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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,418 2,241 3,359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.57% 15.95% 11.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.32% 34.70% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 940 1,594 2,765
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 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.12%

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 4,388 6,458 13,090
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.51% 45.95% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,196 4,583 11,385
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 9 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 79 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 39 (2.75%) Apache
4 19 (1.34%) SAS
5 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.63%) Confluence
8 9 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.35%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) Simulink
6 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.071%) Notion
7 1 (0.071%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Shopify
4 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.071%) Actimize
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.071%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 591 (41.68%) AWS
2 547 (38.58%) Azure
3 212 (14.95%) GCP
4 188 (13.26%) GitHub
5 165 (11.64%) Power Platform
6 131 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (8.96%) Serverless
8 110 (7.76%) SaaS
9 101 (7.12%) Amazon S3
10 82 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
11 81 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
12 74 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 72 (5.08%) dbt
14 71 (5.01%) Snowflake
15 54 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 51 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 47 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (3.31%) OCI
19 43 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 94 (6.63%) Broadband
2 56 (3.95%) Firewall
3 36 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 35 (2.47%) VPN
5 31 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.83%) Wireshark
7 23 (1.62%) VLAN
8 20 (1.41%) BGP
9 17 (1.20%) NGFW
10 16 (1.13%) LAN
11 15 (1.06%) MPLS
11 15 (1.06%) VXLAN
11 15 (1.06%) WAN
12 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.85%) Network Security
13 11 (0.78%) 4G
13 11 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.78%) DNS
13 11 (0.78%) IOS XR
14 10 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.16%) Power BI
2 97 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 82 (5.78%) Tableau
5 76 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
6 67 (4.72%) NoSQL
7 58 (4.09%) Metadata
8 56 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 53 (3.74%) Data Lake
10 45 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
11 42 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (2.89%) BigQuery
13 37 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
15 32 (2.26%) Delta Lake
15 32 (2.26%) MongoDB
16 28 (1.97%) Redis
17 27 (1.90%) MySQL
18 26 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
19 25 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 112 (7.90%) Git
2 77 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.53%) GitLab
4 45 (3.17%) JIRA
5 29 (2.05%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (1.34%) Jaeger
7 18 (1.27%) Selenium
8 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.99%) MLflow
9 8 (0.56%) ER Studio
9 8 (0.56%) ERwin
9 8 (0.56%) JUnit
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) Postman
10 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.35%) Locust
12 5 (0.35%) Subversion
12 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
General
1 452 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 361 (25.46%) Finance
3 220 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 88 (6.21%) Banking
7 66 (4.65%) Front Office
8 64 (4.51%) Law
9 52 (3.67%) Retail
10 43 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.68%) Marketing
12 33 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (2.19%) Legal
14 26 (1.83%) Publishing
15 23 (1.62%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.48%) Tech for Good
17 20 (1.41%) Health Technology
17 20 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 310 (21.86%) Senior
2 297 (20.94%) Developer
3 202 (14.25%) Lead
4 182 (12.83%) Data Engineer
5 153 (10.79%) Software Engineer
6 120 (8.46%) Python Developer
6 120 (8.46%) Python Engineer
7 84 (5.92%) Analyst
8 81 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 80 (5.64%) Lead Developer
10 63 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
11 61 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 58 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
13 55 (3.88%) Architect
14 52 (3.67%) Senior Developer
15 51 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
15 51 (3.60%) React Developer
16 47 (3.31%) Python Software Engineer
17 46 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.24%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (11.28%) React
2 102 (7.19%) Node.js
3 93 (6.56%) Kafka
4 71 (5.01%) Django
5 70 (4.94%) RESTful
6 66 (4.65%) .NET
7 59 (4.16%) REST
8 52 (3.67%) PySpark
9 48 (3.39%) JSON
9 48 (3.39%) SOAP
10 46 (3.24%) PyTorch
11 45 (3.17%) TensorFlow
12 43 (3.03%) Vue
13 41 (2.89%) Flask
14 40 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
14 40 (2.82%) gRPC
14 40 (2.82%) XML
15 36 (2.54%) HTML
16 34 (2.40%) FastAPI
16 34 (2.40%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 85 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.80%) Algorithms
5 58 (4.09%) Data Structures
6 57 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
7 50 (3.53%) Fixed Income
8 49 (3.46%) Onboarding
9 48 (3.39%) Low-Code
10 41 (2.89%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (2.19%) Over-the-Top Content
14 30 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
14 30 (2.12%) Equities
15 29 (2.05%) Data Centre
16 25 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
17 22 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.41%) Hedge funds
18 20 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (12.98%) Linux
2 77 (5.43%) Unix
3 64 (4.51%) Windows
4 24 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.42%) Debian
9 4 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.071%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.071%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.071%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (37.52%) CI/CD
2 436 (30.75%) Agile
3 421 (29.69%) DevOps
4 348 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (24.12%) AI
6 341 (24.05%) Software Engineering
7 261 (18.41%) Analytics
8 253 (17.84%) Mentoring
9 233 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 217 (15.30%) Machine Learning
12 209 (14.74%) Data Modelling
13 204 (14.39%) Containerisation
14 203 (14.32%) Data Pipeline
15 202 (14.25%) Data Science
16 186 (13.12%) Data Engineering
17 182 (12.83%) Coaching
18 172 (12.13%) Business Intelligence
19 166 (11.71%) Test Automation
20 149 (10.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 449 (31.66%) SQL
2 307 (21.65%) Java
3 261 (18.41%) JavaScript
4 147 (10.37%) Bash
4 147 (10.37%) Go
5 142 (10.01%) TypeScript
6 139 (9.80%) PowerShell
7 98 (6.91%) C#
8 69 (4.87%) Scala
9 63 (4.44%) C++
10 47 (3.31%) R
11 43 (3.03%) C
12 35 (2.47%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.26%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.69%) Bicep
15 22 (1.55%) Apex Code
16 20 (1.41%) T-SQL
17 18 (1.27%) PHP
18 16 (1.13%) VBA
19 9 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 269 (18.97%) Degree
2 156 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 128 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.34%) CEH
13 17 (1.20%) PhD
14 14 (0.99%) ACCA
14 14 (0.99%) CIMA
15 11 (0.78%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
18 8 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.25%) Data Quality
2 86 (6.06%) QA
3 50 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.90%) NIST
5 25 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.41%) GDPR
7 18 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.27%) SLA
8 14 (0.99%) ISO 22301
9 13 (0.92%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.71%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) EMIR
11 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.21%) WCAG
12 2 (0.14%) ECSS
12 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
13 1 (0.071%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 257 (18.12%) Docker
2 42 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.71%) Firmware
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.42%) vSphere
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
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 (0.071%) vCloud
10 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 297 (20.94%) Terraform
2 228 (16.08%) Kubernetes
3 114 (8.04%) Ansible
4 74 (5.22%) Grafana
5 62 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.68%) Argo
7 37 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.41%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.49%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.42%) Control-M
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.35%) FTK
12 5 (0.35%) Puppet
13 4 (0.28%) Cilium
13 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.28%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.28%) logstash
13 4 (0.28%) QRadar
13 4 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 199 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.33%) Databricks
3 79 (5.57%) Oracle
4 76 (5.36%) Google
5 48 (3.39%) VMware
6 43 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 34 (2.40%) Cisco
8 29 (2.05%) Red Hat
9 28 (1.97%) MuleSoft
10 27 (1.90%) Typelevel
11 25 (1.76%) IBM
12 21 (1.48%) Commvault
13 18 (1.27%) Talend
14 16 (1.13%) Okta
14 16 (1.13%) SAP
15 15 (1.06%) Arista
15 15 (1.06%) Aruba
15 15 (1.06%) Informatica
15 15 (1.06%) NetScout
16 14 (0.99%) Palantir