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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,802 2,039 3,111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.54% 12.53% 13.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.56% 40.17% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 1,177 2,288
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +7.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £143,750
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 6,096 5,076 8,980
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.51% 31.19% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,557 3,428 6,261
10th Percentile £38,763 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
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 14 September 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 45 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.28%) Apache
3 36 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.50%) SAS
7 7 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.17%) Confluence
10 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.11%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) WordPress
12 1 (0.055%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.33%) Simulink
5 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.17%) Blender
7 3 (0.17%) Maya
7 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 637 (35.35%) AWS
2 584 (32.41%) Azure
3 282 (15.65%) GCP
4 162 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 143 (7.94%) SaaS
6 117 (6.49%) GitHub
7 83 (4.61%) Serverless
8 76 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 68 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
12 59 (3.27%) Amazon S3
12 59 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 59 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (3.22%) Snowflake
14 56 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (2.33%) dbt
16 34 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
18 31 (1.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 103 (5.72%) Broadband
2 67 (3.72%) Firewall
3 53 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.00%) VPN
5 34 (1.89%) DNS
5 34 (1.89%) WAN
6 32 (1.78%) LAN
7 26 (1.44%) Network Security
7 26 (1.44%) Wireless
8 18 (1.00%) VLAN
9 17 (0.94%) BGP
10 15 (0.83%) DHCP
10 15 (0.83%) OSPF
11 14 (0.78%) 5G
11 14 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
11 14 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (0.50%) MPLS
13 9 (0.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.66%) Power BI
2 125 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 77 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 66 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 60 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 55 (3.05%) Metadata
9 51 (2.83%) Relational Database
10 47 (2.61%) Tableau
11 45 (2.50%) Big Data
12 43 (2.39%) Delta Lake
13 40 (2.22%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.66%) DynamoDB
15 29 (1.61%) MySQL
16 28 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (1.33%) Star Schema
19 23 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
20 22 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 184 (10.21%) Git
2 80 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 49 (2.72%) GitLab
4 32 (1.78%) JIRA
5 17 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (0.72%) Claude Code
6 13 (0.72%) LabVIEW
6 13 (0.72%) MLflow
7 12 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.55%) Selenium
8 10 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.28%) JMeter
12 5 (0.28%) Poetry
12 5 (0.28%) Postman
13 4 (0.22%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 582 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 415 (23.03%) Finance
3 302 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (6.66%) Banking
6 116 (6.44%) Legal
7 115 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 94 (5.22%) Law
9 82 (4.55%) Marketing
10 73 (4.05%) Retail
11 40 (2.22%) Games
12 36 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.72%) Electronics
14 30 (1.66%) Front Office
15 26 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.83%) Local Government
18 13 (0.72%) Advertising
18 13 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 509 (28.25%) Senior
2 260 (14.43%) Developer
3 231 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 223 (12.38%) Lead
5 208 (11.54%) Data Engineer
6 189 (10.49%) Python Engineer
7 114 (6.33%) Analyst
8 100 (5.55%) Python Developer
9 97 (5.38%) Data Scientist
10 75 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
11 73 (4.05%) Python Software Engineer
12 72 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 71 (3.94%) Architect
14 70 (3.88%) Senior Developer
15 69 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
16 64 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
17 57 (3.16%) Data Analyst
18 56 (3.11%) Engineering Manager
19 55 (3.05%) Consultant
19 55 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (15.26%) Terraform
2 125 (6.94%) React
3 103 (5.72%) PySpark
4 86 (4.77%) Node.js
5 80 (4.44%) .NET
6 76 (4.22%) PyTorch
7 68 (3.77%) REST
8 67 (3.72%) RESTful
8 67 (3.72%) TensorFlow
9 63 (3.50%) Django
10 60 (3.33%) LangChain
11 55 (3.05%) FastAPI
11 55 (3.05%) Kafka
12 44 (2.44%) Next.js
13 36 (2.00%) Pandas
14 35 (1.94%) LangGraph
15 33 (1.83%) CSS
15 33 (1.83%) scikit-learn
16 29 (1.61%) Spring
17 28 (1.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 240 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 169 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.83%) AI Agents
4 79 (4.38%) Virtual Team
5 74 (4.11%) Algorithms
6 58 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 54 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 41 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 40 (2.22%) Low-Code
11 37 (2.05%) Management Information System
12 35 (1.94%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.83%) Blog
14 31 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
15 28 (1.55%) Credit Risk
15 28 (1.55%) Security Posture
15 28 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
17 24 (1.33%) Data Centre
18 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 202 (11.21%) Linux
2 83 (4.61%) Windows
3 33 (1.83%) Unix
4 26 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.39%) Android
8 7 (0.39%) Debian
8 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (39.07%) AI
2 585 (32.46%) Software Engineering
3 549 (30.47%) CI/CD
4 425 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
5 402 (22.31%) Mentoring
6 392 (21.75%) Analytics
7 376 (20.87%) Agile
8 374 (20.75%) DevOps
9 360 (19.98%) Machine Learning
10 328 (18.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 321 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 250 (13.87%) Test Automation
13 247 (13.71%) Data Science
14 239 (13.26%) Observability
15 235 (13.04%) Data Engineering
16 233 (12.93%) Data Pipeline
17 232 (12.87%) Decision-Making
18 226 (12.54%) Roadmaps
19 225 (12.49%) Business Intelligence
20 218 (12.10%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 596 (33.07%) SQL
2 252 (13.98%) JavaScript
3 249 (13.82%) Java
4 227 (12.60%) C#
5 215 (11.93%) PowerShell
6 188 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 131 (7.27%) Bash
8 111 (6.16%) Go
9 101 (5.60%) C++
10 58 (3.22%) R
11 48 (2.66%) C
12 46 (2.55%) Bicep
13 44 (2.44%) Scala
14 35 (1.94%) PHP
15 31 (1.72%) Rust
16 26 (1.44%) Ruby
17 25 (1.39%) VBA
18 22 (1.22%) MATLAB
19 18 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 17 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 235 (13.04%) Degree
2 224 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 178 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.05%) PhD
11 18 (1.00%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.94%) CISSP
13 15 (0.83%) CCNP
13 15 (0.83%) GIAC
13 15 (0.83%) OSCP
14 14 (0.78%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.72%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 130 (7.21%) QA
3 47 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 36 (2.00%) GDPR
5 31 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.39%) NIST
7 13 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 7 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 4 (0.22%) NCSC
12 4 (0.22%) PMO
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
13 3 (0.17%) UCITS
14 2 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 227 (12.60%) Docker
2 23 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.11%) Firmware
5 16 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.33%) KVM
7 6 (0.33%) vSphere
8 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 222 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.88%) Ansible
3 80 (4.44%) Grafana
4 48 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.05%) Argo
5 19 (1.05%) Istio
6 14 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.50%) Packer
8 7 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.39%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.39%) Puppet
8 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.33%) Graylog
9 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.28%) Podman
10 5 (0.28%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.22%) linkerd
11 4 (0.22%) Nmap
Vendors
1 285 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.49%) Databricks
3 77 (4.27%) Google
4 48 (2.66%) OpenAI
5 47 (2.61%) Cisco
6 42 (2.33%) Oracle
7 30 (1.66%) VMware
8 27 (1.50%) Splunk
9 25 (1.39%) Foundry
10 21 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 21 (1.17%) Informatica
10 21 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 17 (0.94%) New Relic
13 16 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.78%) HubSpot
15 13 (0.72%) F5
16 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.55%) Talend