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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,497 2,070 3,476
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.45% 15.66% 10.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.44% 36.59% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 996 1,574 2,846
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £66,875 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 4,761 5,657 13,399
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.87% 42.80% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,466 4,509 11,505
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £114,033 £97,500
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 18 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 77 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.14%) Apache
4 17 (1.14%) SAS
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.33%) Confluence
8 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 32 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) SPSS
4 2 (0.13%) Weka
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Notion
5 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Shopify
5 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.067%) Actimize
6 1 (0.067%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.067%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 629 (42.02%) AWS
2 548 (36.61%) Azure
3 251 (16.77%) GCP
4 182 (12.16%) GitHub
5 159 (10.62%) Power Platform
6 130 (8.68%) Serverless
7 114 (7.62%) SaaS
8 107 (7.15%) Amazon S3
9 103 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
11 78 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 59 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (3.74%) dbt
14 52 (3.47%) Snowflake
15 51 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 45 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 43 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 40 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.42%) Broadband
2 71 (4.74%) Firewall
3 40 (2.67%) VPN
4 32 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.87%) VLAN
6 26 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (1.54%) LAN
8 22 (1.47%) Wireshark
9 21 (1.40%) WAN
10 20 (1.34%) BGP
11 17 (1.14%) Network Security
11 17 (1.14%) NGFW
12 16 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.07%) DNS
13 15 (1.00%) MPLS
13 15 (1.00%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.73%) 4G
15 11 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.73%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.88%) Power BI
2 111 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 70 (4.68%) Tableau
6 65 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 57 (3.81%) Metadata
9 50 (3.34%) Data Lake
10 48 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (3.01%) MongoDB
12 44 (2.94%) BigQuery
13 40 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (2.00%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (1.80%) Redis
17 23 (1.54%) MySQL
18 20 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 132 (8.82%) Git
2 64 (4.28%) 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
12 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 469 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 345 (23.05%) Finance
3 232 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 92 (6.15%) Banking
7 72 (4.81%) Law
8 64 (4.28%) Retail
9 57 (3.81%) Front Office
10 48 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.54%) Marketing
12 37 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.40%) Legal
14 26 (1.74%) Publishing
15 24 (1.60%) Games
16 22 (1.47%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.27%) Health Technology
18 19 (1.27%) Tech for Good
19 16 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 319 (21.31%) Senior
2 315 (21.04%) Developer
3 235 (15.70%) Lead
4 192 (12.83%) Data Engineer
5 157 (10.49%) Software Engineer
6 134 (8.95%) Python Engineer
7 125 (8.35%) Python Developer
8 76 (5.08%) Analyst
8 76 (5.08%) Lead Developer
8 76 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 56 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 56 (3.74%) Senior Developer
12 53 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
13 52 (3.47%) React Developer
14 51 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
15 50 (3.34%) Software Developer
16 43 (2.87%) Architect
16 43 (2.87%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (11.09%) React
2 104 (6.95%) Kafka
3 95 (6.35%) Node.js
4 75 (5.01%) Django
5 71 (4.74%) REST
6 68 (4.54%) .NET
7 66 (4.41%) PySpark
8 58 (3.87%) RESTful
9 54 (3.61%) PyTorch
10 52 (3.47%) gRPC
11 46 (3.07%) TensorFlow
12 45 (3.01%) FastAPI
13 44 (2.94%) JSON
14 43 (2.87%) Vue
15 42 (2.81%) Flask
16 38 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
17 35 (2.34%) HTML
18 33 (2.20%) CSS
18 33 (2.20%) Redux
18 33 (2.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.41%) Data Structures
4 66 (4.41%) Video\Live Streaming
5 65 (4.34%) Algorithms
6 56 (3.74%) Low-Code
7 53 (3.54%) Onboarding
8 50 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
9 41 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.67%) Fixed Income
10 40 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (2.07%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.07%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 24 (1.60%) Equities
14 24 (1.60%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
16 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (12.36%) Linux
2 60 (4.01%) Unix
3 59 (3.94%) Windows
4 27 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.40%) Debian
10 3 (0.20%) CentOS
10 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
12 1 (0.067%) AIX
12 1 (0.067%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.067%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.067%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (37.34%) CI/CD
2 425 (28.39%) Agile
3 401 (26.79%) DevOps
4 393 (26.25%) Software Engineering
5 373 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
6 351 (23.45%) AI
7 289 (19.31%) Mentoring
8 252 (16.83%) Analytics
9 243 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 243 (16.23%) Machine Learning
10 242 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 238 (15.90%) Containerisation
12 221 (14.76%) Data Science
13 219 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
14 216 (14.43%) Data Modelling
15 196 (13.09%) Data Engineering
16 180 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
17 176 (11.76%) Coaching
18 174 (11.62%) Test Automation
19 168 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 452 (30.19%) SQL
2 315 (21.04%) Java
3 243 (16.23%) JavaScript
4 186 (12.42%) Go
5 147 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 142 (9.49%) Bash
6 142 (9.49%) PowerShell
7 130 (8.68%) C#
8 92 (6.15%) Scala
9 61 (4.07%) C++
10 41 (2.74%) R
11 30 (2.00%) PHP
12 29 (1.94%) C
13 23 (1.54%) Apex Code
14 22 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 18 (1.20%) Bicep
17 17 (1.14%) VBA
18 11 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 269 (17.97%) Degree
2 126 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 52 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.34%) DBS Check
9 18 (1.20%) CEH
10 17 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.14%) PhD
11 16 (1.07%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.94%) OSCP
13 13 (0.87%) ACCA
13 13 (0.87%) CIMA
14 12 (0.80%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.47%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.28%) QA
3 51 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.87%) NIST
5 27 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.20%) GDPR
8 15 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 13 (0.87%) ISO 22301
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) GRC
12 5 (0.33%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) WCAG
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.20%) EMIR
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.13%) ECSS
System Software
1 297 (19.84%) Docker
2 41 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.34%) 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%) Ceph
9 2 (0.13%) KVM
9 2 (0.13%) Lustre
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) vCloud
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 303 (20.24%) Terraform
2 254 (16.97%) Kubernetes
3 117 (7.82%) Ansible
4 87 (5.81%) Grafana
5 68 (4.54%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.67%) Argo
7 21 (1.40%) Kustomize
8 20 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.67%) Istio
10 8 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.47%) Packer
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%) Cilium
14 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 218 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.88%) Databricks
3 76 (5.08%) Google
4 58 (3.87%) Oracle
5 53 (3.54%) VMware
6 48 (3.21%) Cisco
7 45 (3.01%) Typelevel
8 41 (2.74%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.00%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.47%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.40%) Commvault
12 18 (1.20%) SAP
12 18 (1.20%) Splunk
13 17 (1.14%) Foundry
14 16 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.07%) IBM
14 16 (1.07%) OpenAI
15 15 (1.00%) Arista
15 15 (1.00%) NetScout