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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,334 2,460 2,609
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.77% 14.38% 12.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.30% 33.70% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,698 2,111
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,063
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 4,130 7,300 9,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 42.68% 46.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,141 4,647 8,000
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,403 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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 29 December 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
1 112 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.87%) Apache
3 37 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.57%) Confluence
5 18 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.20%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.75%) Apache Solr
9 10 (0.75%) SAS
10 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.37%) CMS
11 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.22%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 53 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.075%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.075%) Blender
6 1 (0.075%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) Notion
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.92%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) Shopify
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.075%) Actimize
7 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 536 (40.18%) Azure
2 535 (40.10%) AWS
3 197 (14.77%) GitHub
4 177 (13.27%) Power Platform
5 168 (12.59%) GCP
6 157 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (9.37%) Serverless
8 119 (8.92%) Snowflake
9 113 (8.47%) dbt
10 85 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
10 85 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
11 79 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 75 (5.62%) SaaS
13 68 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 58 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 50 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 49 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (3.30%) Entra ID
17 44 (3.30%) OCI
18 42 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.15%) Firewall
2 36 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 29 (2.17%) VPN
4 27 (2.02%) WAN
5 23 (1.72%) Broadband
5 23 (1.72%) LAN
6 17 (1.27%) SSL
7 16 (1.20%) DNS
8 13 (0.97%) BGP
8 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.90%) Network Security
9 12 (0.90%) Wireshark
10 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 9 (0.67%) VLAN
10 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.60%) SAN
11 8 (0.60%) Wireless
12 7 (0.52%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.52%) Internet
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.44%) Power BI
2 111 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (6.75%) Data Lake
5 84 (6.30%) Tableau
6 79 (5.92%) Apache Iceberg
7 76 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
8 73 (5.47%) NoSQL
9 69 (5.17%) SQL Server
10 66 (4.95%) Apache Arrow
10 66 (4.95%) Dremio
11 48 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (3.37%) Relational Database
13 40 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (2.77%) Apache Ignite
15 36 (2.70%) Metadata
16 33 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (2.32%) MySQL
18 29 (2.17%) DynamoDB
18 29 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 119 (8.92%) Git
2 101 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.42%) JIRA
4 37 (2.77%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.70%) GitLab
6 22 (1.65%) Selenium
7 12 (0.90%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.90%) ERwin
8 11 (0.82%) JUnit
8 11 (0.82%) MLflow
9 10 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.37%) JMeter
14 4 (0.30%) Postman
14 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 432 (32.38%) Finance
2 396 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 172 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.32%) Banking
5 107 (8.02%) Front Office
6 60 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 55 (4.12%) Marketing
9 53 (3.97%) Investment Banking
10 51 (3.82%) Law
11 44 (3.30%) Retail
12 32 (2.40%) Publishing
12 32 (2.40%) Tech for Good
13 30 (2.25%) Health Technology
14 28 (2.10%) Telecoms
15 27 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.80%) Legal
18 20 (1.50%) Electronics
19 17 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 313 (23.46%) Senior
2 269 (20.16%) Developer
3 159 (11.92%) Data Engineer
4 152 (11.39%) Software Engineer
5 138 (10.34%) Python Engineer
6 132 (9.90%) Python Developer
7 125 (9.37%) Lead
8 101 (7.57%) Analyst
9 98 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
10 87 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
11 83 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 72 (5.40%) Architect
13 66 (4.95%) AWS Software Engineer
14 65 (4.87%) AWS Developer
15 57 (4.27%) Applications Engineer
16 56 (4.20%) Senior Developer
17 55 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
19 50 (3.75%) Lead Developer
19 50 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (10.87%) React
2 92 (6.90%) Node.js
3 91 (6.82%) RESTful
4 89 (6.67%) Pandas
5 76 (5.70%) NumPy
6 66 (4.95%) SciPy
7 63 (4.72%) Django
8 60 (4.50%) Kafka
9 58 (4.35%) Vue
10 54 (4.05%) .NET
11 48 (3.60%) AngularJS
11 48 (3.60%) gRPC
11 48 (3.60%) SOAP
12 47 (3.52%) PySpark
12 47 (3.52%) REST
13 44 (3.30%) Flask
14 43 (3.22%) JSON
14 43 (3.22%) XML
15 37 (2.77%) FastAPI
15 37 (2.77%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 80 (6.00%) Fixed Income
4 73 (5.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 72 (5.40%) Equities
6 68 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (4.50%) Algorithms
8 50 (3.75%) Hedge funds
9 48 (3.60%) Management Information System
9 48 (3.60%) Onboarding
10 46 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
11 45 (3.37%) Derivative
12 37 (2.77%) Data Structures
12 37 (2.77%) Pricing Data
13 34 (2.55%) Low-Code
14 33 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
17 19 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (14.84%) Linux
2 90 (6.75%) Windows
3 77 (5.77%) Unix
4 32 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.60%) Debian
7 8 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.60%) Solaris
8 7 (0.52%) VMS
9 5 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.075%) Android
11 1 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.075%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (36.28%) Agile
2 463 (34.71%) CI/CD
3 433 (32.46%) DevOps
4 324 (24.29%) AI
5 296 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
6 294 (22.04%) Software Engineering
7 274 (20.54%) Analytics
8 216 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (15.44%) Mentoring
10 205 (15.37%) Asset Management
11 192 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
12 183 (13.72%) Data Modelling
13 182 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 178 (13.34%) Data Pipeline
14 178 (13.34%) Machine Learning
15 175 (13.12%) Data Science
16 174 (13.04%) Data Engineering
17 171 (12.82%) Coaching
18 158 (11.84%) Test Automation
19 157 (11.77%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 506 (37.93%) SQL
2 272 (20.39%) Java
3 257 (19.27%) JavaScript
4 172 (12.89%) TypeScript
5 147 (11.02%) Bash
6 140 (10.49%) PowerShell
7 102 (7.65%) C#
8 71 (5.32%) Go
9 55 (4.12%) C++
9 55 (4.12%) R
10 45 (3.37%) PL/SQL
10 45 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 41 (3.07%) Scala
12 40 (3.00%) C
13 35 (2.62%) Bicep
14 19 (1.42%) PHP
15 18 (1.35%) Perl
16 15 (1.12%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.05%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 233 (17.47%) Degree
2 137 (10.27%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 84 (6.30%) AWS Certification
5 72 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.40%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.42%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.35%) PhD
14 17 (1.27%) CISSP
14 17 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.97%) CEH
16 13 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.82%) ACCA
17 11 (0.82%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.92%) QA
3 43 (3.22%) GDPR
4 37 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.87%) SLA
7 21 (1.57%) NIST
8 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.67%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
11 4 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
12 2 (0.15%) EMIR
13 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.075%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.075%) SEPA
System Software
1 206 (15.44%) Docker
2 36 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.60%) Firmware
5 8 (0.60%) vSphere
6 6 (0.45%) NFS
7 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Ceph
9 2 (0.15%) Lustre
10 1 (0.075%) HDFS
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.075%) vCloud
10 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 278 (20.84%) Terraform
2 221 (16.57%) Kubernetes
3 116 (8.70%) Ansible
4 61 (4.57%) Grafana
5 45 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.80%) Argo
8 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (0.60%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.45%) Control-M
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.22%) Nmap
12 3 (0.22%) Puppet
12 3 (0.22%) QRadar
13 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 182 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 116 (8.70%) Databricks
3 88 (6.60%) Oracle
4 60 (4.50%) Google
5 51 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.70%) VMware
7 27 (2.02%) IBM
8 25 (1.87%) Cisco
9 24 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.57%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.50%) Okta
12 19 (1.42%) Talend
13 18 (1.35%) Commvault
13 18 (1.35%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.27%) SAP
15 13 (0.97%) Workday
16 11 (0.82%) Informatica
17 10 (0.75%) Dell
17 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.75%) Splunk
5,148 hybrid/remote Python jobs