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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,849 2,141 3,157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.11% 12.92% 12.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.39% 39.70% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 1,281 2,486
10th Percentile £44,650 £45,000 £44,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.17% +6.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 6,085 5,393 9,515
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 32.55% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,562 3,713 7,370
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,247
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 15 August 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 55 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 50 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.22%) Apache
4 17 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 10 (0.54%) SAS
6 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.16%) Confluence
7 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.054%) CMS
9 1 (0.054%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.054%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.27%) Simulink
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
6 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.054%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 676 (36.56%) AWS
2 586 (31.69%) Azure
3 309 (16.71%) GCP
4 157 (8.49%) SaaS
5 147 (7.95%) Power Platform
6 114 (6.17%) GitHub
7 94 (5.08%) Serverless
8 68 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 65 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 64 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
11 63 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (3.08%) Snowflake
13 56 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
14 55 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (2.92%) dbt
16 49 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 41 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.89%) Datadog
19 31 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (8.06%) Broadband
2 78 (4.22%) Firewall
3 48 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.43%) VPN
5 33 (1.78%) WAN
6 32 (1.73%) DNS
6 32 (1.73%) LAN
7 25 (1.35%) Network Security
8 24 (1.30%) Wireless
9 20 (1.08%) VLAN
10 17 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.70%) BGP
13 12 (0.65%) 5G
14 11 (0.59%) DHCP
14 11 (0.59%) OSPF
15 10 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (0.54%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.54%) WebEx
16 9 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (6.71%) Power BI
3 97 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 79 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.41%) Data Lake
7 57 (3.08%) Metadata
7 57 (3.08%) NoSQL
8 55 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.65%) Big Data
10 48 (2.60%) Tableau
11 46 (2.49%) BigQuery
12 38 (2.06%) Delta Lake
13 30 (1.62%) MySQL
14 28 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (1.51%) DynamoDB
15 24 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
17 22 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 181 (9.79%) Git
2 82 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.19%) GitLab
4 37 (2.00%) JIRA
5 17 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.70%) MLflow
7 10 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 10 (0.54%) LabVIEW
8 9 (0.49%) JMeter
8 9 (0.49%) Selenium
9 8 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.38%) Postman
11 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.27%) Locust
12 5 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 592 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 420 (22.71%) Finance
3 300 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (6.22%) Legal
6 109 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 108 (5.84%) Banking
8 101 (5.46%) Law
9 79 (4.27%) Marketing
10 69 (3.73%) Retail
11 45 (2.43%) Games
12 43 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.95%) Front Office
14 34 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.73%) Electronics
16 18 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 17 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
20 12 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 516 (27.91%) Senior
2 290 (15.68%) Developer
3 247 (13.36%) Lead
4 230 (12.44%) Software Engineer
5 209 (11.30%) Data Engineer
6 186 (10.06%) Python Engineer
7 105 (5.68%) Analyst
8 104 (5.62%) Python Developer
9 95 (5.14%) Data Scientist
10 82 (4.43%) Senior Developer
11 75 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
12 69 (3.73%) Architect
12 69 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 69 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 65 (3.52%) Senior Data Engineer
14 55 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
14 55 (2.97%) Engineering Manager
14 55 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 55 (2.97%) Senior Data Scientist
15 54 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.95%) React
2 98 (5.30%) Node.js
3 91 (4.92%) PySpark
4 86 (4.65%) PyTorch
5 85 (4.60%) .NET
6 80 (4.33%) REST
7 77 (4.16%) Kafka
8 74 (4.00%) TensorFlow
9 68 (3.68%) Django
10 67 (3.62%) RESTful
11 66 (3.57%) FastAPI
12 57 (3.08%) LangChain
13 40 (2.16%) Next.js
14 37 (2.00%) Pandas
15 36 (1.95%) CSS
16 34 (1.84%) Vue
17 33 (1.78%) scikit-learn
18 32 (1.73%) Flask
18 32 (1.73%) LangGraph
19 31 (1.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 238 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 191 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 80 (4.33%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.33%) Virtual Team
5 56 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 46 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 44 (2.38%) Low-Code
9 43 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 38 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.00%) Management Information System
12 34 (1.84%) Over-the-Top Content
13 32 (1.73%) Blog
14 30 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
14 30 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (1.51%) Security Posture
16 24 (1.30%) Credit Risk
16 24 (1.30%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 219 (11.84%) Linux
2 82 (4.43%) Windows
3 41 (2.22%) Unix
4 31 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Debian
7 7 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.32%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.054%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (37.10%) AI
2 604 (32.67%) Software Engineering
3 586 (31.69%) CI/CD
4 443 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 413 (22.34%) Mentoring
6 402 (21.74%) Agile
7 391 (21.15%) Machine Learning
8 390 (21.09%) DevOps
9 374 (20.23%) Analytics
10 353 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 328 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 280 (15.14%) Data Science
13 263 (14.22%) Test Automation
14 238 (12.87%) Observability
15 231 (12.49%) Roadmaps
16 230 (12.44%) Decision-Making
17 224 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
18 222 (12.01%) Data Engineering
18 222 (12.01%) Data Modelling
19 209 (11.30%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 563 (30.45%) SQL
2 278 (15.04%) JavaScript
3 265 (14.33%) Java
4 222 (12.01%) C#
5 219 (11.84%) PowerShell
6 201 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 141 (7.63%) Go
8 135 (7.30%) Bash
9 100 (5.41%) C++
10 69 (3.73%) Scala
11 54 (2.92%) R
12 46 (2.49%) C
13 44 (2.38%) Bicep
14 39 (2.11%) PHP
15 29 (1.57%) VBA
16 28 (1.51%) Ruby
17 26 (1.41%) Rust
18 21 (1.14%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.97%) Groovy
20 14 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 242 (13.09%) Degree
2 217 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 174 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 73 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.35%) PhD
10 20 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.87%) CISSP
12 16 (0.87%) SnowPro
13 15 (0.81%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.76%) CCNP
15 13 (0.70%) CEH
15 13 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.70%) OSCP
16 12 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (8.92%) Data Quality
2 147 (7.95%) QA
3 45 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.62%) GDPR
6 27 (1.46%) NIST
7 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.49%) SLA
10 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.32%) PMO
12 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.27%) WCAG
13 4 (0.22%) GAAP
13 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
14 3 (0.16%) ECSS
System Software
1 260 (14.06%) Docker
2 29 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.30%) Firmware
5 21 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.43%) vSphere
8 7 (0.38%) KVM
8 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 283 (15.31%) Terraform
2 237 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 106 (5.73%) Ansible
4 94 (5.08%) Grafana
5 51 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.14%) Istio
7 20 (1.08%) Argo
8 13 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
9 10 (0.54%) Packer
10 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
11 6 (0.32%) Graylog
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.22%) CASB
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 285 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 143 (7.73%) Databricks
3 75 (4.06%) Google
4 56 (3.03%) Cisco
5 43 (2.33%) VMware
6 42 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 39 (2.11%) Oracle
8 29 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.51%) Splunk
10 27 (1.46%) Foundry
10 27 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.46%) Typelevel
11 24 (1.30%) Fortinet
11 24 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 18 (0.97%) F5
13 16 (0.87%) Informatica
13 16 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 15 (0.81%) New Relic
15 14 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.76%) HubSpot