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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,816 2,262 3,253
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.24% 13.74% 12.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.43% 39.88% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 1,361 2,582
10th Percentile £43,075 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 5,968 5,672 10,321
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.09% 34.46% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,503 3,932 8,231
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,995
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 30 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 54 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.09%) Apache
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.66%) SAS
6 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.17%) Confluence
10 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.055%) Camunda
11 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.055%) CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.22%) Simulink
5 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 677 (37.28%) AWS
2 578 (31.83%) Azure
3 311 (17.13%) GCP
4 162 (8.92%) SaaS
5 151 (8.31%) Power Platform
6 115 (6.33%) GitHub
7 94 (5.18%) Serverless
8 68 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 66 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
13 57 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
14 56 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 55 (3.03%) Snowflake
16 53 (2.92%) dbt
17 43 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
18 38 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 35 (1.93%) PaaS
20 34 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 158 (8.70%) Broadband
2 79 (4.35%) Firewall
3 48 (2.64%) VPN
4 44 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.60%) DNS
6 28 (1.54%) WAN
7 27 (1.49%) LAN
8 20 (1.10%) Wireless
9 19 (1.05%) Network Security
10 18 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (0.99%) VLAN
11 13 (0.72%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.61%) DHCP
12 11 (0.61%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.55%) 5G
13 10 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (0.55%) WebEx
14 9 (0.50%) MQTT
15 8 (0.44%) BGP
16 7 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (6.77%) Power BI
3 88 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.19%) MongoDB
6 59 (3.25%) Data Lake
7 54 (2.97%) Metadata
8 51 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.70%) BigQuery
9 49 (2.70%) Tableau
10 46 (2.53%) NoSQL
11 45 (2.48%) Big Data
12 32 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.76%) Delta Lake
13 31 (1.71%) MySQL
14 28 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (1.49%) Redis
16 26 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
17 25 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 165 (9.09%) Git
2 81 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 64 (3.52%) GitLab
4 37 (2.04%) JIRA
5 16 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.77%) MLflow
7 11 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.61%) LabVIEW
8 9 (0.50%) JMeter
9 8 (0.44%) Selenium
10 7 (0.39%) Postman
11 6 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.28%) Locust
12 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 578 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 409 (22.52%) Finance
3 289 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (5.78%) Legal
6 103 (5.67%) Banking
7 100 (5.51%) Law
8 99 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 66 (3.63%) Retail
10 60 (3.30%) Marketing
11 49 (2.70%) Front Office
12 48 (2.64%) Games
13 42 (2.31%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.54%) Electronics
16 16 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.77%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.66%) Aerospace
19 12 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 499 (27.48%) Senior
2 320 (17.62%) Developer
3 263 (14.48%) Lead
4 234 (12.89%) Software Engineer
5 201 (11.07%) Data Engineer
6 180 (9.91%) Python Engineer
7 107 (5.89%) Python Developer
8 101 (5.56%) Data Scientist
9 97 (5.34%) Analyst
10 85 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
11 84 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 67 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 65 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 63 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
15 62 (3.41%) Architect
16 59 (3.25%) Lead Developer
17 57 (3.14%) Data Analyst
17 57 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
17 57 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
17 57 (3.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (8.37%) React
2 108 (5.95%) Node.js
3 91 (5.01%) Kafka
4 84 (4.63%) PyTorch
5 82 (4.52%) REST
6 79 (4.35%) .NET
6 79 (4.35%) PySpark
7 74 (4.07%) TensorFlow
8 68 (3.74%) Django
9 67 (3.69%) RESTful
10 64 (3.52%) FastAPI
11 55 (3.03%) LangChain
12 39 (2.15%) Vue
13 37 (2.04%) gRPC
13 37 (2.04%) Pandas
14 35 (1.93%) Flask
15 34 (1.87%) Next.js
16 33 (1.82%) CSS
16 33 (1.82%) GraphQL
16 33 (1.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 230 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 196 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (4.90%) Video\Live Streaming
4 82 (4.52%) Algorithms
5 80 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 78 (4.30%) AI Agents
7 61 (3.36%) Data Structures
8 55 (3.03%) Product Ownership
9 51 (2.81%) Low-Code
10 48 (2.64%) Onboarding
11 43 (2.37%) Over-the-Top Content
11 43 (2.37%) Public Cloud
12 39 (2.15%) Fixed Income
12 39 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.98%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
16 27 (1.49%) Equities
17 26 (1.43%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 220 (12.11%) Linux
2 82 (4.52%) Windows
3 42 (2.31%) Unix
4 35 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.44%) Debian
7 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.33%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Solaris
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.055%) AIX
11 1 (0.055%) CentOS
11 1 (0.055%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.055%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (35.46%) AI
2 609 (33.54%) Software Engineering
3 595 (32.76%) CI/CD
4 435 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
5 415 (22.85%) Agile
6 398 (21.92%) Mentoring
7 387 (21.31%) DevOps
8 381 (20.98%) Machine Learning
9 346 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 336 (18.50%) Analytics
11 313 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 287 (15.80%) Data Science
13 258 (14.21%) Test Automation
14 235 (12.94%) Observability
15 219 (12.06%) Roadmaps
16 218 (12.00%) Containerisation
17 216 (11.89%) Data Engineering
17 216 (11.89%) Data Modelling
18 215 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
19 214 (11.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 525 (28.91%) SQL
2 288 (15.86%) JavaScript
3 275 (15.14%) Java
4 221 (12.17%) PowerShell
5 212 (11.67%) C#
6 201 (11.07%) TypeScript
7 162 (8.92%) Go
8 138 (7.60%) Bash
9 98 (5.40%) C++
10 74 (4.07%) Scala
11 59 (3.25%) R
12 48 (2.64%) C
13 40 (2.20%) Bicep
14 38 (2.09%) PHP
15 29 (1.60%) VBA
16 26 (1.43%) Rust
17 24 (1.32%) Ruby
18 18 (0.99%) Groovy
19 17 (0.94%) MATLAB
20 16 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (13.11%) Degree
2 203 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 165 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.27%) PhD
10 17 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.77%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.72%) SnowPro
14 12 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.66%) CCNP
14 12 (0.66%) CISSP
14 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.66%) OSCP
15 11 (0.61%) CEH
16 10 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.92%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.15%) QA
3 39 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.49%) GDPR
6 22 (1.21%) NIST
7 14 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.44%) SLA
8 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
11 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.28%) WCAG
12 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.22%) GAAP
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS
12 4 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 266 (14.65%) Docker
2 33 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.16%) Firmware
4 21 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.50%) vSphere
7 8 (0.44%) KVM
8 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.055%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 276 (15.20%) Terraform
2 234 (12.89%) Kubernetes
3 104 (5.73%) Ansible
4 96 (5.29%) Grafana
5 56 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.16%) Argo
7 19 (1.05%) Istio
8 13 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
9 10 (0.55%) Packer
9 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.50%) Puppet
11 7 (0.39%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.33%) Graylog
12 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 277 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.38%) Databricks
3 69 (3.80%) Google
4 53 (2.92%) Cisco
5 48 (2.64%) VMware
6 37 (2.04%) Oracle
7 36 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 36 (1.98%) Typelevel
8 30 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.54%) Foundry
10 26 (1.43%) Splunk
11 25 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.32%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 19 (1.05%) F5
13 19 (1.05%) Salesforce
14 15 (0.83%) Informatica
15 13 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.72%) HubSpot
15 13 (0.72%) New Relic