Senior Python Developer Contracts

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £800, 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 466 532 615
Rank change year-on-year +66 +83 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 54 50 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 87
10th Percentile £463 £511 £508
25th Percentile £600 £588 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £938 £800 £875
90th Percentile - £913 £915
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £536 £638
% change year-on-year -11.42% -15.88% +15.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Python Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +46 38 £825 +17.86% 31
London +28 31 £850 +13.33% 24
Work from Home +36 22 £750 +25.00% 23
UK excluding London +75 20 £475 -11.42% 15
Scotland - 13 - - 1
North of England +20 3 £475 - 4
South West +46 2 £450 - 1
Midlands +22 2 £550 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 2
North West +16 1 £638 +34.21% 2

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Python
2 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
3 27 (50.00%) Finance
4 25 (46.30%) Banking
5 19 (35.19%) Docker
6 17 (31.48%) Kubernetes
6 17 (31.48%) Linux
7 16 (29.63%) Front Office
8 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
9 13 (24.07%) SDLC
9 13 (24.07%) Agile
9 13 (24.07%) Investment Banking
9 13 (24.07%) C++
10 12 (22.22%) Windows
10 12 (22.22%) AWS
10 12 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (22.22%) Data Science
11 11 (20.37%) Kdb+
11 11 (20.37%) KDB
11 11 (20.37%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (18.52%) OO
12 10 (18.52%) Analytics
12 10 (18.52%) Django
12 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
12 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
13 9 (16.67%) Azure
13 9 (16.67%) SQL
14 8 (14.81%) React
14 8 (14.81%) DevOps
15 7 (12.96%) Relational Database

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (11.11%) Serverless
4 5 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (3.70%) Boomi
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.70%) OCI
7 2 (3.70%) PaaS
7 2 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) KDB
1 11 (20.37%) Kdb+
2 7 (12.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.56%) CockroachDB
4 3 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (50.00%) Finance
3 25 (46.30%) Banking
4 16 (29.63%) Front Office
5 13 (24.07%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Electronics
6 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Games
7 1 (1.85%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) Django
2 8 (14.81%) React
3 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.41%) NumPy
4 4 (7.41%) Pandas
4 4 (7.41%) RESTful
5 3 (5.56%) Node.js
5 3 (5.56%) REST
6 2 (3.70%) .NET
6 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.70%) CSS
6 2 (3.70%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.70%) HTML
6 2 (3.70%) Kafka
6 2 (3.70%) MACH
7 1 (1.85%) gRPC
7 1 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.85%) PySpark
7 1 (1.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (20.37%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.70%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Linux
2 12 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
2 13 (24.07%) Agile
2 13 (24.07%) SDLC
3 12 (22.22%) Data Science
4 10 (18.52%) Analytics
4 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.52%) OO
4 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 8 (14.81%) DevOps
6 7 (12.96%) Microservices
7 5 (9.26%) Build Automation
7 5 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.26%) Data Modelling
7 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.41%) Financial Modelling
8 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.41%) Software Engineering
8 4 (7.41%) Task Automation
8 4 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (24.07%) C++
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) R
7 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) Ansible
3 4 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) Refinitiv
3 1 (1.85%) Reuters