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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,824 2,049 3,114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.63% 12.62% 13.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.70% 40.18% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 1,192 2,290
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 6,141 5,100 9,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.68% 31.42% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,593 3,456 6,322
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 12 September 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 46 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.36%) Apache
3 42 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.49%) SAS
7 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.33%) Simulink
5 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (35.64%) AWS
2 588 (32.24%) Azure
3 285 (15.63%) GCP
4 159 (8.72%) Power Platform
5 144 (7.89%) SaaS
6 119 (6.52%) GitHub
7 84 (4.61%) Serverless
8 78 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 68 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 61 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 58 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (3.18%) Snowflake
15 57 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (2.30%) dbt
17 35 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
18 34 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
19 32 (1.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.20%) Broadband
2 70 (3.84%) Firewall
3 53 (2.91%) TCP/IP
4 37 (2.03%) VPN
5 35 (1.92%) DNS
6 34 (1.86%) WAN
7 32 (1.75%) LAN
8 26 (1.43%) Network Security
8 26 (1.43%) Wireless
9 18 (0.99%) VLAN
10 17 (0.93%) BGP
11 15 (0.82%) DHCP
11 15 (0.82%) OSPF
12 14 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
12 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.71%) 5G
14 11 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.49%) MPLS
15 9 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (7.40%) Power BI
2 130 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 80 (4.39%) MongoDB
6 66 (3.62%) Data Lake
7 63 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.96%) Metadata
9 51 (2.80%) Relational Database
10 47 (2.58%) Tableau
11 46 (2.52%) Big Data
12 43 (2.36%) Delta Lake
13 40 (2.19%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.70%) MySQL
15 30 (1.64%) DynamoDB
16 28 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
18 23 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
18 23 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
18 23 (1.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 188 (10.31%) Git
2 82 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 53 (2.91%) GitLab
4 32 (1.75%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.77%) MLflow
7 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 13 (0.71%) LabVIEW
8 10 (0.55%) Selenium
8 10 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.38%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.27%) JMeter
12 5 (0.27%) Poetry
12 5 (0.27%) Postman
13 4 (0.22%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 581 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 413 (22.64%) Finance
3 300 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (6.58%) Banking
6 115 (6.30%) Legal
7 113 (6.20%) Public Sector
8 94 (5.15%) Law
9 82 (4.50%) Marketing
10 74 (4.06%) Retail
11 42 (2.30%) Games
12 38 (2.08%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.81%) Electronics
14 30 (1.64%) Front Office
15 26 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.82%) Local Government
18 13 (0.71%) Advertising
18 13 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 512 (28.07%) Senior
2 266 (14.58%) Developer
3 232 (12.72%) Software Engineer
4 228 (12.50%) Lead
5 205 (11.24%) Data Engineer
6 192 (10.53%) Python Engineer
7 114 (6.25%) Analyst
8 105 (5.76%) Python Developer
9 98 (5.37%) Data Scientist
10 72 (3.95%) Architect
10 72 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 72 (3.95%) Python Software Engineer
10 72 (3.95%) Senior Developer
11 71 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
12 70 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 67 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 57 (3.13%) Data Analyst
14 57 (3.13%) Engineering Manager
15 56 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 56 (3.07%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (15.30%) Terraform
2 129 (7.07%) React
3 102 (5.59%) PySpark
4 88 (4.82%) Node.js
5 83 (4.55%) PyTorch
6 80 (4.39%) .NET
7 71 (3.89%) REST
8 70 (3.84%) TensorFlow
9 67 (3.67%) RESTful
10 65 (3.56%) Django
11 60 (3.29%) LangChain
12 57 (3.13%) Kafka
13 56 (3.07%) FastAPI
14 44 (2.41%) Next.js
15 38 (2.08%) Pandas
16 35 (1.92%) LangGraph
16 35 (1.92%) scikit-learn
17 33 (1.81%) CSS
18 29 (1.59%) Spring
19 28 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 241 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 174 (9.54%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.77%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.39%) Virtual Team
5 79 (4.33%) Algorithms
6 59 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 58 (3.18%) Video\Live Streaming
8 46 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 42 (2.30%) Low-Code
10 41 (2.25%) Onboarding
11 36 (1.97%) Management Information System
12 35 (1.92%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.81%) Blog
14 31 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
15 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.54%) Credit Risk
16 28 (1.54%) Security Posture
17 25 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
18 24 (1.32%) Data Centre
18 24 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 208 (11.40%) Linux
2 83 (4.55%) Windows
3 34 (1.86%) Unix
4 26 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.38%) Debian
8 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (39.14%) AI
2 593 (32.51%) Software Engineering
3 561 (30.76%) CI/CD
4 429 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
5 401 (21.98%) Mentoring
6 391 (21.44%) Analytics
7 379 (20.78%) Agile
8 378 (20.72%) DevOps
9 373 (20.45%) Machine Learning
10 335 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 326 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 257 (14.09%) Data Science
13 256 (14.04%) Test Automation
14 244 (13.38%) Observability
15 236 (12.94%) Data Engineering
16 235 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
17 229 (12.55%) Decision-Making
18 228 (12.50%) Roadmaps
19 221 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
20 219 (12.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 595 (32.62%) SQL
2 253 (13.87%) JavaScript
3 250 (13.71%) Java
4 227 (12.45%) C#
5 214 (11.73%) PowerShell
6 190 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 133 (7.29%) Bash
8 115 (6.30%) Go
9 102 (5.59%) C++
10 58 (3.18%) R
11 49 (2.69%) C
12 47 (2.58%) Scala
13 46 (2.52%) Bicep
14 35 (1.92%) PHP
15 31 (1.70%) Rust
16 26 (1.43%) Ruby
17 25 (1.37%) VBA
18 22 (1.21%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.99%) Groovy
20 17 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 241 (13.21%) Degree
2 222 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 174 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.21%) PhD
10 21 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.93%) CISSP
13 15 (0.82%) CCNP
13 15 (0.82%) GIAC
13 15 (0.82%) OSCP
14 14 (0.77%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.71%) CREST Certified
15 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 133 (7.29%) QA
3 46 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.97%) GDPR
5 32 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.37%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 4 (0.22%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) PMO
14 3 (0.16%) ECSS
14 3 (0.16%) UCITS
15 2 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 234 (12.83%) Docker
2 23 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.21%) Firmware
3 22 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.33%) KVM
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) QEMU
10 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 226 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.87%) Ansible
3 83 (4.55%) Grafana
4 48 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.10%) Argo
6 19 (1.04%) Istio
7 14 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.49%) Packer
9 7 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.38%) Puppet
9 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.33%) Graylog
10 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.27%) Podman
11 5 (0.27%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 286 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.68%) Databricks
3 78 (4.28%) Google
4 49 (2.69%) Cisco
5 48 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 39 (2.14%) Oracle
7 30 (1.64%) VMware
8 27 (1.48%) Splunk
9 24 (1.32%) Foundry
10 22 (1.21%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.21%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.15%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.15%) Informatica
11 21 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.93%) New Relic
13 16 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.77%) F5
14 14 (0.77%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.60%) Typelevel
16 10 (0.55%) Alteryx