
7 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 9 (16.67%) RESTful
2 7 (12.96%) REST
2 7 (12.96%) Web Services
3 6 (11.11%) Kafka
3 6 (11.11%) NumPy
3 6 (11.11%) Pandas
4 5 (9.26%) Plotly
5 4 (7.41%) Flask
6 3 (5.56%) pytest
7 2 (3.70%) CSS
7 2 (3.70%) Django
7 2 (3.70%) HTML
7 2 (3.70%) OAuth
7 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.70%) OpenID
7 2 (3.70%) scikit-learn
7 2 (3.70%) SciPy
7 2 (3.70%) Statsmodels
8 1 (1.85%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Fixed Income
2 7 (12.96%) Equities
3 5 (9.26%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (7.41%) NHS
5 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.56%) Derivative
6 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.70%) Life Science
6 2 (3.70%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Debian
2 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (27.78%) Agile
3 13 (24.07%) Design Patterns
4 12 (22.22%) Analytics
5 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 10 (18.52%) DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) AI
6 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.67%) OO
7 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
8 7 (12.96%) Data Engineering
8 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 6 (11.11%) Fintech
9 6 (11.11%) OOP
9 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis
10 5 (9.26%) Electronic Trading
10 5 (9.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) Ruby
4 1 (1.85%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) Java
4 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.81%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Argo
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Databricks
2 4 (7.41%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.56%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.56%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Reuters
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) Remedy