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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,386 2,347 3,253
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.78% 14.62% 11.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.38% 33.35% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 923 1,584 2,655
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.57%

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 4,281 7,037 12,581
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.13% 43.83% 45.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,177 4,403 10,906
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £98,750
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 2 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 89 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.46%) Apache
3 40 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.52%) Confluence
5 18 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.15%) SAS
8 14 (1.01%) Tomcat
8 14 (1.01%) WebSphere
8 14 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (0.51%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 44 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.072%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.072%) Notion
7 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.43%) Shopify
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.072%) Actimize
8 1 (0.072%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 558 (40.26%) Azure
2 550 (39.68%) AWS
3 200 (14.43%) GitHub
4 180 (12.99%) Power Platform
5 167 (12.05%) GCP
6 159 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
7 135 (9.74%) Serverless
8 98 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 95 (6.85%) Snowflake
10 88 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
10 88 (6.35%) SaaS
11 85 (6.13%) GitHub Actions
12 78 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 77 (5.56%) dbt
14 60 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 59 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (3.97%) OCI
17 54 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 47 (3.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.26%) Broadband
2 51 (3.68%) Firewall
3 36 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.38%) VPN
5 30 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.80%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.44%) BGP
8 17 (1.23%) DNS
8 17 (1.23%) LAN
8 17 (1.23%) NGFW
8 17 (1.23%) WAN
9 16 (1.15%) VLAN
10 15 (1.08%) MPLS
10 15 (1.08%) VXLAN
11 14 (1.01%) Network Security
11 14 (1.01%) SSL
12 12 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.79%) 4G
13 11 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.79%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (11.54%) Power BI
2 94 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.71%) Tableau
4 89 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.70%) NoSQL
7 64 (4.62%) Data Lake
8 55 (3.97%) Relational Database
9 52 (3.75%) Apache Iceberg
10 46 (3.32%) Metadata
11 45 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.60%) BigQuery
15 31 (2.24%) MongoDB
16 30 (2.16%) MySQL
17 29 (2.09%) Apache Arrow
17 29 (2.09%) Delta Lake
17 29 (2.09%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 115 (8.30%) Git
2 93 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.33%) JIRA
4 38 (2.74%) GitLab
5 37 (2.67%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (1.52%) Selenium
7 19 (1.37%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.08%) MLflow
9 12 (0.87%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.87%) ERwin
10 11 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.79%) JUnit
11 5 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.29%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 426 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 395 (28.50%) Finance
3 204 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (6.78%) Banking
5 88 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 61 (4.40%) Front Office
8 55 (3.97%) Law
9 50 (3.61%) Marketing
10 47 (3.39%) Retail
11 39 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.24%) Publishing
13 29 (2.09%) Investment Banking
13 29 (2.09%) Legal
14 26 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.80%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.80%) Tech for Good
16 22 (1.59%) Health Technology
17 19 (1.37%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 298 (21.50%) Senior
2 271 (19.55%) Developer
3 179 (12.91%) Data Engineer
4 161 (11.62%) Lead
5 127 (9.16%) Python Developer
6 123 (8.87%) Software Engineer
7 118 (8.51%) Python Engineer
8 97 (7.00%) Analyst
9 93 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
11 62 (4.47%) Architect
12 57 (4.11%) Applications Engineer
13 56 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
14 55 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
15 53 (3.82%) AWS Developer
15 53 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 53 (3.82%) Senior Developer
16 52 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (3.68%) Lead Developer
18 49 (3.54%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (9.88%) React
2 83 (5.99%) Node.js
2 83 (5.99%) RESTful
3 62 (4.47%) Django
4 61 (4.40%) .NET
4 61 (4.40%) Kafka
5 53 (3.82%) PySpark
6 52 (3.75%) REST
6 52 (3.75%) SOAP
7 45 (3.25%) JSON
8 44 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (3.03%) Vue
10 41 (2.96%) Pandas
10 41 (2.96%) PyTorch
10 41 (2.96%) XML
11 39 (2.81%) TensorFlow
12 38 (2.74%) Flask
13 36 (2.60%) HTML
14 34 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 34 (2.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 60 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (3.82%) Onboarding
7 46 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 45 (3.25%) Low-Code
9 38 (2.74%) Fixed Income
10 37 (2.67%) Equities
11 36 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 35 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 35 (2.53%) Management Information System
13 29 (2.09%) Data Centre
13 29 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.95%) Hedge funds
15 25 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.66%) Derivative
17 22 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 203 (14.65%) Linux
2 83 (5.99%) Windows
3 81 (5.84%) Unix
4 25 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.72%) Debian
8 9 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.51%) VMS
10 6 (0.43%) Solaris
11 4 (0.29%) CentOS
12 3 (0.22%) Android
12 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (36.15%) CI/CD
2 445 (32.11%) Agile
3 444 (32.03%) DevOps
4 344 (24.82%) AI
5 331 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
6 292 (21.07%) Software Engineering
7 276 (19.91%) Analytics
8 246 (17.75%) Mentoring
9 240 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 212 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 203 (14.65%) Data Modelling
12 202 (14.57%) Coaching
13 200 (14.43%) Data Engineering
14 197 (14.21%) Machine Learning
15 194 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
16 189 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
17 188 (13.56%) Data Science
18 168 (12.12%) Containerisation
19 167 (12.05%) Asset Management
20 163 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 497 (35.86%) SQL
2 280 (20.20%) Java
3 243 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 167 (12.05%) Bash
5 151 (10.89%) PowerShell
6 139 (10.03%) TypeScript
7 103 (7.43%) C#
8 95 (6.85%) Go
9 64 (4.62%) C++
10 52 (3.75%) Scala
11 49 (3.54%) R
12 45 (3.25%) C
13 44 (3.17%) Shell Script
14 40 (2.89%) PL/SQL
15 33 (2.38%) Bicep
16 19 (1.37%) PHP
17 17 (1.23%) T-SQL
18 14 (1.01%) MATLAB
18 14 (1.01%) Perl
19 13 (0.94%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 259 (18.69%) Degree
2 155 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 96 (6.93%) AWS Certification
5 81 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.31%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.59%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.37%) PhD
14 16 (1.15%) CEH
15 15 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (1.01%) ACCA
16 14 (1.01%) CIMA
16 14 (1.01%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.94%) CISSP
18 12 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.84%) QA
3 46 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.38%) GDPR
5 28 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.66%) SLA
7 22 (1.59%) NIST
8 17 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.79%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.58%) GRC
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.14%) ECSS
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.072%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.072%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 231 (16.67%) Docker
2 41 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.58%) Firmware
6 5 (0.36%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 1 (0.072%) HDFS
10 1 (0.072%) vCloud
10 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 316 (22.80%) Terraform
2 235 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 129 (9.31%) Ansible
4 68 (4.91%) Grafana
5 61 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.74%) Argo
8 20 (1.44%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.43%) Control-M
12 5 (0.36%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) Cilium
13 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
13 4 (0.29%) QRadar
14 3 (0.22%) FTK
14 3 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.22%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 185 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 113 (8.15%) Databricks
3 86 (6.20%) Oracle
4 70 (5.05%) Google
5 40 (2.89%) VMware
6 39 (2.81%) Red Hat
7 33 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.95%) Cisco
8 27 (1.95%) IBM
9 26 (1.88%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.44%) Okta
11 19 (1.37%) Commvault
12 17 (1.23%) SAP
12 17 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.15%) Talend
14 15 (1.08%) Arista
14 15 (1.08%) Aruba
14 15 (1.08%) NetScout
15 13 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.94%) Workday