Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £738, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 472 537
Rank change year-on-year -70 +65 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 98 54 53
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 82 28 40
10th Percentile £451 £449 £546
25th Percentile £516 £508 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £888 £905 £800
90th Percentile £1,075 £938 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -13.73%

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 46,065 27,116 40,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,032 17,461 26,079
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,078 1,132 2,932
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.87 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.23% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -5.88%

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 11 June 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 10 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 11 June 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 -61 83 £775 +3.33% 8
London -28 70 £775 -6.06% 4
Work from Home -39 36 £725 -3.33% 5
UK excluding London -107 15 £560 +12.00% 7
South East -57 6 £560 +6.67% 3
North of England -75 4 £445 -6.32% 3
Scotland -24 3 - -
Yorkshire -51 3 £425 -10.53% 1
South West -23 2 £575 -
North West - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 98 (100.00%) Python
2 34 (34.69%) Agile
3 25 (25.51%) Security Cleared
4 24 (24.49%) Django
4 24 (24.49%) SC Cleared
5 23 (23.47%) CI/CD
6 22 (22.45%) Software Engineering
7 20 (20.41%) AWS
7 20 (20.41%) SQL
8 19 (19.39%) Git
9 16 (16.33%) Docker
9 16 (16.33%) JavaScript
10 14 (14.29%) Azure
10 14 (14.29%) Kubernetes
10 14 (14.29%) Microservices
11 13 (13.27%) Containerisation
11 13 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.24%) Terraform
13 11 (11.22%) AI
13 11 (11.22%) Analytics
13 11 (11.22%) GitHub
14 10 (10.20%) React
14 10 (10.20%) RESTful
14 10 (10.20%) Serverless
15 9 (9.18%) Data Analysis
15 9 (9.18%) Databricks
15 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (9.18%) NumPy
15 9 (9.18%) Pandas

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 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.04%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.06%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.41%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) Azure
3 11 (11.22%) GitHub
4 10 (10.20%) Serverless
5 8 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.08%) GCP
7 3 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.06%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (3.06%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (3.06%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.06%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.04%) Sentry
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.06%) Data Hub
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.02%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.02%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.02%) Redis
5 1 (1.02%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.04%) GitLab
3 2 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.02%) git-flow
General
1 37 (37.76%) Finance
2 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Front Office
5 6 (6.12%) Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Retail
6 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.49%) Django
2 10 (10.20%) React
2 10 (10.20%) RESTful
3 9 (9.18%) NumPy
3 9 (9.18%) Pandas
3 9 (9.18%) REST
4 7 (7.14%) .NET
4 7 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.12%) Flask
6 5 (5.10%) CSS
6 5 (5.10%) HTML
6 5 (5.10%) Kafka
7 4 (4.08%) AWS CDK
7 4 (4.08%) JSON
8 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.06%) Celery
8 3 (3.06%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.04%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.06%) Equities
2 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.06%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
1 5 (5.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) Agile
2 23 (23.47%) CI/CD
3 22 (22.45%) Software Engineering
4 14 (14.29%) Microservices
5 13 (13.27%) Containerisation
5 13 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.22%) AI
6 11 (11.22%) Analytics
7 9 (9.18%) Data Analysis
7 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.14%) API Development
8 7 (7.14%) Data Integration
8 7 (7.14%) Data Science
8 7 (7.14%) Lean Software Development
9 6 (6.12%) Clean Code
9 6 (6.12%) Event-Driven
10 5 (5.10%) Architectural Patterns
10 5 (5.10%) Scrum
10 5 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (20.41%) SQL
3 16 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.16%) C#
5 7 (7.14%) Java
6 5 (5.10%) Go
7 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.04%) Ruby
10 1 (1.02%) Bash
10 1 (1.02%) C
10 1 (1.02%) Cypher
10 1 (1.02%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.06%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.02%) QA
1 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (16.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.24%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.18%) Databricks
2 3 (3.06%) SimCorp
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.02%) Splunk