Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 465 532
Rank change year-on-year -72 +67 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 88 53 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 37 38
10th Percentile £429 £498 £500
25th Percentile £506 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £775 £938 £800
90th Percentile £892 - £858
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £550 £523
% change year-on-year +15.91% +5.26% -24.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 41,358 26,984 40,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 92.80% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,778 17,737 26,805
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.45%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +2.37% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,581 943 2,528
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.85 £20.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.16 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +26.91% -4.12% -21.43%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 13 Contract Job 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 3 April 2026. 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 -68 72 £656 -19.23% 10
London -38 59 £700 -17.65% 8
Work from Home -19 40 £638 +6.25% 3
UK excluding London -106 14 £638 +15.91% 3
North of England -61 6 £569 -10.78%
North West -43 3 £500 -21.57%
South East - 3 £560 -
Yorkshire - 3 £638 -
Midlands -63 2 £638 +15.91%
West Midlands -63 2 £638 +15.91%
Scotland -3 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £638 -
Wales - 1 £638 -

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 April 2026, Senior Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
3 26 (29.55%) SC Cleared
4 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.00%) Docker
6 21 (23.86%) Agile
6 21 (23.86%) Git
7 20 (22.73%) AWS
8 17 (19.32%) Kubernetes
9 16 (18.18%) Django
9 16 (18.18%) SQL
10 15 (17.05%) Data Hub
11 14 (15.91%) Azure
11 14 (15.91%) Containerisation
11 14 (15.91%) NumPy
11 14 (15.91%) Pandas
12 13 (14.77%) Analytics
13 12 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
13 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
14 10 (11.36%) Design Patterns
14 10 (11.36%) React
15 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (10.23%) Kafka
15 9 (10.23%) Terraform
15 9 (10.23%) Web Services
16 8 (9.09%) AI
16 8 (9.09%) Code Quality
16 8 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
16 8 (9.09%) Fintech

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (4.55%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.73%) AWS
2 14 (15.91%) Azure
3 8 (9.09%) GitHub
4 7 (7.95%) GCP
4 7 (7.95%) Serverless
5 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.41%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (3.41%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.27%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.27%) Sentry
9 1 (1.14%) Dagster
9 1 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) Data Hub
2 6 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.55%) Power BI
4 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 21 (23.86%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 25 (28.41%) Finance
2 23 (26.14%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Banking
5 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.27%) Front Office
7 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) Django
2 14 (15.91%) NumPy
2 14 (15.91%) Pandas
3 10 (11.36%) React
4 9 (10.23%) Kafka
4 9 (10.23%) Web Services
5 8 (9.09%) REST
6 7 (7.95%) Flask
7 6 (6.82%) CSS
7 6 (6.82%) HTML
8 5 (5.68%) Plotly
8 5 (5.68%) RESTful
9 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.55%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.55%) Node.js
9 4 (4.55%) pytest
10 3 (3.41%) .NET
10 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
10 3 (3.41%) Celery
10 3 (3.41%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Equities
1 8 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.41%) Life Science
3 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.14%) Derivative
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Unix
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (23.86%) Agile
3 14 (15.91%) Containerisation
4 13 (14.77%) Analytics
5 12 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 10 (11.36%) Design Patterns
7 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (9.09%) AI
8 8 (9.09%) Code Quality
8 8 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (9.09%) Fintech
8 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 8 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (9.09%) Unit Testing
9 7 (7.95%) Visualisation
10 6 (6.82%) Open Source
10 6 (6.82%) Software Architecture
10 6 (6.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (18.18%) SQL
3 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.09%) Ruby
5 4 (4.55%) C#
5 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.41%) Java
7 2 (2.27%) Go
7 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) Degree
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 22 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (19.32%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Databricks
2 3 (3.41%) Dataiku
2 3 (3.41%) Google
3 1 (1.14%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.14%) Splunk