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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 271 255
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 92 134 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.62% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.68% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 102 143
10th Percentile £378 £375 £400
25th Percentile £433 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £638
90th Percentile £575 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £71.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.08% +9.23% +44.44%

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 12,329 19,829 21,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.44% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,725 11,772 14,915
10th Percentile £220 £213 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 2,566 1,099
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.66 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -3.61% +107.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.69
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%

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 20 June 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 20 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
Scotland +22 31 £500 - 24
South East +16 18 £493 -6.19% 106
North of England -12 13 £500 -9.09% 50
East of England +30 10 £489 +34.83% 27
Midlands +9 9 £500 -9.09% 26
South West +39 8 £413 -23.26% 25
Yorkshire -3 8 £500 -9.09% 10
East Midlands +6 5 £488 -11.36% 17
West Midlands +12 4 £500 +42.86% 8
North West +3 4 £470 +4.44% 37
Wales - 2 £575 - 3
North East - 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £620 - 4
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 92 (100.00%) Python
2 33 (35.87%) AWS
3 32 (34.78%) Linux
4 28 (30.43%) Agile
4 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
5 26 (28.26%) Docker
6 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
7 23 (25.00%) Windows
7 23 (25.00%) SDLC
8 22 (23.91%) CI/CD
9 19 (20.65%) Containerisation
10 18 (19.57%) Finance
10 18 (19.57%) Test Automation
11 17 (18.48%) SQL
11 17 (18.48%) Data Science
11 17 (18.48%) Azure
12 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (17.39%) Investment Banking
12 16 (17.39%) Banking
13 15 (16.30%) Django
13 15 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (15.22%) DevOps
15 13 (14.13%) GitHub
15 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
16 12 (13.04%) Git
16 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
16 12 (13.04%) C++
16 12 (13.04%) Data Modelling
16 12 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (13.04%) FastAPI

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 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Gunicorn
2 1 (1.09%) nginx
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.87%) AWS
2 17 (18.48%) Azure
3 13 (14.13%) GitHub
4 10 (10.87%) GCP
4 10 (10.87%) SaaS
5 6 (6.52%) Serverless
6 5 (5.43%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.17%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (2.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (2.17%) Boomi
9 2 (2.17%) OCI
9 2 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) SAN
2 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.96%) KDB
2 11 (11.96%) Kdb+
2 11 (11.96%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.61%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.52%) MySQL
5 5 (5.43%) GIS
6 4 (4.35%) CockroachDB
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.26%) Big Data
7 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.17%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.17%) Redis
8 2 (2.17%) SQLite
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.09%) Impala
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) GitLab
2 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.43%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.17%) IntelliJ
3 2 (2.17%) PyCharm
3 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.09%) Poetry
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Finance
3 16 (17.39%) Banking
3 16 (17.39%) Investment Banking
4 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.09%) Electronics
8 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) Django
2 12 (13.04%) FastAPI
3 10 (10.87%) REST
4 9 (9.78%) React
5 8 (8.70%) Flask
5 8 (8.70%) pytest
6 7 (7.61%) RESTful
7 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.43%) PySpark
8 4 (4.35%) Node.js
9 3 (3.26%) Celery
10 2 (2.17%) .NET
10 2 (2.17%) CSS
10 2 (2.17%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.17%) MACH
10 2 (2.17%) OAuth
10 2 (2.17%) PostGIS
10 2 (2.17%) SOAP
10 2 (2.17%) Web Services
11 1 (1.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.78%) Linux
2 23 (25.00%) Windows
3 6 (6.52%) Debian
3 6 (6.52%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.43%) Unix
5 4 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) Agile
2 23 (25.00%) SDLC
3 22 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 19 (20.65%) Containerisation
5 18 (19.57%) Test Automation
6 17 (18.48%) Data Science
7 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (15.22%) DevOps
9 12 (13.04%) Data Modelling
10 10 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.78%) Microservices
12 8 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (8.70%) ITIL
13 7 (7.61%) Build Automation
14 6 (6.52%) Data Engineering
14 6 (6.52%) Machine Learning
14 6 (6.52%) Prototyping
15 5 (5.43%) Asynchronous Programming
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (18.48%) SQL
3 12 (13.04%) C++
4 7 (7.61%) Java
4 7 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.26%) C#
7 2 (2.17%) R
7 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) Bash
8 1 (1.09%) Groovy
8 1 (1.09%) Rust
8 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) Degree
5 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 26 (28.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.87%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Ansible
4 2 (2.17%) Podman
4 2 (2.17%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
1 9 (9.78%) Oracle
2 6 (6.52%) Red Hat
2 6 (6.52%) VMware
3 3 (3.26%) Netskope
3 3 (3.26%) Proofpoint
3 3 (3.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.26%) Symantec
4 2 (2.17%) Databricks
4 2 (2.17%) ESRI
5 1 (1.09%) Brio
5 1 (1.09%) Foundry
5 1 (1.09%) Google
5 1 (1.09%) HP
5 1 (1.09%) Palantir
5 1 (1.09%) Remedy
5 1 (1.09%) SAP
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.09%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.09%) Workday