Python Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 270 265
Rank change year-on-year +46 -5 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 112 130 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 0.63% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.68% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 106 163
10th Percentile £370 £403 £425
25th Percentile £410 £453 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £615
90th Percentile £584 £647 £750
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £67.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.94% +3.08% +28.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
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 Python Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland +49 56 £486 -22.16% 6
South East +23 18 £520 -0.95% 44
North of England +2 13 £475 -7.09% 19
South West +47 8 £413 -21.43% 8
East of England +19 8 £468 +8.72% 7
Yorkshire +3 7 £475 -22.13% 8
Midlands +15 6 £550 - 9
North West +5 6 £475 -1.25% 10
East Midlands +8 4 £488 -11.36% 4
West Midlands +9 2 £550 +100.00% 5
Wales - 2 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland -11 1 £620 +24.00% 3
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 112 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (39.29%) SDLC
3 39 (34.82%) Kubernetes
4 38 (33.93%) Linux
5 32 (28.57%) Docker
6 31 (27.68%) AWS
7 29 (25.89%) Finance
8 28 (25.00%) Windows
8 28 (25.00%) Banking
8 28 (25.00%) Investment Banking
9 26 (23.21%) Social Skills
10 25 (22.32%) Agile
11 24 (21.43%) Azure
11 24 (21.43%) Containerisation
12 20 (17.86%) CI/CD
12 20 (17.86%) Data Science
12 20 (17.86%) Test Automation
13 19 (16.96%) DevOps
14 16 (14.29%) GitHub
14 16 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (14.29%) Django
15 14 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (12.50%) Microservices
16 13 (11.61%) Git
16 13 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (11.61%) C++
16 13 (11.61%) Java
16 13 (11.61%) SQL
17 12 (10.71%) Continuous Integration

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (6.25%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.68%) AWS
2 24 (21.43%) Azure
3 16 (14.29%) GitHub
4 12 (10.71%) SaaS
4 12 (10.71%) Serverless
5 9 (8.04%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Functions
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.79%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) SAN
2 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.79%) Wireless
3 1 (0.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.82%) KDB
2 11 (9.82%) Kdb+
3 10 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.46%) MySQL
5 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.57%) GIS
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.68%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.68%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.79%) Big Data
8 2 (1.79%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Impala
9 1 (0.89%) Redis
9 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.61%) Git
2 10 (8.93%) JIRA
3 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.57%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) Selenium
5 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.89%) Poetry
General
1 29 (25.89%) Finance
2 28 (25.00%) Banking
2 28 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 26 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.68%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.79%) Electronics
6 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.79%) Marketing
6 2 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) Django
2 12 (10.71%) React
3 11 (9.82%) FastAPI
4 8 (7.14%) Flask
5 7 (6.25%) pytest
5 7 (6.25%) REST
6 6 (5.36%) RESTful
7 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.57%) PySpark
8 3 (2.68%) Node.js
9 2 (1.79%) .NET
9 2 (1.79%) Celery
9 2 (1.79%) CSS
9 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.79%) MACH
9 2 (1.79%) OAuth
9 2 (1.79%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.79%) SOAP
9 2 (1.79%) Web Services
10 1 (0.89%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (8.93%) Public Cloud
3 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.93%) Linux
2 28 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (4.46%) Mac OS
3 5 (4.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.79%) Debian
4 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.29%) SDLC
2 25 (22.32%) Agile
3 24 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 20 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 20 (17.86%) Data Science
4 20 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 19 (16.96%) DevOps
6 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (12.50%) Microservices
8 12 (10.71%) Build Automation
8 12 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (8.04%) Data Protection
11 7 (6.25%) Data Modelling
11 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (5.36%) Product Backlog
13 5 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 5 (4.46%) Asynchronous Programming
13 5 (4.46%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 112 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (11.61%) C++
2 13 (11.61%) Java
2 13 (11.61%) SQL
3 9 (8.04%) R
4 8 (7.14%) C#
4 8 (7.14%) Perl
5 7 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.79%) Groovy
8 1 (0.89%) Bash
8 1 (0.89%) Rust
8 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.89%) Degree
3 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 32 (28.57%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (34.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.82%) Terraform
3 5 (4.46%) Ansible
4 2 (1.79%) Podman
4 2 (1.79%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (7.14%) Oracle
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.68%) Netskope
3 3 (2.68%) Proofpoint
3 3 (2.68%) Splunk
3 3 (2.68%) Symantec
4 2 (1.79%) ESRI
4 2 (1.79%) HP
4 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.79%) SAP
4 2 (1.79%) VMware
5 1 (0.89%) Foundry
5 1 (0.89%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) Palantir
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Veritas
5 1 (0.89%) Workday