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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,831 2,084 3,181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.91% 12.59% 12.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.06% 39.19% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 1,245 2,480
10th Percentile £44,800 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.17% +6.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 6,092 5,318 9,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.31% 32.13% 38.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,588 3,662 7,158
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
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 25 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 48 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.24%) Apache
4 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.55%) SAS
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.11%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.055%) Camunda
10 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.055%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 50 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.27%) Simulink
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
6 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
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
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%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 664 (36.26%) AWS
2 574 (31.35%) Azure
3 296 (16.17%) GCP
4 158 (8.63%) SaaS
5 152 (8.30%) Power Platform
6 115 (6.28%) GitHub
7 89 (4.86%) Serverless
8 68 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 65 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
11 63 (3.44%) Amazon S3
12 61 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
13 57 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
14 56 (3.06%) Snowflake
15 53 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
16 49 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 49 (2.68%) dbt
17 39 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (2.02%) Datadog
19 32 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 132 (7.21%) Broadband
2 74 (4.04%) Firewall
3 51 (2.79%) TCP/IP
4 41 (2.24%) VPN
5 35 (1.91%) DNS
6 32 (1.75%) WAN
7 30 (1.64%) LAN
8 26 (1.42%) Network Security
9 25 (1.37%) Wireless
10 16 (0.87%) VLAN
11 14 (0.76%) BGP
11 14 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (0.76%) DHCP
11 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.71%) 5G
13 12 (0.66%) OSPF
14 10 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.49%) MPLS
16 8 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (6.99%) Power BI
3 100 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 78 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 58 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.95%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.68%) Metadata
9 49 (2.68%) Tableau
10 47 (2.57%) Big Data
11 41 (2.24%) BigQuery
12 40 (2.18%) Delta Lake
13 31 (1.69%) MySQL
14 28 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (1.53%) DynamoDB
15 24 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
16 22 (1.20%) Redis
17 21 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 180 (9.83%) Git
2 81 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.17%) GitLab
4 36 (1.97%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.76%) MLflow
7 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.49%) JMeter
10 9 (0.49%) Selenium
11 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.38%) Postman
13 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.27%) Locust
14 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 580 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 418 (22.83%) Finance
3 300 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (6.28%) Legal
6 110 (6.01%) Banking
7 107 (5.84%) Public Sector
8 92 (5.02%) Law
9 79 (4.31%) Marketing
10 69 (3.77%) Retail
11 44 (2.40%) Games
12 40 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.80%) Electronics
14 29 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.53%) Front Office
16 19 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.76%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.66%) Advertising
19 11 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 498 (27.20%) Senior
2 279 (15.24%) Developer
3 236 (12.89%) Lead
4 223 (12.18%) Software Engineer
5 199 (10.87%) Data Engineer
6 183 (9.99%) Python Engineer
7 109 (5.95%) Analyst
8 105 (5.73%) Python Developer
9 97 (5.30%) Data Scientist
10 79 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 73 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
12 70 (3.82%) Architect
13 67 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 66 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 59 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
16 56 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 56 (3.06%) Engineering Manager
16 56 (3.06%) Senior Data Scientist
17 54 (2.95%) Data Analyst
18 53 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (15.57%) Terraform
2 138 (7.54%) React
3 94 (5.13%) Node.js
3 94 (5.13%) PySpark
4 84 (4.59%) .NET
5 82 (4.48%) PyTorch
6 75 (4.10%) REST
7 70 (3.82%) TensorFlow
8 67 (3.66%) RESTful
9 66 (3.60%) Django
10 65 (3.55%) Kafka
11 64 (3.50%) FastAPI
12 53 (2.89%) LangChain
13 42 (2.29%) Next.js
14 38 (2.08%) Pandas
15 34 (1.86%) CSS
16 33 (1.80%) scikit-learn
17 30 (1.64%) Flask
17 30 (1.64%) Spring
17 30 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 238 (13.00%) Cloud Native
2 192 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.75%) Algorithms
4 82 (4.48%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.37%) Virtual Team
6 75 (4.10%) Video\Live Streaming
7 57 (3.11%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.68%) Data Structures
9 44 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 43 (2.35%) Low-Code
11 38 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 38 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.80%) Over-the-Top Content
14 32 (1.75%) Blog
15 29 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
16 27 (1.47%) Credit Risk
16 27 (1.47%) Security Posture
17 26 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
18 23 (1.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 212 (11.58%) Linux
2 81 (4.42%) Windows
3 37 (2.02%) Unix
4 28 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Android
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Debian
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.11%) 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
1 693 (37.85%) AI
2 596 (32.55%) Software Engineering
3 576 (31.46%) CI/CD
4 441 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
5 402 (21.96%) Mentoring
6 387 (21.14%) Machine Learning
7 384 (20.97%) Agile
7 384 (20.97%) DevOps
8 374 (20.43%) Analytics
9 346 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 330 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (15.02%) Data Science
12 259 (14.15%) Test Automation
13 242 (13.22%) Observability
14 225 (12.29%) Decision-Making
14 225 (12.29%) Roadmaps
15 220 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
16 216 (11.80%) Data Engineering
17 214 (11.69%) Data Modelling
18 211 (11.52%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 569 (31.08%) SQL
2 268 (14.64%) JavaScript
3 255 (13.93%) Java
4 225 (12.29%) C#
5 217 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 195 (10.65%) TypeScript
7 138 (7.54%) Go
8 132 (7.21%) Bash
9 99 (5.41%) C++
10 63 (3.44%) Scala
11 52 (2.84%) R
12 48 (2.62%) C
13 46 (2.51%) Bicep
14 39 (2.13%) PHP
15 29 (1.58%) Rust
16 27 (1.47%) Ruby
16 27 (1.47%) VBA
17 21 (1.15%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.98%) Groovy
19 14 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 241 (13.16%) Degree
2 211 (11.52%) Security Cleared
3 166 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 29 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.31%) PhD
10 21 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.93%) SnowPro
13 16 (0.87%) CISSP
14 15 (0.82%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.76%) CCNP
16 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.71%) GIAC
16 13 (0.71%) OSCP
17 12 (0.66%) CEH
17 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 144 (7.86%) QA
3 45 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.64%) GDPR
6 26 (1.42%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.55%) SLA
10 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.27%) WCAG
12 4 (0.22%) GAAP
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 3 (0.16%) ECSS
13 3 (0.16%) UCITS
System Software
1 259 (14.15%) Docker
2 26 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.37%) Firmware
4 21 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.38%) vSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.33%) KVM
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 236 (12.89%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.79%) Ansible
3 92 (5.02%) Grafana
4 50 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.15%) Istio
6 20 (1.09%) Argo
7 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.55%) Packer
9 8 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
11 6 (0.33%) Graylog
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 281 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.76%) Databricks
3 71 (3.88%) Google
4 52 (2.84%) Cisco
5 45 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 38 (2.08%) VMware
7 37 (2.02%) Oracle
8 27 (1.47%) Splunk
9 26 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 26 (1.42%) Typelevel
10 25 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 21 (1.15%) Foundry
14 17 (0.93%) F5
14 17 (0.93%) Informatica
15 16 (0.87%) Dynatrace
15 16 (0.87%) New Relic
16 14 (0.76%) HubSpot
17 11 (0.60%) Alteryx