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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,879 2,907 3,138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.56% 14.33% 13.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.01% 34.42% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 2,071 2,537
10th Percentile £44,325 £46,713 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £71,800
% change year-on-year -4.67% +4.46% +2.57%

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 4,817 8,445 10,903
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.63% 41.64% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,199 5,466 9,246
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 19 October 2025.

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
1 163 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (5.59%) Apache
3 36 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.22%) Confluence
5 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 14 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 14 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.69%) Apache Solr
9 12 (0.64%) CMS
10 9 (0.48%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.27%) nginx
11 5 (0.27%) SAS
12 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.11%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 68 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.64%) Blender
4 6 (0.32%) Simulink
5 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.16%) Civil 3D
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.16%) ProjectWise
6 3 (0.16%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.11%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.053%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 24 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.80%) thinkFolio
4 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.43%) Shopify
4 8 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.16%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.053%) FastStats
7 1 (0.053%) Magento
7 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 774 (41.19%) AWS
2 669 (35.60%) Azure
3 381 (20.28%) GCP
4 177 (9.42%) Power Platform
5 161 (8.57%) dbt
6 155 (8.25%) Snowflake
7 131 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (6.07%) GitHub
9 112 (5.96%) Serverless
10 91 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (3.30%) SaaS
12 61 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
13 57 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 52 (2.77%) Amazon S3
15 40 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 39 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (1.97%) Entra ID
18 36 (1.92%) OCI
19 34 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 296 (15.75%) VPN
2 269 (14.32%) Cisco IOS
3 51 (2.71%) WAN
4 50 (2.66%) Firewall
5 31 (1.65%) LAN
6 29 (1.54%) DNS
7 27 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.44%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.96%) Broadband
8 18 (0.96%) SSL
9 17 (0.90%) 5G
10 16 (0.85%) BGP
11 14 (0.75%) Network Security
11 14 (0.75%) OSPF
12 13 (0.69%) DHCP
12 13 (0.69%) Wireless
13 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.53%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.48%) Ethernet
16 8 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (8.83%) Power BI
2 137 (7.29%) Apache Iceberg
3 136 (7.24%) Amazon Athena
4 132 (7.03%) Apache Arrow
4 132 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
4 132 (7.03%) Dremio
5 128 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
6 113 (6.01%) Data Lake
7 82 (4.36%) Tableau
8 73 (3.89%) Apache Ignite
9 64 (3.41%) NoSQL
10 55 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
11 52 (2.77%) SQL Server
12 45 (2.39%) DynamoDB
13 44 (2.34%) MySQL
14 35 (1.86%) MongoDB
14 35 (1.86%) Relational Database
15 34 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
17 21 (1.12%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 120 (6.39%) Git
2 85 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.03%) JIRA
4 36 (1.92%) GitLab
5 22 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (0.80%) Selenium
6 15 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.59%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.43%) ERwin
10 7 (0.37%) MLflow
11 6 (0.32%) Appium
11 6 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.32%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.32%) webpack
12 5 (0.27%) Subversion
12 5 (0.27%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 512 (27.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 493 (26.24%) Finance
3 432 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 322 (17.14%) Social Skills
5 204 (10.86%) Front Office
6 140 (7.45%) Banking
7 87 (4.63%) Investment Banking
8 70 (3.73%) Marketing
9 58 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 55 (2.93%) Retail
11 42 (2.24%) Law
12 31 (1.65%) Tech for Good
13 27 (1.44%) Health Technology
13 27 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.22%) Electronics
15 22 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.06%) Publishing
17 18 (0.96%) Legal
17 18 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 541 (28.79%) Senior
2 399 (21.23%) Software Engineer
3 301 (16.02%) Developer
4 285 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 261 (13.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 187 (9.95%) Python Engineer
7 166 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
8 147 (7.82%) Python Developer
9 142 (7.56%) Python Software Engineer
10 139 (7.40%) Analyst
11 136 (7.24%) Data Engineer
12 132 (7.03%) AWS Software Engineer
13 113 (6.01%) Lead
14 91 (4.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 86 (4.58%) Java Engineer
16 84 (4.47%) Java Software Engineer
16 84 (4.47%) Senior Developer
17 74 (3.94%) AWS Developer
17 74 (3.94%) Senior Java Engineer
18 73 (3.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (16.23%) Node.js
2 280 (14.90%) Elastic Stack
3 223 (11.87%) .NET
4 194 (10.32%) React
5 164 (8.73%) Pandas
6 146 (7.77%) NumPy
7 132 (7.03%) SciPy
8 87 (4.63%) Vue
9 81 (4.31%) AngularJS
10 80 (4.26%) gRPC
11 73 (3.89%) HTML
11 73 (3.89%) Protocol Buffers
12 65 (3.46%) RESTful
13 60 (3.19%) REST
14 56 (2.98%) Kafka
15 43 (2.29%) Flask
16 42 (2.24%) Django
17 39 (2.08%) PySpark
18 37 (1.97%) FastAPI
19 36 (1.92%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 442 (23.52%) Cyberattack
2 205 (10.91%) Self-Motivation
3 197 (10.48%) Linux Command Line
4 182 (9.69%) Fixed Income
5 155 (8.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 152 (8.09%) Equities
7 109 (5.80%) Hedge funds
8 103 (5.48%) Cloud Native
8 103 (5.48%) Derivative
9 75 (3.99%) Management Information System
10 73 (3.89%) Pricing Data
11 61 (3.25%) Algorithms
12 60 (3.19%) Product Ownership
13 56 (2.98%) Onboarding
14 34 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (1.70%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.22%) IoT
17 22 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
18 20 (1.06%) Public Cloud
19 19 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 637 (33.90%) Linux
2 362 (19.27%) Windows
3 266 (14.16%) Android
4 62 (3.30%) Unix
5 37 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.43%) Debian
7 8 (0.43%) Solaris
8 7 (0.37%) VMS
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.053%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (38.00%) Agile
2 624 (33.21%) DevOps
3 543 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
4 498 (26.50%) Software Engineering
5 389 (20.70%) Machine Learning
6 353 (18.79%) CI/CD
7 343 (18.25%) Mentoring
8 339 (18.04%) Risk Management
9 324 (17.24%) Mathematics
10 319 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
11 313 (16.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 310 (16.50%) AI
13 309 (16.44%) Data Engineering
14 306 (16.29%) Task Automation
15 276 (14.69%) Line Management
16 267 (14.21%) Storage Management
17 264 (14.05%) Microservices
18 262 (13.94%) Analytics
19 247 (13.15%) Asset Management
20 233 (12.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 544 (28.95%) JavaScript
2 542 (28.85%) SQL
3 488 (25.97%) Java
4 401 (21.34%) Bash
5 386 (20.54%) PowerShell
6 293 (15.59%) C++
7 292 (15.54%) TypeScript
8 229 (12.19%) Go
9 228 (12.13%) Rust
10 141 (7.50%) C#
11 133 (7.08%) R
12 94 (5.00%) C
13 84 (4.47%) MATLAB
14 78 (4.15%) PHP
15 57 (3.03%) Ruby
16 49 (2.61%) Dart
17 31 (1.65%) Bicep
18 30 (1.60%) Perl
19 27 (1.44%) Shell Script
20 26 (1.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 304 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 265 (14.10%) AWS Certification
3 258 (13.73%) Degree
4 201 (10.70%) DV Cleared
5 200 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 180 (9.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 99 (5.27%) SC Cleared
8 85 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (2.71%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (1.01%) PhD
15 18 (0.96%) CISSP
16 16 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
17 15 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.48%) CISA
18 9 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
19 8 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.73%) QA
2 64 (3.41%) GDPR
3 54 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.33%) SLA
5 21 (1.12%) NIST
6 17 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.053%) GRC
12 1 (0.053%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.053%) MiFID
12 1 (0.053%) SEPA
System Software
1 445 (23.68%) Docker
2 271 (14.42%) vSphere
3 270 (14.37%) Hyper-V
4 266 (14.16%) VMware NSX
5 37 (1.97%) Active Directory
6 20 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.75%) Firmware
8 9 (0.48%) NFS
8 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.16%) GPFS
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) Lustre
11 1 (0.053%) Corosync
11 1 (0.053%) HDFS
11 1 (0.053%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 493 (26.24%) Terraform
2 409 (21.77%) Ansible
3 188 (10.01%) Kubernetes
4 42 (2.24%) Grafana
5 30 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (0.48%) Argo
8 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.48%) SCOM
9 8 (0.43%) SCCM
10 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 7 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) WSUS
11 5 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.27%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) Nmap
13 3 (0.16%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 298 (15.86%) Cisco
2 270 (14.37%) Splunk
3 267 (14.21%) Juniper
4 262 (13.94%) 3PAR
5 175 (9.31%) Microsoft
6 111 (5.91%) Databricks
7 70 (3.73%) Google
8 65 (3.46%) Oracle
9 56 (2.98%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.44%) VMware
11 21 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 18 (0.96%) IBM
12 18 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 18 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.90%) SAP
14 16 (0.85%) Aruba
15 15 (0.80%) BISAM
15 15 (0.80%) Calypso
15 15 (0.80%) Charles River
15 15 (0.80%) SimCorp