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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,827 2,240 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.20% 13.57% 12.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.42% 40.00% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 1,342 2,497
10th Percentile £43,983 £45,370 £44,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £111,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 6,006 5,600 9,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.97% 33.94% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,515 3,867 7,608
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 4 August 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 55 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 53 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (2.19%) Apache
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) SAS
6 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Camunda
11 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.055%) CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 51 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.22%) Simulink
5 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
6 3 (0.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) SPSS
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 683 (37.38%) AWS
2 576 (31.53%) Azure
3 313 (17.13%) GCP
4 160 (8.76%) SaaS
5 149 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 114 (6.24%) GitHub
7 91 (4.98%) Serverless
8 70 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 62 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
13 56 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 55 (3.01%) dbt
14 55 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
14 55 (3.01%) Snowflake
15 43 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (1.86%) PaaS
18 33 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 158 (8.65%) Broadband
2 78 (4.27%) Firewall
3 49 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.46%) VPN
5 30 (1.64%) DNS
6 28 (1.53%) WAN
7 27 (1.48%) LAN
8 21 (1.15%) Wireless
9 18 (0.99%) Network Security
10 17 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (0.93%) VLAN
11 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.60%) 5G
12 11 (0.60%) DHCP
13 10 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (0.55%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.55%) WebEx
14 8 (0.44%) BGP
14 8 (0.44%) MQTT
15 7 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (6.73%) Power BI
3 93 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.16%) MongoDB
6 60 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 53 (2.90%) Metadata
8 50 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.74%) Tableau
9 49 (2.68%) BigQuery
10 48 (2.63%) NoSQL
11 47 (2.57%) Big Data
12 34 (1.86%) Delta Lake
13 33 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
14 30 (1.64%) MySQL
15 28 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
15 28 (1.53%) Redis
16 25 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.37%) DynamoDB
17 24 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 170 (9.30%) Git
2 80 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.17%) GitLab
4 36 (1.97%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (0.82%) MLflow
7 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.49%) JMeter
9 9 (0.49%) Selenium
10 8 (0.44%) Postman
11 7 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.27%) Locust
13 5 (0.27%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 579 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 415 (22.71%) Finance
3 293 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (5.91%) Legal
6 103 (5.64%) Banking
6 103 (5.64%) Public Sector
7 102 (5.58%) Law
8 66 (3.61%) Marketing
8 66 (3.61%) Retail
9 48 (2.63%) Front Office
10 46 (2.52%) Games
11 42 (2.30%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.64%) Electronics
14 15 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 15 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 509 (27.86%) Senior
2 315 (17.24%) Developer
3 256 (14.01%) Lead
4 236 (12.92%) Software Engineer
5 206 (11.28%) Data Engineer
6 186 (10.18%) Python Engineer
7 103 (5.64%) Python Developer
8 102 (5.58%) Data Scientist
9 98 (5.36%) Analyst
10 84 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 82 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
12 67 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 64 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 64 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
14 63 (3.45%) Architect
15 59 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
16 56 (3.07%) Lead Developer
16 56 (3.07%) Python Software Engineer
17 55 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
17 55 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (8.48%) React
2 107 (5.86%) Node.js
3 89 (4.87%) Kafka
4 84 (4.60%) PyTorch
5 83 (4.54%) REST
6 82 (4.49%) PySpark
7 81 (4.43%) .NET
8 74 (4.05%) TensorFlow
9 72 (3.94%) Django
10 68 (3.72%) RESTful
11 65 (3.56%) FastAPI
12 57 (3.12%) LangChain
13 38 (2.08%) Vue
14 37 (2.03%) gRPC
14 37 (2.03%) Next.js
14 37 (2.03%) Pandas
15 34 (1.86%) Flask
16 33 (1.81%) CSS
16 33 (1.81%) GraphQL
16 33 (1.81%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 232 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 198 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (4.87%) Video\Live Streaming
4 85 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 81 (4.43%) AI Agents
6 80 (4.38%) Virtual Team
7 58 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 54 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.63%) Low-Code
10 46 (2.52%) Onboarding
11 43 (2.35%) Over-the-Top Content
11 43 (2.35%) Public Cloud
12 39 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (2.03%) Fixed Income
14 36 (1.97%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
17 27 (1.48%) Security Posture
18 24 (1.31%) Equities
18 24 (1.31%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 219 (11.99%) Linux
2 80 (4.38%) Windows
3 45 (2.46%) Unix
4 33 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) Debian
6 7 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.33%) Android
8 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Solaris
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.055%) AIX
11 1 (0.055%) CentOS
11 1 (0.055%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.055%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (35.96%) AI
2 613 (33.55%) Software Engineering
3 595 (32.57%) CI/CD
4 438 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
5 415 (22.71%) Agile
6 402 (22.00%) Mentoring
7 390 (21.35%) DevOps
8 387 (21.18%) Machine Learning
9 350 (19.16%) Analytics
10 345 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 316 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 292 (15.98%) Data Science
13 260 (14.23%) Test Automation
14 238 (13.03%) Observability
15 223 (12.21%) Decision-Making
15 223 (12.21%) Roadmaps
16 220 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
17 219 (11.99%) Data Engineering
17 219 (11.99%) Data Modelling
18 213 (11.66%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 538 (29.45%) SQL
2 292 (15.98%) JavaScript
3 277 (15.16%) Java
4 215 (11.77%) PowerShell
5 212 (11.60%) C#
6 206 (11.28%) TypeScript
7 164 (8.98%) Go
8 135 (7.39%) Bash
9 98 (5.36%) C++
10 75 (4.11%) Scala
11 58 (3.17%) R
12 45 (2.46%) C
13 39 (2.13%) Bicep
13 39 (2.13%) PHP
14 29 (1.59%) VBA
15 26 (1.42%) Rust
16 25 (1.37%) Ruby
17 18 (0.99%) Groovy
17 18 (0.99%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 235 (12.86%) Degree
2 210 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 169 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.26%) PhD
10 16 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.71%) SnowPro
13 12 (0.66%) CCNP
13 12 (0.66%) CISSP
13 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
13 12 (0.66%) OSCP
14 11 (0.60%) CEH
15 10 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 145 (7.94%) QA
3 41 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.48%) GDPR
6 23 (1.26%) NIST
7 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
9 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.27%) WCAG
12 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.22%) GAAP
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS
12 4 (0.22%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 3 (0.16%) ECSS
System Software
1 262 (14.34%) Docker
2 30 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.26%) Firmware
4 20 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.44%) vSphere
7 7 (0.38%) KVM
7 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 275 (15.05%) Terraform
2 230 (12.59%) Kubernetes
3 101 (5.53%) Ansible
4 94 (5.15%) Grafana
5 52 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.09%) Argo
6 20 (1.09%) Istio
7 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
8 10 (0.55%) Packer
9 9 (0.49%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
11 6 (0.33%) Graylog
11 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.22%) CASB
13 4 (0.22%) linkerd
Vendors
1 277 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.50%) Databricks
3 75 (4.11%) Google
4 51 (2.79%) Cisco
5 45 (2.46%) VMware
6 38 (2.08%) Oracle
7 36 (1.97%) OpenAI
7 36 (1.97%) Typelevel
8 29 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 27 (1.48%) Foundry
10 26 (1.42%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.42%) Splunk
11 24 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.04%) Salesforce
14 18 (0.99%) F5
15 15 (0.82%) Informatica
16 14 (0.77%) HubSpot
16 14 (0.77%) New Relic
17 13 (0.71%) Alteryx
1,600 hybrid/remote Python jobs