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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,401 2,351 3,230
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.80% 14.78% 11.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.41% 33.71% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,604 2,634
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £113,375 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.93%

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 4,323 6,974 12,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.15% 43.84% 45.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,213 4,419 10,855
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
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 £110,000 £98,750
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 4 February 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 89 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.43%) Apache
3 41 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.50%) Confluence
5 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.14%) SAS
8 14 (1.00%) Tomcat
8 14 (1.00%) WebSphere
8 14 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (0.50%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 44 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.071%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.071%) Notion
7 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.43%) Shopify
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.21%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.071%) Actimize
8 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 562 (40.11%) Azure
2 554 (39.54%) AWS
3 202 (14.42%) GitHub
4 182 (12.99%) Power Platform
5 169 (12.06%) GCP
6 160 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (9.71%) Serverless
8 98 (7.00%) Amazon S3
9 95 (6.78%) Snowflake
10 90 (6.42%) SaaS
11 88 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
12 87 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
13 78 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 76 (5.42%) dbt
15 60 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 59 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (3.93%) OCI
18 54 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 52 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 48 (3.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.21%) Broadband
2 51 (3.64%) Firewall
3 36 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.36%) VPN
5 30 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.86%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.43%) BGP
8 17 (1.21%) DNS
8 17 (1.21%) LAN
8 17 (1.21%) NGFW
8 17 (1.21%) WAN
9 16 (1.14%) VLAN
10 15 (1.07%) MPLS
10 15 (1.07%) VXLAN
11 14 (1.00%) Network Security
11 14 (1.00%) SSL
12 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.79%) 4G
13 11 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.79%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (11.49%) Power BI
2 95 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (6.57%) Tableau
4 90 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 81 (5.78%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.64%) NoSQL
7 64 (4.57%) Data Lake
8 56 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 52 (3.71%) Apache Iceberg
10 46 (3.28%) Metadata
11 45 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.57%) BigQuery
15 32 (2.28%) MongoDB
15 32 (2.28%) MySQL
16 29 (2.07%) Apache Arrow
16 29 (2.07%) Delta Lake
16 29 (2.07%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 116 (8.28%) Git
2 94 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.28%) JIRA
4 40 (2.86%) GitLab
5 37 (2.64%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (1.50%) Selenium
7 19 (1.36%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.07%) MLflow
9 12 (0.86%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.86%) ERwin
10 11 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.79%) JUnit
11 6 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.36%) JMeter
12 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.29%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 431 (30.76%) Social Skills
2 395 (28.19%) Finance
3 207 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (6.71%) Banking
5 88 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 61 (4.35%) Front Office
8 55 (3.93%) Law
9 49 (3.50%) Marketing
10 46 (3.28%) Retail
11 39 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.21%) Publishing
13 29 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 29 (2.07%) Legal
14 26 (1.86%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.78%) Tech for Good
16 22 (1.57%) Health Technology
17 19 (1.36%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 298 (21.27%) Senior
2 276 (19.70%) Developer
3 180 (12.85%) Data Engineer
4 165 (11.78%) Lead
5 132 (9.42%) Python Developer
6 123 (8.78%) Software Engineer
7 118 (8.42%) Python Engineer
8 99 (7.07%) Analyst
9 94 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
11 62 (4.43%) Architect
12 57 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
13 56 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
14 53 (3.78%) AWS Developer
14 53 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
14 53 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
14 53 (3.78%) Senior Developer
15 52 (3.71%) Lead Developer
16 51 (3.64%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.06%) React
2 84 (6.00%) Node.js
3 83 (5.92%) RESTful
4 63 (4.50%) Django
5 62 (4.43%) Kafka
6 61 (4.35%) .NET
7 53 (3.78%) PySpark
7 53 (3.78%) REST
8 52 (3.71%) SOAP
9 46 (3.28%) JSON
10 44 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
11 43 (3.07%) Vue
12 42 (3.00%) PyTorch
12 42 (3.00%) XML
13 40 (2.86%) Pandas
13 40 (2.86%) TensorFlow
14 39 (2.78%) Flask
15 36 (2.57%) HTML
16 34 (2.43%) AngularJS
16 34 (2.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (4.93%) Algorithms
5 63 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 54 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 47 (3.35%) Data Structures
8 46 (3.28%) Low-Code
9 38 (2.71%) Equities
9 38 (2.71%) Fixed Income
10 37 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 36 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 36 (2.57%) Management Information System
12 30 (2.14%) Data Centre
13 29 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.93%) Hedge funds
15 25 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.64%) Derivative
17 22 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 205 (14.63%) Linux
2 83 (5.92%) Windows
3 80 (5.71%) Unix
4 24 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.64%) Debian
7 9 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.50%) VMS
9 5 (0.36%) Solaris
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Android
11 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.071%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 449 (32.05%) Agile
3 447 (31.91%) DevOps
4 349 (24.91%) AI
5 335 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (21.13%) Software Engineering
7 276 (19.70%) Analytics
8 247 (17.63%) Mentoring
9 242 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 215 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 205 (14.63%) Data Modelling
12 203 (14.49%) Coaching
13 202 (14.42%) Data Engineering
14 198 (14.13%) Machine Learning
15 194 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
16 190 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
17 188 (13.42%) Data Science
18 171 (12.21%) Containerisation
19 167 (11.92%) Asset Management
20 166 (11.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 499 (35.62%) SQL
2 284 (20.27%) Java
3 244 (17.42%) JavaScript
4 166 (11.85%) Bash
5 153 (10.92%) PowerShell
6 141 (10.06%) TypeScript
7 104 (7.42%) C#
8 97 (6.92%) Go
9 65 (4.64%) C++
10 52 (3.71%) Scala
11 50 (3.57%) R
12 47 (3.35%) C
13 44 (3.14%) Shell Script
14 40 (2.86%) PL/SQL
15 33 (2.36%) Bicep
16 19 (1.36%) PHP
17 18 (1.28%) T-SQL
18 14 (1.00%) MATLAB
18 14 (1.00%) Perl
19 13 (0.93%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 259 (18.49%) Degree
2 155 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 124 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 96 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.71%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.28%) PhD
14 16 (1.14%) CEH
15 15 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (1.00%) ACCA
16 14 (1.00%) CIMA
16 14 (1.00%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.93%) CISSP
18 12 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.85%) QA
3 48 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.36%) GDPR
5 28 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.57%) NIST
6 22 (1.57%) SLA
7 18 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.79%) ISO 22301
10 9 (0.64%) GRC
11 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) ECSS
13 2 (0.14%) EMIR
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.071%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.071%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.071%) SEPA
System Software
1 234 (16.70%) Docker
2 42 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.57%) Firmware
7 6 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.21%) NFS
9 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Ceph
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.071%) HDFS
11 1 (0.071%) KVM
11 1 (0.071%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 319 (22.77%) Terraform
2 238 (16.99%) Kubernetes
3 130 (9.28%) Ansible
4 69 (4.93%) Grafana
5 62 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (2.78%) Argo
8 20 (1.43%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.43%) Control-M
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Cilium
12 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.29%) logstash
12 4 (0.29%) QRadar
13 3 (0.21%) FTK
13 3 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 187 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 113 (8.07%) Databricks
3 86 (6.14%) Oracle
4 70 (5.00%) Google
5 40 (2.86%) VMware
6 39 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 33 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.93%) Cisco
8 27 (1.93%) IBM
9 26 (1.86%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.43%) Okta
11 19 (1.36%) Commvault
12 17 (1.21%) SAP
12 17 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.14%) Talend
14 15 (1.07%) Arista
14 15 (1.07%) Aruba
14 15 (1.07%) NetScout
15 14 (1.00%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.93%) Workday