Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior Python Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.41% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £523 - £404
25th Percentile £549 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.42%
75th Percentile - - £458
90th Percentile - - £494
South East median daily rate £600 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,543 1,994 2,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 91.38% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1,116 1,725
10th Percentile £250 £272 £235
25th Percentile £383 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 96 89
10th Percentile £14.73 £17.41 £15.80
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.43 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.96% +16.87% +166.67%
75th Percentile £54.00 £68.05 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £91.88 £74.83
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £51.90
% change year-on-year -57.00% +12.70% +110.93%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the Thames Valley

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire - 4 £600 -
Buckinghamshire - 3 £530 -
Senior Python Developer
South East

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
2 4 (57.14%) Virgin Media
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (57.14%) FastAPI
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) CQRS
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) Debian
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) FastAPI
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Debian
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) CQRS
1 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
1 4 (57.14%) Virgin Media
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy