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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,449 2,143 3,353
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.57% 16.04% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.31% 35.14% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,570 2,768
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,539 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -5.12%

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 4,484 6,099 13,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.51% 45.64% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,254 4,504 11,383
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £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 £97,500
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 20 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 78 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.42%) Apache
4 19 (1.31%) SAS
5 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.48%) Confluence
7 7 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.069%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Shopify
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.069%) Actimize
6 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.069%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 617 (42.58%) AWS
2 550 (37.96%) Azure
3 232 (16.01%) GCP
4 189 (13.04%) GitHub
5 156 (10.77%) Power Platform
6 129 (8.90%) Serverless
7 116 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (7.73%) SaaS
9 106 (7.32%) Amazon S3
10 84 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
11 83 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 65 (4.49%) dbt
14 62 (4.28%) Snowflake
15 59 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
16 51 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
18 44 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 43 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
20 41 (2.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 133 (9.18%) Broadband
2 64 (4.42%) Firewall
3 37 (2.55%) VPN
4 36 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.79%) Wireshark
7 24 (1.66%) VLAN
8 20 (1.38%) BGP
9 18 (1.24%) LAN
10 17 (1.17%) NGFW
10 17 (1.17%) WAN
11 15 (1.04%) MPLS
11 15 (1.04%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.97%) DNS
12 14 (0.97%) Network Security
13 12 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.76%) 4G
14 11 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.76%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (9.32%) Power BI
2 105 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (6.28%) SQL Server
4 76 (5.24%) Tableau
5 71 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 58 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 57 (3.93%) Metadata
8 49 (3.38%) Data Lake
9 47 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
10 41 (2.83%) BigQuery
11 40 (2.76%) MongoDB
12 39 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 38 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (2.07%) Delta Lake
14 30 (2.07%) MySQL
15 28 (1.93%) Apache Iceberg
16 27 (1.86%) Redis
17 24 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 121 (8.35%) Git
2 73 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.66%) GitLab
4 39 (2.69%) JIRA
5 22 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (1.31%) Jaeger
7 17 (1.17%) Selenium
8 15 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.04%) MLflow
9 8 (0.55%) JMeter
9 8 (0.55%) JUnit
10 7 (0.48%) Postman
10 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.41%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.41%) ERwin
11 6 (0.41%) Locust
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.35%) Subversion
12 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 459 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 353 (24.36%) Finance
3 223 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 93 (6.42%) Banking
7 66 (4.55%) Law
8 59 (4.07%) Front Office
9 53 (3.66%) Retail
10 45 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.69%) Marketing
12 32 (2.21%) Legal
12 32 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.79%) Publishing
14 25 (1.73%) Games
15 22 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.45%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.38%) Health Technology
17 20 (1.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 316 (21.81%) Senior
2 312 (21.53%) Developer
3 217 (14.98%) Lead
4 180 (12.42%) Data Engineer
5 154 (10.63%) Software Engineer
6 127 (8.76%) Python Developer
7 122 (8.42%) Python Engineer
8 82 (5.66%) Lead Developer
9 76 (5.24%) Analyst
10 70 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 67 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
12 61 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
13 57 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
13 57 (3.93%) Senior Developer
14 56 (3.86%) Architect
15 54 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.52%) React Developer
17 50 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.31%) Lead Python Developer
19 42 (2.90%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (11.25%) React
2 102 (7.04%) Node.js
3 100 (6.90%) Kafka
4 79 (5.45%) Django
5 72 (4.97%) REST
6 67 (4.62%) .NET
7 63 (4.35%) RESTful
8 53 (3.66%) PySpark
8 53 (3.66%) PyTorch
9 49 (3.38%) JSON
10 47 (3.24%) gRPC
10 47 (3.24%) TensorFlow
11 44 (3.04%) Flask
12 42 (2.90%) SOAP
13 40 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
13 40 (2.76%) Vue
14 38 (2.62%) FastAPI
15 37 (2.55%) XML
16 36 (2.48%) HTML
17 34 (2.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 63 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 62 (4.28%) Data Structures
6 56 (3.86%) Video\Live Streaming
7 53 (3.66%) Low-Code
8 50 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 47 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (3.04%) Fixed Income
11 40 (2.76%) Over-the-Top Content
12 37 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (2.14%) Data Centre
15 30 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
16 26 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (1.59%) Equities
17 23 (1.59%) Public Cloud
18 20 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
19 19 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 196 (13.53%) Linux
2 77 (5.31%) Unix
3 64 (4.42%) Windows
4 26 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Debian
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Android
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
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
1 548 (37.82%) CI/CD
2 431 (29.74%) Agile
3 414 (28.57%) DevOps
4 367 (25.33%) Software Engineering
5 363 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
6 341 (23.53%) AI
7 265 (18.29%) Mentoring
8 250 (17.25%) Analytics
9 244 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 242 (16.70%) Machine Learning
11 232 (16.01%) Containerisation
12 231 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 212 (14.63%) Data Modelling
14 211 (14.56%) Data Science
15 206 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
16 188 (12.97%) Data Engineering
17 180 (12.42%) Test Automation
18 172 (11.87%) Coaching
19 170 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
20 157 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 441 (30.43%) SQL
2 299 (20.63%) Java
3 252 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 169 (11.66%) Go
5 143 (9.87%) Bash
6 139 (9.59%) TypeScript
7 134 (9.25%) PowerShell
8 108 (7.45%) C#
9 78 (5.38%) Scala
10 63 (4.35%) C++
11 44 (3.04%) R
12 34 (2.35%) C
13 28 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 25 (1.73%) PL/SQL
15 24 (1.66%) Apex Code
15 24 (1.66%) PHP
16 23 (1.59%) Bicep
17 21 (1.45%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.97%) VBA
19 9 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 261 (18.01%) Degree
2 130 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 99 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 49 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (1.38%) CEH
9 20 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.38%) PhD
10 19 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (1.04%) ACCA
11 15 (1.04%) CIMA
12 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.62%) OSCP
14 8 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (0.48%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 98 (6.76%) QA
3 53 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.93%) NIST
5 25 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.10%) GDPR
7 16 (1.10%) SLA
8 15 (1.04%) ISO 22301
9 13 (0.90%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.69%) GRC
11 4 (0.28%) WCAG
12 3 (0.21%) EMIR
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) PMO
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) ECSS
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 283 (19.53%) Docker
2 39 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.69%) Firmware
6 7 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.14%) Ceph
10 2 (0.14%) KVM
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.069%) vCloud
11 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 300 (20.70%) Terraform
2 241 (16.63%) Kubernetes
3 117 (8.07%) Ansible
4 80 (5.52%) Grafana
5 62 (4.28%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.55%) Argo
7 28 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.31%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.55%) Istio
10 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.41%) Control-M
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.35%) FTK
12 5 (0.35%) Puppet
12 5 (0.35%) SCCM
13 4 (0.28%) Cilium
13 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.28%) Packer
13 4 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 201 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 110 (7.59%) Databricks
3 78 (5.38%) Google
4 73 (5.04%) Oracle
5 54 (3.73%) VMware
6 44 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 43 (2.97%) Cisco
8 36 (2.48%) Typelevel
9 30 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 24 (1.66%) IBM
12 22 (1.52%) Commvault
13 18 (1.24%) Talend
14 17 (1.17%) SAP
15 16 (1.10%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.04%) Arista
16 15 (1.04%) Foundry
16 15 (1.04%) Informatica
16 15 (1.04%) NetScout
16 15 (1.04%) Splunk