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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,894 2,013 3,069
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.60% 11.93% 13.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.37% 39.96% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 1,119 2,177
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,125 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £142,500
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 6,237 5,038 8,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.02% 29.86% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 3,338 5,843
10th Percentile £39,891 £36,250 £39,226
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 October 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 50 (2.64%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.32%) Apache
2 44 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.48%) SAS
6 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.26%) Confluence
8 5 (0.26%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.16%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) Hedera
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.37%) Simulink
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.26%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
7 3 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.053%) Revit
9 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.053%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.053%) Actimize
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 652 (34.42%) AWS
2 616 (32.52%) Azure
3 294 (15.52%) GCP
4 175 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 167 (8.82%) SaaS
6 136 (7.18%) GitHub
7 80 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 80 (4.22%) Serverless
8 74 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (3.75%) Snowflake
10 69 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 68 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 59 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (3.01%) Amazon S3
15 54 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (2.75%) dbt
17 34 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
17 34 (1.80%) Azure Databricks
17 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.85%) Broadband
2 69 (3.64%) Firewall
3 60 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 48 (2.53%) VPN
5 35 (1.85%) DNS
6 29 (1.53%) WAN
7 27 (1.43%) LAN
7 27 (1.43%) Network Security
8 25 (1.32%) Wireless
9 24 (1.27%) BGP
10 18 (0.95%) VLAN
11 15 (0.79%) DHCP
11 15 (0.79%) OSPF
12 14 (0.74%) 5G
12 14 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (0.63%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
14 9 (0.48%) MPLS
14 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
15 8 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.92%) Power BI
2 137 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (4.54%) SQL Server
5 77 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 70 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 66 (3.48%) Metadata
8 65 (3.43%) NoSQL
9 50 (2.64%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.53%) Big Data
10 48 (2.53%) Tableau
11 47 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 42 (2.22%) Delta Lake
13 33 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
14 32 (1.69%) DynamoDB
15 31 (1.64%) MySQL
16 28 (1.48%) Star Schema
17 27 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 195 (10.30%) Git
2 85 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 61 (3.22%) GitLab
4 36 (1.90%) JIRA
5 21 (1.11%) Claude Code
6 16 (0.84%) MLflow
6 16 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.69%) LabVIEW
7 13 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 12 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.53%) Selenium
10 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.26%) Poetry
13 5 (0.26%) Postman
13 5 (0.26%) Subversion
14 4 (0.21%) JMeter
14 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 607 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 442 (23.34%) Finance
3 329 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (7.07%) Banking
6 132 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 122 (6.44%) Legal
8 105 (5.54%) Law
9 93 (4.91%) Marketing
10 82 (4.33%) Retail
11 44 (2.32%) Front Office
12 40 (2.11%) Games
13 36 (1.90%) Electronics
14 34 (1.80%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.79%) Local Government
18 13 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 547 (28.88%) Senior
2 274 (14.47%) Software Engineer
3 271 (14.31%) Developer
4 236 (12.46%) Lead
5 227 (11.99%) Data Engineer
6 213 (11.25%) Python Engineer
7 133 (7.02%) Analyst
8 116 (6.12%) Python Developer
9 104 (5.49%) Data Scientist
10 101 (5.33%) Python Software Engineer
11 85 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
12 82 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 77 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
14 74 (3.91%) Senior Developer
15 72 (3.80%) Architect
16 68 (3.59%) Data Analyst
17 62 (3.27%) Consultant
18 58 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
18 58 (3.06%) Senior Data Scientist
19 55 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (15.05%) Terraform
2 129 (6.81%) React
3 109 (5.76%) PySpark
4 94 (4.96%) Node.js
5 83 (4.38%) .NET
6 75 (3.96%) PyTorch
6 75 (3.96%) RESTful
7 68 (3.59%) REST
8 67 (3.54%) TensorFlow
9 65 (3.43%) LangChain
10 60 (3.17%) Django
10 60 (3.17%) FastAPI
11 50 (2.64%) Kafka
12 45 (2.38%) Next.js
13 42 (2.22%) LangGraph
14 35 (1.85%) Pandas
15 33 (1.74%) Spring
16 32 (1.69%) Spring Boot
17 30 (1.58%) scikit-learn
18 27 (1.43%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 250 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 169 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (5.02%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.75%) Virtual Team
5 70 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 56 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 40 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
9 39 (2.06%) Blog
10 38 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.95%) Credit Risk
11 37 (1.95%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
13 31 (1.64%) Hedge funds
14 29 (1.53%) Security Posture
15 28 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
16 27 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 209 (11.03%) Linux
2 81 (4.28%) Windows
3 33 (1.74%) Unix
4 18 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.48%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Debian
11 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
12 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
13 3 (0.16%) Solaris
14 1 (0.053%) AIX
14 1 (0.053%) CentOS
14 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (40.29%) AI
2 625 (33.00%) Software Engineering
3 589 (31.10%) CI/CD
4 442 (23.34%) Analytics
5 434 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
6 408 (21.54%) Mentoring
7 395 (20.86%) DevOps
8 381 (20.12%) Agile
9 366 (19.32%) Machine Learning
10 336 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 332 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 263 (13.89%) Test Automation
13 260 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
14 256 (13.52%) Data Science
15 250 (13.20%) Data Engineering
16 247 (13.04%) Decision-Making
17 244 (12.88%) Observability
18 242 (12.78%) Data Modelling
19 241 (12.72%) Business Intelligence
20 223 (11.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 657 (34.69%) SQL
2 259 (13.67%) Java
3 258 (13.62%) JavaScript
4 226 (11.93%) C#
5 213 (11.25%) PowerShell
6 199 (10.51%) TypeScript
7 145 (7.66%) Bash
8 114 (6.02%) Go
9 95 (5.02%) C++
10 75 (3.96%) R
11 53 (2.80%) C
12 50 (2.64%) Bicep
13 37 (1.95%) Scala
14 36 (1.90%) Rust
15 27 (1.43%) PHP
16 23 (1.21%) MATLAB
16 23 (1.21%) Ruby
16 23 (1.21%) VBA
17 22 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 17 (0.90%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 246 (12.99%) Degree
2 233 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 186 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.06%) CISSP
12 19 (1.00%) PhD
13 18 (0.95%) GIAC
13 18 (0.95%) SnowPro
14 17 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
15 16 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.74%) OSCP
17 13 (0.69%) CCNP
18 12 (0.63%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (10.82%) Data Quality
2 122 (6.44%) QA
3 48 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 46 (2.43%) GDPR
5 39 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.74%) NIST
7 22 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.42%) SLA
12 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.21%) ECSS
14 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.21%) MiFID
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
15 3 (0.16%) COPPA
15 3 (0.16%) UCITS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 234 (12.35%) Docker
2 20 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.06%) Firmware
2 20 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.32%) KVM
6 4 (0.21%) vSphere
7 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.053%) HDFS
9 1 (0.053%) QEMU
9 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 247 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.33%) Ansible
3 85 (4.49%) Grafana
4 55 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.06%) Argo
6 13 (0.69%) Istio
6 13 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 7 (0.37%) Puppet
9 6 (0.32%) Cilium
9 6 (0.32%) Graylog
9 6 (0.32%) Packer
10 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.21%) linkerd
11 4 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 290 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 147 (7.76%) Databricks
3 97 (5.12%) Google
4 51 (2.69%) OpenAI
5 46 (2.43%) Oracle
6 40 (2.11%) Cisco
7 28 (1.48%) Foundry
7 28 (1.48%) Splunk
8 27 (1.43%) VMware
9 23 (1.21%) Informatica
10 20 (1.06%) New Relic
11 19 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 18 (0.95%) Red Hat
13 17 (0.90%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.74%) HubSpot
16 13 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.63%) Talend
18 11 (0.58%) Palantir
19 10 (0.53%) Alteryx
4,190 hybrid/remote Python jobs