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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,363 2,715 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.88% 14.32% 13.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.82% 33.81% 27.89%
Number of salaries quoted 971 1,947 2,181
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +1.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,624 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 4,153 8,031 9,633
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.07% 42.34% 46.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 5,179 8,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £101,185
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 2025.

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
1 128 (9.39%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (5.65%) Apache
3 35 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.39%) Confluence
6 16 (1.17%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 16 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 15 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 13 (0.95%) Apache Solr
8 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.66%) CMS
10 8 (0.59%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.59%) SAS
11 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.22%) nginx
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
14 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 56 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 4 (0.29%) Blender
6 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Weka
7 1 (0.073%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.073%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.073%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 35 (2.57%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 4 (0.29%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.073%) Actimize
8 1 (0.073%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.073%) FastStats
8 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 583 (42.77%) AWS
2 528 (38.74%) Azure
3 188 (13.79%) GCP
4 180 (13.21%) GitHub
5 169 (12.40%) Power Platform
6 148 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (9.76%) dbt
8 129 (9.46%) Snowflake
9 128 (9.39%) Serverless
10 90 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
11 79 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
12 75 (5.50%) SaaS
13 71 (5.21%) Amazon S3
14 59 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 46 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (3.15%) Entra ID
19 42 (3.08%) OCI
20 41 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.15%) Firewall
2 35 (2.57%) WAN
3 34 (2.49%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.20%) VPN
5 25 (1.83%) LAN
6 22 (1.61%) DNS
7 20 (1.47%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.25%) SSL
9 15 (1.10%) Broadband
10 14 (1.03%) Network Security
11 13 (0.95%) BGP
11 13 (0.95%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.73%) DHCP
12 10 (0.73%) OSPF
12 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.66%) VLAN
13 9 (0.66%) Wireless
14 8 (0.59%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.59%) SAN
15 7 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (11.67%) Power BI
2 124 (9.10%) PostgreSQL
3 113 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
5 97 (7.12%) Apache Iceberg
6 91 (6.68%) Data Lake
7 90 (6.60%) Apache Arrow
7 90 (6.60%) Dremio
8 82 (6.02%) Tableau
9 69 (5.06%) NoSQL
10 62 (4.55%) SQL Server
11 49 (3.60%) Apache Ignite
12 48 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
14 38 (2.79%) Relational Database
15 34 (2.49%) MySQL
16 33 (2.42%) DynamoDB
17 32 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
18 31 (2.27%) MongoDB
19 24 (1.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 122 (8.95%) Git
2 99 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.33%) JIRA
4 41 (3.01%) GitLab
5 34 (2.49%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (1.69%) Selenium
7 11 (0.81%) ER Studio
7 11 (0.81%) JUnit
8 10 (0.73%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.73%) ERwin
9 9 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.51%) MLflow
11 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.29%) Appium
13 4 (0.29%) Postman
13 4 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 465 (34.12%) Finance
2 400 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 162 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (10.49%) Front Office
5 123 (9.02%) Banking
6 67 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (4.77%) Investment Banking
8 63 (4.62%) Marketing
9 55 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.74%) Retail
11 49 (3.60%) Law
12 34 (2.49%) Tech for Good
13 32 (2.35%) Health Technology
14 31 (2.27%) Publishing
15 26 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.83%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (1.54%) Electronics
18 21 (1.54%) Legal
19 15 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 330 (24.21%) Senior
2 294 (21.57%) Developer
3 181 (13.28%) Software Engineer
4 153 (11.23%) Python Engineer
5 140 (10.27%) Python Developer
6 139 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 134 (9.83%) Lead
8 121 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
9 107 (7.85%) Analyst
9 107 (7.85%) Python Software Engineer
10 90 (6.60%) AWS Software Engineer
11 77 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 75 (5.50%) AWS Developer
13 74 (5.43%) Architect
14 64 (4.70%) Senior Developer
15 63 (4.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 61 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
17 60 (4.40%) Java Engineer
18 59 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
18 59 (4.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (12.25%) React
2 117 (8.58%) Pandas
3 114 (8.36%) Node.js
4 99 (7.26%) NumPy
5 90 (6.60%) RESTful
5 90 (6.60%) SciPy
6 76 (5.58%) Vue
7 68 (4.99%) Kafka
8 67 (4.92%) AngularJS
9 62 (4.55%) Django
10 59 (4.33%) gRPC
11 53 (3.89%) REST
12 52 (3.82%) .NET
13 49 (3.60%) Protocol Buffers
14 47 (3.45%) SOAP
15 45 (3.30%) Flask
16 41 (3.01%) JSON
17 39 (2.86%) XML
18 37 (2.71%) FastAPI
19 34 (2.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.80%) Fixed Income
3 102 (7.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 99 (7.26%) Equities
5 76 (5.58%) Product Ownership
6 64 (4.70%) Hedge funds
7 61 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (4.40%) Algorithms
9 57 (4.18%) Derivative
10 56 (4.11%) Management Information System
11 55 (4.04%) Onboarding
12 49 (3.60%) Pricing Data
13 42 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (2.86%) Data Structures
15 31 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
16 29 (2.13%) Low-Code
17 25 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 22 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
18 22 (1.61%) Public Cloud
19 17 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 199 (14.60%) Linux
2 99 (7.26%) Windows
3 70 (5.14%) Unix
4 37 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.59%) Debian
6 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.59%) Solaris
6 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.51%) VMS
8 5 (0.37%) CentOS
9 2 (0.15%) Android
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.073%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (37.78%) Agile
2 454 (33.31%) CI/CD
3 413 (30.30%) DevOps
4 317 (23.26%) Software Engineering
5 314 (23.04%) AI
6 309 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
7 267 (19.59%) Analytics
8 224 (16.43%) Asset Management
9 204 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (14.89%) Mentoring
11 181 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 179 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
13 169 (12.40%) Data Science
14 164 (12.03%) Containerisation
15 162 (11.89%) Machine Learning
16 161 (11.81%) Coaching
17 160 (11.74%) Test Automation
18 158 (11.59%) Data Engineering
18 158 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
19 156 (11.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 510 (37.42%) SQL
2 286 (20.98%) JavaScript
3 276 (20.25%) Java
4 200 (14.67%) TypeScript
5 149 (10.93%) Bash
6 145 (10.64%) PowerShell
7 98 (7.19%) C#
8 67 (4.92%) Go
9 57 (4.18%) C++
10 54 (3.96%) R
11 41 (3.01%) Shell Script
12 40 (2.93%) PL/SQL
13 38 (2.79%) C
14 35 (2.57%) Bicep
15 27 (1.98%) Scala
16 21 (1.54%) MATLAB
16 21 (1.54%) PHP
17 20 (1.47%) Perl
18 12 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 10 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (17.24%) Degree
2 132 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 108 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.60%) AWS Certification
5 65 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.11%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.49%) Master's Degree
9 28 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (1.39%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.39%) PhD
12 19 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 17 (1.25%) CISSP
14 16 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
16 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.73%) ACCA
17 10 (0.73%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.72%) QA
2 62 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.60%) GDPR
4 35 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.83%) SLA
7 22 (1.61%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.44%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.29%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.073%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 208 (15.26%) Docker
2 41 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.66%) Firmware
6 8 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.59%) vSphere
7 7 (0.51%) NFS
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Lustre
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
11 1 (0.073%) GPFS
11 1 (0.073%) HDFS
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.073%) vCloud
11 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 258 (18.93%) Terraform
2 215 (15.77%) Kubernetes
3 123 (9.02%) Ansible
4 61 (4.48%) Grafana
5 42 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.25%) Argo
8 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (0.37%) SCCM
9 5 (0.37%) SCOM
9 5 (0.37%) WSUS
10 4 (0.29%) Cilium
10 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.29%) Nmap
10 4 (0.29%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) QRadar
11 3 (0.22%) logstash
11 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 184 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.00%) Databricks
3 93 (6.82%) Oracle
4 67 (4.92%) Google
5 58 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 33 (2.42%) VMware
7 25 (1.83%) Cisco
8 24 (1.76%) IBM
9 23 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.47%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.32%) Okta
11 18 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.17%) Talend
13 15 (1.10%) Commvault
14 14 (1.03%) SAP
14 14 (1.03%) Workday
15 12 (0.88%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.81%) Informatica
17 10 (0.73%) Dell
17 10 (0.73%) Splunk