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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,443 2,364 3,220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.86% 15.21% 11.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.35% 34.00% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,579 2,640
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,875 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.12%

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 4,461 6,953 12,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.38% 44.74% 45.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,276 4,425 10,914
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 17 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 91 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 43 (2.98%) Apache
4 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.25%) Confluence
5 18 (1.25%) SAS
6 17 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 16 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 12 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (0.49%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.35%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 44 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.35%) Simulink
5 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.069%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.35%) Shopify
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.069%) Actimize
6 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 587 (40.68%) AWS
2 582 (40.33%) Azure
3 201 (13.93%) GCP
4 200 (13.86%) GitHub
5 186 (12.89%) Power Platform
6 154 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (8.80%) Serverless
8 96 (6.65%) SaaS
9 95 (6.58%) Amazon S3
10 88 (6.10%) Snowflake
11 87 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (5.68%) dbt
13 80 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
13 80 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 61 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 57 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 53 (3.67%) OCI
18 50 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 46 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.27%) Broadband
2 57 (3.95%) Firewall
3 38 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 35 (2.43%) VPN
5 29 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.80%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.39%) BGP
7 20 (1.39%) VLAN
8 17 (1.18%) NGFW
9 16 (1.11%) LAN
9 16 (1.11%) WAN
10 15 (1.04%) MPLS
10 15 (1.04%) VXLAN
11 14 (0.97%) DNS
11 14 (0.97%) Network Security
12 13 (0.90%) SSL
13 12 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.76%) 4G
14 11 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.76%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (11.37%) Power BI
2 101 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (6.51%) Tableau
4 90 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
5 89 (6.17%) SQL Server
6 71 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 60 (4.16%) Data Lake
8 57 (3.95%) Metadata
9 54 (3.74%) Relational Database
10 48 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 45 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (2.98%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (2.36%) MySQL
16 32 (2.22%) MongoDB
17 31 (2.15%) Delta Lake
18 25 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
19 24 (1.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 115 (7.97%) Git
2 88 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.95%) JIRA
4 44 (3.05%) GitLab
5 35 (2.43%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (1.46%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.18%) MLflow
9 11 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.76%) ER Studio
9 11 (0.76%) ERwin
10 10 (0.69%) JUnit
11 6 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.35%) JMeter
12 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.35%) Postman
12 5 (0.35%) Subversion
13 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 450 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 396 (27.44%) Finance
3 225 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 90 (6.24%) Banking
7 69 (4.78%) Front Office
8 63 (4.37%) Law
9 49 (3.40%) Retail
10 45 (3.12%) Marketing
11 40 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.15%) Legal
13 27 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.87%) Publishing
14 25 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.66%) Investment Banking
16 23 (1.59%) Tech for Good
17 20 (1.39%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.39%) Health Technology
18 18 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 307 (21.28%) Senior
2 296 (20.51%) Developer
3 187 (12.96%) Data Engineer
4 186 (12.89%) Lead
5 143 (9.91%) Software Engineer
6 128 (8.87%) Python Developer
7 122 (8.45%) Python Engineer
8 100 (6.93%) Analyst
9 93 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (4.64%) Lead Developer
11 62 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 61 (4.23%) Architect
13 59 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
14 58 (4.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 54 (3.74%) Applications Engineer
16 51 (3.53%) React Developer
17 50 (3.47%) AWS Developer
18 49 (3.40%) Data Analyst
18 49 (3.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (10.95%) React
2 99 (6.86%) Node.js
3 78 (5.41%) Kafka
3 78 (5.41%) RESTful
4 66 (4.57%) Django
5 65 (4.50%) .NET
6 53 (3.67%) PySpark
7 52 (3.60%) REST
8 51 (3.53%) JSON
8 51 (3.53%) SOAP
9 48 (3.33%) Vue
10 45 (3.12%) PyTorch
10 45 (3.12%) TensorFlow
11 43 (2.98%) XML
12 40 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
13 39 (2.70%) Flask
14 38 (2.63%) AngularJS
15 36 (2.49%) gRPC
15 36 (2.49%) HTML
16 34 (2.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.66%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.24%) Product Ownership
3 73 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 65 (4.50%) Algorithms
6 54 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 54 (3.74%) Onboarding
7 49 (3.40%) Fixed Income
7 49 (3.40%) Low-Code
8 38 (2.63%) Equities
9 36 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (2.15%) Management Information System
11 31 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
13 29 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (1.52%) Hedge funds
15 22 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 198 (13.72%) Linux
2 82 (5.68%) Unix
3 76 (5.27%) Windows
4 26 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.62%) Debian
8 7 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.35%) VMS
10 4 (0.28%) Android
10 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 4 (0.28%) Solaris
11 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.069%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (37.14%) CI/CD
2 459 (31.81%) Agile
3 450 (31.19%) DevOps
4 354 (24.53%) AI
5 341 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
6 321 (22.25%) Software Engineering
7 280 (19.40%) Analytics
8 258 (17.88%) Mentoring
9 243 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 225 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 215 (14.90%) Data Modelling
12 210 (14.55%) Machine Learning
13 208 (14.41%) Coaching
13 208 (14.41%) Data Engineering
13 208 (14.41%) Data Science
14 204 (14.14%) Data Pipeline
15 192 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
16 190 (13.17%) Containerisation
17 170 (11.78%) Test Automation
18 157 (10.88%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 495 (34.30%) SQL
2 306 (21.21%) Java
3 259 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 157 (10.88%) Bash
5 150 (10.40%) PowerShell
6 145 (10.05%) TypeScript
7 124 (8.59%) Go
8 101 (7.00%) C#
9 67 (4.64%) C++
10 64 (4.44%) Scala
11 56 (3.88%) R
12 46 (3.19%) C
13 43 (2.98%) Shell Script
14 38 (2.63%) PL/SQL
15 29 (2.01%) Bicep
16 21 (1.46%) T-SQL
17 18 (1.25%) PHP
18 17 (1.18%) Apex Code
19 13 (0.90%) VBA
20 12 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 273 (18.92%) Degree
2 165 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 133 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.10%) AWS Certification
5 84 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 21 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 17 (1.18%) CEH
12 17 (1.18%) PhD
13 14 (0.97%) ACCA
13 14 (0.97%) CIMA
14 13 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.69%) CISSP
16 10 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.68%) QA
3 50 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.87%) GDPR
5 24 (1.66%) NIST
6 21 (1.46%) SLA
7 19 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.83%) ISO 22301
10 10 (0.69%) GRC
11 4 (0.28%) 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 (0.069%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.069%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.069%) SEPA
System Software
1 247 (17.12%) Docker
2 44 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.55%) Firmware
7 6 (0.42%) vSphere
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.14%) Ceph
11 2 (0.14%) KVM
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NFS
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.069%) HDFS
12 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 318 (22.04%) Terraform
2 233 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 127 (8.80%) Ansible
4 72 (4.99%) Grafana
5 64 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.63%) Argo
8 20 (1.39%) Kustomize
9 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.42%) Control-M
10 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.35%) FTK
11 5 (0.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.28%) Cilium
12 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.28%) logstash
12 4 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 196 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 113 (7.83%) Databricks
3 86 (5.96%) Oracle
4 77 (5.34%) Google
5 45 (3.12%) VMware
6 38 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.43%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.08%) Cisco
9 27 (1.87%) MuleSoft
10 26 (1.80%) IBM
11 20 (1.39%) Commvault
12 19 (1.32%) Okta
13 18 (1.25%) Typelevel
14 17 (1.18%) Talend
15 16 (1.11%) SAP
16 15 (1.04%) Arista
16 15 (1.04%) Aruba
16 15 (1.04%) NetScout
16 15 (1.04%) OpenAI
16 15 (1.04%) ServiceNow