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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,395 2,418 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.85% 14.81% 12.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.52% 33.78% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 935 1,633 2,523
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,713 £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 £92,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -0.36%

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 4,290 7,159 11,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.85% 45.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 4,488 10,167
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,342
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
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 29 January 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 93 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.66%) Apache
3 39 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.51%) Confluence
5 18 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (1.15%) SAS
7 16 (1.15%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.15%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
8 7 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 48 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 3 (0.22%) 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 (2.80%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.43%) Shopify
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.072%) Actimize
8 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 555 (39.78%) AWS
1 555 (39.78%) Azure
2 199 (14.27%) GitHub
3 183 (13.12%) Power Platform
4 169 (12.11%) GCP
5 159 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (9.61%) Serverless
7 100 (7.17%) Snowflake
8 96 (6.88%) Amazon S3
9 88 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
10 87 (6.24%) SaaS
11 84 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
12 83 (5.95%) dbt
13 78 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 61 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 58 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 54 (3.87%) OCI
18 49 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 46 (3.30%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.23%) Broadband
2 49 (3.51%) Firewall
3 37 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.22%) VPN
5 29 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (1.72%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.43%) BGP
8 18 (1.29%) LAN
8 18 (1.29%) WAN
9 17 (1.22%) DNS
10 16 (1.15%) NGFW
10 16 (1.15%) SSL
11 15 (1.08%) MPLS
11 15 (1.08%) VLAN
12 14 (1.00%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.93%) Network Security
14 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.79%) 4G
15 11 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.79%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (11.76%) Power BI
2 98 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (6.52%) Tableau
5 79 (5.66%) SQL Server
6 78 (5.59%) NoSQL
7 71 (5.09%) Data Lake
8 57 (4.09%) Apache Iceberg
9 55 (3.94%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
11 46 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
11 46 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (3.23%) Metadata
13 37 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.58%) Apache Arrow
14 36 (2.58%) Dremio
15 35 (2.51%) BigQuery
16 32 (2.29%) MongoDB
17 30 (2.15%) MySQL
18 29 (2.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 117 (8.39%) Git
2 93 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 61 (4.37%) JIRA
4 37 (2.65%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.58%) GitLab
6 21 (1.51%) Selenium
7 19 (1.36%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.00%) MLflow
9 12 (0.86%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.86%) 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%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 428 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 404 (28.96%) Finance
3 203 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.24%) Banking
5 88 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 69 (4.95%) Front Office
8 54 (3.87%) Law
9 49 (3.51%) Marketing
10 45 (3.23%) Retail
11 39 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.51%) Investment Banking
13 32 (2.29%) Publishing
14 29 (2.08%) Legal
15 27 (1.94%) Tech for Good
16 26 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.79%) Manufacturing
18 24 (1.72%) Health Technology
19 19 (1.36%) Financial Institution
20 17 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 300 (21.51%) Senior
2 275 (19.71%) Developer
3 182 (13.05%) Data Engineer
4 160 (11.47%) Lead
5 134 (9.61%) Python Developer
6 131 (9.39%) Software Engineer
7 125 (8.96%) Python Engineer
8 98 (7.03%) Analyst
9 91 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 77 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
11 64 (4.59%) Python Software Engineer
12 61 (4.37%) Architect
13 58 (4.16%) Applications Engineer
14 57 (4.09%) AWS Developer
15 54 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
15 54 (3.87%) Senior Developer
16 53 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
17 52 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.66%) Lead Developer
19 50 (3.58%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (10.25%) React
2 85 (6.09%) Node.js
2 85 (6.09%) RESTful
3 63 (4.52%) Django
4 58 (4.16%) .NET
4 58 (4.16%) Kafka
5 53 (3.80%) PySpark
6 50 (3.58%) SOAP
7 49 (3.51%) Pandas
7 49 (3.51%) REST
8 46 (3.30%) Vue
9 45 (3.23%) JSON
10 44 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
10 44 (3.15%) XML
11 41 (2.94%) NumPy
11 41 (2.94%) PyTorch
12 39 (2.80%) Flask
13 38 (2.72%) TensorFlow
14 37 (2.65%) AngularJS
14 37 (2.65%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (4.87%) Algorithms
5 60 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 44 (3.15%) Data Structures
8 44 (3.15%) Equities
8 44 (3.15%) Low-Code
9 43 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 38 (2.72%) Management Information System
11 35 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (2.22%) Hedge funds
13 30 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (2.01%) Data Centre
15 27 (1.94%) Derivative
16 24 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 208 (14.91%) Linux
2 86 (6.16%) Windows
3 84 (6.02%) Unix
4 28 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.65%) Debian
9 7 (0.50%) 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
1 493 (35.34%) CI/CD
2 454 (32.54%) Agile
3 444 (31.83%) DevOps
4 346 (24.80%) AI
5 332 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
6 297 (21.29%) Software Engineering
7 281 (20.14%) Analytics
8 245 (17.56%) Mentoring
9 237 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 210 (15.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 203 (14.55%) Data Modelling
12 200 (14.34%) Coaching
13 199 (14.27%) Data Engineering
14 196 (14.05%) Machine Learning
15 194 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
15 194 (13.91%) Data Science
16 193 (13.84%) Business Intelligence
17 174 (12.47%) Asset Management
18 168 (12.04%) Containerisation
19 162 (11.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 502 (35.99%) SQL
2 279 (20.00%) Java
3 248 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 162 (11.61%) Bash
5 149 (10.68%) PowerShell
6 147 (10.54%) TypeScript
7 103 (7.38%) C#
8 93 (6.67%) Go
9 64 (4.59%) C++
10 54 (3.87%) Scala
11 51 (3.66%) R
12 44 (3.15%) C
12 44 (3.15%) Shell Script
13 41 (2.94%) PL/SQL
14 33 (2.37%) Bicep
15 19 (1.36%) PHP
16 17 (1.22%) T-SQL
17 16 (1.15%) Perl
18 14 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 12 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 256 (18.35%) Degree
2 151 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.95%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 20 (1.43%) PhD
14 17 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.15%) CEH
16 15 (1.08%) DBS Check
17 14 (1.00%) ACCA
17 14 (1.00%) CIMA
17 14 (1.00%) CISSP
18 12 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.73%) QA
3 46 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.37%) GDPR
5 28 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.79%) SLA
7 22 (1.58%) NIST
8 17 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.79%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.57%) 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
1 226 (16.20%) Docker
2 39 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.57%) Firmware
6 6 (0.43%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) NFS
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
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
1 313 (22.44%) Terraform
2 232 (16.63%) Kubernetes
3 127 (9.10%) Ansible
4 65 (4.66%) Grafana
5 58 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.72%) Argo
8 20 (1.43%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.57%) 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%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
Vendors
1 185 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 115 (8.24%) Databricks
3 86 (6.16%) Oracle
4 71 (5.09%) Google
5 42 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 40 (2.87%) VMware
7 30 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.08%) IBM
9 27 (1.94%) Cisco
10 24 (1.72%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.43%) Commvault
11 20 (1.43%) Okta
12 18 (1.29%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.22%) SAP
14 16 (1.15%) Talend
15 14 (1.00%) Arista
15 14 (1.00%) Aruba
15 14 (1.00%) NetScout
16 13 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.93%) Workday