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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,346 2,375 2,672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.89% 14.46% 12.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.54% 33.42% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 929 1,590 2,166
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £95,063
90th Percentile £119,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 4,136 7,107 9,984
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.31% 43.26% 46.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 4,452 8,508
10th Percentile £37,225 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.56% -6.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 January 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
1 104 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (4.38%) Apache
3 36 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.56%) Confluence
5 18 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.19%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.19%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.89%) SAS
10 7 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.15%) CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 51 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.90%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.45%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.074%) Actimize
6 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 533 (39.60%) Azure
2 531 (39.45%) AWS
3 197 (14.64%) GitHub
4 181 (13.45%) Power Platform
5 163 (12.11%) GCP
6 158 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (9.88%) Serverless
8 110 (8.17%) Snowflake
9 99 (7.36%) dbt
10 89 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (6.39%) Amazon S3
12 84 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (6.17%) SaaS
14 75 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 56 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 53 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 44 (3.27%) OCI
19 43 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.97%) Firewall
2 37 (2.75%) Broadband
3 36 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.01%) VPN
5 22 (1.63%) WAN
6 21 (1.56%) LAN
7 18 (1.34%) BGP
8 16 (1.19%) DNS
8 16 (1.19%) SSL
9 14 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.97%) MPLS
11 12 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
12 11 (0.82%) Network Security
12 11 (0.82%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.74%) 4G
13 10 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (0.74%) IOS XR
13 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.67%) VLAN
15 8 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.33%) Power BI
2 102 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (6.54%) Tableau
5 82 (6.09%) Data Lake
6 77 (5.72%) SQL Server
7 73 (5.42%) NoSQL
8 69 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
9 64 (4.75%) Amazon Athena
10 52 (3.86%) Apache Arrow
10 52 (3.86%) Dremio
11 49 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (3.49%) Relational Database
13 42 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (2.75%) Metadata
15 33 (2.45%) BigQuery
16 30 (2.23%) MongoDB
17 29 (2.15%) Apache Ignite
17 29 (2.15%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 119 (8.84%) Git
2 98 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.68%) JIRA
4 37 (2.75%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.60%) GitLab
6 22 (1.63%) Selenium
7 13 (0.97%) Jaeger
8 12 (0.89%) ER Studio
8 12 (0.89%) ERwin
8 12 (0.89%) MLflow
9 11 (0.82%) JUnit
10 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.30%) Postman
13 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 412 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 406 (30.16%) Finance
3 179 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.65%) Banking
5 86 (6.39%) Front Office
6 74 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 52 (3.86%) Marketing
9 50 (3.71%) Law
10 45 (3.34%) Investment Banking
11 40 (2.97%) Retail
12 38 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 34 (2.53%) Publishing
14 32 (2.38%) Tech for Good
15 29 (2.15%) Health Technology
16 27 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.93%) Legal
17 26 (1.93%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.34%) Electronics
19 16 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 308 (22.88%) Senior
2 269 (19.99%) Developer
3 172 (12.78%) Data Engineer
4 141 (10.48%) Lead
5 138 (10.25%) Python Engineer
6 135 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 134 (9.96%) Python Developer
8 99 (7.36%) Analyst
9 87 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 86 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (5.72%) Python Software Engineer
12 65 (4.83%) Architect
13 63 (4.68%) AWS Developer
14 57 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
14 57 (4.23%) Senior Developer
15 54 (4.01%) Senior Data Engineer
16 52 (3.86%) AWS Software Engineer
16 52 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
17 50 (3.71%) Lead Developer
17 50 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.48%) React
2 88 (6.54%) RESTful
3 85 (6.32%) Node.js
4 72 (5.35%) Pandas
5 62 (4.61%) Django
5 62 (4.61%) NumPy
6 55 (4.09%) .NET
7 54 (4.01%) Kafka
8 53 (3.94%) SciPy
9 52 (3.86%) PySpark
10 50 (3.71%) Vue
11 48 (3.57%) SOAP
12 45 (3.34%) REST
13 43 (3.19%) XML
14 42 (3.12%) JSON
15 40 (2.97%) AngularJS
16 39 (2.90%) Flask
17 38 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (2.82%) gRPC
18 34 (2.53%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.24%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.83%) Algorithms
5 60 (4.46%) Fixed Income
6 59 (4.38%) Equities
6 59 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 49 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 47 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
9 43 (3.19%) Management Information System
10 41 (3.05%) Hedge funds
11 40 (2.97%) Low-Code
12 38 (2.82%) Data Structures
13 36 (2.67%) Derivative
14 35 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 29 (2.15%) Pricing Data
16 28 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
17 24 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
19 18 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (14.71%) Linux
2 89 (6.61%) Windows
3 82 (6.09%) Unix
4 30 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.59%) Debian
7 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.59%) Solaris
8 7 (0.52%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Android
11 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (34.99%) Agile
2 459 (34.10%) CI/CD
3 436 (32.39%) DevOps
4 329 (24.44%) AI
5 302 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
6 281 (20.88%) Analytics
7 280 (20.80%) Software Engineering
8 224 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 219 (16.27%) Mentoring
10 192 (14.26%) Business Intelligence
10 192 (14.26%) Data Modelling
11 190 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 189 (14.04%) Asset Management
12 189 (14.04%) Data Engineering
12 189 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
13 184 (13.67%) Data Science
14 176 (13.08%) Machine Learning
15 174 (12.93%) Coaching
16 160 (11.89%) ETL
17 159 (11.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 506 (37.59%) SQL
2 272 (20.21%) Java
3 250 (18.57%) JavaScript
4 162 (12.04%) TypeScript
5 151 (11.22%) Bash
6 142 (10.55%) PowerShell
7 101 (7.50%) C#
8 70 (5.20%) Go
9 55 (4.09%) C++
9 55 (4.09%) R
10 45 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 44 (3.27%) PL/SQL
11 44 (3.27%) Scala
12 39 (2.90%) C
13 33 (2.45%) Bicep
14 19 (1.41%) PHP
15 18 (1.34%) Perl
16 15 (1.11%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 247 (18.35%) Degree
2 147 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.69%) AWS Certification
5 79 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 36 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.63%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.34%) PhD
14 17 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.11%) CISSP
16 13 (0.97%) ACCA
16 13 (0.97%) CEH
16 13 (0.97%) CIMA
16 13 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.97%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 83 (6.17%) QA
3 37 (2.75%) GDPR
3 37 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.86%) SLA
6 19 (1.41%) NIST
7 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.37%) GRC
11 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
12 2 (0.15%) EMIR
12 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 203 (15.08%) Docker
2 36 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) vSphere
6 7 (0.52%) Firmware
7 6 (0.45%) NFS
8 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.074%) HDFS
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.074%) vCloud
11 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 282 (20.95%) Terraform
2 221 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 117 (8.69%) Ansible
4 62 (4.61%) Grafana
5 49 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.23%) Argo
8 14 (1.04%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.45%) Control-M
12 4 (0.30%) Cilium
12 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 4 (0.30%) Puppet
13 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.22%) Nmap
13 3 (0.22%) QRadar
14 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 181 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 115 (8.54%) Databricks
3 86 (6.39%) Oracle
4 68 (5.05%) Google
5 46 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.67%) VMware
7 29 (2.15%) Cisco
7 29 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 27 (2.01%) IBM
9 22 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.49%) Okta
11 19 (1.41%) Talend
12 18 (1.34%) Commvault
12 18 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.26%) SAP
14 13 (0.97%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.97%) Workday
15 11 (0.82%) Informatica
16 10 (0.74%) Dell
16 10 (0.74%) Splunk