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 8 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 477 545
Rank change year-on-year -62 +68 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 80 50 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 34 36
10th Percentile £420 £548 £500
25th Percentile £506 £605 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £788 £938 £800
90th Percentile £894 - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £638 £523
% change year-on-year - +22.01% -16.40%

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 38,954 27,938 41,468
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.92% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,406 17,829 27,199
10th Percentile £310 £294 £270
25th Percentile £409 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.40%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 873 2,490
10th Percentile £14.67 £15.66 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +2.77% -19.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.17 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.06% - -15.58%

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 8 March 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 12 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 8 March 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 67 £700 -16.67% 14
London -22 52 £700 -20.57% 9
Work from Home -6 43 £638 +6.25% 8
UK excluding London -85 14 £638 - 6
North of England -54 6 £569 -10.78% 3
South East - 4 £560 - 1
North West -31 3 £500 -21.57% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £638 - 2
West Midlands -55 2 £638 +15.91%
Midlands -66 2 £638 +15.91%
Wales - 1 £638 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £638 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 March 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 80 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.75%) Security Cleared
3 22 (27.50%) Docker
3 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
4 19 (23.75%) AWS
4 19 (23.75%) Git
5 17 (21.25%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Kubernetes
5 17 (21.25%) SQL
6 15 (18.75%) Data Hub
7 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 13 (16.25%) Analytics
8 13 (16.25%) Django
8 13 (16.25%) NumPy
8 13 (16.25%) Pandas
9 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
10 11 (13.75%) Design Patterns
10 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
11 10 (12.50%) Azure
11 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
12 9 (11.25%) AI
12 9 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (11.25%) Web Services
13 8 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
13 8 (10.00%) Fintech
13 8 (10.00%) Flask
13 8 (10.00%) Kafka
13 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
13 8 (10.00%) REST

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 (5.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) GCP
4 6 (7.50%) GitHub
5 5 (6.25%) Serverless
6 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.50%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.25%) Apigee
9 1 (1.25%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.25%) Dagster
9 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.75%) Data Hub
2 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) Git
General
1 26 (32.50%) Finance
2 20 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.50%) Front Office
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) Django
1 13 (16.25%) NumPy
1 13 (16.25%) Pandas
2 9 (11.25%) Web Services
3 8 (10.00%) Flask
3 8 (10.00%) Kafka
3 8 (10.00%) REST
4 7 (8.75%) CSS
4 7 (8.75%) HTML
5 6 (7.50%) FastAPI
5 6 (7.50%) React
6 5 (6.25%) Plotly
6 5 (6.25%) RESTful
7 4 (5.00%) Node.js
7 4 (5.00%) pytest
8 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.50%) Celery
8 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
8 2 (2.50%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Equities
1 8 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.75%) Life Science
3 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.25%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (21.25%) Agile
3 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
4 13 (16.25%) Analytics
5 11 (13.75%) Design Patterns
5 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
6 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.25%) AI
7 9 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (10.00%) Fintech
8 8 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (8.75%) Machine Learning
10 6 (7.50%) Data Analysis
10 6 (7.50%) ETL
10 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.50%) OOP
10 6 (7.50%) Software Architecture
10 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (21.25%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.00%) Ruby
5 3 (3.75%) Java
6 2 (2.50%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) Go
6 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) GDPR
1 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Argo
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.75%) Databricks
1 3 (3.75%) Dataiku
1 3 (3.75%) Google
2 1 (1.25%) SimCorp
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