Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Python Developer
England > London

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 333 406
Rank change year-on-year -11 +73 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 18 49 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.31% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 41 17
10th Percentile £393 £563 £486
25th Percentile £463 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -14.75%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £750
90th Percentile £784 £950 £885
England median daily rate £575 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,649 14,745 19,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.00% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,398 9,538 14,002
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 164 211
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.25 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.06 £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.40 £38.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.89% -6.17% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.06 £61.64
90th Percentile £67.11 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in London

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Python Developer in London

Senior Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Central London +5 1 £775 +24.00% 3
Senior Python Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 London region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) OO
4 7 (38.89%) Analytics
4 7 (38.89%) Git
4 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) AWS
5 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (27.78%) NumPy
6 5 (27.78%) Pandas
6 5 (27.78%) Power BI
6 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
6 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
6 5 (27.78%) REST
6 5 (27.78%) Scrum
7 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 4 (22.22%) Kanban
7 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
7 4 (22.22%) OOP
7 4 (22.22%) Plotly
7 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (16.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
1 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Power Query
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Riak
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Front Office
3 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Banking
4 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) NumPy
1 5 (27.78%) Pandas
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) Plotly
3 3 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 3 (16.67%) pytest
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) scikit-learn
4 2 (11.11%) SciPy
4 2 (11.11%) Statsmodels
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) Flask
5 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) LangGraph
5 1 (5.56%) mypy
5 1 (5.56%) Polars
5 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (16.67%) Derivative
2 3 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.11%) Equities
3 2 (11.11%) Reference Data
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.56%) Life Science
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
1 8 (44.44%) OO
2 7 (38.89%) Analytics
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
5 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Kanban
5 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
5 4 (22.22%) OOP
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Data Science
6 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
1 3 (16.67%) Dataiku
2 2 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 2 (11.11%) Reuters
3 1 (5.56%) Google