Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 496 513
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 105 48 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 26 45
10th Percentile £455 £449 £578
25th Percentile £513 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.24% -
75th Percentile £788 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,075 £845 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £543 £488
% change year-on-year - +11.28% -25.00%

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 49,068 30,025 37,043
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 91.50% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,609 19,114 23,981
10th Percentile £331 £282 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,359 1,460 2,193
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.69 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -40.82% -1.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +7.50%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -56 92 £700 +16.67% 7
London -10 78 £725 -3.33% 4
Work from Home -45 32 £725 +3.57% 5
UK excluding London -100 17 £543 - 4
South East -70 6 £560 -6.67% 2
North of England -68 5 £425 -10.53%
Scotland -19 4 - -
Yorkshire -46 4 £425 -10.53%
South West -36 2 £575 -
North West - 1 £525 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Python
2 34 (32.38%) Agile
3 32 (30.48%) Django
4 26 (24.76%) CI/CD
4 26 (24.76%) SQL
5 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
5 24 (22.86%) Software Engineering
6 23 (21.90%) SC Cleared
7 20 (19.05%) AI
8 19 (18.10%) Azure
8 19 (18.10%) Git
9 18 (17.14%) REST
10 15 (14.29%) Docker
10 15 (14.29%) Microservices
11 14 (13.33%) AWS
11 14 (13.33%) GitHub
12 13 (12.38%) Analytics
12 13 (12.38%) API Development
12 13 (12.38%) FastAPI
12 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
14 11 (10.48%) C#
14 11 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (10.48%) RESTful
15 10 (9.52%) Code Quality
15 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
15 10 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (8.57%) .NET
16 9 (8.57%) Data Analysis
16 9 (8.57%) Data Pipeline

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 (1.90%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.86%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.10%) Azure
2 14 (13.33%) AWS
2 14 (13.33%) GitHub
3 11 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (8.57%) Serverless
5 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.81%) Cloud Run
6 4 (3.81%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.86%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.90%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.90%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.95%) Big Data
5 1 (0.95%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.95%) Redis
5 1 (0.95%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 19 (18.10%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.90%) GitLab
3 2 (1.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.95%) git-flow
General
1 33 (31.43%) Finance
2 16 (15.24%) Retail
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.48%) Banking
4 11 (10.48%) Front Office
4 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.95%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.48%) Django
2 18 (17.14%) REST
3 13 (12.38%) FastAPI
4 11 (10.48%) RESTful
5 9 (8.57%) .NET
5 9 (8.57%) Flask
5 9 (8.57%) React
6 8 (7.62%) Pandas
7 7 (6.67%) JSON
7 7 (6.67%) NumPy
8 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.76%) PySpark
9 4 (3.81%) Kafka
9 4 (3.81%) Next.js
9 4 (3.81%) OpenAPI
9 4 (3.81%) Swagger
10 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.86%) Celery
10 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Derivative
2 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.81%) Fixed Income
3 4 (3.81%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.86%) Equities
4 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Linux
1 9 (8.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) Agile
2 26 (24.76%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.86%) Software Engineering
4 20 (19.05%) AI
5 15 (14.29%) Microservices
6 13 (12.38%) Analytics
6 13 (12.38%) API Development
6 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (9.52%) Code Quality
7 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 10 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (8.57%) Data Analysis
8 9 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (8.57%) Data Science
9 8 (7.62%) Clean Code
9 8 (7.62%) Data Integration
9 8 (7.62%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (6.67%) Event-Driven
10 7 (6.67%) Lean Software Development
11 6 (5.71%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (24.76%) SQL
3 11 (10.48%) C#
4 7 (6.67%) Java
4 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.76%) Go
7 1 (0.95%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) C
7 1 (0.95%) C++
7 1 (0.95%) Cypher
7 1 (0.95%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Degree
3 5 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.62%) Databricks
2 3 (2.86%) SimCorp
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.95%) Splunk