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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,600 2,358 3,662
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.40% 16.24% 11.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.50% 41.19% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 1,406 2,942
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,813 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% - +0.35%
75th Percentile £93,438 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £68,679 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.27% +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 5,080 5,724 13,479
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.66% 39.43% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 3,932 11,426
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 27 May 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 75 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.25%) Apache
4 21 (1.31%) SAS
5 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) Confluence
8 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.063%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.063%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.25%) SPSS
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Blender
7 2 (0.13%) Maya
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.063%) Actimize
5 1 (0.063%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.063%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 630 (39.38%) AWS
2 550 (34.38%) Azure
3 259 (16.19%) GCP
4 150 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 135 (8.44%) GitHub
6 114 (7.13%) SaaS
7 112 (7.00%) Serverless
8 100 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 92 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 52 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
15 47 (2.94%) Snowflake
16 46 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 45 (2.81%) dbt
18 40 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
18 40 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 176 (11.00%) Broadband
2 74 (4.63%) Firewall
3 39 (2.44%) VPN
4 25 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (1.44%) LAN
6 22 (1.38%) VLAN
7 21 (1.31%) WAN
8 19 (1.19%) DNS
8 19 (1.19%) Wireshark
9 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.00%) BGP
10 16 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.00%) NGFW
11 15 (0.94%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.88%) Network Security
13 13 (0.81%) MPLS
14 12 (0.75%) 4G
14 12 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
14 12 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.69%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
1 120 (7.50%) Power BI
2 90 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 67 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (3.81%) Metadata
5 58 (3.63%) Tableau
6 57 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 57 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 57 (3.56%) Relational Database
7 56 (3.50%) Data Lake
8 53 (3.31%) BigQuery
9 43 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 39 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (2.06%) Big Data
13 32 (2.00%) Delta Lake
14 31 (1.94%) MySQL
15 26 (1.63%) Redis
15 26 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
16 25 (1.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 137 (8.56%) Git
2 64 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.31%) GitLab
4 33 (2.06%) JIRA
5 18 (1.13%) Jaeger
6 17 (1.06%) MLflow
7 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.50%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.38%) Locust
12 5 (0.31%) Selenium
12 5 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.31%) Subversion
13 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.25%) ERwin
13 4 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 441 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 364 (22.75%) Finance
3 279 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 96 (6.00%) Banking
7 72 (4.50%) Law
8 61 (3.81%) Retail
9 51 (3.19%) Front Office
10 44 (2.75%) Marketing
10 44 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.69%) Legal
12 39 (2.44%) Games
13 28 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.13%) Publishing
15 17 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.00%) Tech for Good
17 15 (0.94%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 366 (22.88%) Senior
2 310 (19.38%) Developer
3 257 (16.06%) Lead
4 207 (12.94%) Data Engineer
5 187 (11.69%) Software Engineer
6 154 (9.63%) Python Engineer
7 114 (7.13%) Python Developer
8 95 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
9 84 (5.25%) Analyst
10 82 (5.13%) Data Scientist
11 65 (4.06%) Lead Developer
12 64 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
13 62 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
14 57 (3.56%) Senior Developer
15 55 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
16 54 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
17 52 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
18 49 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 48 (3.00%) Data Analyst
20 46 (2.88%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (9.56%) React
2 103 (6.44%) Kafka
3 101 (6.31%) Node.js
4 76 (4.75%) PyTorch
5 73 (4.56%) PySpark
6 72 (4.50%) .NET
7 69 (4.31%) REST
7 69 (4.31%) TensorFlow
8 60 (3.75%) RESTful
9 56 (3.50%) Django
10 50 (3.13%) FastAPI
11 49 (3.06%) gRPC
12 38 (2.38%) JSON
13 32 (2.00%) LangChain
13 32 (2.00%) Redux
14 31 (1.94%) Vue
15 29 (1.81%) CSS
15 29 (1.81%) Flask
16 28 (1.75%) Web Services
16 28 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (10.63%) Cloud Native
2 146 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.50%) Video\Live Streaming
4 81 (5.06%) Algorithms
5 70 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 64 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 59 (3.69%) Low-Code
8 53 (3.31%) Over-the-Top Content
9 46 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 42 (2.63%) AI Agents
10 42 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (2.19%) Fixed Income
12 34 (2.13%) Public Cloud
13 31 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 28 (1.75%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.63%) Equities
16 24 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
16 24 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
17 23 (1.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 183 (11.44%) Linux
2 61 (3.81%) Windows
3 41 (2.56%) Unix
4 29 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.44%) Android
8 6 (0.38%) Debian
8 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.063%) AIX
12 1 (0.063%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.063%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (34.19%) CI/CD
2 456 (28.50%) AI
3 451 (28.19%) Software Engineering
4 401 (25.06%) Agile
5 378 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
6 373 (23.31%) DevOps
7 332 (20.75%) Machine Learning
8 309 (19.31%) Mentoring
9 304 (19.00%) Analytics
10 285 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 276 (17.25%) Data Science
12 238 (14.88%) Data Pipeline
13 225 (14.06%) Containerisation
14 222 (13.88%) Data Modelling
15 219 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 204 (12.75%) Data Engineering
17 181 (11.31%) Test Automation
18 176 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 176 (11.00%) Observability
18 176 (11.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 466 (29.13%) SQL
2 291 (18.19%) Java
3 232 (14.50%) JavaScript
4 189 (11.81%) Go
5 151 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 151 (9.44%) TypeScript
6 148 (9.25%) Bash
7 139 (8.69%) C#
8 94 (5.88%) Scala
9 72 (4.50%) C++
10 52 (3.25%) R
11 34 (2.13%) C
12 33 (2.06%) PHP
13 23 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 21 (1.31%) Bicep
15 19 (1.19%) Apex Code
16 16 (1.00%) VBA
17 14 (0.88%) Ruby
18 13 (0.81%) Perl
18 13 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 234 (14.63%) Degree
2 143 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 25 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.94%) PhD
12 12 (0.75%) CEH
12 12 (0.75%) OSCP
13 11 (0.69%) ACCA
13 11 (0.69%) CIMA
14 10 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (9.19%) Data Quality
2 103 (6.44%) QA
3 40 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.31%) NIST
6 16 (1.00%) GDPR
7 12 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.56%) ISO 22301
8 9 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.50%) SLA
10 6 (0.38%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) PMO
11 5 (0.31%) WCAG
12 3 (0.19%) GAAP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 271 (16.94%) Docker
2 38 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.88%) Firmware
6 7 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.44%) vSphere
7 6 (0.38%) KVM
7 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 289 (18.06%) Terraform
2 237 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 109 (6.81%) Ansible
4 84 (5.25%) Grafana
5 71 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.63%) Argo
7 22 (1.38%) Kustomize
8 16 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.81%) Istio
10 12 (0.75%) Proxmox
11 11 (0.69%) Packer
12 9 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.44%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.38%) Graylog
14 6 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.38%) Puppet
15 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.31%) FTK
15 5 (0.31%) SCCM
16 4 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 242 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.38%) Databricks
3 78 (4.88%) Google
4 51 (3.19%) Cisco
5 50 (3.13%) VMware
6 45 (2.81%) Typelevel
7 37 (2.31%) Oracle
8 32 (2.00%) OpenAI
8 32 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 25 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.31%) Foundry
11 17 (1.06%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.00%) Splunk
13 15 (0.94%) Arista
13 15 (0.94%) Aruba
13 15 (0.94%) F5
13 15 (0.94%) NetScout
14 14 (0.88%) Commvault
14 14 (0.88%) MuleSoft