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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,499 2,085 3,497
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.30% 15.45% 10.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.35% 37.02% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,560 2,857
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,789 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,782 5,632 13,332
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.48% 41.74% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,506 4,477 11,435
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
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 26 April 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 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.27%) Apache
4 17 (1.13%) SAS
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.33%) Confluence
7 5 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) SPSS
6 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) Notion
6 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.067%) Actimize
5 1 (0.067%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.067%) Shopify
5 1 (0.067%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 616 (41.09%) AWS
2 543 (36.22%) Azure
3 243 (16.21%) GCP
4 174 (11.61%) GitHub
5 160 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 127 (8.47%) Serverless
7 111 (7.40%) SaaS
8 106 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 99 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 56 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
14 54 (3.60%) Snowflake
15 51 (3.40%) dbt
16 49 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
18 42 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
19 39 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.41%) Broadband
2 71 (4.74%) Firewall
3 39 (2.60%) VPN
4 26 (1.73%) VLAN
4 26 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (1.60%) LAN
5 24 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.47%) WAN
7 20 (1.33%) DNS
8 19 (1.27%) BGP
8 19 (1.27%) Wireshark
9 17 (1.13%) NGFW
10 16 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (1.00%) MPLS
11 15 (1.00%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.93%) Network Security
13 12 (0.80%) 4G
13 12 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.87%) Power BI
2 110 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (6.14%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.60%) Tableau
5 68 (4.54%) NoSQL
6 66 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (4.20%) Relational Database
8 58 (3.87%) Metadata
9 50 (3.34%) Data Lake
10 45 (3.00%) MongoDB
11 44 (2.94%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
14 30 (2.00%) Delta Lake
14 30 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (1.73%) MySQL
16 23 (1.53%) Redis
17 21 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
18 19 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 133 (8.87%) Git
2 63 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.54%) GitLab
4 34 (2.27%) JIRA
5 19 (1.27%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 16 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.07%) Selenium
7 15 (1.00%) MLflow
8 12 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.53%) JMeter
9 8 (0.53%) JUnit
10 7 (0.47%) Locust
10 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
12 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.33%) Subversion
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 449 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 343 (22.88%) Finance
3 231 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 90 (6.00%) Banking
7 65 (4.34%) Law
8 61 (4.07%) Retail
9 55 (3.67%) Front Office
10 48 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.54%) Marketing
12 35 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.13%) Legal
14 25 (1.67%) Publishing
15 24 (1.60%) Games
16 19 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.27%) Health Technology
17 18 (1.20%) Tech for Good
18 17 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 16 (1.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 326 (21.75%) Senior
2 312 (20.81%) Developer
3 239 (15.94%) Lead
4 198 (13.21%) Data Engineer
5 168 (11.21%) Software Engineer
6 141 (9.41%) Python Engineer
7 122 (8.14%) Python Developer
8 80 (5.34%) Analyst
9 77 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.74%) Lead Developer
11 60 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
12 59 (3.94%) Senior Developer
13 58 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
14 56 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 55 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
16 52 (3.47%) React Developer
17 51 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
18 49 (3.27%) Software Developer
19 48 (3.20%) Data Scientist
20 42 (2.80%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (11.27%) React
2 107 (7.14%) Kafka
3 98 (6.54%) Node.js
4 72 (4.80%) .NET
5 68 (4.54%) PySpark
6 67 (4.47%) Django
6 67 (4.47%) REST
7 58 (3.87%) PyTorch
8 53 (3.54%) RESTful
9 52 (3.47%) gRPC
10 50 (3.34%) TensorFlow
11 42 (2.80%) FastAPI
11 42 (2.80%) JSON
12 40 (2.67%) Vue
13 38 (2.54%) Flask
14 37 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
15 33 (2.20%) Redux
16 31 (2.07%) AngularJS
16 31 (2.07%) HTML
17 30 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 111 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.40%) Video\Live Streaming
5 64 (4.27%) Algorithms
6 62 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 50 (3.34%) Low-Code
7 50 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 50 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
8 39 (2.60%) Fixed Income
8 39 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.80%) Data Centre
13 26 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.60%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.60%) Equities
15 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (11.47%) Linux
2 56 (3.74%) Windows
3 49 (3.27%) Unix
4 27 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.40%) Android
7 6 (0.40%) Debian
8 3 (0.20%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.067%) AIX
10 1 (0.067%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.067%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.067%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (36.29%) CI/CD
2 413 (27.55%) Agile
3 404 (26.95%) Software Engineering
4 389 (25.95%) DevOps
5 367 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
6 358 (23.88%) AI
7 290 (19.35%) Mentoring
8 257 (17.14%) Analytics
9 254 (16.94%) Machine Learning
10 235 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 230 (15.34%) Containerisation
11 230 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 230 (15.34%) Data Science
12 222 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
13 216 (14.41%) Data Modelling
14 202 (13.48%) Data Engineering
15 183 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
16 172 (11.47%) Full-Stack Development
17 171 (11.41%) Test Automation
18 170 (11.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 449 (29.95%) SQL
2 315 (21.01%) Java
3 236 (15.74%) JavaScript
4 182 (12.14%) Go
5 154 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 139 (9.27%) Bash
7 138 (9.21%) PowerShell
8 126 (8.41%) C#
9 93 (6.20%) Scala
10 61 (4.07%) C++
11 43 (2.87%) R
12 30 (2.00%) C
12 30 (2.00%) PHP
13 22 (1.47%) Apex Code
13 22 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.33%) Shell Script
15 19 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 17 (1.13%) Bicep
16 17 (1.13%) VBA
17 12 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 257 (17.14%) Degree
2 126 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 50 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 17 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.07%) PhD
12 15 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.93%) CEH
13 14 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.87%) ACCA
14 13 (0.87%) CIMA
15 11 (0.73%) CREST Certified
15 11 (0.73%) OSCP
16 9 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.27%) QA
3 46 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.73%) NIST
6 16 (1.07%) GDPR
7 14 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.80%) ISO 22301
9 10 (0.67%) SLA
9 10 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.47%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) PMO
11 5 (0.33%) WCAG
12 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.20%) EMIR
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.13%) ECSS
System Software
1 282 (18.81%) Docker
2 44 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.67%) Firmware
6 6 (0.40%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.20%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.13%) KVM
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 287 (19.15%) Terraform
2 247 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 115 (7.67%) Ansible
4 87 (5.80%) Grafana
5 67 (4.47%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.74%) Argo
7 23 (1.53%) Kustomize
8 21 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.80%) Istio
10 9 (0.60%) Packer
11 8 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.40%) Puppet
13 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.33%) FTK
13 5 (0.33%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.33%) SCCM
14 4 (0.27%) Control-M
14 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 223 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 120 (8.01%) Databricks
3 71 (4.74%) Google
4 55 (3.67%) Oracle
5 53 (3.54%) VMware
6 49 (3.27%) Cisco
7 45 (3.00%) Typelevel
8 39 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 32 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.53%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.33%) Commvault
11 20 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.20%) Foundry
12 18 (1.20%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.00%) Arista
14 15 (1.00%) Aruba
14 15 (1.00%) NetScout
14 15 (1.00%) SAP
15 14 (0.93%) Splunk