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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,549 2,482 3,616
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.30% 16.39% 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.17% 40.46% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,506 2,897
10th Percentile £44,500 £46,375 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% - +0.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £69,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +3.57% -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 4,969 6,135 13,379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.61% 40.52% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,667 4,296 11,388
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,625 £38,694
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 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 May 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 75 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.19%) Apache
4 22 (1.42%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.065%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) SPSS
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.065%) Actimize
5 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.065%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 619 (39.96%) AWS
2 552 (35.64%) Azure
3 249 (16.07%) GCP
4 155 (10.01%) Power Platform
5 142 (9.17%) GitHub
6 114 (7.36%) Serverless
7 113 (7.30%) SaaS
8 98 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 95 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
11 72 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
12 70 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 52 (3.36%) Snowflake
14 50 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
15 48 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 48 (3.10%) dbt
16 40 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
18 37 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 165 (10.65%) Broadband
2 74 (4.78%) Firewall
3 39 (2.52%) VPN
4 25 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (1.55%) LAN
6 23 (1.48%) VLAN
7 22 (1.42%) WAN
8 19 (1.23%) Wireshark
9 18 (1.16%) DNS
9 18 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.10%) BGP
10 17 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.10%) NGFW
11 15 (0.97%) Network Security
11 15 (0.97%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.90%) MPLS
13 12 (0.77%) 4G
13 12 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.77%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (8.13%) Power BI
2 115 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 65 (4.20%) Tableau
5 62 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 59 (3.81%) Metadata
7 58 (3.74%) MongoDB
7 58 (3.74%) NoSQL
8 55 (3.55%) Data Lake
9 53 (3.42%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.23%) BigQuery
11 39 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 38 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.94%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.81%) MySQL
15 25 (1.61%) Redis
16 24 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.55%) Big Data
17 23 (1.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 136 (8.78%) Git
2 57 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 46 (2.97%) GitLab
4 33 (2.13%) JIRA
5 18 (1.16%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.03%) MLflow
7 12 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.52%) JMeter
9 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.45%) Locust
11 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.39%) Selenium
12 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.32%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
13 4 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 435 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 341 (22.01%) Finance
3 253 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.94%) Banking
7 70 (4.52%) Law
8 65 (4.20%) Retail
9 52 (3.36%) Front Office
10 45 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 44 (2.84%) Marketing
12 40 (2.58%) Games
12 40 (2.58%) Legal
13 29 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.42%) Publishing
15 19 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.03%) Health Technology
16 16 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 14 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 346 (22.34%) Senior
2 306 (19.75%) Developer
3 250 (16.14%) Lead
4 200 (12.91%) Data Engineer
5 177 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 151 (9.75%) Python Engineer
7 121 (7.81%) Python Developer
8 92 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
9 82 (5.29%) Analyst
10 65 (4.20%) Data Scientist
11 62 (4.00%) Lead Developer
12 59 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
12 59 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
13 58 (3.74%) Senior Developer
14 56 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 50 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
17 48 (3.10%) React Developer
18 46 (2.97%) Architect
19 44 (2.84%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (10.33%) React
2 105 (6.78%) Kafka
3 96 (6.20%) Node.js
4 76 (4.91%) .NET
5 72 (4.65%) PySpark
6 63 (4.07%) PyTorch
6 63 (4.07%) REST
7 61 (3.94%) RESTful
8 58 (3.74%) Django
9 55 (3.55%) TensorFlow
10 49 (3.16%) gRPC
11 44 (2.84%) FastAPI
12 39 (2.52%) JSON
13 33 (2.13%) Redux
13 33 (2.13%) Vue
14 30 (1.94%) CSS
15 28 (1.81%) GraphQL
15 28 (1.81%) HTML
15 28 (1.81%) Pandas
15 28 (1.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 138 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.36%) Video\Live Streaming
4 75 (4.84%) Algorithms
5 69 (4.45%) Product Ownership
6 63 (4.07%) Data Structures
7 61 (3.94%) Low-Code
8 51 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
9 46 (2.97%) Onboarding
10 40 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (2.32%) Fixed Income
12 34 (2.19%) AI Agents
13 33 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (2.07%) Public Cloud
15 28 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 28 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (1.68%) Equities
17 25 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 25 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (1.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 181 (11.68%) Linux
2 59 (3.81%) Windows
3 43 (2.78%) Unix
4 27 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.45%) Android
8 6 (0.39%) Debian
8 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.065%) AIX
12 1 (0.065%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.065%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (34.47%) CI/CD
2 436 (28.15%) Software Engineering
3 403 (26.02%) AI
4 402 (25.95%) Agile
5 375 (24.21%) DevOps
6 354 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (19.37%) Mentoring
8 295 (19.04%) Machine Learning
9 278 (17.95%) Analytics
10 265 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 250 (16.14%) Data Science
12 228 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
13 221 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 217 (14.01%) Data Modelling
15 211 (13.62%) Containerisation
16 206 (13.30%) Data Engineering
17 181 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (11.49%) Test Automation
19 175 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
20 159 (10.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 449 (28.99%) SQL
2 299 (19.30%) Java
3 230 (14.85%) JavaScript
4 187 (12.07%) Go
5 154 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 141 (9.10%) PowerShell
7 140 (9.04%) Bash
8 135 (8.72%) C#
9 95 (6.13%) Scala
10 70 (4.52%) C++
11 50 (3.23%) R
12 36 (2.32%) C
13 33 (2.13%) PHP
14 23 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.29%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.29%) Bicep
16 17 (1.10%) VBA
17 15 (0.97%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.97%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 243 (15.69%) Degree
2 132 (8.52%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.97%) PhD
11 13 (0.84%) ACCA
11 13 (0.84%) CIMA
12 12 (0.77%) CEH
12 12 (0.77%) OSCP
13 10 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.65%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (8.78%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.78%) QA
3 40 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.42%) NIST
6 17 (1.10%) GDPR
7 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.71%) ISO 22301
9 8 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.39%) GRC
11 5 (0.32%) PMO
11 5 (0.32%) WCAG
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.13%) EMIR
14 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 261 (16.85%) Docker
2 39 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.84%) Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.32%) KVM
9 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (18.21%) Terraform
2 225 (14.53%) Kubernetes
3 112 (7.23%) Ansible
4 76 (4.91%) Grafana
5 62 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.32%) Argo
7 22 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.77%) Istio
10 11 (0.71%) Packer
10 11 (0.71%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.39%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.39%) Puppet
13 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.32%) FTK
13 5 (0.32%) Graylog
13 5 (0.32%) SCCM
14 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 235 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.88%) Databricks
3 75 (4.84%) Google
4 52 (3.36%) Cisco
4 52 (3.36%) VMware
5 45 (2.91%) Typelevel
6 36 (2.32%) Oracle
7 35 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 27 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.29%) Foundry
12 18 (1.16%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.10%) Commvault
14 15 (0.97%) Arista
14 15 (0.97%) Aruba
14 15 (0.97%) F5
14 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.97%) NetScout
14 15 (0.97%) Splunk