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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 445 518
Rank change year-on-year -52 +73 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 64 39 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.15% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 34 30
10th Percentile £420 £536 £509
25th Percentile £603 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £788 £938 £800
90th Percentile £894 - £875
UK median daily rate £644 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -8.04% - -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 31,137 24,269 35,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 93.07% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,768 15,138 23,489
10th Percentile £300 £299 £270
25th Percentile £407 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,988 717 2,110
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.92 £13.18
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.36 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.68 £75.00 £72.46
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -2.23%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 50 £700 -16.42% 16
North of England -57 6 £581 -8.82% 2
North West -22 3 £500 -21.57% 1
South East - 3 £550 -
Yorkshire - 3 £638 - 1
West Midlands -48 2 £638 +15.91%
Midlands -51 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 12 February 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 64 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (31.25%) Docker
3 19 (29.69%) AWS
4 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.56%) Git
6 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 15 (23.44%) SC Cleared
8 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
8 14 (21.88%) SQL
9 13 (20.31%) Analytics
9 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
9 13 (20.31%) NumPy
9 13 (20.31%) Pandas
10 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
11 11 (17.19%) Agile
11 11 (17.19%) Django
11 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
12 10 (15.63%) Design Patterns
13 9 (14.06%) Data Hub
13 9 (14.06%) Web Services
14 8 (12.50%) AI
14 8 (12.50%) Azure
14 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
14 8 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
14 8 (12.50%) Fintech
14 8 (12.50%) Kafka
14 8 (12.50%) Unit Testing
15 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
15 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
15 7 (10.94%) Ruby

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 (6.25%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) AWS
2 8 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) GCP
3 5 (7.81%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.13%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.56%) Apigee
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.56%) Dagster
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Data Hub
2 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.25%) Power BI
4 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (26.56%) Git
General
1 25 (39.06%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) NumPy
1 13 (20.31%) Pandas
2 11 (17.19%) Django
3 9 (14.06%) Web Services
4 8 (12.50%) Kafka
5 6 (9.38%) CSS
5 6 (9.38%) FastAPI
5 6 (9.38%) HTML
5 6 (9.38%) React
5 6 (9.38%) REST
6 5 (7.81%) Flask
6 5 (7.81%) Plotly
7 4 (6.25%) Node.js
8 3 (4.69%) pytest
8 3 (4.69%) RESTful
9 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.13%) OAuth
9 2 (3.13%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.13%) OpenID
9 2 (3.13%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Equities
1 8 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.69%) Life Science
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.31%) Analytics
2 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
3 11 (17.19%) Agile
3 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
4 10 (15.63%) Design Patterns
5 8 (12.50%) AI
5 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 8 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
5 8 (12.50%) Fintech
5 8 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
7 6 (9.38%) OOP
7 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.81%) ETL
8 5 (7.81%) Mathematics
8 5 (7.81%) OO
8 5 (7.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (21.88%) SQL
3 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.94%) Ruby
5 2 (3.13%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.56%) GDPR
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.81%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Argo
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Databricks
1 3 (4.69%) Dataiku
1 3 (4.69%) Google