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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,646 2,364 3,821
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.36% 15.63% 11.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.41% 40.61% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 1,422 3,045
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,023 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,813 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,250 £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 5,240 5,821 13,910
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.61% 38.49% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,854 4,030 11,583
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 12 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 76 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.43%) Apache
4 19 (1.15%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.18%) Confluence
8 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) SPSS
5 3 (0.18%) Trello
6 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 645 (39.19%) AWS
2 536 (32.56%) Azure
3 270 (16.40%) GCP
4 136 (8.26%) Power Platform
5 118 (7.17%) SaaS
6 113 (6.87%) GitHub
7 105 (6.38%) Serverless
8 94 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 59 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (2.73%) Snowflake
16 44 (2.67%) dbt
17 43 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
18 41 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 197 (11.97%) Broadband
2 78 (4.74%) Firewall
3 44 (2.67%) VPN
4 27 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.58%) LAN
6 25 (1.52%) WAN
7 22 (1.34%) VLAN
8 20 (1.22%) DNS
8 20 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.15%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.03%) BGP
10 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.03%) Network Security
10 17 (1.03%) NGFW
11 15 (0.91%) MPLS
11 15 (0.91%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.85%) Wireless
13 13 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.73%) 4G
14 12 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.56%) Power BI
3 90 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 70 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 64 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 63 (3.83%) Metadata
8 58 (3.52%) NoSQL
9 57 (3.46%) BigQuery
10 55 (3.34%) Tableau
11 52 (3.16%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (2.13%) Big Data
16 30 (1.82%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.76%) MySQL
18 27 (1.64%) Redis
19 25 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 139 (8.44%) Git
2 64 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.34%) GitLab
4 31 (1.88%) JIRA
5 18 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 15 (0.91%) MLflow
7 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
9 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Locust
10 5 (0.30%) Postman
10 5 (0.30%) Selenium
10 5 (0.30%) Subversion
11 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 444 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 363 (22.05%) Finance
3 285 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 99 (6.01%) Banking
7 72 (4.37%) Law
8 62 (3.77%) Retail
9 50 (3.04%) Front Office
10 49 (2.98%) Marketing
11 47 (2.86%) Games
11 47 (2.86%) Telecoms
12 45 (2.73%) Legal
13 24 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.79%) Electronics
16 13 (0.79%) Publishing
17 12 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 384 (23.33%) Senior
2 321 (19.50%) Developer
3 274 (16.65%) Lead
4 208 (12.64%) Data Engineer
5 188 (11.42%) Software Engineer
6 160 (9.72%) Python Engineer
7 113 (6.87%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
9 93 (5.65%) Analyst
10 91 (5.53%) Data Scientist
11 66 (4.01%) Lead Developer
12 64 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 64 (3.89%) Senior Developer
13 62 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
14 61 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
15 58 (3.52%) Data Analyst
16 53 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
17 49 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
18 47 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
19 46 (2.79%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (9.11%) React
2 106 (6.44%) Node.js
3 99 (6.01%) Kafka
4 92 (5.59%) PyTorch
5 83 (5.04%) TensorFlow
6 72 (4.37%) REST
7 71 (4.31%) PySpark
8 70 (4.25%) .NET
9 64 (3.89%) RESTful
10 58 (3.52%) Django
11 56 (3.40%) FastAPI
12 49 (2.98%) gRPC
13 45 (2.73%) LangChain
14 37 (2.25%) JSON
15 36 (2.19%) Vue
16 34 (2.07%) Flask
17 32 (1.94%) Redux
18 28 (1.70%) GraphQL
18 28 (1.70%) Web Services
19 27 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 200 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 171 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (6.26%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.86%) Algorithms
5 69 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 67 (4.07%) Data Structures
7 62 (3.77%) Low-Code
8 54 (3.28%) Over-the-Top Content
9 53 (3.22%) AI Agents
10 45 (2.73%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.19%) Public Cloud
13 35 (2.13%) Fixed Income
14 34 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (1.82%) Data Centre
16 27 (1.64%) Equities
17 25 (1.52%) Security Posture
18 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
19 23 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
19 23 (1.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 179 (10.87%) Linux
2 60 (3.65%) Windows
3 44 (2.67%) Unix
4 30 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Android
7 7 (0.43%) Debian
8 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) CentOS
11 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (33.41%) CI/CD
2 525 (31.90%) AI
3 484 (29.40%) Software Engineering
4 394 (23.94%) Agile
5 392 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
6 361 (21.93%) Machine Learning
7 348 (21.14%) DevOps
8 335 (20.35%) Mentoring
9 315 (19.14%) Analytics
10 306 (18.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 294 (17.86%) Data Science
12 234 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
13 227 (13.79%) Containerisation
14 217 (13.18%) Data Modelling
15 214 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 214 (13.00%) Data Engineering
16 207 (12.58%) Roadmaps
17 193 (11.73%) Test Automation
18 192 (11.66%) Full-Stack Development
18 192 (11.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 479 (29.10%) SQL
2 286 (17.38%) Java
3 229 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 195 (11.85%) Go
5 151 (9.17%) TypeScript
6 150 (9.11%) PowerShell
7 149 (9.05%) Bash
8 137 (8.32%) C#
9 91 (5.53%) Scala
10 69 (4.19%) C++
11 53 (3.22%) R
12 36 (2.19%) PHP
13 34 (2.07%) C
14 23 (1.40%) Bicep
15 20 (1.22%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.09%) Apex Code
17 17 (1.03%) VBA
18 15 (0.91%) Groovy
18 15 (0.91%) Ruby
19 14 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 228 (13.85%) Degree
2 149 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.85%) PhD
11 12 (0.73%) CEH
11 12 (0.73%) OSCP
12 11 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.61%) ACCA
13 10 (0.61%) CIMA
13 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.55%) CISSP
15 8 (0.49%) CCNP
16 7 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 100 (6.08%) QA
3 39 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.15%) NIST
6 15 (0.91%) GDPR
7 12 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) ISO 22301
9 8 (0.49%) SLA
10 6 (0.36%) GRC
11 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.30%) PMO
11 5 (0.30%) WCAG
12 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.18%) GAAP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 265 (16.10%) Docker
2 35 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.03%) Firmware
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) KVM
7 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (17.01%) Terraform
2 228 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 112 (6.80%) Ansible
4 80 (4.86%) Grafana
5 68 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.49%) Argo
7 24 (1.46%) Kustomize
8 15 (0.91%) Istio
9 12 (0.73%) Packer
9 12 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.49%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.36%) Graylog
14 6 (0.36%) Puppet
15 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.30%) FTK
15 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 239 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.99%) Databricks
3 77 (4.68%) Google
4 55 (3.34%) Cisco
5 51 (3.10%) VMware
6 45 (2.73%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.76%) Oracle
10 27 (1.64%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.52%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.40%) Foundry
13 21 (1.28%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.22%) Splunk
15 16 (0.97%) F5
16 15 (0.91%) Arista
16 15 (0.91%) Aruba
16 15 (0.91%) NetScout
16 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.85%) Commvault