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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,407 2,367 3,203
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.62% 15.49% 11.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.99% 34.52% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 929 1,577 2,633
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,392 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.91% -1.97%

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 4,398 6,857 12,509
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.94% 44.89% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,217 4,445 10,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,257 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £83,750 £85,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 23 February 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 85 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.84%) Apache
4 19 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.28%) SAS
6 16 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 13 (0.92%) Confluence
9 11 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.78%) WebSphere
9 11 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
10 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 43 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) Simulink
6 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.071%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.071%) Notion
7 1 (0.071%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.36%) Shopify
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.071%) Actimize
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 573 (40.72%) AWS
2 570 (40.51%) Azure
3 200 (14.21%) GCP
4 196 (13.93%) GitHub
5 180 (12.79%) Power Platform
6 146 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (8.74%) Serverless
8 96 (6.82%) SaaS
9 94 (6.68%) Amazon S3
10 85 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (5.83%) Snowflake
12 78 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 77 (5.47%) dbt
14 76 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
15 57 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 56 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
17 53 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 51 (3.62%) OCI
19 48 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 43 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.69%) Broadband
2 55 (3.91%) Firewall
3 37 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 34 (2.42%) VPN
5 29 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.85%) Wireshark
7 21 (1.49%) VLAN
8 20 (1.42%) BGP
9 17 (1.21%) NGFW
10 15 (1.07%) LAN
10 15 (1.07%) MPLS
10 15 (1.07%) VXLAN
10 15 (1.07%) WAN
11 13 (0.92%) DNS
12 12 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.85%) SSL
13 11 (0.78%) 4G
13 11 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.78%) IOS XR
13 11 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (11.23%) Power BI
2 97 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (6.54%) Tableau
4 87 (6.18%) SQL Server
5 83 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
6 72 (5.12%) NoSQL
7 57 (4.05%) Data Lake
7 57 (4.05%) Metadata
8 54 (3.84%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 43 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
11 42 (2.99%) BigQuery
12 39 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
14 33 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (2.27%) MongoDB
16 31 (2.20%) Delta Lake
17 29 (2.06%) MySQL
18 25 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
19 24 (1.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 113 (8.03%) Git
2 85 (6.04%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.62%) JIRA
4 47 (3.34%) GitLab
5 33 (2.35%) Oracle Forms
6 20 (1.42%) Selenium
7 19 (1.35%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.07%) MLflow
9 11 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.71%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.71%) ERwin
11 9 (0.64%) JUnit
12 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.36%) Postman
14 5 (0.36%) Subversion
14 5 (0.36%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.28%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 457 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 377 (26.79%) Finance
3 220 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 87 (6.18%) Banking
7 65 (4.62%) Law
8 59 (4.19%) Front Office
9 48 (3.41%) Retail
10 41 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.77%) Marketing
12 32 (2.27%) Legal
13 30 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.85%) Publishing
15 23 (1.63%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.56%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 21 (1.49%) Tech for Good
18 20 (1.42%) Financial Institution
19 19 (1.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 305 (21.68%) Senior
2 283 (20.11%) Developer
3 185 (13.15%) Data Engineer
4 184 (13.08%) Lead
5 138 (9.81%) Software Engineer
6 122 (8.67%) Python Developer
7 117 (8.32%) Python Engineer
8 93 (6.61%) Analyst
9 90 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 65 (4.62%) Lead Developer
11 63 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
12 61 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (4.19%) Architect
13 59 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 53 (3.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 52 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
16 50 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
17 49 (3.48%) React Developer
18 47 (3.34%) Data Analyst
19 46 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (10.80%) React
2 93 (6.61%) Node.js
3 79 (5.61%) Kafka
4 73 (5.19%) RESTful
5 67 (4.76%) Django
6 62 (4.41%) .NET
7 55 (3.91%) REST
8 52 (3.70%) JSON
9 51 (3.62%) PySpark
9 51 (3.62%) SOAP
10 46 (3.27%) PyTorch
10 46 (3.27%) Vue
11 45 (3.20%) TensorFlow
12 42 (2.99%) XML
13 40 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
14 39 (2.77%) Flask
15 36 (2.56%) HTML
16 34 (2.42%) AngularJS
17 33 (2.35%) gRPC
17 33 (2.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 84 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 73 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 65 (4.62%) Algorithms
4 65 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (3.91%) Data Structures
6 50 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 48 (3.41%) Low-Code
8 43 (3.06%) Fixed Income
9 33 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (2.35%) Equities
10 32 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (2.13%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
15 23 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
16 22 (1.56%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.49%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 193 (13.72%) Linux
2 82 (5.83%) Unix
3 68 (4.83%) Windows
4 22 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.57%) Debian
8 7 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
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%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.071%) Solaris
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (37.24%) CI/CD
2 440 (31.27%) Agile
3 436 (30.99%) DevOps
4 345 (24.52%) AI
5 335 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 314 (22.32%) Software Engineering
7 273 (19.40%) Analytics
8 255 (18.12%) Mentoring
9 236 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 217 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 213 (15.14%) Data Modelling
12 203 (14.43%) Machine Learning
13 202 (14.36%) Data Engineering
14 201 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
15 199 (14.14%) Data Science
16 196 (13.93%) Coaching
17 186 (13.22%) Containerisation
18 185 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
19 160 (11.37%) Test Automation
20 154 (10.95%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 479 (34.04%) SQL
2 301 (21.39%) Java
3 250 (17.77%) JavaScript
4 156 (11.09%) Bash
5 146 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 138 (9.81%) TypeScript
7 122 (8.67%) Go
8 96 (6.82%) C#
9 67 (4.76%) C++
10 61 (4.34%) Scala
11 52 (3.70%) R
12 46 (3.27%) C
13 39 (2.77%) Shell Script
14 36 (2.56%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.92%) Bicep
16 21 (1.49%) T-SQL
17 18 (1.28%) Apex Code
18 15 (1.07%) VBA
19 14 (1.00%) PHP
20 11 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 272 (19.33%) Degree
2 161 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 130 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.56%) DV Cleared
13 17 (1.21%) CEH
13 17 (1.21%) PhD
14 14 (1.00%) ACCA
14 14 (1.00%) CIMA
15 12 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
17 8 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 77 (5.47%) QA
3 49 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.85%) GDPR
5 24 (1.71%) NIST
6 20 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.35%) SLA
8 15 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.85%) ISO 22301
10 10 (0.71%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) ECSS
12 2 (0.14%) EMIR
12 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.071%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.071%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.071%) SEPA
System Software
1 240 (17.06%) Docker
2 44 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.57%) Firmware
5 8 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.36%) vSphere
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.071%) NFS
10 1 (0.071%) vCloud
10 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 306 (21.75%) Terraform
2 226 (16.06%) Kubernetes
3 119 (8.46%) Ansible
4 69 (4.90%) Grafana
5 63 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.70%) Argo
8 20 (1.42%) Kustomize
9 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.43%) Control-M
10 6 (0.43%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.36%) FTK
11 5 (0.36%) Puppet
11 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.28%) Cilium
12 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.28%) logstash
12 4 (0.28%) QRadar
12 4 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 196 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.60%) Databricks
3 86 (6.11%) Oracle
4 78 (5.54%) Google
5 45 (3.20%) VMware
6 40 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 32 (2.27%) Cisco
9 28 (1.99%) MuleSoft
10 27 (1.92%) IBM
11 19 (1.35%) Commvault
12 18 (1.28%) Okta
12 18 (1.28%) Typelevel
13 17 (1.21%) Talend
14 16 (1.14%) SAP
15 15 (1.07%) Arista
15 15 (1.07%) Aruba
15 15 (1.07%) NetScout
15 15 (1.07%) OpenAI
16 14 (1.00%) Palantir