Python Jobs with Work from Home Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,980 6,351 12,509
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.59% 15.97% 17.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.49% 32.51% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,956 3,800 5,713
10th Percentile £42,375 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,900 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £120,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,970 19,535 43,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.66% 49.12% 59.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 14,311 24,024
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,047 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python.

Python salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Python salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 467 (11.73%) Apache Airflow
2 458 (11.51%) Apache
3 229 (5.75%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.43%) GeoServer
5 108 (2.71%) Apache Spark
6 49 (1.23%) SAS
7 33 (0.83%) Confluence
8 28 (0.70%) nginx
9 20 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.18%) CMS
10 7 (0.18%) Luigi
11 6 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.13%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.10%) WordPress
14 3 (0.075%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.075%) Drupal
14 3 (0.075%) SharePoint
Applications
1 65 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 65 (1.63%) Simulink
2 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.23%) SPSS
4 8 (0.20%) GNU Octave
5 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.050%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.050%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.050%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.050%) Stata
8 1 (0.025%) Blender
8 1 (0.025%) CATIA
8 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) Odoo
4 4 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.075%) Shopify
6 2 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.050%) Primavera
6 2 (0.050%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.050%) Relativity
7 1 (0.025%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.025%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,897 (47.66%) AWS
2 1,151 (28.92%) Azure
3 673 (16.91%) GCP
4 454 (11.41%) dbt
5 440 (11.06%) Snowflake
6 283 (7.11%) Power Platform
7 267 (6.71%) Serverless
8 205 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 165 (4.15%) SaaS
10 161 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (3.77%) GitHub
12 146 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
13 101 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 71 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
15 70 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 67 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
17 65 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 54 (1.36%) PaaS
19 48 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.62%) Firewall
2 90 (2.26%) VPN
3 83 (2.09%) Internet
4 82 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 73 (1.83%) DNS
6 68 (1.71%) SNMP
7 60 (1.51%) Network Security
8 59 (1.48%) IPsec
9 44 (1.11%) WAN
10 36 (0.90%) LAN
11 27 (0.68%) Wireless
12 21 (0.53%) DHCP
13 19 (0.48%) HTTP
14 18 (0.45%) MQTT
15 15 (0.38%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.33%) VSAN
17 12 (0.30%) 5G
18 11 (0.28%) SSL
19 10 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
19 10 (0.25%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (11.68%) Data Lake
2 457 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 377 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
4 372 (9.35%) Dremio
5 360 (9.05%) Apache Arrow
6 339 (8.52%) Tableau
7 307 (7.71%) Apache Ignite
8 257 (6.46%) Power BI
9 248 (6.23%) GIS
10 218 (5.48%) QGIS
11 213 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
12 196 (4.92%) SQL Server
13 190 (4.77%) Big Data
14 151 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
15 143 (3.59%) Relational Database
16 141 (3.54%) NoSQL
17 131 (3.29%) MongoDB
18 114 (2.86%) MySQL
19 99 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
20 78 (1.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 565 (14.20%) Git
2 234 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 154 (3.87%) GitLab
4 109 (2.74%) JIRA
5 31 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 26 (0.65%) Subversion
7 25 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 25 (0.63%) Selenium
8 24 (0.60%) JDeveloper
9 23 (0.58%) Maven
10 22 (0.55%) JUnit
11 20 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 18 (0.45%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
13 17 (0.43%) Visual Studio
14 16 (0.40%) Appium
15 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,282 (32.21%) Finance
2 918 (23.07%) Social Skills
3 541 (13.59%) Front Office
4 525 (13.19%) Banking
5 451 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
6 307 (7.71%) Investment Banking
7 281 (7.06%) Retail
8 159 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
9 155 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 118 (2.96%) Law
11 116 (2.91%) Marketing
12 105 (2.64%) Public Sector
13 101 (2.54%) Back Office
14 92 (2.31%) Manufacturing
15 79 (1.98%) Electronics
16 76 (1.91%) Legal
17 72 (1.81%) Games
17 72 (1.81%) Telecoms
18 62 (1.56%) Tech for Good
19 52 (1.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,215 (30.53%) Senior
2 1,041 (26.16%) Software Engineer
3 734 (18.44%) Developer
4 499 (12.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 419 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 418 (10.50%) Lead
7 386 (9.70%) Analyst
8 348 (8.74%) Python Engineer
9 310 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
10 275 (6.91%) Python Developer
11 219 (5.50%) Data Analyst
12 199 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
13 180 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 179 (4.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 176 (4.42%) Software Developer
16 169 (4.25%) Senior Developer
17 163 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
18 144 (3.62%) AWS Software Engineer
19 133 (3.34%) Data Scientist
20 130 (3.27%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (16.16%) React
2 419 (10.53%) Pandas
3 389 (9.77%) gRPC
4 382 (9.60%) Protocol Buffers
5 370 (9.30%) .NET
6 331 (8.32%) NumPy
7 300 (7.54%) CSS
8 297 (7.46%) SciPy
9 258 (6.48%) Node.js
10 231 (5.80%) Django
11 217 (5.45%) PostGIS
12 216 (5.43%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.40%) Leaflet
14 213 (5.35%) AngularJS
15 209 (5.25%) .NET Core
16 174 (4.37%) HTML
17 140 (3.52%) RESTful
18 124 (3.12%) Vue
19 123 (3.09%) PySpark
20 121 (3.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 533 (13.39%) Hedge funds
2 477 (11.98%) Fixed Income
3 454 (11.41%) Derivative
4 420 (10.55%) Equities
5 386 (9.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 215 (5.40%) Algorithms
7 182 (4.57%) Data Structures
8 120 (3.02%) IoT
9 113 (2.84%) Data Centre
10 104 (2.61%) Cloud Native
11 103 (2.59%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.11%) Client/Server
13 79 (1.98%) Clustering
14 67 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
15 65 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
16 54 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
17 53 (1.33%) Management Information System
18 48 (1.21%) Onboarding
19 44 (1.11%) Public Cloud
20 43 (1.08%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 683 (17.16%) Linux
2 237 (5.95%) Windows
3 84 (2.11%) Embedded Linux
3 84 (2.11%) Ubuntu
4 82 (2.06%) Unix
5 76 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
7 51 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 50 (1.26%) CentOS
9 47 (1.18%) Android
10 23 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.43%) Debian
12 16 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.25%) AIX
13 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.25%) Solaris
14 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.15%) SUSE
16 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,579 (39.67%) Software Engineering
2 1,405 (35.30%) Agile
3 988 (24.82%) DevOps
4 925 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
5 709 (17.81%) Analytics
6 632 (15.88%) Asset Management
7 546 (13.72%) CI/CD
8 545 (13.69%) Actionable Insight
9 534 (13.42%) Machine Learning
10 512 (12.86%) Investment Management
11 479 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence
12 439 (11.03%) Data Science
13 398 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 378 (9.50%) Computer Science
15 373 (9.37%) Data Pipeline
16 361 (9.07%) Visualisation
17 355 (8.92%) Full Stack Development
18 326 (8.19%) Mathematics
19 315 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
20 314 (7.89%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,280 (32.16%) SQL
2 1,232 (30.95%) JavaScript
3 986 (24.77%) Java
4 595 (14.95%) TypeScript
5 516 (12.96%) C#
6 342 (8.59%) Bash
7 312 (7.84%) C
8 248 (6.23%) C++
9 241 (6.06%) Go
10 234 (5.88%) PowerShell
11 218 (5.48%) R
12 109 (2.74%) Ruby
13 99 (2.49%) Perl
14 90 (2.26%) Embedded C
15 74 (1.86%) Rust
16 73 (1.83%) Scala
17 59 (1.48%) T-SQL
18 51 (1.28%) PHP
19 50 (1.26%) Kotlin
20 46 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 820 (20.60%) Degree
2 611 (15.35%) Security Cleared
3 412 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 234 (5.88%) DBS Check
5 218 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 178 (4.47%) Master's Degree
7 92 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 76 (1.91%) PhD
9 52 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
12 26 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.63%) CISSP
13 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.45%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.40%) CEH
17 15 (0.38%) SANS
18 13 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 145 (3.64%) QA
3 37 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 31 (0.78%) NIST
5 27 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.45%) GDPR
8 8 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.15%) SLA
10 5 (0.13%) NCSC
11 4 (0.10%) COBIT
11 4 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.10%) PMO
11 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.075%) CRD IV
12 3 (0.075%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.050%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.050%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 516 (12.96%) Docker
2 102 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 38 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.93%) Firmware
6 35 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.48%) vSphere
9 16 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.30%) NFS
12 10 (0.25%) pfSense
13 5 (0.13%) KVM
14 4 (0.10%) Ceph
15 3 (0.075%) Gluster
15 3 (0.075%) oVirt
16 1 (0.025%) HDFS
16 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.025%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 541 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 468 (11.76%) Terraform
3 303 (7.61%) Ansible
4 157 (3.94%) Prometheus
5 89 (2.24%) Puppet
6 77 (1.93%) Grafana
6 77 (1.93%) vCenter Server
7 50 (1.26%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.48%) Nmap
9 16 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 13 (0.33%) Nagios
11 13 (0.33%) Packer
12 11 (0.28%) Kibana
13 10 (0.25%) HAProxy
13 10 (0.25%) Salt
13 10 (0.25%) SCDPM
14 9 (0.23%) Graphite
15 8 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 363 (9.12%) Databricks
2 242 (6.08%) Microsoft
3 220 (5.53%) ESRI
4 207 (5.20%) Google
5 143 (3.59%) Oracle
6 136 (3.42%) VMware
7 97 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 54 (1.36%) NetApp
8 54 (1.36%) Palo Alto
8 54 (1.36%) SolidFire
9 52 (1.31%) SAP
10 42 (1.06%) Xilinx
11 34 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 30 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 29 (0.73%) Micro Focus
13 29 (0.73%) Splunk
14 21 (0.53%) NVIDIA
15 19 (0.48%) Dell
15 19 (0.48%) F5
16 17 (0.43%) Qualys