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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,870 6,515 11,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.43% 15.67% 16.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.03% 31.83% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,859 3,947 5,675
10th Percentile £42,175 £43,976 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £117,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +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 13,808 20,465 40,492
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 49.22% 58.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,416 15,044 23,932
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £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 £78,750 £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

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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 8 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
1 366 (9.46%) Apache
2 358 (9.25%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.89%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.58%) GeoServer
5 125 (3.23%) Apache Spark
6 55 (1.42%) SAS
7 33 (0.85%) Confluence
8 27 (0.70%) nginx
9 20 (0.52%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.18%) CMS
11 6 (0.16%) 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%) Luigi
13 4 (0.10%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.10%) WordPress
14 3 (0.078%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.078%) Drupal
Applications
1 67 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.32%) Simulink
3 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.28%) SPSS
4 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.21%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.052%) CANalyzer
8 2 (0.052%) EViews
8 2 (0.052%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.052%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.052%) Stata
9 1 (0.026%) Blender
9 1 (0.026%) CATIA
9 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) Odoo
4 4 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.078%) Shopify
6 2 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.052%) Primavera
6 2 (0.052%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.052%) Relativity
7 1 (0.026%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,766 (45.63%) AWS
2 1,118 (28.89%) Azure
3 652 (16.85%) GCP
4 353 (9.12%) Snowflake
5 344 (8.89%) dbt
6 295 (7.62%) Serverless
7 269 (6.95%) Power Platform
8 217 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 171 (4.42%) SaaS
10 163 (4.21%) GitHub
11 159 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
12 151 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
13 97 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 69 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
17 58 (1.50%) PaaS
18 50 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
18 50 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.62%) Firewall
2 90 (2.33%) VPN
3 84 (2.17%) Internet
4 82 (2.12%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.91%) DNS
6 67 (1.73%) SNMP
7 59 (1.52%) IPsec
8 54 (1.40%) Network Security
9 46 (1.19%) WAN
10 35 (0.90%) LAN
11 27 (0.70%) Wireless
12 21 (0.54%) HTTP
13 20 (0.52%) DHCP
14 19 (0.49%) MQTT
15 15 (0.39%) 5G
16 14 (0.36%) Wireshark
17 13 (0.34%) VSAN
18 11 (0.28%) SSL
18 11 (0.28%) tcpdump
19 9 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
2 365 (9.43%) Data Lake
3 301 (7.78%) Tableau
4 276 (7.13%) Amazon Athena
5 263 (6.80%) Dremio
6 256 (6.61%) Apache Arrow
7 246 (6.36%) GIS
8 244 (6.30%) Power BI
9 218 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
9 218 (5.63%) QGIS
10 217 (5.61%) Apache Ignite
11 196 (5.06%) SQL Server
12 184 (4.75%) Big Data
13 157 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
14 149 (3.85%) Relational Database
15 132 (3.41%) MongoDB
15 132 (3.41%) NoSQL
16 116 (3.00%) MySQL
17 92 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
18 85 (2.20%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 555 (14.34%) Git
2 237 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 141 (3.64%) GitLab
4 110 (2.84%) JIRA
5 36 (0.93%) JDeveloper
6 31 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 27 (0.70%) Maven
7 27 (0.70%) Selenium
7 27 (0.70%) Subversion
8 26 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.59%) JUnit
10 21 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.47%) Appium
11 18 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
12 17 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
12 17 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 1,217 (31.45%) Finance
2 873 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 461 (11.91%) Front Office
4 459 (11.86%) Banking
5 437 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
6 265 (6.85%) Retail
7 233 (6.02%) Investment Banking
8 154 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 139 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
10 122 (3.15%) Law
10 122 (3.15%) Marketing
11 109 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 106 (2.74%) Back Office
13 91 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 83 (2.14%) Electronics
15 77 (1.99%) Games
16 76 (1.96%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.83%) Legal
18 64 (1.65%) Tech for Good
19 51 (1.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,137 (29.38%) Senior
2 987 (25.50%) Software Engineer
3 723 (18.68%) Developer
4 449 (11.60%) Senior Software Engineer
5 415 (10.72%) Data Engineer
6 384 (9.92%) Lead
7 360 (9.30%) Analyst
8 302 (7.80%) Python Engineer
9 270 (6.98%) Python Developer
10 268 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
11 190 (4.91%) Data Analyst
12 187 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 174 (4.50%) Senior Developer
14 161 (4.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 159 (4.11%) Software Developer
16 156 (4.03%) Python Software Engineer
17 143 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
18 129 (3.33%) Data Scientist
19 122 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
20 118 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 675 (17.44%) React
2 374 (9.66%) .NET
3 323 (8.35%) Pandas
4 292 (7.55%) CSS
5 287 (7.42%) gRPC
6 280 (7.24%) Protocol Buffers
7 258 (6.67%) Node.js
8 243 (6.28%) NumPy
9 219 (5.66%) PostGIS
10 216 (5.58%) OpenLayers
11 215 (5.56%) Django
11 215 (5.56%) Leaflet
12 212 (5.48%) .NET Core
13 207 (5.35%) AngularJS
13 207 (5.35%) SciPy
14 169 (4.37%) HTML
15 135 (3.49%) Kafka
16 127 (3.28%) RESTful
17 118 (3.05%) Spring
18 115 (2.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 446 (11.52%) Hedge funds
2 394 (10.18%) Fixed Income
3 379 (9.79%) Derivative
4 337 (8.71%) Equities
5 297 (7.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 224 (5.79%) Algorithms
7 191 (4.94%) Data Structures
8 123 (3.18%) IoT
9 110 (2.84%) Data Centre
10 107 (2.76%) Cloud Native
11 99 (2.56%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.17%) Client/Server
13 70 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.73%) Clustering
14 67 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
15 56 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
16 51 (1.32%) Public Cloud
17 50 (1.29%) Onboarding
18 49 (1.27%) Management Information System
19 46 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 698 (18.04%) Linux
2 249 (6.43%) Windows
3 83 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 81 (2.09%) Unix
5 78 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
5 78 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 55 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 54 (1.40%) Data ONTAP
8 48 (1.24%) CentOS
9 44 (1.14%) Android
10 26 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.39%) Debian
12 13 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.26%) AIX
13 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.26%) Solaris
14 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.16%) SUSE
16 5 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,498 (38.71%) Software Engineering
2 1,319 (34.08%) Agile
3 984 (25.43%) DevOps
4 916 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 676 (17.47%) Analytics
6 549 (14.19%) Actionable Insight
7 548 (14.16%) CI/CD
8 531 (13.72%) Asset Management
9 487 (12.58%) Machine Learning
10 441 (11.40%) Data Science
11 437 (11.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 434 (11.21%) Investment Management
13 412 (10.65%) Mentoring
14 346 (8.94%) Computer Science
15 345 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
16 337 (8.71%) Full Stack Development
17 330 (8.53%) Visualisation
18 318 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
19 312 (8.06%) Data Engineering
20 307 (7.93%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,237 (31.96%) SQL
2 1,124 (29.04%) JavaScript
3 940 (24.29%) Java
4 546 (14.11%) C#
5 502 (12.97%) TypeScript
6 377 (9.74%) Bash
7 306 (7.91%) C
8 245 (6.33%) C++
9 242 (6.25%) Go
10 233 (6.02%) R
11 228 (5.89%) PowerShell
12 148 (3.82%) Ruby
13 123 (3.18%) Perl
14 89 (2.30%) Embedded C
15 81 (2.09%) Scala
16 78 (2.02%) Rust
17 56 (1.45%) T-SQL
18 55 (1.42%) PHP
19 54 (1.40%) Kotlin
20 41 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 766 (19.79%) Degree
2 578 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 389 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 191 (4.94%) DBS Check
5 184 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 175 (4.52%) Master's Degree
7 79 (2.04%) PhD
8 63 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 49 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.57%) CISSP
15 19 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 18 (0.47%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.41%) CEH
18 15 (0.39%) SANS
19 13 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 162 (4.19%) QA
3 35 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 28 (0.72%) NIST
5 26 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.47%) GDPR
8 9 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.23%) CRD IV
9 7 (0.18%) IFRS
9 7 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 7 (0.18%) PMO
10 6 (0.16%) SLA
11 5 (0.13%) NCSC
12 4 (0.10%) COBIT
12 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.078%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.052%) GRC
14 2 (0.052%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 528 (13.64%) Docker
2 97 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 38 (0.98%) Firmware
5 37 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 34 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.49%) vSphere
9 16 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.34%) NFS
12 10 (0.26%) pfSense
13 4 (0.10%) Ceph
13 4 (0.10%) KVM
14 3 (0.078%) Gluster
14 3 (0.078%) oVirt
15 1 (0.026%) HDFS
15 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.026%) OpenSIPS
15 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 532 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 454 (11.73%) Terraform
3 298 (7.70%) Ansible
4 141 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 100 (2.58%) Puppet
6 78 (2.02%) Grafana
6 78 (2.02%) vCenter Server
7 54 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.49%) Nmap
9 18 (0.47%) Salt
10 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.39%) Packer
11 15 (0.39%) ZABBIX
12 11 (0.28%) HAProxy
12 11 (0.28%) Kibana
12 11 (0.28%) Nagios
13 10 (0.26%) Graphite
13 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (0.26%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 329 (8.50%) Databricks
2 248 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 226 (5.84%) Google
4 219 (5.66%) ESRI
5 157 (4.06%) Oracle
6 132 (3.41%) VMware
7 99 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 56 (1.45%) SAP
9 54 (1.40%) NetApp
9 54 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.40%) SolidFire
10 38 (0.98%) Bloomberg
11 29 (0.75%) Micro Focus
12 27 (0.70%) Splunk
12 27 (0.70%) Xilinx
13 26 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 25 (0.65%) Dell
15 21 (0.54%) NVIDIA
16 17 (0.44%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.44%) Qualys