Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 489 477
Rank change year-on-year -66 -12 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 92 30 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 23 44
10th Percentile £469 £463 £563
25th Percentile £556 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £825
90th Percentile £1,075 £775 £950
UK median daily rate £663 £575 £685
% change year-on-year +15.22% -16.06% +7.45%

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 43,070 25,660 29,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,333 16,528 18,273
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,798 1,445 1,249
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.85 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.23% -39.05% -8.30%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -14 80 £750 +7.14% 11
North of England -70 7 £475 -9.52% 4
Yorkshire -40 6 £450 -14.29% 2
South West -36 3 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £525 - 2
Senior Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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 92 (100.00%) Python
2 34 (36.96%) Agile
3 28 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 27 (29.35%) Django
5 26 (28.26%) CI/CD
6 25 (27.17%) SQL
7 23 (25.00%) AI
8 20 (21.74%) REST
9 19 (20.65%) AWS
10 16 (17.39%) Git
11 15 (16.30%) Analytics
12 14 (15.22%) Azure
13 13 (14.13%) Data Analysis
13 13 (14.13%) FastAPI
13 13 (14.13%) GitHub
13 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
13 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
14 12 (13.04%) API Development
15 11 (11.96%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (11.96%) Data Science
15 11 (11.96%) Docker
15 11 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
16 10 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
17 9 (9.78%) Kubernetes
17 9 (9.78%) Microservices
17 9 (9.78%) Pandas
17 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (8.70%) Code Quality
18 8 (8.70%) Event-Driven
18 8 (8.70%) GitHub Actions

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 2 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.65%) AWS
2 14 (15.22%) Azure
3 13 (14.13%) GitHub
4 8 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.52%) Serverless
6 4 (4.35%) GCP
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.26%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.26%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.09%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.09%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.09%) Big Data
4 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.09%) MySQL
4 1 (1.09%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.09%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (33.70%) Finance
2 17 (18.48%) Front Office
3 16 (17.39%) Retail
4 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.87%) Banking
6 8 (8.70%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.43%) Social Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Law
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.35%) Django
2 20 (21.74%) REST
3 13 (14.13%) FastAPI
4 9 (9.78%) Pandas
5 6 (6.52%) Flask
5 6 (6.52%) JSON
6 5 (5.43%) Kafka
6 5 (5.43%) NumPy
6 5 (5.43%) React
7 4 (4.35%) .NET
7 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.35%) PySpark
7 4 (4.35%) Terraform
8 3 (3.26%) Next.js
8 3 (3.26%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.26%) pytest
8 3 (3.26%) RESTful
8 3 (3.26%) Swagger
9 2 (2.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Equities
2 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.43%) Derivative
3 4 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.35%) Market Risk
4 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.17%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Unix
2 6 (6.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Agile
2 28 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 26 (28.26%) CI/CD
4 23 (25.00%) AI
5 15 (16.30%) Analytics
6 13 (14.13%) Data Analysis
7 12 (13.04%) API Development
8 11 (11.96%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (11.96%) Data Science
8 11 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (9.78%) Microservices
9 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.70%) Code Quality
10 8 (8.70%) Event-Driven
10 8 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (8.70%) SDLC
11 7 (7.61%) Clean Code
11 7 (7.61%) ETL
11 7 (7.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (7.61%) Lean Software Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (27.17%) SQL
3 7 (7.61%) Java
4 6 (6.52%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.26%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) Cypher
8 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
1 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) EMIR
2 1 (1.09%) MiFID
2 1 (1.09%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.43%) Databricks
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.17%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle
3 1 (1.09%) Sybase