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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 442 505
Rank change year-on-year -82 +63 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 71 35 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 30 30
10th Percentile £478 £461 £546
25th Percentile £603 £633 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £813 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £866 £938 £819
90th Percentile £894 - £950
UK median daily rate £700 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -

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 37,874 22,423 33,721
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.43% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,533 14,925 22,355
10th Percentile £318 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,602 907 2,424
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.47% -22.79% -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 16 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 16 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 62 £775 -8.82% 16
South East -63 6 £560 +72.31% 3
North of England -65 3 £475 - 5
North West -33 2 £488 -23.53% 2
Yorkshire -57 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 16 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 71 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (30.99%) Agile
3 20 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
4 18 (25.35%) Django
5 14 (19.72%) AWS
5 14 (19.72%) Docker
5 14 (19.72%) Git
6 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
6 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (18.31%) SQL
7 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
7 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
8 10 (14.08%) Azure
8 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
9 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (12.68%) NumPy
9 9 (12.68%) Pandas
9 9 (12.68%) React
9 9 (12.68%) Terraform
10 7 (9.86%) C#
10 7 (9.86%) Databricks
10 7 (9.86%) Lean Software Development
10 7 (9.86%) Microservices
11 6 (8.45%) .NET
11 6 (8.45%) Analytics
11 6 (8.45%) ETL
11 6 (8.45%) GitHub
11 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code

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 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.41%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Aladdin
1 3 (4.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) AWS
2 10 (14.08%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) GitHub
3 6 (8.45%) Serverless
4 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.23%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (4.23%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) Sentry
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.41%) Dagster
7 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.23%) Data Hub
2 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.41%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (36.62%) Finance
2 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Front Office
4 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.35%) Django
2 9 (12.68%) NumPy
2 9 (12.68%) Pandas
2 9 (12.68%) React
3 6 (8.45%) .NET
3 6 (8.45%) RESTful
4 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.04%) CSS
4 5 (7.04%) HTML
4 5 (7.04%) Kafka
5 4 (5.63%) Web Services
6 3 (4.23%) AWS CDK
6 3 (4.23%) Flask
6 3 (4.23%) Node.js
6 3 (4.23%) REST
7 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.82%) Celery
7 2 (2.82%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.82%) pytest
7 2 (2.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Equities
1 5 (7.04%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.23%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.82%) Derivative
4 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.99%) Agile
2 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
3 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
3 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
4 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (9.86%) Lean Software Development
5 7 (9.86%) Microservices
6 6 (8.45%) Analytics
6 6 (8.45%) ETL
6 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (7.04%) AI
7 5 (7.04%) Code Quality
7 5 (7.04%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (7.04%) Data Integration
7 5 (7.04%) Electronic Trading
7 5 (7.04%) Fintech
7 5 (7.04%) Open Source
7 5 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (5.63%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
2 13 (18.31%) SQL
3 7 (9.86%) C#
4 5 (7.04%) Go
5 4 (5.63%) Ruby
5 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) SC Cleared
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.82%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Databricks
2 3 (4.23%) SimCorp
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Splunk