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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,779 2,801 2,991
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.11% 14.04% 13.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.34% 33.69% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 1,995 2,386
10th Percentile £44,000 £46,713 £44,632
25th Percentile £55,313 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 4,640 8,314 10,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.97% 41.67% 47.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,287 5,286 8,758
10th Percentile £34,900 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

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 7 November 2025.

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
1 150 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (5.45%) Apache
3 36 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.24%) Confluence
5 18 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 16 (0.90%) WebSphere
7 16 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.73%) Apache Solr
9 9 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.51%) CMS
9 9 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.28%) SAS
11 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.17%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.11%) Luigi
12 2 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 68 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.62%) Blender
4 6 (0.34%) Simulink
5 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Civil 3D
5 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
5 3 (0.17%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.17%) Revit
5 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.11%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.11%) Weka
7 1 (0.056%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.056%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.56%) Shopify
3 8 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
4 7 (0.39%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.17%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.056%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.056%) FastStats
7 1 (0.056%) Magento
7 1 (0.056%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 678 (38.11%) AWS
2 583 (32.77%) Azure
3 269 (15.12%) GCP
4 173 (9.72%) Power Platform
5 150 (8.43%) dbt
6 139 (7.81%) GitHub
6 139 (7.81%) Snowflake
7 135 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (6.91%) Serverless
9 92 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (3.54%) SaaS
13 60 (3.37%) Amazon S3
14 44 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
15 43 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 42 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 41 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
18 40 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
19 39 (2.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 299 (16.81%) VPN
2 268 (15.06%) Cisco IOS
3 53 (2.98%) Firewall
4 46 (2.59%) WAN
5 34 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.52%) DNS
6 27 (1.52%) LAN
7 26 (1.46%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.12%) Broadband
8 20 (1.12%) SSL
9 18 (1.01%) BGP
10 17 (0.96%) Network Security
11 15 (0.84%) 5G
12 14 (0.79%) OSPF
13 13 (0.73%) Wireshark
14 12 (0.67%) VLAN
15 11 (0.62%) DHCP
15 11 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.62%) Wireless
16 8 (0.45%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (9.11%) Power BI
2 139 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (6.91%) Apache Iceberg
5 122 (6.86%) Amazon Athena
6 118 (6.63%) Apache Arrow
6 118 (6.63%) Dremio
7 105 (5.90%) Data Lake
8 78 (4.38%) Tableau
9 69 (3.88%) NoSQL
10 65 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
11 61 (3.43%) SQL Server
12 56 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
13 42 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (2.30%) DynamoDB
14 41 (2.30%) MySQL
15 38 (2.14%) Relational Database
16 35 (1.97%) MongoDB
17 32 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (1.07%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 119 (6.69%) Git
2 92 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.09%) JIRA
4 43 (2.42%) GitLab
5 22 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (1.07%) Selenium
7 11 (0.62%) ER Studio
7 11 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.56%) JUnit
9 8 (0.45%) ERwin
9 8 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.39%) MLflow
10 7 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.28%) Appium
11 5 (0.28%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 489 (27.49%) Finance
2 427 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 396 (22.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 365 (20.52%) Social Skills
5 185 (10.40%) Front Office
6 143 (8.04%) Banking
7 81 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 66 (3.71%) Marketing
9 59 (3.32%) Public Sector
10 53 (2.98%) Retail
11 47 (2.64%) Law
12 31 (1.74%) Tech for Good
13 27 (1.52%) Health Technology
14 25 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.35%) Legal
15 24 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.29%) Electronics
17 22 (1.24%) Publishing
18 17 (0.96%) Local Government
18 17 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 430 (24.17%) Senior
2 309 (17.37%) Developer
3 286 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 270 (15.18%) Software Engineer
5 174 (9.78%) Python Engineer
6 156 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
7 150 (8.43%) Python Developer
8 141 (7.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 133 (7.48%) Data Engineer
10 130 (7.31%) Analyst
10 130 (7.31%) Python Software Engineer
11 125 (7.03%) Lead
12 118 (6.63%) AWS Software Engineer
13 86 (4.83%) Senior Developer
14 83 (4.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 79 (4.44%) AWS Developer
15 79 (4.44%) Java Engineer
16 77 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
17 75 (4.22%) Architect
18 72 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (16.08%) Elastic Stack
2 182 (10.23%) React
3 181 (10.17%) Node.js
4 149 (8.38%) Pandas
5 132 (7.42%) NumPy
6 118 (6.63%) SciPy
7 111 (6.24%) .NET
8 86 (4.83%) Vue
9 76 (4.27%) AngularJS
10 75 (4.22%) HTML
11 74 (4.16%) RESTful
12 73 (4.10%) gRPC
13 65 (3.65%) Protocol Buffers
14 58 (3.26%) REST
15 57 (3.20%) Django
15 57 (3.20%) Kafka
16 51 (2.87%) Flask
17 41 (2.30%) FastAPI
18 38 (2.14%) PySpark
18 38 (2.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 327 (18.38%) Cyberattack
2 161 (9.05%) Fixed Income
3 138 (7.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 136 (7.64%) Equities
5 115 (6.46%) Cloud Native
6 94 (5.28%) Hedge funds
6 94 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
7 87 (4.89%) Derivative
8 85 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
9 70 (3.93%) Management Information System
10 65 (3.65%) Pricing Data
10 65 (3.65%) Product Ownership
11 60 (3.37%) Algorithms
12 57 (3.20%) Onboarding
13 43 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
15 33 (1.85%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.35%) Public Cloud
17 22 (1.24%) IoT
18 20 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 529 (29.74%) Linux
2 364 (20.46%) Windows
3 266 (14.95%) Android
4 75 (4.22%) Unix
5 35 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.45%) Debian
6 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.45%) Solaris
7 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.39%) VMS
8 3 (0.17%) CentOS
9 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.056%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (36.93%) DevOps
2 598 (33.61%) Agile
3 563 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
4 404 (22.71%) CI/CD
5 388 (21.81%) Software Engineering
6 335 (18.83%) Risk Management
7 330 (18.55%) AI
8 325 (18.27%) Platform Engineering
9 322 (18.10%) Mathematics
10 316 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 308 (17.31%) Task Automation
12 276 (15.51%) Line Management
12 276 (15.51%) Machine Learning
13 269 (15.12%) Storage Management
14 268 (15.06%) Analytics
15 252 (14.17%) Mentoring
16 235 (13.21%) Asset Management
17 202 (11.35%) Data Engineering
18 191 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
19 189 (10.62%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 552 (31.03%) SQL
2 424 (23.83%) JavaScript
3 412 (23.16%) Bash
4 401 (22.54%) PowerShell
5 380 (21.36%) Java
6 274 (15.40%) TypeScript
7 175 (9.84%) C++
8 156 (8.77%) C#
9 125 (7.03%) Go
10 119 (6.69%) R
11 113 (6.35%) Rust
12 88 (4.95%) C
13 82 (4.61%) MATLAB
14 78 (4.38%) PHP
15 55 (3.09%) Ruby
16 49 (2.75%) Dart
17 31 (1.74%) Bicep
18 30 (1.69%) Shell Script
19 26 (1.46%) PL/SQL
19 26 (1.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 274 (15.40%) Degree
2 194 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 155 (8.71%) AWS Certification
4 108 (6.07%) SC Cleared
5 98 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 87 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 83 (4.67%) DV Cleared
8 65 (3.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 54 (3.04%) Azure Certification
10 33 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 31 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
14 20 (1.12%) PhD
15 18 (1.01%) CISSP
16 15 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.51%) CISA
19 7 (0.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.99%) QA
2 63 (3.54%) GDPR
3 53 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.52%) SLA
6 22 (1.24%) NIST
7 18 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.22%) GRC
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.11%) ECSS
15 1 (0.056%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.056%) SEPA
System Software
1 470 (26.42%) Docker
2 271 (15.23%) vSphere
3 270 (15.18%) Hyper-V
4 266 (14.95%) VMware NSX
5 39 (2.19%) Active Directory
6 22 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (0.73%) Firmware
8 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.51%) NFS
11 5 (0.28%) Lustre
12 3 (0.17%) GPFS
12 3 (0.17%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 1 (0.056%) Corosync
14 1 (0.056%) HDFS
14 1 (0.056%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.056%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 511 (28.72%) Terraform
2 405 (22.77%) Ansible
3 206 (11.58%) Kubernetes
4 55 (3.09%) Grafana
5 34 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.67%) Argo
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.28%) Puppet
8 5 (0.28%) SCCM
8 5 (0.28%) SCOM
8 5 (0.28%) WSUS
9 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.22%) Kibana
9 4 (0.22%) Nmap
9 4 (0.22%) QRadar
10 3 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 294 (16.53%) Cisco
2 272 (15.29%) Splunk
3 266 (14.95%) Juniper
4 262 (14.73%) 3PAR
5 185 (10.40%) Microsoft
6 114 (6.41%) Databricks
7 75 (4.22%) Oracle
8 70 (3.93%) Google
9 52 (2.92%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.69%) VMware
11 23 (1.29%) IBM
12 22 (1.24%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.07%) SAP
14 18 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.01%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.90%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.90%) Workday
16 13 (0.73%) Talend
17 12 (0.67%) Aruba
17 12 (0.67%) Okta