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

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,335 2,473 2,591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.81% 14.45% 12.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.24% 33.82% 27.58%
Number of salaries quoted 935 1,710 2,094
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 £92,750 £95,000 £95,953
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £118,750
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 4,141 7,313 9,395
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.34% 42.72% 46.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,136 4,662 7,947
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,779 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

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 31 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 (8.39%) 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 52 (3.90%) 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
1 537 (40.22%) Azure
2 534 (40.00%) AWS
3 197 (14.76%) GitHub
4 178 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 167 (12.51%) GCP
6 158 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (9.66%) Serverless
8 118 (8.84%) Snowflake
9 113 (8.46%) dbt
10 87 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (6.07%) Amazon S3
13 73 (5.47%) SaaS
14 68 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 58 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (3.30%) Entra ID
19 43 (3.22%) OCI
20 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 24 (1.80%) Broadband
6 23 (1.72%) LAN
7 17 (1.27%) SSL
8 16 (1.20%) DNS
9 13 (0.97%) BGP
9 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.90%) Network Security
10 12 (0.90%) Wireshark
11 9 (0.67%) OSPF
11 9 (0.67%) VLAN
11 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.60%) SAN
12 8 (0.60%) Wireless
13 7 (0.52%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.52%) Internet
14 6 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.43%) Power BI
2 110 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (6.82%) Data Lake
5 84 (6.29%) Tableau
6 79 (5.92%) Apache Iceberg
7 76 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
8 72 (5.39%) NoSQL
9 69 (5.17%) SQL Server
10 66 (4.94%) Apache Arrow
10 66 (4.94%) Dremio
11 49 (3.67%) 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%) BigQuery
18 29 (2.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (8.84%) Git
2 100 (7.49%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.42%) JIRA
4 37 (2.77%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.62%) GitLab
6 21 (1.57%) 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 7 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.52%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
13 4 (0.30%) Postman
13 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 431 (32.28%) Finance
2 397 (29.74%) Social Skills
3 172 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.24%) Banking
5 106 (7.94%) Front Office
6 61 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (4.27%) Public Sector
8 55 (4.12%) Marketing
9 53 (3.97%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.90%) Law
11 44 (3.30%) Retail
12 32 (2.40%) Publishing
12 32 (2.40%) Tech for Good
13 29 (2.17%) Health Technology
14 28 (2.10%) Telecoms
15 27 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.87%) Legal
18 20 (1.50%) Electronics
19 17 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 311 (23.30%) Senior
2 275 (20.60%) Developer
3 160 (11.99%) Data Engineer
4 152 (11.39%) Software Engineer
5 138 (10.34%) Python Engineer
6 136 (10.19%) Python Developer
7 125 (9.36%) Lead
8 99 (7.42%) Analyst
9 98 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
10 87 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
11 82 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 73 (5.47%) Architect
13 67 (5.02%) AWS Developer
14 66 (4.94%) AWS Software Engineer
15 57 (4.27%) Applications Engineer
16 56 (4.19%) Senior Developer
17 54 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
19 51 (3.82%) Lead Developer
20 50 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (11.09%) React
2 94 (7.04%) Node.js
3 90 (6.74%) RESTful
4 89 (6.67%) Pandas
5 76 (5.69%) NumPy
6 66 (4.94%) SciPy
7 63 (4.72%) Django
8 59 (4.42%) Kafka
9 58 (4.34%) Vue
10 55 (4.12%) .NET
11 48 (3.60%) AngularJS
11 48 (3.60%) SOAP
12 47 (3.52%) gRPC
12 47 (3.52%) PySpark
12 47 (3.52%) REST
13 43 (3.22%) Flask
13 43 (3.22%) JSON
13 43 (3.22%) XML
14 37 (2.77%) Protocol Buffers
15 36 (2.70%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 80 (5.99%) Fixed Income
4 73 (5.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 72 (5.39%) Equities
6 70 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (4.72%) Algorithms
8 50 (3.75%) Hedge funds
9 48 (3.60%) Management Information System
9 48 (3.60%) Onboarding
10 47 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (3.30%) Derivative
12 38 (2.85%) Data Structures
13 37 (2.77%) Pricing Data
14 35 (2.62%) Low-Code
15 33 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
16 27 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
17 23 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
18 19 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (14.76%) Linux
2 90 (6.74%) Windows
3 77 (5.77%) Unix
4 31 (2.32%) 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 4 (0.30%) 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
1 482 (36.10%) Agile
2 463 (34.68%) CI/CD
3 435 (32.58%) DevOps
4 321 (24.04%) AI
5 297 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (22.25%) Software Engineering
6 272 (20.37%) Analytics
7 218 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 208 (15.58%) Mentoring
9 205 (15.36%) Asset Management
10 191 (14.31%) Business Intelligence
11 186 (13.93%) Data Modelling
12 182 (13.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 181 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
14 175 (13.11%) Data Engineering
14 175 (13.11%) Data Science
14 175 (13.11%) Machine Learning
15 170 (12.73%) Coaching
16 157 (11.76%) Test Automation
17 156 (11.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 505 (37.83%) SQL
2 273 (20.45%) Java
3 263 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 174 (13.03%) TypeScript
5 145 (10.86%) Bash
6 139 (10.41%) PowerShell
7 104 (7.79%) 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 11 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 235 (17.60%) Degree
2 138 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 86 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 75 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (2.40%) Master's Degree
9 27 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.35%) PhD
13 17 (1.27%) CISSP
13 17 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.97%) CEH
15 13 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
16 11 (0.82%) ACCA
16 11 (0.82%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.84%) QA
3 42 (3.15%) 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
1 204 (15.28%) 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
1 277 (20.75%) Terraform
2 220 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 115 (8.61%) 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%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.22%) Nmap
12 3 (0.22%) Puppet
12 3 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 184 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 114 (8.54%) Databricks
3 87 (6.52%) Oracle
4 62 (4.64%) Google
5 50 (3.75%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.70%) VMware
7 27 (2.02%) IBM
8 25 (1.87%) Cisco
8 25 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.50%) Okta
11 19 (1.42%) Talend
12 18 (1.35%) Commvault
12 18 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.27%) SAP
14 13 (0.97%) Workday
15 11 (0.82%) Informatica
16 10 (0.75%) Dell
16 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.75%) Splunk
1,527 hybrid/remote Python jobs