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

 6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,822 2,083 3,179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.80% 12.71% 13.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.89% 39.44% 33.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 1,240 2,426
10th Percentile £44,925 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £79,966
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.21% +6.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £108,250 £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 6,095 5,281 9,355
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.09% 32.22% 38.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 3,640 6,859
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +1.78% -3.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £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 2 September 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 45 (2.47%) Apache Spark
2 42 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.25%) Apache
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.49%) 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%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.11%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.33%) 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
1 653 (35.84%) AWS
2 581 (31.89%) Azure
3 286 (15.70%) GCP
4 157 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 150 (8.23%) SaaS
6 120 (6.59%) GitHub
7 83 (4.56%) Serverless
8 70 (3.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 69 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (3.24%) Amazon S3
13 57 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
14 56 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (3.07%) Snowflake
15 52 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 44 (2.41%) dbt
17 36 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
19 34 (1.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 124 (6.81%) Broadband
2 75 (4.12%) Firewall
3 52 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 40 (2.20%) VPN
5 35 (1.92%) DNS
6 33 (1.81%) WAN
7 31 (1.70%) LAN
8 26 (1.43%) Network Security
9 25 (1.37%) Wireless
10 17 (0.93%) VLAN
11 15 (0.82%) BGP
12 14 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (0.77%) DHCP
12 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.71%) 5G
13 13 (0.71%) OSPF
14 11 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.49%) MPLS
16 8 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
1 133 (7.30%) Power BI
2 103 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.45%) MongoDB
5 62 (3.40%) Data Lake
5 62 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 53 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 50 (2.74%) Metadata
8 47 (2.58%) Big Data
8 47 (2.58%) Tableau
9 41 (2.25%) BigQuery
9 41 (2.25%) Delta Lake
10 32 (1.76%) MySQL
11 29 (1.59%) DynamoDB
12 25 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
14 23 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 184 (10.10%) Git
2 81 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.18%) GitLab
4 35 (1.92%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.77%) MLflow
7 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.71%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.49%) Selenium
10 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.33%) JMeter
12 6 (0.33%) Postman
12 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
15 3 (0.16%) CMake
15 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 580 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 411 (22.56%) Finance
3 296 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (6.37%) Legal
6 112 (6.15%) Banking
7 107 (5.87%) Public Sector
8 91 (4.99%) Law
9 80 (4.39%) Marketing
10 70 (3.84%) Retail
11 43 (2.36%) Games
12 41 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.87%) Electronics
14 28 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.37%) Front Office
16 19 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.82%) Local Government
18 13 (0.71%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 511 (28.05%) Senior
2 267 (14.65%) Developer
3 229 (12.57%) Lead
4 227 (12.46%) Software Engineer
5 194 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 185 (10.15%) Python Engineer
7 110 (6.04%) Analyst
8 102 (5.60%) Python Developer
9 97 (5.32%) Data Scientist
10 76 (4.17%) Senior Developer
11 73 (4.01%) Architect
11 73 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
12 71 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
13 66 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 63 (3.46%) Python Software Engineer
15 61 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
16 59 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (3.13%) Engineering Manager
18 56 (3.07%) Senior Data Scientist
19 55 (3.02%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (15.70%) Terraform
2 130 (7.14%) React
3 96 (5.27%) PySpark
4 89 (4.88%) Node.js
5 84 (4.61%) .NET
6 83 (4.56%) PyTorch
7 74 (4.06%) REST
8 70 (3.84%) TensorFlow
9 67 (3.68%) Django
9 67 (3.68%) RESTful
10 58 (3.18%) FastAPI
11 56 (3.07%) Kafka
12 54 (2.96%) LangChain
13 42 (2.31%) Next.js
14 37 (2.03%) Pandas
15 34 (1.87%) CSS
16 33 (1.81%) scikit-learn
17 29 (1.59%) Flask
17 29 (1.59%) LangGraph
17 29 (1.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 238 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 183 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (4.56%) Algorithms
4 82 (4.50%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.39%) Virtual Team
6 67 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
7 59 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 43 (2.36%) Low-Code
9 43 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 37 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 37 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.76%) Blog
13 30 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
14 27 (1.48%) Credit Risk
15 26 (1.43%) Security Posture
16 25 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
17 24 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
17 24 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 213 (11.69%) Linux
2 81 (4.45%) Windows
3 37 (2.03%) Unix
4 28 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.38%) Android
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Debian
8 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
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
1 696 (38.20%) AI
2 592 (32.49%) Software Engineering
3 566 (31.06%) CI/CD
4 432 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
5 402 (22.06%) Mentoring
6 381 (20.91%) DevOps
7 378 (20.75%) Agile
7 378 (20.75%) Analytics
8 375 (20.58%) Machine Learning
9 346 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 327 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 264 (14.49%) Data Science
12 254 (13.94%) Test Automation
13 242 (13.28%) Observability
14 226 (12.40%) Roadmaps
15 225 (12.35%) Decision-Making
16 219 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
17 218 (11.96%) Data Engineering
18 214 (11.75%) Data Modelling
19 212 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 578 (31.72%) SQL
2 257 (14.11%) JavaScript
3 245 (13.45%) Java
4 229 (12.57%) C#
5 216 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 190 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 132 (7.24%) Bash
8 125 (6.86%) Go
9 100 (5.49%) C++
10 54 (2.96%) Scala
11 53 (2.91%) R
12 48 (2.63%) Bicep
12 48 (2.63%) C
13 37 (2.03%) PHP
14 30 (1.65%) Rust
15 27 (1.48%) Ruby
16 26 (1.43%) VBA
17 22 (1.21%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.99%) Groovy
19 16 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 241 (13.23%) Degree
2 210 (11.53%) Security Cleared
3 164 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 40 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.21%) PhD
10 21 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
13 16 (0.88%) CISSP
14 15 (0.82%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.77%) CCNP
16 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.71%) GIAC
16 13 (0.71%) OSCP
17 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (9.11%) Data Quality
2 137 (7.52%) QA
3 42 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.76%) GDPR
6 24 (1.32%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.49%) SLA
10 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 3 (0.16%) ECSS
13 3 (0.16%) GAAP
13 3 (0.16%) IFRS
13 3 (0.16%) UCITS
System Software
1 248 (13.61%) Docker
2 26 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.32%) 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
1 234 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.87%) Ansible
3 88 (4.83%) Grafana
4 49 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.15%) Istio
6 20 (1.10%) Argo
7 14 (0.77%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
10 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.33%) Graylog
11 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 288 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.63%) Databricks
3 72 (3.95%) Google
4 53 (2.91%) Cisco
5 47 (2.58%) OpenAI
6 36 (1.98%) Oracle
6 36 (1.98%) VMware
7 27 (1.48%) Splunk
8 26 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 25 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.26%) Foundry
10 23 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.21%) Fortinet
12 18 (0.99%) Informatica
12 18 (0.99%) Typelevel
13 17 (0.93%) F5
14 16 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.88%) New Relic
15 14 (0.77%) HubSpot
16 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
3,107 hybrid/remote Python jobs