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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 463 539
Rank change year-on-year -81 +76 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 81 56 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 35 31
10th Percentile £490 £455 £513
25th Percentile £510 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £819 £938 £813
90th Percentile £894 - £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £475 £535
% change year-on-year +17.89% -11.21% -16.08%

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 43,945 27,196 39,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.49% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,960 17,736 25,958
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.68% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,864 1,058 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.37 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.25 £28.51 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +55.24% -23.66% -17.02%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.59 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.76% -31.25% -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 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 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 11 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 -87 65 £738 -9.23% 22
London -22 56 £775 -8.82% 18
Work from Home -27 30 £700 -6.67% 14
UK excluding London -102 11 £560 +17.89% 10
South East -52 6 £560 +72.31% 3
North of England -68 3 £475 - 4
Scotland -8 2 - -
North West -41 2 £488 -23.53% 2
Yorkshire -53 1 £465 -2.11%

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 81 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (33.33%) Agile
3 24 (29.63%) Security Cleared
4 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
5 18 (22.22%) Django
6 17 (20.99%) Docker
7 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
7 16 (19.75%) Git
8 15 (18.52%) AWS
8 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.28%) SQL
10 13 (16.05%) Containerisation
10 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
10 13 (16.05%) Kubernetes
11 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
12 10 (12.35%) Azure
12 10 (12.35%) GitHub
12 10 (12.35%) React
13 9 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (11.11%) NumPy
13 9 (11.11%) Pandas
13 9 (11.11%) RESTful
13 9 (11.11%) Terraform
14 8 (9.88%) C#
14 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (9.88%) Kafka
14 8 (9.88%) Microservices
15 7 (8.64%) .NET
15 7 (8.64%) Analytics
15 7 (8.64%) Databricks

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 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.47%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) AWS
2 10 (12.35%) Azure
2 10 (12.35%) GitHub
3 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (8.64%) Serverless
4 4 (4.94%) GCP
5 3 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.47%) Sentry
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.23%) Dagster
7 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Data Hub
2 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Redis
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.23%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.23%) git-flow
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 25 (30.86%) Finance
2 14 (17.28%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.35%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Front Office
5 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) Django
2 10 (12.35%) React
3 9 (11.11%) NumPy
3 9 (11.11%) Pandas
3 9 (11.11%) RESTful
4 8 (9.88%) Kafka
5 7 (8.64%) .NET
6 6 (7.41%) Flask
7 5 (6.17%) Celery
7 5 (6.17%) CSS
7 5 (6.17%) HTML
8 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.94%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.94%) REST
8 4 (4.94%) Web Services
9 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.70%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.70%) Node.js
9 3 (3.70%) pytest
9 3 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Equities
1 5 (6.17%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.47%) Derivative
3 2 (2.47%) Life Science
3 2 (2.47%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.23%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.23%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Unix
2 3 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.33%) Agile
2 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
3 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (16.05%) Containerisation
5 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
6 9 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (9.88%) Microservices
8 7 (8.64%) Analytics
8 7 (8.64%) Lean Software Development
9 6 (7.41%) Code Quality
9 6 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (7.41%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.17%) AI
10 5 (6.17%) Design Patterns
10 5 (6.17%) DevOps
10 5 (6.17%) Fintech
10 5 (6.17%) Machine Learning
10 5 (6.17%) Open Source
10 5 (6.17%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (17.28%) SQL
3 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.88%) C#
5 5 (6.17%) Go
5 5 (6.17%) Ruby
6 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.47%) Java
9 1 (1.23%) Bash
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 17 (20.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Databricks
2 2 (2.47%) Google
2 2 (2.47%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.23%) Splunk