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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,746 2,391 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.24% 14.57% 11.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.35% 40.35% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 1,467 3,053
10th Percentile £43,965 £47,392 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 5,753 5,926 13,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.14% 36.12% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,335 4,133 10,719
10th Percentile £39,383 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,250
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 9 July 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 62 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.18%) Apache
4 17 (0.97%) SAS
5 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.11%) Confluence
8 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.057%) Camunda
9 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.057%) CMS
9 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.057%) nginx
9 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.23%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.23%) Simulink
5 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) SPSS
8 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 673 (38.55%) AWS
2 560 (32.07%) Azure
3 287 (16.44%) GCP
4 142 (8.13%) SaaS
5 140 (8.02%) Power Platform
6 110 (6.30%) GitHub
7 100 (5.73%) Serverless
8 79 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
14 49 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
15 47 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (2.52%) Snowflake
17 43 (2.46%) dbt
18 39 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 37 (2.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (11.23%) Broadband
2 88 (5.04%) Firewall
3 55 (3.15%) VPN
4 31 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.66%) LAN
5 29 (1.66%) WAN
6 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (1.49%) DNS
8 22 (1.26%) VLAN
9 21 (1.20%) Wireless
10 20 (1.15%) BGP
10 20 (1.15%) Network Security
11 19 (1.09%) Wireshark
12 17 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (0.97%) NGFW
13 15 (0.86%) MPLS
13 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.86%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.69%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.63%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (6.41%) Power BI
3 86 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 76 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (3.49%) Relational Database
7 56 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 55 (3.15%) Metadata
9 53 (3.04%) BigQuery
10 52 (2.98%) Data Lake
11 47 (2.69%) Tableau
12 36 (2.06%) Big Data
13 35 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
14 34 (1.95%) MySQL
15 33 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
16 30 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
18 28 (1.60%) Delta Lake
19 26 (1.49%) Redis
20 25 (1.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (8.76%) Git
2 70 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.44%) GitLab
4 35 (2.00%) JIRA
5 13 (0.74%) Jaeger
5 13 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (0.69%) MLflow
7 11 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.57%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.52%) JMeter
10 8 (0.46%) Selenium
11 7 (0.40%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.40%) Postman
11 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.29%) Locust
13 5 (0.29%) Subversion
14 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 527 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 380 (21.76%) Finance
3 300 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 107 (6.13%) Banking
7 100 (5.73%) Law
8 71 (4.07%) Legal
9 68 (3.89%) Retail
10 53 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 50 (2.86%) Front Office
12 49 (2.81%) Marketing
13 44 (2.52%) Games
14 32 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.32%) Electronics
16 19 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.92%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.74%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.69%) Tech for Good
20 11 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 435 (24.91%) Senior
2 330 (18.90%) Developer
3 280 (16.04%) Lead
4 212 (12.14%) Software Engineer
5 201 (11.51%) Data Engineer
6 154 (8.82%) Python Engineer
7 108 (6.19%) Python Developer
8 95 (5.44%) Analyst
9 93 (5.33%) Data Scientist
10 91 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
11 80 (4.58%) Senior Developer
12 67 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 64 (3.67%) Lead Developer
14 61 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
15 59 (3.38%) Data Analyst
16 58 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
17 57 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
18 56 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
19 53 (3.04%) Senior Data Scientist
20 51 (2.92%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (8.25%) React
2 103 (5.90%) Node.js
3 94 (5.38%) Kafka
4 92 (5.27%) PyTorch
5 83 (4.75%) TensorFlow
6 75 (4.30%) REST
7 74 (4.24%) .NET
8 70 (4.01%) PySpark
9 69 (3.95%) RESTful
10 61 (3.49%) FastAPI
11 58 (3.32%) Django
12 54 (3.09%) LangChain
13 49 (2.81%) gRPC
14 41 (2.35%) Vue
15 36 (2.06%) Flask
16 35 (2.00%) JSON
17 32 (1.83%) Redux
18 31 (1.78%) Pandas
18 31 (1.78%) Spring
19 30 (1.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 222 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 186 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (5.90%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.58%) Algorithms
5 75 (4.30%) AI Agents
6 68 (3.89%) Data Structures
7 58 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 54 (3.09%) Over-the-Top Content
8 54 (3.09%) Virtual Team
9 53 (3.04%) Low-Code
10 47 (2.69%) Onboarding
11 44 (2.52%) Public Cloud
12 40 (2.29%) Fixed Income
13 35 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 35 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.95%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.83%) Data Centre
16 30 (1.72%) Equities
17 26 (1.49%) Security Posture
18 25 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 211 (12.08%) Linux
2 76 (4.35%) Windows
3 43 (2.46%) Unix
4 33 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.52%) Debian
7 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.057%) AIX
13 1 (0.057%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (33.85%) AI
2 583 (33.39%) CI/CD
3 556 (31.84%) Software Engineering
4 430 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
5 407 (23.31%) Agile
6 374 (21.42%) Mentoring
7 372 (21.31%) DevOps
8 370 (21.19%) Machine Learning
9 338 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 316 (18.10%) Analytics
11 298 (17.07%) Data Science
12 257 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 231 (13.23%) Containerisation
14 226 (12.94%) Test Automation
15 221 (12.66%) Roadmaps
16 217 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
17 214 (12.26%) Observability
18 209 (11.97%) Data Engineering
19 206 (11.80%) Decision-Making
20 202 (11.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 490 (28.06%) SQL
2 288 (16.49%) Java
3 260 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 194 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 183 (10.48%) Go
6 173 (9.91%) C#
7 168 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 151 (8.65%) Bash
9 90 (5.15%) C++
10 81 (4.64%) Scala
11 55 (3.15%) R
12 52 (2.98%) C
13 40 (2.29%) PHP
14 37 (2.12%) Bicep
15 24 (1.37%) VBA
16 20 (1.15%) Ruby
16 20 (1.15%) Rust
17 19 (1.09%) Groovy
18 16 (0.92%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 239 (13.69%) Degree
2 175 (10.02%) Security Cleared
3 139 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.26%) PhD
10 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.80%) OSCP
13 12 (0.69%) CEH
13 12 (0.69%) CREST Certified
14 11 (0.63%) CISSP
15 10 (0.57%) CCNP
15 10 (0.57%) GIAC
16 9 (0.52%) SnowPro
17 8 (0.46%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 121 (6.93%) QA
3 46 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.26%) NIST
6 20 (1.15%) GDPR
7 17 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.46%) SLA
10 6 (0.34%) GRC
10 6 (0.34%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 5 (0.29%) PMO
11 5 (0.29%) WCAG
12 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
13 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 277 (15.86%) Docker
2 34 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.26%) Firmware
5 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.40%) KVM
7 7 (0.40%) vSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.17%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) Xen
Systems Management
1 286 (16.38%) Terraform
2 239 (13.69%) Kubernetes
3 119 (6.82%) Ansible
4 90 (5.15%) Grafana
5 67 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.00%) Argo
7 18 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 17 (0.97%) Istio
9 12 (0.69%) Packer
9 12 (0.69%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.52%) Puppet
12 8 (0.46%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.34%) Graylog
13 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.29%) FTK
14 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 254 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.82%) Databricks
3 70 (4.01%) Google
4 59 (3.38%) Cisco
5 51 (2.92%) VMware
6 45 (2.58%) Typelevel
7 40 (2.29%) OpenAI
8 37 (2.12%) Oracle
9 29 (1.66%) Foundry
9 29 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 24 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.37%) Splunk
12 23 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 21 (1.20%) F5
13 21 (1.20%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.97%) Arista
15 15 (0.86%) Aruba
15 15 (0.86%) NetScout
16 12 (0.69%) Commvault