Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 505 509
Rank change year-on-year -54 +4 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 102 50 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 27 47
10th Percentile £452 £449 £543
25th Percentile £513 £504 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -17.24% +3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,075 £841 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £543 £488
% change year-on-year +3.23% +11.28% -25.00%

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 48,898 30,175 37,360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.56% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,518 19,205 24,201
10th Percentile £329 £284 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,323 1,465 2,247
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.97% -40.16% -2.26%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.72%

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 27 July 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 9 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 27 July 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 -59 89 £700 +12.00% 14
London -3 76 £725 -3.33% 9
Work from Home -39 32 £725 +3.57% 9
UK excluding London -104 16 £560 +3.23% 6
South East -74 6 £560 -6.67% 2
Scotland -11 4 - -
Yorkshire -46 4 £425 -10.53%
North of England -73 4 £425 -10.53%
South West -40 2 £575 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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.

1 102 (100.00%) Python
2 34 (33.33%) Agile
3 31 (30.39%) Django
4 25 (24.51%) CI/CD
5 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
5 24 (23.53%) SQL
6 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
7 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
8 19 (18.63%) AI
8 19 (18.63%) Azure
9 18 (17.65%) Git
10 17 (16.67%) REST
11 15 (14.71%) Docker
11 15 (14.71%) Microservices
12 14 (13.73%) AWS
12 14 (13.73%) GitHub
13 13 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (11.76%) Analytics
14 12 (11.76%) API Development
14 12 (11.76%) FastAPI
14 12 (11.76%) Kubernetes
15 11 (10.78%) C#
15 11 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (10.78%) RESTful
16 10 (9.80%) Containerisation
16 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
17 9 (8.82%) .NET
17 9 (8.82%) Code Quality
17 9 (8.82%) Data Analysis
17 9 (8.82%) Data Science

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 2 (1.96%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.94%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.63%) Azure
2 14 (13.73%) AWS
2 14 (13.73%) GitHub
3 11 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (8.82%) Serverless
5 5 (4.90%) GCP
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.92%) Cloud Run
6 4 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.94%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.96%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.98%) Big Data
5 1 (0.98%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Redis
5 1 (0.98%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 18 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.98%) git-flow
General
1 31 (30.39%) Finance
2 16 (15.69%) Retail
3 12 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.80%) Banking
5 10 (9.80%) Front Office
6 6 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.98%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (30.39%) Django
2 17 (16.67%) REST
3 12 (11.76%) FastAPI
4 11 (10.78%) RESTful
5 9 (8.82%) .NET
5 9 (8.82%) React
6 8 (7.84%) Flask
7 7 (6.86%) JSON
7 7 (6.86%) Pandas
8 6 (5.88%) NumPy
9 5 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.92%) Kafka
10 4 (3.92%) Next.js
10 4 (3.92%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.92%) PySpark
10 4 (3.92%) Swagger
11 3 (2.94%) AWS CDK
11 3 (2.94%) Celery
11 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
1 5 (4.90%) Derivative
1 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.94%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.94%) Market Risk
2 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.94%) Reference Data
3 2 (1.96%) Equities
4 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
1 8 (7.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) Agile
2 25 (24.51%) CI/CD
3 22 (21.57%) Software Engineering
4 19 (18.63%) AI
5 15 (14.71%) Microservices
6 13 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (11.76%) Analytics
7 12 (11.76%) API Development
8 10 (9.80%) Containerisation
8 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (8.82%) Code Quality
9 9 (8.82%) Data Analysis
9 9 (8.82%) Data Science
10 8 (7.84%) Clean Code
10 8 (7.84%) Data Integration
10 8 (7.84%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (6.86%) Event-Driven
11 7 (6.86%) Lean Software Development
12 6 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (23.53%) SQL
3 11 (10.78%) C#
4 7 (6.86%) Java
5 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.90%) Go
7 1 (0.98%) Bash
7 1 (0.98%) C
7 1 (0.98%) C++
7 1 (0.98%) Cypher
7 1 (0.98%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.90%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) Degree
5 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.98%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.84%) Databricks
2 3 (2.94%) SimCorp
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.98%) Splunk