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 19 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 449 551
Rank change year-on-year -68 +102 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 69 71 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.23% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.24% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 55 32
10th Percentile £447 £535 £478
25th Percentile £544 £600 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £685 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +14.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £938 £759
90th Percentile £888 £945 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £661 £521
% change year-on-year -16.82% +26.86% -13.13%

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 33,788 29,232 40,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.85% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,356 17,863 26,715
10th Percentile £300 £295 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,002 885 1,834
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.76
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -19.39% +18.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%

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 19 January 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 14 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 19 January 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 -47 60 £638 -8.93% 20
London -22 43 £700 -9.68% 12
Work from Home +5 37 £638 -3.77% 13
UK excluding London -49 17 £550 -16.82% 9
North of England -37 9 £550 -13.73% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 2
North West -23 3 £500 -21.57% 1
West Midlands -33 2 £638 +15.91% 2
Midlands -38 2 £638 +15.91% 2
South East - 2 £500 - 4
Scotland -3 1 £550 -19.71%
South West -8 1 - -
Wales - 1 £638 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £638 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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 69 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (34.78%) AWS
3 21 (30.43%) Docker
4 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
5 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (27.54%) SC Cleared
6 17 (24.64%) Git
7 15 (21.74%) Data Hub
7 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
8 14 (20.29%) Agile
8 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
9 12 (17.39%) Analytics
9 12 (17.39%) NumPy
9 12 (17.39%) Pandas
9 12 (17.39%) SQL
10 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
11 10 (14.49%) Design Patterns
11 10 (14.49%) Django
11 10 (14.49%) Terraform
12 9 (13.04%) AI
12 9 (13.04%) Azure
12 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 9 (13.04%) Web Services
13 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
13 8 (11.59%) Electronic Trading
13 8 (11.59%) Fintech
13 8 (11.59%) Kafka
13 8 (11.59%) Ruby
13 8 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing

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 (5.80%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 9 (13.04%) Azure
3 6 (8.70%) GCP
3 6 (8.70%) GitHub
4 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.35%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.45%) Apigee
7 1 (1.45%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.45%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) Data Hub
2 7 (10.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
4 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.45%) MSDE
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.45%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) PyCharm
2 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 19 (27.54%) Finance
3 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Front Office
8 1 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) NumPy
1 12 (17.39%) Pandas
2 10 (14.49%) Django
3 9 (13.04%) Web Services
4 8 (11.59%) Kafka
5 6 (8.70%) CSS
5 6 (8.70%) FastAPI
5 6 (8.70%) Flask
5 6 (8.70%) HTML
5 6 (8.70%) REST
6 5 (7.25%) Plotly
6 5 (7.25%) React
7 4 (5.80%) Node.js
7 4 (5.80%) RESTful
8 3 (4.35%) pytest
9 2 (2.90%) Celery
9 2 (2.90%) OpenID
9 2 (2.90%) scikit-learn
9 2 (2.90%) SciPy
9 2 (2.90%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Equities
1 8 (11.59%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) NHS
3 3 (4.35%) Life Science
4 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (20.29%) Agile
2 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
3 12 (17.39%) Analytics
4 10 (14.49%) Design Patterns
5 9 (13.04%) AI
5 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.59%) Electronic Trading
6 8 (11.59%) Fintech
6 8 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
7 6 (8.70%) DevOps
7 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (8.70%) Machine Learning
7 6 (8.70%) OOP
7 6 (8.70%) Software Architecture
8 5 (7.25%) ETL
8 5 (7.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (17.39%) SQL
3 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.59%) Ruby
5 3 (4.35%) Java
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.45%) GDPR
1 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.49%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Argo
3 1 (1.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.35%) Databricks
1 3 (4.35%) Dataiku
1 3 (4.35%) Google
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