Hybrid/Remote Python Job Trends

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,565 2,377 3,661
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.30% 16.27% 11.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.32% 41.09% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 1,421 2,940
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,475
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,870 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +3.27% +0.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -3.45%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,997 5,785 13,470
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.49% 39.60% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,695 3,985 11,417
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Python job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Python
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Python over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Python salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 77 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.30%) Apache
4 22 (1.41%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.064%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.064%) CMS
11 1 (0.064%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.26%) SPSS
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.064%) Blender
8 1 (0.064%) Maya
8 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.064%) Actimize
5 1 (0.064%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.064%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 626 (40.00%) AWS
2 546 (34.89%) Azure
3 257 (16.42%) GCP
4 150 (9.58%) Power Platform
5 133 (8.50%) GitHub
6 114 (7.28%) Serverless
7 112 (7.16%) SaaS
8 99 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 87 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 51 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
14 49 (3.13%) Snowflake
15 47 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 46 (2.94%) dbt
17 44 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (2.49%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 175 (11.18%) Broadband
2 73 (4.66%) Firewall
3 39 (2.49%) VPN
4 25 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (1.47%) LAN
6 22 (1.41%) VLAN
7 21 (1.34%) WAN
8 19 (1.21%) DNS
8 19 (1.21%) Wireshark
9 17 (1.09%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.02%) BGP
10 16 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.02%) NGFW
11 15 (0.96%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.89%) Network Security
13 13 (0.83%) MPLS
14 12 (0.77%) 4G
14 12 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
14 12 (0.77%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.67%) Power BI
2 116 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.62%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (3.96%) Metadata
5 60 (3.83%) Tableau
6 57 (3.64%) MongoDB
7 56 (3.58%) NoSQL
8 55 (3.51%) Data Lake
8 55 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 52 (3.32%) BigQuery
10 41 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (1.98%) Delta Lake
13 31 (1.98%) MySQL
14 27 (1.73%) Big Data
15 26 (1.66%) Semantic Layer
16 25 (1.60%) DynamoDB
17 24 (1.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 133 (8.50%) Git
2 63 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.39%) GitLab
4 32 (2.04%) JIRA
5 18 (1.15%) Jaeger
6 17 (1.09%) MLflow
7 11 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.51%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.38%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.38%) Locust
12 5 (0.32%) Selenium
12 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.32%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 438 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 344 (21.98%) Finance
3 265 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.81%) Banking
7 71 (4.54%) Law
8 61 (3.90%) Retail
9 51 (3.26%) Front Office
10 45 (2.88%) Marketing
11 43 (2.75%) Legal
11 43 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.49%) Games
13 27 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.21%) Publishing
15 17 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.96%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.89%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.89%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 354 (22.62%) Senior
2 298 (19.04%) Developer
3 253 (16.17%) Lead
4 201 (12.84%) Data Engineer
5 182 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 155 (9.90%) Python Engineer
7 114 (7.28%) Python Developer
8 94 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
9 80 (5.11%) Analyst
10 68 (4.35%) Data Scientist
11 63 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
12 61 (3.90%) Lead Developer
13 60 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
14 55 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 53 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
15 53 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
17 48 (3.07%) Architect
18 46 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 45 (2.88%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (9.84%) React
2 104 (6.65%) Kafka
3 99 (6.33%) Node.js
4 72 (4.60%) .NET
4 72 (4.60%) PySpark
5 70 (4.47%) PyTorch
6 65 (4.15%) REST
7 63 (4.03%) TensorFlow
8 57 (3.64%) RESTful
9 55 (3.51%) Django
10 49 (3.13%) gRPC
11 46 (2.94%) FastAPI
12 37 (2.36%) JSON
13 32 (2.04%) Redux
14 31 (1.98%) Vue
15 30 (1.92%) CSS
15 30 (1.92%) LangChain
16 28 (1.79%) Web Services
17 27 (1.73%) Flask
17 27 (1.73%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 145 (9.27%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.62%) Video\Live Streaming
4 76 (4.86%) Algorithms
5 69 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.83%) Data Structures
6 60 (3.83%) Low-Code
7 53 (3.39%) Over-the-Top Content
8 44 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.56%) AI Agents
11 35 (2.24%) Fixed Income
12 32 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 32 (2.04%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.79%) Data Centre
14 26 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 26 (1.66%) Equities
15 23 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 23 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 180 (11.50%) Linux
2 60 (3.83%) Windows
3 41 (2.62%) Unix
4 29 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.45%) Android
8 6 (0.38%) Debian
8 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.064%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.064%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (34.44%) CI/CD
2 443 (28.31%) Software Engineering
3 431 (27.54%) AI
4 398 (25.43%) Agile
5 365 (23.32%) DevOps
6 361 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
7 310 (19.81%) Machine Learning
8 305 (19.49%) Mentoring
9 284 (18.15%) Analytics
10 278 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 262 (16.74%) Data Science
12 231 (14.76%) Data Pipeline
13 222 (14.19%) Containerisation
14 220 (14.06%) Data Modelling
15 218 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 203 (12.97%) Data Engineering
17 179 (11.44%) Test Automation
18 176 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
19 170 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
20 166 (10.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 446 (28.50%) SQL
2 295 (18.85%) Java
3 233 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 187 (11.95%) Go
5 151 (9.65%) TypeScript
6 147 (9.39%) PowerShell
7 144 (9.20%) Bash
8 139 (8.88%) C#
9 95 (6.07%) Scala
10 70 (4.47%) C++
11 52 (3.32%) R
12 35 (2.24%) C
13 33 (2.11%) PHP
14 23 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.21%) Apex Code
16 17 (1.09%) Bicep
17 16 (1.02%) VBA
18 14 (0.89%) Perl
18 14 (0.89%) Ruby
19 13 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 237 (15.14%) Degree
2 136 (8.69%) Security Cleared
3 108 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 46 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 25 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.28%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.96%) PhD
11 13 (0.83%) CEH
12 12 (0.77%) ACCA
12 12 (0.77%) CIMA
12 12 (0.77%) OSCP
13 10 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.64%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (8.88%) Data Quality
2 101 (6.45%) QA
3 41 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.41%) NIST
6 16 (1.02%) GDPR
7 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.64%) ISO 22301
9 9 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.51%) SLA
11 6 (0.38%) GRC
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) PMO
12 5 (0.32%) WCAG
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 270 (17.25%) Docker
2 38 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.89%) Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.38%) KVM
7 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (18.02%) Terraform
2 231 (14.76%) Kubernetes
3 110 (7.03%) Ansible
4 82 (5.24%) Grafana
5 69 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.68%) Argo
7 22 (1.41%) Kustomize
8 16 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.83%) Istio
10 12 (0.77%) Proxmox
11 11 (0.70%) Packer
12 9 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.45%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.45%) Puppet
14 6 (0.38%) Graylog
14 6 (0.38%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.32%) FTK
15 5 (0.32%) SCCM
16 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 238 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.54%) Databricks
3 76 (4.86%) Google
4 52 (3.32%) VMware
5 51 (3.26%) Cisco
6 45 (2.88%) Typelevel
7 36 (2.30%) Oracle
8 33 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.92%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.66%) Red Hat
11 25 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.34%) Foundry
13 17 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.02%) Splunk
15 15 (0.96%) Arista
15 15 (0.96%) Aruba
15 15 (0.96%) Commvault
15 15 (0.96%) F5
15 15 (0.96%) NetScout
16 14 (0.89%) MuleSoft