Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Python Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 472 537
Rank change year-on-year -8 +65 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 32 56 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 40
10th Percentile £453 £563 £424
25th Percentile £513 £613 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +0.04% -3.48%
75th Percentile £681 £825 £856
90th Percentile £775 £950 £916
UK median daily rate £600 £680 £650
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% -7.14%

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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -16 15 £700 - 15
South East - 8 £600 - 5
Yorkshire - 6 £525 - 7
North of England - 6 £525 - 9
South West - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Senior Python Developer
UK

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Senior Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (50.00%) AWS
3 13 (40.63%) Agile
4 12 (37.50%) Azure
5 11 (34.38%) Finance
6 10 (31.25%) Front Office
6 10 (31.25%) DevOps
6 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
7 8 (25.00%) Terraform
7 8 (25.00%) RESTful
8 7 (21.88%) Analytics
8 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
8 7 (21.88%) SQL
8 7 (21.88%) Microservices
8 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
9 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (18.75%) Databricks
9 6 (18.75%) FastAPI
10 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
10 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
10 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven
10 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (15.63%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (15.63%) GCP
10 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
10 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) Linux
10 5 (15.63%) Scrum
10 5 (15.63%) Banking

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.38%) Serverless
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.13%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) SAN
1 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) Power Query
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.13%) CockroachDB
4 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) Riak
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Front Office
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.13%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) RESTful
2 6 (18.75%) FastAPI
3 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.38%) .NET
4 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
4 3 (9.38%) Django
5 2 (6.25%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.25%) gRPC
5 2 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (6.25%) NumPy
5 2 (6.25%) Pandas
5 2 (6.25%) pytest
5 2 (6.25%) React
5 2 (6.25%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) CSS
6 1 (3.13%) Flask
6 1 (3.13%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (3.13%) HTML
6 1 (3.13%) Node.js
6 1 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (12.50%) NHS
3 3 (9.38%) Derivative
3 3 (9.38%) Fixed Income
4 2 (6.25%) Equities
4 2 (6.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Debian
2 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 10 (31.25%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Analytics
3 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
3 7 (21.88%) Microservices
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
5 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven
5 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (15.63%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (12.50%) CQRS
6 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 4 (12.50%) Kanban
6 4 (12.50%) OO
6 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Virgin Media
3 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.38%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Reuters
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy