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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,450 2,155 3,349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.60% 15.97% 11.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.42% 34.93% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,573 2,758
10th Percentile £42,800 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £94,688
90th Percentile £116,750 £122,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -4.93%

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 4,473 6,170 13,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 45.73% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 4,510 11,369
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,975 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 18 March 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 78 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.41%) Apache
4 19 (1.31%) SAS
5 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.48%) Confluence
8 7 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.34%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 36 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.069%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.34%) Shopify
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.069%) Actimize
6 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.069%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 612 (42.21%) AWS
2 549 (37.86%) Azure
3 228 (15.72%) GCP
4 191 (13.17%) GitHub
5 158 (10.90%) Power Platform
6 130 (8.97%) Serverless
7 118 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (7.72%) SaaS
9 106 (7.31%) Amazon S3
10 87 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
11 83 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 65 (4.48%) dbt
14 62 (4.28%) Snowflake
15 60 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 50 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
18 45 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 43 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
20 40 (2.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 132 (9.10%) Broadband
2 63 (4.34%) Firewall
3 37 (2.55%) VPN
4 36 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.79%) Wireshark
7 24 (1.66%) VLAN
8 20 (1.38%) BGP
9 17 (1.17%) LAN
9 17 (1.17%) NGFW
10 16 (1.10%) WAN
11 15 (1.03%) MPLS
11 15 (1.03%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.97%) DNS
13 12 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.83%) Network Security
14 11 (0.76%) 4G
14 11 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.76%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (9.45%) Power BI
2 103 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 76 (5.24%) Tableau
5 71 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 58 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 57 (3.93%) Metadata
8 50 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 47 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
10 41 (2.83%) BigQuery
11 39 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (2.69%) MongoDB
12 38 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (2.07%) Delta Lake
13 30 (2.07%) MySQL
14 28 (1.93%) Apache Iceberg
14 28 (1.93%) Redis
15 25 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 120 (8.28%) Git
2 74 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.66%) GitLab
4 39 (2.69%) JIRA
5 22 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (1.31%) Jaeger
7 17 (1.17%) Selenium
8 15 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.03%) MLflow
9 8 (0.55%) JMeter
9 8 (0.55%) JUnit
10 7 (0.48%) Postman
10 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.41%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.41%) ERwin
11 6 (0.41%) Locust
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.34%) Subversion
12 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 455 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.93%) Finance
3 223 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 90 (6.21%) Banking
7 67 (4.62%) Law
8 58 (4.00%) Front Office
9 53 (3.66%) Retail
10 44 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.69%) Marketing
12 34 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.28%) Legal
14 26 (1.79%) Publishing
15 24 (1.66%) Games
16 23 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.59%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.45%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.38%) Health Technology
18 20 (1.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 317 (21.86%) Senior
2 307 (21.17%) Developer
3 217 (14.97%) Lead
4 182 (12.55%) Data Engineer
5 155 (10.69%) Software Engineer
6 126 (8.69%) Python Developer
7 121 (8.34%) Python Engineer
8 82 (5.66%) Lead Developer
9 78 (5.38%) Analyst
10 71 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 67 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
12 60 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
13 58 (4.00%) Architect
13 58 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 56 (3.86%) Senior Developer
15 54 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
16 51 (3.52%) React Developer
17 48 (3.31%) Lead Python Developer
18 42 (2.90%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (11.17%) React
2 102 (7.03%) Node.js
3 100 (6.90%) Kafka
4 77 (5.31%) Django
5 69 (4.76%) REST
6 67 (4.62%) .NET
7 64 (4.41%) RESTful
8 54 (3.72%) PyTorch
9 53 (3.66%) PySpark
10 49 (3.38%) JSON
11 48 (3.31%) TensorFlow
12 47 (3.24%) gRPC
13 43 (2.97%) Flask
14 42 (2.90%) SOAP
15 40 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
15 40 (2.76%) Vue
16 37 (2.55%) FastAPI
16 37 (2.55%) XML
17 36 (2.48%) HTML
18 34 (2.34%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 63 (4.34%) Algorithms
5 62 (4.28%) Data Structures
6 55 (3.79%) Video\Live Streaming
7 53 (3.66%) Low-Code
8 50 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 44 (3.03%) Fixed Income
10 40 (2.76%) Over-the-Top Content
11 36 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (2.07%) Data Centre
14 26 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.59%) Equities
16 22 (1.52%) Public Cloud
17 20 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 195 (13.45%) Linux
2 76 (5.24%) Unix
3 64 (4.41%) Windows
4 26 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Debian
9 4 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.069%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.069%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (37.86%) CI/CD
2 426 (29.38%) Agile
3 417 (28.76%) DevOps
4 367 (25.31%) Software Engineering
5 363 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
6 342 (23.59%) AI
7 263 (18.14%) Mentoring
8 250 (17.24%) Analytics
9 244 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 242 (16.69%) Machine Learning
11 230 (15.86%) Containerisation
12 229 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 213 (14.69%) Data Modelling
13 213 (14.69%) Data Science
14 208 (14.34%) Data Pipeline
15 188 (12.97%) Data Engineering
16 176 (12.14%) Test Automation
17 172 (11.86%) Coaching
18 170 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
19 154 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 438 (30.21%) SQL
2 296 (20.41%) Java
3 252 (17.38%) JavaScript
4 167 (11.52%) Go
5 144 (9.93%) Bash
6 141 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 134 (9.24%) PowerShell
8 105 (7.24%) C#
9 78 (5.38%) Scala
10 56 (3.86%) C++
11 44 (3.03%) R
12 33 (2.28%) C
13 28 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 25 (1.72%) PL/SQL
15 24 (1.66%) Apex Code
15 24 (1.66%) Bicep
16 21 (1.45%) T-SQL
17 19 (1.31%) PHP
18 16 (1.10%) VBA
19 9 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 260 (17.93%) Degree
2 133 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 52 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.45%) PhD
10 21 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (1.38%) CEH
12 15 (1.03%) ACCA
12 15 (1.03%) CIMA
13 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.55%) OSCP
15 7 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 96 (6.62%) QA
3 54 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.93%) NIST
5 25 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.24%) GDPR
8 16 (1.10%) SLA
9 15 (1.03%) ISO 22301
10 14 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.69%) GRC
12 4 (0.28%) WCAG
13 3 (0.21%) EMIR
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) PMO
13 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.14%) ECSS
14 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 282 (19.45%) Docker
2 39 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.69%) Firmware
6 7 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.14%) Ceph
10 2 (0.14%) KVM
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.069%) vCloud
11 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 300 (20.69%) Terraform
2 242 (16.69%) Kubernetes
3 118 (8.14%) Ansible
4 82 (5.66%) Grafana
5 63 (4.34%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.62%) Argo
7 28 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.31%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.55%) Istio
10 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.41%) Control-M
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.34%) FTK
12 5 (0.34%) Puppet
12 5 (0.34%) SCCM
13 4 (0.28%) Cilium
13 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.28%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 199 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.66%) Databricks
3 78 (5.38%) Google
4 73 (5.03%) Oracle
5 54 (3.72%) VMware
6 44 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.90%) Cisco
8 36 (2.48%) Typelevel
9 31 (2.14%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 24 (1.66%) IBM
12 22 (1.52%) Commvault
13 18 (1.24%) Talend
14 17 (1.17%) SAP
15 15 (1.03%) Arista
15 15 (1.03%) Aruba
15 15 (1.03%) Foundry
15 15 (1.03%) Informatica
15 15 (1.03%) NetScout
15 15 (1.03%) Splunk