Python Software Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Python Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Python Software 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 280 443 506
Rank change year-on-year +163 +63 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 120 150 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.46% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 120 131 143
10th Percentile £76,250 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £87,813 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +43.22% +0.37%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £147,500 £161,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £107,500 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% +25.00% -13.51%

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 Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Python Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python Software 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 Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (100.00%) Python
1 120 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 112 (93.33%) Agile
3 110 (91.67%) AWS
4 106 (88.33%) Finance
5 105 (87.50%) Front Office
5 105 (87.50%) Fixed Income
5 105 (87.50%) Asset Management
5 105 (87.50%) Apache Airflow
5 105 (87.50%) Amazon Athena
5 105 (87.50%) Dremio
5 105 (87.50%) dbt
5 105 (87.50%) Apache Arrow
5 105 (87.50%) Apache Iceberg
6 100 (83.33%) TypeScript
7 99 (82.50%) JavaScript
8 97 (80.83%) Pandas
8 97 (80.83%) SciPy
8 97 (80.83%) NumPy
9 86 (71.67%) Investment Management
10 80 (66.67%) Apache
11 77 (64.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 77 (64.17%) Equities
12 72 (60.00%) Protocol Buffers
12 72 (60.00%) gRPC
12 72 (60.00%) Apache Ignite
13 64 (53.33%) Java
14 60 (50.00%) Banking
14 60 (50.00%) GCP
15 58 (48.33%) Hedge funds

Python Software 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
1 105 (87.50%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 110 (91.67%) AWS
2 105 (87.50%) dbt
3 60 (50.00%) GCP
4 58 (48.33%) Snowflake
5 11 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (9.17%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (9.17%) Dagster
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Broadband
1 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (87.50%) Amazon Athena
1 105 (87.50%) Apache Arrow
1 105 (87.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 105 (87.50%) Dremio
2 72 (60.00%) Apache Ignite
3 50 (41.67%) Data Lake
4 26 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.67%) MySQL
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) GIS
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) GitLab
2 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 106 (88.33%) Finance
2 105 (87.50%) Front Office
3 60 (50.00%) Banking
4 58 (48.33%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 4 (3.33%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Law
6 3 (2.50%) Military
6 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Publishing
6 3 (2.50%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.83%) Aeronautics
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (80.83%) NumPy
1 97 (80.83%) Pandas
1 97 (80.83%) SciPy
2 72 (60.00%) gRPC
2 72 (60.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 50 (41.67%) AngularJS
4 49 (40.83%) Vue
5 47 (39.17%) Node.js
5 47 (39.17%) React
6 22 (18.33%) Redux
7 19 (15.83%) PySpark
8 3 (2.50%) Kafka
8 3 (2.50%) RESTful
9 1 (0.83%) .NET
9 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.83%) Django
9 1 (0.83%) Flask
9 1 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 105 (87.50%) Fixed Income
2 77 (64.17%) Equities
2 77 (64.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (48.33%) Derivative
3 58 (48.33%) Hedge funds
4 39 (32.50%) Pricing Data
5 3 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.83%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 112 (93.33%) Agile
3 105 (87.50%) Asset Management
4 86 (71.67%) Investment Management
5 47 (39.17%) Fintech
5 47 (39.17%) Performance Attribution
6 25 (20.83%) Order Management
6 25 (20.83%) Risk Management
7 22 (18.33%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 11 (9.17%) Migration
9 8 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 8 (6.67%) Data Management
9 8 (6.67%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.17%) Coaching
10 5 (4.17%) Computer Science
10 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (3.33%) Scrum
11 4 (3.33%) TDD
12 3 (2.50%) Extreme Programming
12 3 (2.50%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 120 (100.00%) Python
2 100 (83.33%) TypeScript
3 99 (82.50%) JavaScript
4 64 (53.33%) Java
5 12 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (2.50%) C
6 3 (2.50%) C++
6 3 (2.50%) Rust
7 1 (0.83%) Julia
7 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (4.17%) Degree
2 3 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.50%) Ansible
2 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.50%) Terraform
67 Python Software Engineer jobs with Hybrid/WFH options