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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,609 2,389 3,682
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.38% 16.14% 11.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.45% 40.71% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,430 2,946
10th Percentile £44,950 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,938 £58,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% - -
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,750 £132,500 £138,750
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 5,116 5,869 13,591
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.66% 39.65% 40.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,786 4,055 11,462
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,582
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 30 May 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 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.49%) Apache
4 21 (1.31%) SAS
5 9 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.25%) Confluence
6 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
6 4 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.062%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.062%) nginx
9 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.25%) SPSS
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Blender
7 2 (0.12%) Maya
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.062%) Actimize
5 1 (0.062%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 630 (39.15%) AWS
2 546 (33.93%) Azure
3 264 (16.41%) GCP
4 147 (9.14%) Power Platform
5 123 (7.64%) GitHub
6 116 (7.21%) SaaS
7 110 (6.84%) Serverless
8 98 (6.09%) Amazon S3
9 84 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
11 66 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 62 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 46 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 45 (2.80%) Snowflake
17 44 (2.73%) dbt
18 40 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 40 (2.49%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 184 (11.44%) Broadband
2 75 (4.66%) Firewall
3 40 (2.49%) VPN
4 25 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (1.43%) LAN
6 22 (1.37%) VLAN
7 21 (1.31%) WAN
8 19 (1.18%) Wireshark
9 18 (1.12%) DNS
9 18 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.06%) NGFW
11 16 (0.99%) BGP
12 15 (0.93%) Network Security
12 15 (0.93%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.81%) MPLS
14 12 (0.75%) 4G
14 12 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
14 12 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.68%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (7.27%) Power BI
3 92 (5.72%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (3.98%) Metadata
6 59 (3.67%) Data Lake
6 59 (3.67%) MongoDB
7 58 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 57 (3.54%) BigQuery
9 56 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 56 (3.48%) Tableau
10 41 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 38 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
12 36 (2.24%) Big Data
13 32 (1.99%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.86%) MySQL
15 29 (1.80%) Semantic Layer
16 26 (1.62%) Redis
17 25 (1.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 140 (8.70%) Git
2 62 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 54 (3.36%) GitLab
4 32 (1.99%) JIRA
5 18 (1.12%) Jaeger
6 17 (1.06%) MLflow
7 13 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.37%) JMeter
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.31%) Locust
10 5 (0.31%) Subversion
11 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.25%) Postman
11 4 (0.25%) Selenium
12 3 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 443 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 359 (22.31%) Finance
3 285 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.15%) Public Sector
6 96 (5.97%) Banking
7 73 (4.54%) Law
8 63 (3.92%) Retail
9 49 (3.05%) Front Office
10 47 (2.92%) Marketing
11 45 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.73%) Legal
13 38 (2.36%) Games
14 26 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.99%) Publishing
17 14 (0.87%) Electronics
17 14 (0.87%) Tech for Good
18 13 (0.81%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 362 (22.50%) Senior
2 309 (19.20%) Developer
3 260 (16.16%) Lead
4 214 (13.30%) Data Engineer
5 189 (11.75%) Software Engineer
6 152 (9.45%) Python Engineer
7 112 (6.96%) Python Developer
8 97 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
9 87 (5.41%) Analyst
10 83 (5.16%) Data Scientist
11 65 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
12 63 (3.92%) Lead Developer
13 61 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
14 57 (3.54%) Senior Developer
15 52 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 52 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
16 51 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
17 48 (2.98%) Data Analyst
18 46 (2.86%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (9.51%) React
2 103 (6.40%) Node.js
3 102 (6.34%) Kafka
4 81 (5.03%) PyTorch
5 76 (4.72%) PySpark
6 74 (4.60%) TensorFlow
7 71 (4.41%) .NET
8 69 (4.29%) REST
9 57 (3.54%) Django
10 56 (3.48%) RESTful
11 52 (3.23%) FastAPI
12 49 (3.05%) gRPC
13 38 (2.36%) JSON
14 33 (2.05%) LangChain
15 32 (1.99%) Redux
15 32 (1.99%) Vue
16 30 (1.86%) Flask
17 29 (1.80%) CSS
18 28 (1.74%) GraphQL
18 28 (1.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 175 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 153 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (5.78%) Video\Live Streaming
4 82 (5.10%) Algorithms
5 68 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 66 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 58 (3.60%) Low-Code
8 53 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
9 44 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 42 (2.61%) AI Agents
11 41 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (2.11%) Fixed Income
12 34 (2.11%) Public Cloud
13 31 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 28 (1.74%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.62%) Equities
16 24 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
17 23 (1.43%) Management Information System
17 23 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 177 (11.00%) Linux
2 59 (3.67%) Windows
3 42 (2.61%) Unix
4 29 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.44%) Android
8 6 (0.37%) Debian
8 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.062%) AIX
12 1 (0.062%) CentOS
12 1 (0.062%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.062%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (33.87%) CI/CD
2 476 (29.58%) AI
3 455 (28.28%) Software Engineering
4 395 (24.55%) Agile
5 378 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
6 369 (22.93%) DevOps
7 340 (21.13%) Machine Learning
8 316 (19.64%) Analytics
8 316 (19.64%) Mentoring
9 294 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 284 (17.65%) Data Science
11 245 (15.23%) Data Pipeline
12 227 (14.11%) Data Modelling
13 226 (14.05%) Containerisation
14 217 (13.49%) Data Engineering
15 209 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 185 (11.50%) Roadmaps
17 179 (11.12%) Test Automation
18 177 (11.00%) Decision-Making
18 177 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 472 (29.33%) SQL
2 285 (17.71%) Java
3 231 (14.36%) JavaScript
4 189 (11.75%) Go
5 153 (9.51%) TypeScript
6 152 (9.45%) PowerShell
7 151 (9.38%) Bash
8 141 (8.76%) C#
9 94 (5.84%) Scala
10 72 (4.47%) C++
11 54 (3.36%) R
12 34 (2.11%) C
12 34 (2.11%) PHP
13 22 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 21 (1.31%) Bicep
15 19 (1.18%) Apex Code
16 17 (1.06%) VBA
17 14 (0.87%) Groovy
17 14 (0.87%) Ruby
18 13 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 237 (14.73%) Degree
2 146 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 25 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.93%) PhD
11 13 (0.81%) CEH
12 12 (0.75%) OSCP
13 11 (0.68%) ACCA
13 11 (0.68%) CIMA
14 10 (0.62%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (0.50%) CISSP
16 8 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (9.70%) Data Quality
2 102 (6.34%) QA
3 40 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.31%) NIST
6 16 (0.99%) GDPR
7 12 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.56%) ISO 22301
8 9 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.50%) SLA
10 6 (0.37%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) PMO
11 5 (0.31%) WCAG
12 4 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) EMIR
14 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 267 (16.59%) Docker
2 36 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.93%) Firmware
6 7 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.44%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) KVM
7 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (17.53%) Terraform
2 232 (14.42%) Kubernetes
3 109 (6.77%) Ansible
4 81 (5.03%) Grafana
5 68 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.49%) Argo
7 22 (1.37%) Kustomize
8 13 (0.81%) Istio
9 12 (0.75%) Proxmox
9 12 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.68%) Packer
11 9 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (0.44%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.37%) Graylog
13 6 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.37%) Puppet
14 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.31%) FTK
14 5 (0.31%) SCCM
15 4 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 242 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.40%) Databricks
3 78 (4.85%) Google
4 52 (3.23%) Cisco
5 50 (3.11%) VMware
6 45 (2.80%) Typelevel
7 33 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 32 (1.99%) Oracle
8 32 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 24 (1.49%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.31%) Foundry
12 18 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.12%) Splunk
13 15 (0.93%) Arista
13 15 (0.93%) Aruba
13 15 (0.93%) F5
13 15 (0.93%) NetScout
14 14 (0.87%) MuleSoft
14 14 (0.87%) ServiceNow