Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 485 593
Rank change year-on-year -30 +108 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 43 73 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.22% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 55 32
10th Percentile £412 £535 £422
25th Percentile £500 £600 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% -14.82%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £750
90th Percentile £775 £950 £898
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £685 £495
% change year-on-year -19.71% +38.38% -17.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 31,178 33,721 44,002
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.86% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,742 20,325 29,954
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,761 1,274 1,526
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.07 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.39 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.74% -16.91% +57.89%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +85.42%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025. 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 -33 36 £575 -17.12% 38
UK excluding London -22 19 £550 -19.71% 29
Work from Home -12 18 £600 -7.69% 27
London -34 18 £650 -7.14% 24
South East - 10 £568 - 10
Yorkshire - 4 £538 - 4
North of England - 4 £538 - 9
Scotland -5 3 £550 -19.71% 3
South West - 2 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 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 43 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (55.81%) AWS
3 19 (44.19%) Azure
4 15 (34.88%) Agile
5 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
6 12 (27.91%) SQL
7 11 (25.58%) GCP
7 11 (25.58%) Git
7 11 (25.58%) Terraform
8 10 (23.26%) Design Patterns
8 10 (23.26%) DevOps
8 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
9 9 (20.93%) AI
9 9 (20.93%) Docker
9 9 (20.93%) OO
9 9 (20.93%) RESTful
10 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
10 8 (18.60%) FastAPI
10 8 (18.60%) GitHub
10 8 (18.60%) Relational Database
10 8 (18.60%) REST
11 7 (16.28%) Analytics
11 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
11 7 (16.28%) Databricks
11 7 (16.28%) Linux
11 7 (16.28%) Unit Testing
12 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (13.95%) Data Engineering

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 (9.30%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) Azure
3 11 (25.58%) GCP
4 8 (18.60%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
6 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.98%) Serverless
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) SAN
1 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.95%) Power BI
3 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.65%) KDB
4 2 (4.65%) Kdb+
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Power Query
4 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.33%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) MSDE
5 1 (2.33%) Riak
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) PyCharm
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (25.58%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Banking
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
4 8 (18.60%) Front Office
4 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.33%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) RESTful
2 8 (18.60%) FastAPI
2 8 (18.60%) REST
3 6 (13.95%) NumPy
3 6 (13.95%) Pandas
4 5 (11.63%) Plotly
5 4 (9.30%) Web Services
6 3 (6.98%) Django
6 3 (6.98%) Flask
6 3 (6.98%) pytest
7 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.65%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) HTML
7 2 (4.65%) OAuth
7 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.65%) OpenID
7 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
7 2 (4.65%) SciPy
7 2 (4.65%) Statsmodels
8 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (9.30%) NHS
3 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.98%) Derivative
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Equities
4 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Debian
3 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.26%) Design Patterns
4 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 9 (20.93%) AI
5 9 (20.93%) OO
6 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.28%) Analytics
7 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.28%) Unit Testing
8 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.95%) Data Engineering
8 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
8 6 (13.95%) OOP
9 5 (11.63%) Data Science
9 5 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (11.63%) Generative AI
9 5 (11.63%) Microservices
9 5 (11.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) C#
3 2 (4.65%) C++
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Terraform
2 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) Virgin Media
3 3 (6.98%) Dataiku
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 2 (4.65%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.65%) Reuters
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy