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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,658 2,388 3,898
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.21% 15.41% 11.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.86% 40.86% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,440 3,102
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,682 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -0.17% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,563
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 5,372 5,844 14,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.59% 37.72% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,995 4,051 11,675
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,638
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,184 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 21 June 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 72 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.23%) Apache
4 18 (1.09%) SAS
5 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.060%) CMS
9 1 (0.060%) Confluence
9 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.060%) nginx
9 1 (0.060%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Blender
6 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Lightworks
7 2 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.060%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 651 (39.26%) AWS
2 527 (31.79%) Azure
3 277 (16.71%) GCP
4 137 (8.26%) Power Platform
5 124 (7.48%) SaaS
6 104 (6.27%) GitHub
6 104 (6.27%) Serverless
7 87 (5.25%) Amazon S3
8 72 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 54 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
13 45 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (2.41%) Snowflake
15 39 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 39 (2.35%) dbt
16 37 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 202 (12.18%) Broadband
2 79 (4.76%) Firewall
3 47 (2.83%) VPN
4 27 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.57%) LAN
6 25 (1.51%) WAN
7 22 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.33%) VLAN
8 21 (1.27%) DNS
9 19 (1.15%) Network Security
9 19 (1.15%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.03%) NGFW
11 16 (0.97%) BGP
11 16 (0.97%) Wireless
12 15 (0.90%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.78%) MPLS
13 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.66%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.57%) Power BI
3 86 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 69 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 61 (3.68%) BigQuery
8 60 (3.62%) NoSQL
9 55 (3.32%) Metadata
10 53 (3.20%) Tableau
11 46 (2.77%) Data Lake
12 39 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (2.17%) Big Data
13 36 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
14 34 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.93%) MySQL
15 32 (1.93%) Semantic Layer
16 30 (1.81%) Delta Lake
17 27 (1.63%) Redis
18 25 (1.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 148 (8.93%) Git
2 65 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.62%) GitLab
4 34 (2.05%) JIRA
5 18 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 14 (0.84%) MLflow
7 13 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.42%) JMeter
9 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.36%) Selenium
11 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.30%) Locust
11 5 (0.30%) Postman
11 5 (0.30%) Subversion
12 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.18%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 457 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 355 (21.41%) Finance
3 287 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 100 (6.03%) Banking
7 72 (4.34%) Law
8 64 (3.86%) Retail
9 52 (3.14%) Marketing
9 52 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 48 (2.90%) Front Office
11 47 (2.83%) Legal
12 46 (2.77%) Games
13 24 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.90%) Electronics
17 13 (0.78%) Publishing
18 12 (0.72%) Tech for Good
19 11 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 383 (23.10%) Senior
2 329 (19.84%) Developer
3 281 (16.95%) Lead
4 196 (11.82%) Data Engineer
5 195 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 160 (9.65%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.69%) Python Developer
8 97 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
9 95 (5.73%) Analyst
10 91 (5.49%) Data Scientist
11 69 (4.16%) Lead Developer
12 67 (4.04%) Senior Developer
13 65 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 64 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
15 60 (3.62%) Data Analyst
16 57 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
17 56 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
18 49 (2.96%) Architect
19 48 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
20 46 (2.77%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (8.87%) React
2 105 (6.33%) Node.js
3 95 (5.73%) PyTorch
4 94 (5.67%) Kafka
5 85 (5.13%) TensorFlow
6 75 (4.52%) REST
7 73 (4.40%) .NET
8 66 (3.98%) RESTful
9 64 (3.86%) PySpark
10 57 (3.44%) Django
11 55 (3.32%) FastAPI
12 49 (2.96%) LangChain
13 48 (2.90%) gRPC
14 39 (2.35%) Vue
15 35 (2.11%) JSON
16 33 (1.99%) Flask
17 32 (1.93%) Redux
18 29 (1.75%) GraphQL
19 28 (1.69%) CSS
19 28 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 207 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 176 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (6.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 82 (4.95%) Algorithms
5 68 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 64 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 59 (3.56%) AI Agents
8 58 (3.50%) Low-Code
9 55 (3.32%) Over-the-Top Content
10 44 (2.65%) Onboarding
11 38 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 38 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (2.23%) Fixed Income
13 35 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 30 (1.81%) Equities
15 28 (1.69%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.63%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.57%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 195 (11.76%) Linux
2 64 (3.86%) Windows
3 44 (2.65%) Unix
4 31 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.54%) Debian
7 8 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.42%) Android
9 4 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.060%) AIX
12 1 (0.060%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.060%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.060%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (33.59%) CI/CD
2 552 (33.29%) AI
3 501 (30.22%) Software Engineering
4 397 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
5 393 (23.70%) Agile
6 363 (21.89%) Machine Learning
7 346 (20.87%) Mentoring
8 332 (20.02%) DevOps
9 312 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 301 (18.15%) Analytics
11 292 (17.61%) Data Science
12 225 (13.57%) Containerisation
13 219 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
14 218 (13.15%) Roadmaps
15 216 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 206 (12.42%) Data Engineering
16 206 (12.42%) Data Modelling
17 199 (12.00%) Observability
18 194 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
19 191 (11.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 475 (28.65%) SQL
2 281 (16.95%) Java
3 230 (13.87%) JavaScript
4 190 (11.46%) Go
5 154 (9.29%) PowerShell
6 153 (9.23%) Bash
7 148 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 141 (8.50%) C#
9 84 (5.07%) Scala
10 75 (4.52%) C++
11 52 (3.14%) R
12 39 (2.35%) C
12 39 (2.35%) PHP
13 28 (1.69%) Bicep
14 20 (1.21%) VBA
15 18 (1.09%) Ruby
15 18 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 17 (1.03%) Apex Code
17 15 (0.90%) Groovy
17 15 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 233 (14.05%) Degree
2 159 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 128 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.90%) PhD
11 13 (0.78%) OSCP
12 12 (0.72%) CEH
13 11 (0.66%) ACCA
13 11 (0.66%) CIMA
13 11 (0.66%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.60%) CISSP
15 9 (0.54%) GIAC
16 7 (0.42%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.87%) Data Quality
2 97 (5.85%) QA
3 42 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.15%) NIST
6 17 (1.03%) GDPR
7 13 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.48%) SLA
10 7 (0.42%) ISO 22301
11 6 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 5 (0.30%) WCAG
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) IFRS
13 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 270 (16.28%) Docker
2 33 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.21%) Firmware
5 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.42%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) KVM
7 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 271 (16.34%) Terraform
2 231 (13.93%) Kubernetes
3 113 (6.82%) Ansible
4 83 (5.01%) Grafana
5 70 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.47%) Argo
7 24 (1.45%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.03%) Istio
9 12 (0.72%) Packer
9 12 (0.72%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.54%) Kubeflow
10 9 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.42%) Puppet
11 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.36%) Graylog
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.30%) FTK
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 238 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.94%) Databricks
3 79 (4.76%) Google
4 54 (3.26%) Cisco
5 49 (2.96%) VMware
6 45 (2.71%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 29 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.63%) Oracle
9 27 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.57%) Foundry
11 23 (1.39%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.27%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.27%) Splunk
13 16 (0.97%) F5
14 15 (0.90%) Arista
14 15 (0.90%) Aruba
14 15 (0.90%) NetScout
14 15 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft