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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,641 2,367 3,841
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.29% 15.47% 11.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.31% 40.60% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,423 3,052
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,762 £42,275
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 5,241 5,830 14,003
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.48% 38.11% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,870 4,038 11,605
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,151 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 14 June 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 76 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.44%) Apache
4 19 (1.16%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) Confluence
9 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) CMS
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) SPSS
5 3 (0.18%) Trello
6 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 643 (39.18%) AWS
2 528 (32.18%) Azure
3 270 (16.45%) GCP
4 137 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 119 (7.25%) SaaS
6 108 (6.58%) GitHub
7 104 (6.34%) Serverless
8 92 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
11 57 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 56 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 43 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (2.62%) dbt
16 42 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
16 42 (2.56%) Snowflake
17 40 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 37 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 198 (12.07%) Broadband
2 78 (4.75%) Firewall
3 44 (2.68%) VPN
4 27 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.58%) LAN
6 25 (1.52%) WAN
7 22 (1.34%) VLAN
8 21 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.22%) DNS
10 19 (1.16%) Wireshark
11 17 (1.04%) BGP
11 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.04%) Network Security
11 17 (1.04%) NGFW
12 15 (0.91%) MPLS
12 15 (0.91%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.85%) Wireless
14 13 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.64%) Power BI
3 88 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.33%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 61 (3.72%) NoSQL
7 60 (3.66%) Metadata
8 57 (3.47%) BigQuery
9 55 (3.35%) Tableau
10 50 (3.05%) Data Lake
11 38 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
12 37 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 35 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.13%) Big Data
14 30 (1.83%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
15 29 (1.77%) MySQL
16 27 (1.65%) Redis
17 25 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 142 (8.65%) Git
2 62 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.41%) GitLab
4 31 (1.89%) JIRA
5 18 (1.10%) Jaeger
6 15 (0.91%) MLflow
7 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
9 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.30%) Locust
10 5 (0.30%) Postman
10 5 (0.30%) Selenium
10 5 (0.30%) Subversion
11 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 448 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 357 (21.76%) Finance
3 287 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.97%) Banking
7 72 (4.39%) Law
8 62 (3.78%) Retail
9 50 (3.05%) Marketing
10 48 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 47 (2.86%) Front Office
11 47 (2.86%) Games
12 45 (2.74%) Legal
13 24 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.79%) Electronics
16 13 (0.79%) Publishing
17 12 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 383 (23.34%) Senior
2 324 (19.74%) Developer
3 274 (16.70%) Lead
4 202 (12.31%) Data Engineer
5 190 (11.58%) Software Engineer
6 158 (9.63%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.76%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
9 95 (5.79%) Analyst
10 91 (5.55%) Data Scientist
11 67 (4.08%) Lead Developer
12 66 (4.02%) Senior Developer
13 65 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 62 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
15 59 (3.60%) Data Analyst
16 58 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
17 54 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
19 46 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
20 45 (2.74%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.02%) React
2 106 (6.46%) Node.js
3 98 (5.97%) Kafka
4 92 (5.61%) PyTorch
5 83 (5.06%) TensorFlow
6 73 (4.45%) REST
7 69 (4.20%) .NET
8 68 (4.14%) PySpark
9 63 (3.84%) RESTful
10 58 (3.53%) Django
10 58 (3.53%) FastAPI
11 49 (2.99%) gRPC
12 47 (2.86%) LangChain
13 38 (2.32%) Vue
14 36 (2.19%) Flask
14 36 (2.19%) JSON
15 32 (1.95%) Redux
16 28 (1.71%) GraphQL
16 28 (1.71%) Web Services
17 27 (1.65%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 202 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 174 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (6.28%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 68 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 67 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 62 (3.78%) Low-Code
8 55 (3.35%) AI Agents
9 54 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
10 44 (2.68%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.19%) Public Cloud
13 35 (2.13%) Fixed Income
14 34 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (1.83%) Data Centre
16 27 (1.65%) Equities
17 25 (1.52%) Security Posture
18 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.46%) Virtual Team
19 23 (1.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 181 (11.03%) Linux
2 60 (3.66%) Windows
3 44 (2.68%) Unix
4 30 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Debian
6 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) CentOS
11 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (33.46%) CI/CD
2 535 (32.60%) AI
3 485 (29.56%) Software Engineering
4 396 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
5 389 (23.71%) Agile
6 361 (22.00%) Machine Learning
7 343 (20.90%) DevOps
8 334 (20.35%) Mentoring
9 312 (19.01%) Analytics
10 306 (18.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 297 (18.10%) Data Science
12 229 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
13 226 (13.77%) Containerisation
14 215 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 212 (12.92%) Data Modelling
16 210 (12.80%) Data Engineering
17 209 (12.74%) Roadmaps
18 195 (11.88%) Observability
19 194 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
20 189 (11.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 475 (28.95%) SQL
2 282 (17.18%) Java
3 231 (14.08%) JavaScript
4 193 (11.76%) Go
5 152 (9.26%) Bash
5 152 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 150 (9.14%) PowerShell
7 138 (8.41%) C#
8 89 (5.42%) Scala
9 70 (4.27%) C++
10 53 (3.23%) R
11 37 (2.25%) PHP
12 34 (2.07%) C
13 24 (1.46%) Bicep
14 19 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.10%) Apex Code
15 18 (1.10%) VBA
16 16 (0.98%) Ruby
17 15 (0.91%) Groovy
18 14 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 229 (13.95%) Degree
2 150 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 122 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 14 (0.85%) PhD
11 12 (0.73%) CEH
11 12 (0.73%) OSCP
12 11 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.61%) ACCA
13 10 (0.61%) CIMA
13 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.55%) CISSP
15 8 (0.49%) CCNP
16 7 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.08%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.03%) QA
3 39 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.16%) NIST
6 15 (0.91%) GDPR
7 12 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) ISO 22301
9 8 (0.49%) SLA
10 6 (0.37%) GRC
11 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.30%) PMO
11 5 (0.30%) WCAG
12 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.18%) GAAP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 265 (16.15%) Docker
2 34 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.04%) Firmware
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) KVM
7 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 275 (16.76%) Terraform
2 226 (13.77%) Kubernetes
3 111 (6.76%) Ansible
4 80 (4.88%) Grafana
5 68 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.44%) Argo
7 24 (1.46%) Kustomize
8 16 (0.98%) Istio
9 12 (0.73%) Packer
9 12 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.49%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.37%) Graylog
13 6 (0.37%) Puppet
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.30%) FTK
14 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 238 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.89%) Databricks
3 77 (4.69%) Google
4 55 (3.35%) Cisco
5 51 (3.11%) VMware
6 45 (2.74%) Typelevel
7 35 (2.13%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.58%) Oracle
11 24 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.40%) Foundry
13 21 (1.28%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.22%) Splunk
15 16 (0.98%) F5
16 15 (0.91%) Arista
16 15 (0.91%) Aruba
16 15 (0.91%) NetScout
16 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.85%) Commvault