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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,472 2,104 3,408
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.74% 16.28% 10.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.09% 35.77% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 980 1,593 2,793
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,587 5,882 13,201
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.23% 45.51% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,346 4,562 11,444
10th Percentile £39,594 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 29 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 77 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.51%) Apache
4 19 (1.29%) SAS
5 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.41%) Confluence
8 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.34%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 35 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.068%) Notion
6 1 (0.068%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.068%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.34%) Shopify
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.068%) Actimize
5 1 (0.068%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.068%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 628 (42.66%) AWS
2 553 (37.57%) Azure
3 243 (16.51%) GCP
4 186 (12.64%) GitHub
5 157 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 130 (8.83%) Serverless
7 112 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
8 110 (7.47%) SaaS
9 109 (7.40%) Amazon S3
10 85 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 85 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
11 78 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 64 (4.35%) dbt
13 59 (4.01%) Snowflake
14 57 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
15 53 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
18 44 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (2.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 143 (9.71%) Broadband
2 65 (4.42%) Firewall
3 36 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 36 (2.45%) VPN
4 29 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (1.70%) Wireshark
6 24 (1.63%) VLAN
7 20 (1.36%) BGP
8 19 (1.29%) LAN
9 17 (1.15%) NGFW
9 17 (1.15%) WAN
10 16 (1.09%) Network Security
11 15 (1.02%) MPLS
11 15 (1.02%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.95%) DNS
13 13 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.75%) 4G
15 11 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.75%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (9.24%) Power BI
2 105 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (6.39%) SQL Server
4 74 (5.03%) Tableau
5 71 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 69 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 56 (3.80%) Metadata
9 51 (3.46%) Data Lake
10 49 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (2.79%) BigQuery
12 40 (2.72%) MongoDB
13 39 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (2.11%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.97%) MySQL
16 28 (1.90%) Redis
17 27 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
18 26 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
19 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 128 (8.70%) Git
2 70 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.74%) GitLab
4 37 (2.51%) JIRA
5 19 (1.29%) Jaeger
5 19 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (1.22%) Selenium
7 16 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.02%) MLflow
9 9 (0.61%) JMeter
9 9 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.54%) JUnit
11 7 (0.48%) Locust
11 7 (0.48%) Postman
11 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.34%) ERwin
13 5 (0.34%) Subversion
13 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 466 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 357 (24.25%) Finance
3 230 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 95 (6.45%) Banking
7 66 (4.48%) Law
8 60 (4.08%) Front Office
9 54 (3.67%) Retail
10 47 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.65%) Marketing
12 35 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.24%) Legal
14 26 (1.77%) Publishing
15 25 (1.70%) Games
16 21 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.43%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.36%) Tech for Good
18 19 (1.29%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 316 (21.47%) Developer
2 312 (21.20%) Senior
3 220 (14.95%) Lead
4 187 (12.70%) Data Engineer
5 155 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 127 (8.63%) Python Engineer
7 125 (8.49%) Python Developer
8 79 (5.37%) Lead Developer
9 76 (5.16%) Analyst
10 71 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
11 66 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
13 60 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
14 55 (3.74%) Architect
14 55 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 55 (3.74%) Senior Developer
15 52 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
15 52 (3.53%) React Developer
16 46 (3.13%) Lead Python Developer
17 44 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (11.14%) React
2 102 (6.93%) Node.js
3 101 (6.86%) Kafka
4 79 (5.37%) Django
5 71 (4.82%) REST
6 66 (4.48%) .NET
7 60 (4.08%) RESTful
8 58 (3.94%) PySpark
9 56 (3.80%) gRPC
10 54 (3.67%) PyTorch
11 48 (3.26%) TensorFlow
12 46 (3.13%) JSON
13 44 (2.99%) Flask
14 43 (2.92%) Vue
15 42 (2.85%) FastAPI
16 40 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (2.58%) SOAP
18 36 (2.45%) HTML
19 35 (2.38%) XML
20 34 (2.31%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 117 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 64 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 62 (4.21%) Data Structures
7 53 (3.60%) Low-Code
8 50 (3.40%) Over-the-Top Content
9 49 (3.33%) Onboarding
10 44 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (2.99%) Fixed Income
11 38 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (2.11%) Data Centre
14 29 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.83%) Public Cloud
16 25 (1.70%) Equities
17 21 (1.43%) Private Cloud
18 20 (1.36%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 200 (13.59%) Linux
2 76 (5.16%) Unix
3 68 (4.62%) Windows
4 31 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Debian
9 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
10 3 (0.20%) Android
10 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.068%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.068%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.068%) Solaris
12 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (38.11%) CI/CD
2 434 (29.48%) Agile
3 410 (27.85%) DevOps
4 378 (25.68%) Software Engineering
5 376 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
6 345 (23.44%) AI
7 275 (18.68%) Mentoring
8 255 (17.32%) Analytics
9 252 (17.12%) Machine Learning
10 244 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 238 (16.17%) Containerisation
12 234 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
13 224 (15.22%) Data Science
14 212 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
15 210 (14.27%) Data Modelling
16 189 (12.84%) Data Engineering
17 179 (12.16%) Test Automation
18 175 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
19 174 (11.82%) Coaching
20 159 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 446 (30.30%) SQL
2 299 (20.31%) Java
3 249 (16.92%) JavaScript
4 179 (12.16%) Go
5 142 (9.65%) Bash
6 138 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.17%) PowerShell
8 116 (7.88%) C#
9 89 (6.05%) Scala
10 66 (4.48%) C++
11 44 (2.99%) R
12 32 (2.17%) C
13 27 (1.83%) PHP
14 25 (1.70%) Shell Script
15 23 (1.56%) Apex Code
16 22 (1.49%) PL/SQL
17 21 (1.43%) Bicep
17 21 (1.43%) T-SQL
18 15 (1.02%) VBA
19 10 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 263 (17.87%) Degree
2 130 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 99 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 92 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.40%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.36%) CEH
11 19 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.29%) PhD
12 18 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (1.02%) ACCA
13 15 (1.02%) CIMA
14 11 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.68%) OSCP
16 8 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.02%) Data Quality
2 98 (6.66%) QA
3 53 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.90%) NIST
5 25 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.02%) GDPR
7 15 (1.02%) ISO 22301
7 15 (1.02%) SLA
8 13 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.68%) GRC
10 5 (0.34%) PMO
10 5 (0.34%) WCAG
11 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.20%) EMIR
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) ECSS
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 292 (19.84%) Docker
2 41 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) Firmware
6 7 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.20%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) KVM
9 2 (0.14%) Lustre
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (20.31%) Terraform
2 243 (16.51%) Kubernetes
3 119 (8.08%) Ansible
4 82 (5.57%) Grafana
5 64 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.51%) Argo
7 24 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.54%) Istio
10 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.41%) Control-M
11 6 (0.41%) Packer
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.34%) FTK
12 5 (0.34%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.34%) Puppet
12 5 (0.34%) SCCM
13 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 209 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 115 (7.81%) Databricks
3 78 (5.30%) Google
4 69 (4.69%) Oracle
5 57 (3.87%) VMware
6 46 (3.13%) Cisco
7 45 (3.06%) Typelevel
8 42 (2.85%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.04%) Red Hat
10 24 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 23 (1.56%) Commvault
11 23 (1.56%) IBM
12 20 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.22%) SAP
13 18 (1.22%) Talend
14 17 (1.15%) Splunk
15 15 (1.02%) Aruba
15 15 (1.02%) Foundry
15 15 (1.02%) Informatica
15 15 (1.02%) NetScout