Senior Python Developer Contracts in the South East

Senior Python Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the South East is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 - 207
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% - 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £373 - £403
25th Percentile £463 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.97%
75th Percentile £553 - £438
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,750 5,312 5,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.29% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 3,122 3,709
10th Percentile £220 £250 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 559 239
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.48 £18.71 £22.44
Median hourly rate £30.75 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.50% -4.76% +150.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £67.02 £66.21
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.53 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.26% -12.17% +83.67%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the South East

Senior Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Python Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Python Developer in the South East

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Python Developer in the South East

Senior Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Thames Valley - 4 £535 - 28
Buckinghamshire - 3 £530 - 8
West Sussex - 1 £325 - 3
Berkshire - 1 £600 - 16
Senior Python Developer
England

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 June 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 South East region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Debian
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Debian
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) CQRS
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media