Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 471 534
Rank change year-on-year -67 +63 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 90 51 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 28 34
10th Percentile £455 £458 £550
25th Percentile £510 £581 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £875 £938 £819
90th Percentile £894 - £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +17.89% -13.64% -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 44,984 26,371 39,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.30% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,456 17,159 25,763
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,981 1,009 2,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.04 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.97% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -80 75 £775 -3.13% 12
London -29 65 £775 -7.74% 11
Work from Home -31 35 £700 -12.50% 7
UK excluding London -122 12 £560 +17.89% 6
South East -53 6 £560 +72.31% 1
North of England -70 3 £475 -
Scotland -13 2 - -
North West - 2 £488 -
South West -31 1 £575 -
Yorkshire -54 1 £465 -2.11%

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 90 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (33.33%) Agile
3 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
5 21 (23.33%) AWS
5 21 (23.33%) Django
6 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 17 (18.89%) Docker
7 17 (18.89%) SQL
8 16 (17.78%) Git
8 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
8 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
9 14 (15.56%) Azure
9 14 (15.56%) Kubernetes
9 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 12 (13.33%) Terraform
11 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (12.22%) GitHub
11 11 (12.22%) Microservices
12 10 (11.11%) React
13 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (10.00%) NumPy
13 9 (10.00%) Pandas
13 9 (10.00%) RESTful
14 8 (8.89%) Analytics
14 8 (8.89%) C#
14 8 (8.89%) Data Analysis
14 8 (8.89%) Databricks
14 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions

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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.22%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.33%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) AWS
2 14 (15.56%) Azure
3 11 (12.22%) GitHub
4 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (8.89%) Serverless
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.33%) GCP
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.22%) Sentry
8 1 (1.11%) Dagster
8 1 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.44%) Data Hub
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Redis
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (17.78%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.11%) git-flow
4 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 32 (35.56%) Finance
2 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 9 (10.00%) Front Office
6 6 (6.67%) Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Military
9 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.33%) Django
2 10 (11.11%) React
3 9 (10.00%) NumPy
3 9 (10.00%) Pandas
3 9 (10.00%) RESTful
4 7 (7.78%) .NET
4 7 (7.78%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.78%) Flask
4 7 (7.78%) REST
5 6 (6.67%) Kafka
6 5 (5.56%) Celery
6 5 (5.56%) CSS
6 5 (5.56%) HTML
7 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.44%) JSON
8 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.33%) Node.js
8 3 (3.33%) pytest
8 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.56%) Equities
2 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.22%) Derivative
5 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.11%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.11%) Life Science
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Unix
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Agile
2 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
4 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (12.22%) Microservices
7 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (8.89%) Analytics
8 8 (8.89%) Data Analysis
9 7 (7.78%) Lean Software Development
10 6 (6.67%) AI
10 6 (6.67%) ETL
10 6 (6.67%) Test Automation
11 5 (5.56%) Code Quality
11 5 (5.56%) Data Integration
11 5 (5.56%) DevOps
11 5 (5.56%) Event-Driven
11 5 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 90 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (18.89%) SQL
3 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.89%) C#
5 7 (7.78%) Java
6 5 (5.56%) Go
7 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.22%) Ruby
10 1 (1.11%) Bash
10 1 (1.11%) C
10 1 (1.11%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) QA
1 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (18.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) Databricks
2 3 (3.33%) SimCorp
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk