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

 6 months to
6 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,439 2,265 3,268
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.59% 15.60% 11.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.11% 34.65% 25.73%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,560 2,680
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,473 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.00% -2.19%

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 4,482 6,537 12,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.76% 45.01% 44.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,282 4,413 11,060
10th Percentile £38,505 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 6 March 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 79 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.78%) Apache
4 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.32%) SAS
5 16 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.76%) Confluence
8 9 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.35%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 42 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) Simulink
6 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.069%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.069%) Notion
7 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (2.29%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Shopify
3 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.069%) Actimize
5 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.069%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.069%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.069%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 594 (41.28%) AWS
2 562 (39.05%) Azure
3 214 (14.87%) GCP
4 191 (13.27%) GitHub
5 172 (11.95%) Power Platform
6 139 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (8.96%) Serverless
8 109 (7.57%) SaaS
9 100 (6.95%) Amazon S3
10 84 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
12 76 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 74 (5.14%) Snowflake
14 73 (5.07%) dbt
15 54 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 52 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.41%) OCI
18 47 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 45 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 92 (6.39%) Broadband
2 59 (4.10%) Firewall
3 37 (2.57%) VPN
4 36 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.81%) Wireshark
7 23 (1.60%) VLAN
8 20 (1.39%) BGP
9 17 (1.18%) LAN
9 17 (1.18%) NGFW
10 16 (1.11%) WAN
11 15 (1.04%) MPLS
11 15 (1.04%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.83%) DNS
12 12 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.83%) Network Security
13 11 (0.76%) 4G
13 11 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.76%) IOS XR
14 10 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.42%) Power BI
2 98 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 87 (6.05%) Tableau
5 79 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
6 68 (4.73%) NoSQL
7 58 (4.03%) Metadata
8 55 (3.82%) Relational Database
9 54 (3.75%) Data Lake
10 45 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
11 42 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (2.85%) BigQuery
13 36 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
15 33 (2.29%) MongoDB
16 32 (2.22%) Delta Lake
17 28 (1.95%) Redis
18 27 (1.88%) MySQL
19 26 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
20 25 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 112 (7.78%) Git
2 80 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.47%) GitLab
4 48 (3.34%) JIRA
5 31 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 19 (1.32%) Selenium
7 14 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.97%) MLflow
8 9 (0.63%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.63%) ERwin
9 8 (0.56%) JUnit
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.42%) Postman
11 6 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.35%) Locust
12 5 (0.35%) Subversion
12 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 462 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 373 (25.92%) Finance
3 227 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 88 (6.12%) Banking
7 67 (4.66%) Law
8 66 (4.59%) Front Office
9 52 (3.61%) Retail
10 43 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 40 (2.78%) Marketing
12 32 (2.22%) Legal
12 32 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.81%) Publishing
14 23 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.46%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.46%) Games
16 21 (1.46%) Tech for Good
17 20 (1.39%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 311 (21.61%) Senior
2 300 (20.85%) Developer
3 203 (14.11%) Lead
4 184 (12.79%) Data Engineer
5 149 (10.35%) Software Engineer
6 122 (8.48%) Python Developer
7 119 (8.27%) Python Engineer
8 90 (6.25%) Analyst
9 84 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 80 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 63 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
12 61 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (4.10%) Architect
14 58 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
15 52 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 52 (3.61%) Senior Developer
16 51 (3.54%) React Developer
17 47 (3.27%) Applications Engineer
17 47 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.27%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (11.19%) React
2 101 (7.02%) Node.js
3 94 (6.53%) Kafka
4 72 (5.00%) RESTful
5 70 (4.86%) Django
6 65 (4.52%) .NET
7 60 (4.17%) REST
8 52 (3.61%) PySpark
9 51 (3.54%) JSON
9 51 (3.54%) SOAP
10 46 (3.20%) PyTorch
11 45 (3.13%) TensorFlow
12 43 (2.99%) Vue
13 41 (2.85%) XML
14 40 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
14 40 (2.78%) Flask
14 40 (2.78%) gRPC
15 36 (2.50%) HTML
16 34 (2.36%) FastAPI
16 34 (2.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.34%) Cloud Native
2 86 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 69 (4.79%) Algorithms
5 62 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (4.03%) Data Structures
7 51 (3.54%) Onboarding
8 50 (3.47%) Fixed Income
9 48 (3.34%) Low-Code
10 40 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
11 34 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 32 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 30 (2.08%) Data Centre
14 30 (2.08%) Equities
14 30 (2.08%) Over-the-Top Content
15 25 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
16 22 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
17 21 (1.46%) Public Cloud
18 20 (1.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 186 (12.93%) Linux
2 78 (5.42%) Unix
3 65 (4.52%) Windows
4 24 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.42%) Debian
9 4 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.069%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.069%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (37.39%) CI/CD
2 443 (30.79%) Agile
3 433 (30.09%) DevOps
4 351 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 349 (24.25%) AI
6 338 (23.49%) Software Engineering
7 266 (18.49%) Analytics
8 256 (17.79%) Mentoring
9 239 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 217 (15.08%) Machine Learning
12 211 (14.66%) Data Modelling
13 205 (14.25%) Data Science
14 204 (14.18%) Containerisation
14 204 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
15 193 (13.41%) Coaching
16 191 (13.27%) Data Engineering
17 177 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
18 168 (11.67%) Test Automation
19 152 (10.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 460 (31.97%) SQL
2 314 (21.82%) Java
3 262 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 151 (10.49%) Bash
5 148 (10.28%) Go
6 145 (10.08%) PowerShell
7 144 (10.01%) TypeScript
8 99 (6.88%) C#
9 69 (4.79%) Scala
10 63 (4.38%) C++
11 49 (3.41%) R
12 43 (2.99%) C
13 37 (2.57%) Shell Script
14 34 (2.36%) PL/SQL
15 26 (1.81%) Bicep
16 21 (1.46%) Apex Code
17 20 (1.39%) T-SQL
18 17 (1.18%) PHP
19 16 (1.11%) VBA
20 10 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 272 (18.90%) Degree
2 161 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 133 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 52 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.32%) CEH
14 17 (1.18%) PhD
15 15 (1.04%) ACCA
15 15 (1.04%) CIMA
16 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
18 8 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 86 (5.98%) QA
3 51 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.95%) NIST
5 27 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.53%) GDPR
7 18 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.18%) SLA
9 14 (0.97%) ISO 22301
10 13 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.69%) GRC
12 3 (0.21%) EMIR
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.21%) WCAG
13 2 (0.14%) ECSS
13 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.069%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 263 (18.28%) Docker
2 44 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.69%) Firmware
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.42%) vSphere
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) Ceph
11 2 (0.14%) KVM
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.069%) vCloud
12 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 306 (21.26%) Terraform
2 232 (16.12%) Kubernetes
3 116 (8.06%) Ansible
4 74 (5.14%) Grafana
5 63 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.64%) Argo
8 20 (1.39%) Kustomize
9 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.49%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.42%) Control-M
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.35%) FTK
12 5 (0.35%) Puppet
13 4 (0.28%) Cilium
13 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.28%) QRadar
13 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 203 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.23%) Databricks
3 85 (5.91%) Oracle
4 78 (5.42%) Google
5 49 (3.41%) VMware
6 43 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.43%) Cisco
8 30 (2.08%) Red Hat
9 29 (2.02%) MuleSoft
10 27 (1.88%) Typelevel
11 25 (1.74%) IBM
12 21 (1.46%) Commvault
13 18 (1.25%) Talend
14 17 (1.18%) Okta
15 15 (1.04%) Arista
15 15 (1.04%) Aruba
15 15 (1.04%) Informatica
15 15 (1.04%) NetScout
15 15 (1.04%) SAP
16 14 (0.97%) Palantir
1,430 hybrid/remote Python jobs