Python Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Python Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 324 321
Rank change year-on-year +166 -3 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 295 298 412
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.97% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 0.92% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 277 266 363
10th Percentile £74,000 £53,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £82,500 £66,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% +16.13%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £107,500 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.86% -2.78% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Python Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Python Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Python Engineer.

Python Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Python Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Engineer 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 permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 295 (100.00%) Python
2 235 (79.66%) AWS
3 232 (78.64%) Agile
4 222 (75.25%) Software Engineering
5 210 (71.19%) Finance
6 208 (70.51%) Front Office
7 207 (70.17%) Asset Management
8 193 (65.42%) Apache Airflow
9 188 (63.73%) Apache Iceberg
10 181 (61.36%) Dremio
10 181 (61.36%) dbt
10 181 (61.36%) Amazon Athena
11 176 (59.66%) Apache Arrow
12 158 (53.56%) Apache
13 146 (49.49%) Kubernetes
14 143 (48.47%) Apache Ignite
15 141 (47.80%) Java
16 136 (46.10%) Docker
17 135 (45.76%) JavaScript
18 133 (45.08%) Terraform
19 126 (42.71%) CI/CD
20 122 (41.36%) DevOps
21 110 (37.29%) TypeScript
22 108 (36.61%) Amazon ECS
23 105 (35.59%) Serverless
23 105 (35.59%) Pandas
23 105 (35.59%) NumPy
23 105 (35.59%) Fixed Income
24 103 (34.92%) AWS Lambda
25 102 (34.58%) PySpark

Python Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 193 (65.42%) Apache Airflow
2 158 (53.56%) Apache
3 78 (26.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 235 (79.66%) AWS
2 181 (61.36%) dbt
3 108 (36.61%) Amazon ECS
4 105 (35.59%) Serverless
5 103 (34.92%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (27.46%) GCP
7 78 (26.44%) OpenShift
8 58 (19.66%) Snowflake
9 40 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (9.83%) Amazon S3
11 29 (9.83%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (5.42%) Dagster
13 15 (5.08%) Azure
14 14 (4.75%) SaaS
15 11 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudTrail
17 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
17 2 (0.68%) GitHub
17 2 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) 5G
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (63.73%) Apache Iceberg
2 181 (61.36%) Amazon Athena
2 181 (61.36%) Dremio
3 176 (59.66%) Apache Arrow
4 143 (48.47%) Apache Ignite
5 55 (18.64%) Data Lake
6 28 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (8.81%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (8.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.37%) Apache Hudi
10 7 (2.37%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.37%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.03%) MySQL
12 5 (1.69%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.68%) Big Data
14 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
15 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 71 (24.07%) Artifactory
2 19 (6.44%) GitLab
3 11 (3.73%) SonarQube
3 11 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (2.37%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.36%) Git
6 3 (1.02%) Appium
7 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.68%) JUnit
7 2 (0.68%) Postman
7 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.68%) TestNG
8 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 210 (71.19%) Finance
2 208 (70.51%) Front Office
3 92 (31.19%) Banking
4 58 (19.66%) Investment Banking
5 14 (4.75%) Social Skills
6 13 (4.41%) Law
7 6 (2.03%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.36%) Military
9 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Publishing
9 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (35.59%) NumPy
1 105 (35.59%) Pandas
2 102 (34.58%) PySpark
2 102 (34.58%) SciPy
3 87 (29.49%) Kafka
4 72 (24.41%) gRPC
4 72 (24.41%) Protocol Buffers
5 71 (24.07%) J2EE
6 51 (17.29%) AngularJS
7 49 (16.61%) Node.js
7 49 (16.61%) Vue
8 48 (16.27%) React
9 28 (9.49%) REST
10 22 (7.46%) Redux
11 16 (5.42%) Flask
12 14 (4.75%) FastAPI
13 11 (3.73%) Django
14 8 (2.71%) CSS
14 8 (2.71%) HTML
14 8 (2.71%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 105 (35.59%) Fixed Income
2 77 (26.10%) Equities
2 77 (26.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (19.66%) Derivative
3 58 (19.66%) Hedge funds
4 39 (13.22%) Pricing Data
5 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.68%) IoT
7 2 (0.68%) NHS
7 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Blog
8 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.34%) GNSS
8 1 (0.34%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.71%) Unix
2 5 (1.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (78.64%) Agile
2 222 (75.25%) Software Engineering
3 207 (70.17%) Asset Management
4 126 (42.71%) CI/CD
5 122 (41.36%) DevOps
6 98 (33.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 91 (30.85%) Investment Management
8 84 (28.47%) Data Engineering
9 80 (27.12%) Fintech
9 80 (27.12%) Open Source
10 47 (15.93%) Performance Attribution
11 30 (10.17%) Containerisation
12 26 (8.81%) Risk Management
13 25 (8.47%) Order Management
14 22 (7.46%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 22 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (7.46%) Machine Learning
15 20 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (6.44%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (5.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Python
2 141 (47.80%) Java
3 135 (45.76%) JavaScript
4 110 (37.29%) TypeScript
5 75 (25.42%) Go
6 27 (9.15%) SQL
7 5 (1.69%) C++
8 4 (1.36%) Rust
9 3 (1.02%) C
10 2 (0.68%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) C#
11 1 (0.34%) Julia
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (3.39%) Degree
2 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.68%) PhD
4 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.71%) Accessibility
1 8 (2.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) FINRA
System Software
1 136 (46.10%) Docker
2 7 (2.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 146 (49.49%) Kubernetes
2 133 (45.08%) Terraform
3 16 (5.42%) Ansible
4 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (4.75%) Google
2 7 (2.37%) Red Hat
3 5 (1.69%) Databricks
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft