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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,377 2,395 3,112
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.81% 14.75% 12.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.38% 33.76% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,614 2,539
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,325 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 4,252 7,095 11,860
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.19% 43.69% 45.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,166 4,432 10,227
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,223 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
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 27 January 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 94 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (3.78%) Apache
3 39 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.53%) Confluence
5 18 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.16%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
8 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (1.09%) SAS
9 7 (0.51%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.15%) Luigi
13 2 (0.15%) Mendix
13 2 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 49 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.15%) SPSS
6 2 (0.15%) Weka
7 1 (0.073%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.073%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.83%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.073%) Actimize
7 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 554 (40.23%) Azure
2 544 (39.51%) AWS
3 204 (14.81%) GitHub
4 187 (13.58%) Power Platform
5 164 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
6 161 (11.69%) GCP
7 132 (9.59%) Serverless
8 105 (7.63%) Snowflake
9 93 (6.75%) Amazon S3
10 89 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
10 89 (6.46%) SaaS
11 87 (6.32%) dbt
12 86 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 61 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 57 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 54 (3.92%) OCI
18 49 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 45 (3.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.78%) Firewall
2 45 (3.27%) Broadband
3 36 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.40%) VPN
5 27 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.89%) Wireshark
7 21 (1.53%) BGP
8 20 (1.45%) LAN
8 20 (1.45%) WAN
9 17 (1.23%) DNS
10 16 (1.16%) NGFW
10 16 (1.16%) SSL
11 15 (1.09%) MPLS
12 14 (1.02%) VLAN
12 14 (1.02%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.94%) Network Security
14 12 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.80%) IOS XR
15 11 (0.80%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (12.20%) Power BI
2 99 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (6.97%) Tableau
5 82 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.74%) NoSQL
7 71 (5.16%) Data Lake
8 57 (4.14%) Apache Iceberg
9 55 (3.99%) Relational Database
10 50 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
11 46 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
13 41 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 41 (2.98%) Metadata
14 39 (2.83%) BigQuery
15 36 (2.61%) Apache Arrow
15 36 (2.61%) Dremio
16 33 (2.40%) MongoDB
17 29 (2.11%) Delta Lake
17 29 (2.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 118 (8.57%) Git
2 93 (6.75%) Jenkins
3 61 (4.43%) JIRA
4 37 (2.69%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.61%) GitLab
6 21 (1.53%) Selenium
7 19 (1.38%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.02%) MLflow
9 12 (0.87%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.87%) ERwin
10 11 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.80%) JUnit
11 5 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.29%) Postman
12 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 426 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 407 (29.56%) Finance
3 196 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.19%) Banking
5 87 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 69 (5.01%) Front Office
8 54 (3.92%) Marketing
9 53 (3.85%) Law
10 48 (3.49%) Retail
11 39 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.54%) Investment Banking
13 32 (2.32%) Publishing
14 28 (2.03%) Legal
15 27 (1.96%) Tech for Good
16 26 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.82%) Manufacturing
18 24 (1.74%) Health Technology
19 18 (1.31%) Financial Institution
20 17 (1.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 299 (21.71%) Senior
2 269 (19.54%) Developer
3 181 (13.14%) Data Engineer
4 157 (11.40%) Lead
5 132 (9.59%) Python Developer
6 126 (9.15%) Python Engineer
6 126 (9.15%) Software Engineer
7 102 (7.41%) Analyst
8 91 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 76 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
10 64 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
11 62 (4.50%) Architect
12 58 (4.21%) Applications Engineer
13 55 (3.99%) AWS Developer
14 54 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
14 54 (3.92%) Senior Developer
15 53 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
16 52 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (3.70%) Lead Developer
18 48 (3.49%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (10.17%) React
2 84 (6.10%) RESTful
3 83 (6.03%) Node.js
4 62 (4.50%) Django
5 59 (4.28%) Kafka
6 57 (4.14%) .NET
7 53 (3.85%) PySpark
8 52 (3.78%) Pandas
9 50 (3.63%) SOAP
10 49 (3.56%) REST
11 46 (3.34%) Vue
12 45 (3.27%) NumPy
13 44 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
13 44 (3.20%) JSON
14 43 (3.12%) XML
15 39 (2.83%) Flask
16 37 (2.69%) AngularJS
16 37 (2.69%) SciPy
17 35 (2.54%) HTML
17 35 (2.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (4.87%) Algorithms
5 51 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 50 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (3.27%) Fixed Income
8 44 (3.20%) Equities
8 44 (3.20%) Low-Code
9 43 (3.12%) Data Structures
9 43 (3.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 38 (2.76%) Management Information System
11 35 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (2.25%) Hedge funds
12 31 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (2.03%) Data Centre
14 27 (1.96%) Derivative
15 24 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
16 23 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 207 (15.03%) Linux
2 85 (6.17%) Windows
3 84 (6.10%) Unix
4 28 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.65%) Debian
7 9 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.51%) VMS
9 6 (0.44%) Solaris
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.15%) Android
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (34.86%) CI/CD
2 455 (33.04%) Agile
3 449 (32.61%) DevOps
4 343 (24.91%) AI
5 324 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 284 (20.62%) Analytics
7 283 (20.55%) Software Engineering
8 239 (17.36%) Mentoring
9 237 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 206 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 202 (14.67%) Data Modelling
12 198 (14.38%) Data Engineering
13 197 (14.31%) Business Intelligence
13 197 (14.31%) Data Pipeline
14 190 (13.80%) Coaching
15 185 (13.44%) Machine Learning
16 180 (13.07%) Data Science
17 174 (12.64%) Asset Management
18 163 (11.84%) ETL
19 162 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 507 (36.82%) SQL
2 277 (20.12%) Java
3 246 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 162 (11.76%) Bash
5 147 (10.68%) PowerShell
5 147 (10.68%) TypeScript
6 101 (7.33%) C#
7 84 (6.10%) Go
8 62 (4.50%) C++
9 51 (3.70%) R
10 45 (3.27%) Scala
11 44 (3.20%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.98%) PL/SQL
13 40 (2.90%) C
14 34 (2.47%) Bicep
15 19 (1.38%) PHP
16 16 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 15 (1.09%) Perl
18 14 (1.02%) MATLAB
19 12 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 256 (18.59%) Degree
2 152 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 97 (7.04%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 20 (1.45%) PhD
14 17 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.09%) CEH
15 15 (1.09%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.02%) ACCA
16 14 (1.02%) CIMA
17 13 (0.94%) CISSP
18 12 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.81%) QA
3 44 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.40%) GDPR
5 28 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.82%) SLA
7 21 (1.53%) NIST
8 16 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.87%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.73%) ISO 22301
11 6 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 2 (0.15%) EMIR
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.073%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 217 (15.76%) Docker
2 37 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.44%) Firmware
5 6 (0.44%) vSphere
6 4 (0.29%) NFS
6 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Ceph
8 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.15%) Lustre
9 1 (0.073%) HDFS
9 1 (0.073%) vCloud
9 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 313 (22.73%) Terraform
2 233 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 129 (9.37%) Ansible
4 65 (4.72%) Grafana
5 58 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.76%) Argo
8 20 (1.45%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.44%) Control-M
12 5 (0.36%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) Cilium
13 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
13 4 (0.29%) QRadar
14 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
15 2 (0.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 184 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 115 (8.35%) Databricks
3 86 (6.25%) Oracle
4 75 (5.45%) Google
5 42 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 39 (2.83%) VMware
7 34 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.11%) Cisco
8 29 (2.11%) IBM
9 24 (1.74%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.45%) Okta
10 20 (1.45%) Talend
11 19 (1.38%) Commvault
12 18 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.23%) SAP
14 16 (1.16%) Aruba
15 15 (1.09%) OpenAI
16 14 (1.02%) Arista
16 14 (1.02%) NetScout
17 13 (0.94%) Informatica