Hybrid/Remote Senior Python Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Python Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 298 402
Rank change year-on-year -3 +104 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 16 32 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.27% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 17
10th Percentile £527 £505 £413
25th Percentile £602 £581 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £775
90th Percentile £840 £950 £906
UK median daily rate £600 £685 £650
% change year-on-year -12.41% +5.38% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,041 11,725 19,208
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 93.49% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,960 7,505 13,575
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 286 436
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.13 £16.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £32.01 £24.74
Median hourly rate £38.70 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £69.06
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Senior Python Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Senior Python Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Senior Python Developer job vacancies

Senior Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Senior Python Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Senior Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (43.75%) Docker
3 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 7 (43.75%) Linux
4 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (37.50%) SDLC
5 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 5 (31.25%) Kdb+
5 5 (31.25%) Data Science
5 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 5 (31.25%) C++
5 5 (31.25%) Front Office
5 5 (31.25%) Finance
5 5 (31.25%) Banking
5 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
5 5 (31.25%) KDB
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) C#
7 3 (18.75%) Analytics
7 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 3 (18.75%) GCP
7 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
7 3 (18.75%) .NET
7 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (18.75%) AWS
7 3 (18.75%) NoSQL

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) KDB
1 5 (31.25%) Kdb+
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Front Office
1 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (12.50%) gRPC
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) NumPy
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (6.25%) Flask
3 1 (6.25%) FpML
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) mypy
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Debian
2 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) SDLC
2 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) Data Science
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) BDD
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Release Management
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 2 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
26 Senior Python Developer jobs with hybrid/remote options