Django Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Django
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Django skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 309 358
Rank change year-on-year -57 +49 +66
Contract jobs citing Django 26 38 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.43% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 25
10th Percentile £347 £375 £411
25th Percentile £380 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile - £625 £593
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £69.10
% change year-on-year - - +25.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Django falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,325 2,657 3,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.14% 17.91% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 1,655 2,340
10th Percentile £332 £340 £325
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 64 135
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £40.12
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.57 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.31 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%

Django
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Django relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Django job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Django
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Django.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Django

Django
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Django in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Django in the UK excluding London

Django
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Django.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Django

Django
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Django within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Midlands -43 9 £380 -20.00% 18
Yorkshire -34 8 £500 +25.00% 16
North of England -54 8 £500 +5.26% 41
East Midlands -16 6 £380 -17.84% 10
South West -11 4 £341 -40.91% 17
East of England -19 3 £475 - 22
West Midlands -39 3 £650 +36.84% 6
South East -35 2 £325 -27.78% 41
Django
UK

Django
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Gunicorn
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Maya
1 2 (7.69%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Serverless
3 11 (42.31%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (26.92%) Azure
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
5 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.85%) Dagster
9 1 (3.85%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) Redis
5 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.85%) CockroachDB
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Automotive
3 2 (7.69%) Games
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Python Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Django Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Python Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Python/Django Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Graduate
7 1 (3.85%) Graduate Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Junior
7 1 (3.85%) Junior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) RESTful
2 9 (34.62%) FastAPI
2 9 (34.62%) Flask
3 8 (30.77%) GraphQL
4 6 (23.08%) React
5 4 (15.38%) REST
5 4 (15.38%) Vue
6 3 (11.54%) CSS
6 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) OAuth
7 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
7 2 (7.69%) Celery
7 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
7 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 2 (7.69%) pytest
7 2 (7.69%) Swagger
7 2 (7.69%) Web Services
7 2 (7.69%) WebSockets
8 1 (3.85%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) NHS
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Animation
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (34.62%) TDD
4 8 (30.77%) Pair Programming
5 7 (26.92%) DevOps
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (19.23%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (15.38%) Microservices
9 3 (11.54%) API Integration
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.54%) Data Security
9 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
9 3 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) C++
5 2 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Tcl
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
5 1 (3.85%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Argo
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle