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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 471 531
Rank change year-on-year -67 +60 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 89 56 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 38 38
10th Percentile £483 £463 £511
25th Percentile £541 £600 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £788 £938 £800
90th Percentile £892 - £906
UK excluding London median daily rate £619 £475 £536
% change year-on-year +30.26% -11.42% -15.88%

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 43,041 27,334 40,483
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.61% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,619 17,888 26,425
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,759 1,027 2,641
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%

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 25 April 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 13 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 25 April 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 -67 71 £700 -12.50% 17
London -41 56 £700 -17.65% 12
Work from Home -5 40 £638 +6.25% 14
UK excluding London -91 18 £619 +30.26% 9
North of England -66 6 £569 +19.74% 3
South East - 6 £560 - 2
North West -37 3 £500 -21.57% 1
Yorkshire -58 3 £638 +34.21%
Scotland -4 2 - -
West Midlands -57 2 £638 +15.91%
Midlands -58 2 £638 +15.91%
Wales - 1 £638 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £638 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 89 (100.00%) Python
2 32 (35.96%) SC Cleared
2 32 (35.96%) Security Cleared
3 22 (24.72%) Agile
3 22 (24.72%) Docker
4 18 (20.22%) Git
4 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.10%) Kubernetes
6 16 (17.98%) AWS
7 15 (16.85%) CI/CD
7 15 (16.85%) Data Hub
7 15 (16.85%) Django
8 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
10 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.48%) SQL
11 11 (12.36%) React
12 10 (11.24%) Analytics
12 10 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (11.24%) Kafka
13 9 (10.11%) Azure
13 9 (10.11%) GitHub
13 9 (10.11%) NumPy
13 9 (10.11%) Pandas
13 9 (10.11%) Terraform
14 8 (8.99%) C#
14 8 (8.99%) Electronic Trading
14 8 (8.99%) Fintech
14 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (8.99%) Microservices

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 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.98%) AWS
2 9 (10.11%) Azure
2 9 (10.11%) GitHub
3 7 (7.87%) Serverless
4 6 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.49%) GCP
6 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.37%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.25%) Sentry
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.12%) Apigee
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.12%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.12%) Dagster
8 1 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.85%) Data Hub
2 2 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.12%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 27 (30.34%) Finance
2 23 (25.84%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Front Office
7 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) Django
2 11 (12.36%) React
3 10 (11.24%) Kafka
4 9 (10.11%) NumPy
4 9 (10.11%) Pandas
5 8 (8.99%) RESTful
6 7 (7.87%) .NET
6 7 (7.87%) Flask
7 5 (5.62%) CSS
7 5 (5.62%) HTML
7 5 (5.62%) Web Services
8 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.49%) Celery
8 4 (4.49%) Node.js
8 4 (4.49%) REST
9 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.37%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.37%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Equities
1 8 (8.99%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.25%) Derivative
3 2 (2.25%) Life Science
4 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Unix
2 2 (2.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) Agile
2 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (16.85%) CI/CD
4 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
5 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
6 10 (11.24%) Analytics
6 10 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (8.99%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (8.99%) Fintech
7 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.99%) Microservices
7 8 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (7.87%) Code Quality
8 7 (7.87%) Machine Learning
9 6 (6.74%) AI
9 6 (6.74%) Design Patterns
9 6 (6.74%) Open Source
9 6 (6.74%) Software Architecture
10 5 (5.62%) ETL
10 5 (5.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.48%) SQL
4 8 (8.99%) C#
4 8 (8.99%) Ruby
5 5 (5.62%) Go
6 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.37%) Java
8 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 32 (35.96%) SC Cleared
1 32 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Degree
System Software
1 22 (24.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Databricks
2 2 (2.25%) Google
3 1 (1.12%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.12%) Splunk