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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,872 1,982 3,022
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.55% 11.80% 13.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.46% 39.82% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 1,097 2,132
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +4.17%

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 6,146 4,978 8,771
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.78% 29.64% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,298 5,678
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,738 £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 8 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 49 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.35%) Apache
3 41 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.48%) SAS
7 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.32%) Confluence
8 5 (0.27%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Hedera
10 2 (0.11%) IIS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 53 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.37%) Simulink
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.27%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) Trello
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 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.053%) Actimize
5 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.053%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (34.72%) AWS
2 611 (32.64%) Azure
3 298 (15.92%) GCP
4 172 (9.19%) Power Platform
5 170 (9.08%) SaaS
6 137 (7.32%) GitHub
7 78 (4.17%) Serverless
8 77 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (3.79%) Snowflake
11 69 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 58 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
15 54 (2.88%) Amazon S3
15 54 (2.88%) dbt
16 52 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (1.98%) Anthropic Claude
18 34 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
19 33 (1.76%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.90%) Broadband
2 70 (3.74%) Firewall
3 64 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 50 (2.67%) VPN
5 35 (1.87%) DNS
6 29 (1.55%) Network Security
6 29 (1.55%) WAN
7 28 (1.50%) BGP
8 27 (1.44%) LAN
9 25 (1.34%) Wireless
10 20 (1.07%) VLAN
11 15 (0.80%) DHCP
11 15 (0.80%) OSPF
12 14 (0.75%) 5G
12 14 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
14 9 (0.48%) MPLS
14 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
15 8 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.96%) Power BI
2 136 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 122 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 77 (4.11%) MongoDB
6 69 (3.69%) Metadata
7 68 (3.63%) Data Lake
8 64 (3.42%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.56%) Tableau
10 46 (2.46%) Big Data
10 46 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 44 (2.35%) BigQuery
12 42 (2.24%) Delta Lake
13 36 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
14 33 (1.76%) MySQL
15 31 (1.66%) DynamoDB
16 27 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.44%) Star Schema
17 25 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
18 24 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 190 (10.15%) Git
2 84 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 63 (3.37%) GitLab
4 37 (1.98%) JIRA
5 24 (1.28%) Claude Code
6 20 (1.07%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.85%) MLflow
8 13 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.53%) Selenium
12 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.27%) Poetry
15 5 (0.27%) Postman
15 5 (0.27%) Subversion
16 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
16 4 (0.21%) PetaLinux
General
1 603 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 451 (24.09%) Finance
3 325 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (7.59%) Banking
5 140 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 120 (6.41%) Legal
8 102 (5.45%) Law
9 97 (5.18%) Marketing
10 80 (4.27%) Retail
11 49 (2.62%) Front Office
12 40 (2.14%) Games
13 36 (1.92%) Electronics
14 34 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (0.85%) Back Office
20 15 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 543 (29.01%) Senior
2 281 (15.01%) Software Engineer
3 274 (14.64%) Developer
4 228 (12.18%) Lead
5 220 (11.75%) Data Engineer
6 210 (11.22%) Python Engineer
7 131 (7.00%) Analyst
8 118 (6.30%) Python Developer
9 105 (5.61%) Python Software Engineer
10 99 (5.29%) Data Scientist
11 85 (4.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 83 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 79 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
14 75 (4.01%) Senior Developer
15 72 (3.85%) Architect
16 68 (3.63%) Data Analyst
17 63 (3.37%) Consultant
18 55 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
19 54 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
20 53 (2.83%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (15.06%) Terraform
2 126 (6.73%) React
3 104 (5.56%) PySpark
4 96 (5.13%) Node.js
5 80 (4.27%) .NET
6 76 (4.06%) RESTful
7 74 (3.95%) PyTorch
8 69 (3.69%) LangChain
9 68 (3.63%) REST
10 66 (3.53%) TensorFlow
11 58 (3.10%) FastAPI
12 56 (2.99%) Django
13 47 (2.51%) Kafka
14 46 (2.46%) LangGraph
15 44 (2.35%) Next.js
16 31 (1.66%) Pandas
16 31 (1.66%) Spring
16 31 (1.66%) Spring Boot
17 29 (1.55%) scikit-learn
18 27 (1.44%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 250 (13.35%) Cloud Native
2 170 (9.08%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (5.18%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.79%) Virtual Team
5 69 (3.69%) Algorithms
6 53 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 43 (2.30%) Blog
9 40 (2.14%) Video\Live Streaming
10 37 (1.98%) Credit Risk
10 37 (1.98%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
12 35 (1.87%) Hedge funds
13 34 (1.82%) Low-Code
13 34 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 28 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
14 28 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.50%) Security Posture
15 27 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 26 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 205 (10.95%) Linux
2 80 (4.27%) Windows
3 33 (1.76%) Unix
4 17 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.43%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Debian
11 5 (0.27%) 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
1 771 (41.19%) AI
2 627 (33.49%) Software Engineering
3 587 (31.36%) CI/CD
4 441 (23.56%) Analytics
5 428 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 401 (21.42%) Mentoring
7 387 (20.67%) DevOps
8 373 (19.93%) Agile
9 370 (19.76%) Machine Learning
10 331 (17.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 322 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 265 (14.16%) Test Automation
13 254 (13.57%) Data Pipeline
14 251 (13.41%) Data Science
15 247 (13.19%) Decision-Making
16 246 (13.14%) Data Engineering
17 245 (13.09%) Observability
18 239 (12.77%) Data Modelling
19 238 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
20 222 (11.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 654 (34.94%) SQL
2 256 (13.68%) Java
3 254 (13.57%) JavaScript
4 224 (11.97%) C#
5 209 (11.16%) PowerShell
6 199 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 146 (7.80%) Bash
8 117 (6.25%) Go
9 97 (5.18%) C++
10 75 (4.01%) R
11 54 (2.88%) C
12 49 (2.62%) Bicep
13 38 (2.03%) Rust
13 38 (2.03%) Scala
14 27 (1.44%) PHP
15 23 (1.23%) MATLAB
16 22 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (1.18%) Ruby
16 22 (1.18%) VBA
17 15 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 240 (12.82%) Degree
2 229 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 182 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.18%) CISSP
11 21 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.12%) PhD
12 18 (0.96%) GIAC
12 18 (0.96%) SnowPro
13 17 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (0.85%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.69%) CCNP
15 13 (0.69%) CISM
15 13 (0.69%) OSCP
16 11 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (10.90%) Data Quality
2 115 (6.14%) QA
3 49 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 47 (2.51%) GDPR
5 45 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.82%) NIST
7 25 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.43%) SLA
12 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.21%) COPPA
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%) UCITS
16 2 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 233 (12.45%) Docker
2 21 (1.12%) Firmware
3 20 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.01%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.32%) KVM
9 4 (0.21%) vSphere
10 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.053%) HDFS
12 1 (0.053%) QEMU
12 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 244 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 96 (5.13%) Ansible
3 86 (4.59%) Grafana
4 54 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.07%) Argo
6 13 (0.69%) Istio
6 13 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.43%) Cilium
9 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 6 (0.32%) Graylog
10 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.27%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.27%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.21%) linkerd
12 4 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 283 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.59%) Databricks
3 105 (5.61%) Google
4 51 (2.72%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.40%) Oracle
6 40 (2.14%) Cisco
7 29 (1.55%) Foundry
8 27 (1.44%) Splunk
9 26 (1.39%) VMware
10 23 (1.23%) Informatica
11 19 (1.01%) New Relic
12 18 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 17 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.75%) HubSpot
16 13 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.64%) Palantir
17 12 (0.64%) Talend
18 10 (0.53%) Alteryx