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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,941 1,957 2,984
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.72% 11.84% 14.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.98% 39.70% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 1,087 2,113
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,713
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £59,098
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -3.33% +4.17%

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 6,266 4,930 8,638
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.92% 29.82% 41.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,570 3,265 5,565
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 October 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 50 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 46 (2.37%) Apache
3 43 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.46%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.31%) Confluence
9 6 (0.31%) nginx
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) Hedera
12 2 (0.10%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.41%) Simulink
4 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.31%) Lightworks
5 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Blender
7 3 (0.15%) Maya
7 3 (0.15%) SPSS
8 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.10%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) Trello
9 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.052%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.052%) Actimize
5 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.052%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 669 (34.47%) AWS
2 625 (32.20%) Azure
3 310 (15.97%) GCP
4 181 (9.33%) SaaS
5 179 (9.22%) Power Platform
6 143 (7.37%) GitHub
7 81 (4.17%) Serverless
8 79 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 75 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (3.81%) Snowflake
11 71 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 64 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 61 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
15 59 (3.04%) Amazon S3
16 58 (2.99%) dbt
17 53 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
18 39 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
19 38 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.76%) Broadband
2 71 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 70 (3.61%) Firewall
4 56 (2.89%) VPN
5 35 (1.80%) BGP
6 33 (1.70%) Network Security
7 31 (1.60%) DNS
8 29 (1.49%) WAN
9 27 (1.39%) LAN
10 24 (1.24%) VLAN
11 23 (1.18%) Wireless
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) 5G
13 14 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.62%) DHCP
14 12 (0.62%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.46%) HTTP
15 9 (0.46%) MPLS
15 9 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (8.04%) Power BI
2 143 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.38%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 70 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 70 (3.61%) Metadata
7 64 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 51 (2.63%) Big Data
8 51 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.63%) Tableau
9 45 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 43 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 43 (2.22%) Delta Lake
11 33 (1.70%) MySQL
12 29 (1.49%) DynamoDB
13 27 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (1.34%) Star Schema
15 25 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 190 (9.79%) Git
2 88 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 67 (3.45%) GitLab
4 38 (1.96%) JIRA
5 27 (1.39%) Claude Code
5 27 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 17 (0.88%) MLflow
7 13 (0.67%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.57%) Selenium
10 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.31%) Postman
14 5 (0.26%) Poetry
14 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
14 5 (0.26%) Subversion
15 4 (0.21%) PetaLinux
General
1 620 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 481 (24.78%) Finance
3 344 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (8.14%) Banking
5 142 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 133 (6.85%) Public Sector
7 127 (6.54%) Legal
8 105 (5.41%) Law
9 104 (5.36%) Marketing
10 85 (4.38%) Retail
11 51 (2.63%) Front Office
12 40 (2.06%) Games
13 35 (1.80%) Electronics
13 35 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.13%) Back Office
16 21 (1.08%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 555 (28.59%) Senior
2 302 (15.56%) Software Engineer
3 278 (14.32%) Developer
4 234 (12.06%) Lead
5 229 (11.80%) Data Engineer
6 221 (11.39%) Python Engineer
7 134 (6.90%) Analyst
8 124 (6.39%) Python Developer
9 118 (6.08%) Python Software Engineer
10 108 (5.56%) Data Scientist
11 93 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 81 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 81 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 80 (4.12%) Architect
14 78 (4.02%) Senior Developer
15 69 (3.55%) Data Analyst
16 67 (3.45%) Consultant
17 57 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
18 55 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
19 54 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (15.35%) Terraform
2 129 (6.65%) React
3 116 (5.98%) PySpark
4 99 (5.10%) Node.js
5 86 (4.43%) .NET
6 79 (4.07%) RESTful
7 76 (3.92%) LangChain
7 76 (3.92%) PyTorch
8 72 (3.71%) REST
9 67 (3.45%) TensorFlow
10 58 (2.99%) Django
11 57 (2.94%) FastAPI
12 49 (2.52%) LangGraph
13 45 (2.32%) Kafka
14 44 (2.27%) Next.js
15 32 (1.65%) Spring
15 32 (1.65%) Spring Boot
16 30 (1.55%) Pandas
16 30 (1.55%) scikit-learn
17 28 (1.44%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 263 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 177 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.62%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 69 (3.55%) Virtual Team
6 53 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 50 (2.58%) Blog
8 43 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 41 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 40 (2.06%) Credit Risk
10 40 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
11 39 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
11 39 (2.01%) Onboarding
12 36 (1.85%) Hedge funds
13 33 (1.70%) Low-Code
14 30 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (1.49%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
18 25 (1.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 216 (11.13%) Linux
2 78 (4.02%) Windows
3 35 (1.80%) Unix
4 17 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 13 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.57%) macOS
8 9 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.36%) Debian
10 6 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.10%) Solaris
14 1 (0.052%) CentOS
14 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (42.35%) AI
2 653 (33.64%) Software Engineering
3 615 (31.68%) CI/CD
4 463 (23.85%) Analytics
5 447 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
6 405 (20.87%) Mentoring
7 395 (20.35%) DevOps
7 395 (20.35%) Machine Learning
8 381 (19.63%) Agile
9 341 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 327 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 286 (14.73%) Test Automation
12 269 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
13 267 (13.76%) Data Science
14 263 (13.55%) Decision-Making
15 260 (13.40%) Data Engineering
16 251 (12.93%) Data Modelling
16 251 (12.93%) Observability
17 245 (12.62%) Business Intelligence
18 228 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 682 (35.14%) SQL
2 266 (13.70%) Java
3 259 (13.34%) JavaScript
4 228 (11.75%) C#
5 214 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 205 (10.56%) PowerShell
7 153 (7.88%) Bash
8 130 (6.70%) Go
9 96 (4.95%) C++
10 87 (4.48%) R
11 54 (2.78%) C
12 50 (2.58%) Bicep
13 47 (2.42%) Rust
14 40 (2.06%) Scala
15 24 (1.24%) MATLAB
15 24 (1.24%) PHP
16 22 (1.13%) Ruby
16 22 (1.13%) VBA
17 21 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 15 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 245 (12.62%) Degree
2 232 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 185 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 62 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.29%) CISSP
11 22 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.13%) PhD
12 20 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
13 19 (0.98%) GIAC
14 18 (0.93%) SnowPro
15 17 (0.88%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.82%) CISM
17 12 (0.62%) CCNP
18 11 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.03%) Data Quality
2 117 (6.03%) QA
3 55 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 51 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.27%) GDPR
6 37 (1.91%) NIST
7 32 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 18 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.26%) ECSS
12 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.26%) SLA
13 4 (0.21%) COPPA
13 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.21%) MiFID
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 3 (0.15%) UCITS
15 2 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 242 (12.47%) Docker
2 21 (1.08%) Firmware
2 21 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.31%) KVM
8 5 (0.26%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) HDFS
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 258 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.15%) Ansible
3 96 (4.95%) Grafana
4 59 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.08%) Argo
6 16 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.67%) Istio
7 13 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.57%) Cilium
9 7 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
10 6 (0.31%) Graylog
10 6 (0.31%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) Nmap
12 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 297 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.78%) Databricks
3 127 (6.54%) Google
4 53 (2.73%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.32%) Oracle
6 41 (2.11%) Cisco
7 33 (1.70%) Foundry
8 30 (1.55%) Splunk
9 27 (1.39%) VMware
10 23 (1.18%) Informatica
11 20 (1.03%) New Relic
12 17 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 17 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 16 (0.82%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.72%) Palantir
14 14 (0.72%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.67%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.62%) Talend
17 10 (0.52%) Alteryx