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

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,372 2,576 2,584
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.94% 14.63% 13.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.85% 34.27% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 980 1,831 2,095
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £44,263
25th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,151 £75,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +4.14% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £117,236
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 4,177 7,516 9,220
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 42.70% 46.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,205 4,872 7,793
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 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
1 119 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (5.25%) Apache
3 37 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.46%) Confluence
5 19 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 16 (1.17%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 16 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.73%) Apache Solr
9 9 (0.66%) SAS
10 8 (0.58%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.36%) CMS
11 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.22%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 55 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) Blender
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.073%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.073%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 37 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.44%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.073%) Actimize
6 1 (0.073%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.073%) FastStats
6 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 566 (41.25%) AWS
2 539 (39.29%) Azure
3 190 (13.85%) GitHub
4 178 (12.97%) GCP
5 175 (12.76%) Power Platform
6 157 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (9.40%) Serverless
8 125 (9.11%) Snowflake
9 124 (9.04%) dbt
10 88 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
11 83 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
12 76 (5.54%) Amazon S3
12 76 (5.54%) SaaS
13 63 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 49 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 44 (3.21%) Entra ID
17 44 (3.21%) OCI
18 43 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.06%) Firewall
2 36 (2.62%) TCP/IP
3 31 (2.26%) VPN
4 29 (2.11%) WAN
5 23 (1.68%) LAN
6 18 (1.31%) DNS
7 17 (1.24%) SSL
8 16 (1.17%) Broadband
9 15 (1.09%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.95%) Network Security
10 13 (0.95%) Wireshark
11 12 (0.87%) BGP
12 9 (0.66%) OSPF
12 9 (0.66%) VLAN
12 9 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.58%) SAN
13 8 (0.58%) Wireless
14 7 (0.51%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.51%) Internet
15 6 (0.44%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (11.95%) Power BI
2 118 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (6.85%) Data Lake
5 89 (6.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 88 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
7 82 (5.98%) Tableau
8 80 (5.83%) Apache Arrow
8 80 (5.83%) Dremio
9 67 (4.88%) NoSQL
9 67 (4.88%) SQL Server
10 47 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (3.28%) Apache Ignite
12 41 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
13 40 (2.92%) Relational Database
14 33 (2.41%) Metadata
15 32 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (2.33%) MySQL
16 31 (2.26%) DynamoDB
17 29 (2.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 122 (8.89%) Git
2 102 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.52%) JIRA
4 40 (2.92%) GitLab
5 35 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (1.68%) Selenium
7 12 (0.87%) ER Studio
8 11 (0.80%) ERwin
8 11 (0.80%) JUnit
9 10 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.58%) MLflow
12 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.36%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.36%) JMeter
14 4 (0.29%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.29%) Postman
14 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 465 (33.89%) Finance
2 401 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (9.69%) Front Office
5 119 (8.67%) Banking
6 63 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (4.52%) Investment Banking
7 62 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 60 (4.37%) Marketing
9 49 (3.57%) Law
10 48 (3.50%) Retail
11 33 (2.41%) Tech for Good
12 32 (2.33%) Health Technology
13 31 (2.26%) Publishing
14 28 (2.04%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.53%) Electronics
16 21 (1.53%) Legal
17 17 (1.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 326 (23.76%) Senior
2 286 (20.85%) Developer
3 173 (12.61%) Software Engineer
4 152 (11.08%) Data Engineer
5 148 (10.79%) Python Engineer
6 135 (9.84%) Lead
7 134 (9.77%) Python Developer
8 111 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
9 107 (7.80%) Analyst
10 100 (7.29%) Python Software Engineer
11 80 (5.83%) AWS Software Engineer
12 78 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 76 (5.54%) Architect
14 69 (5.03%) AWS Developer
15 63 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
16 61 (4.45%) Senior Developer
17 59 (4.30%) Lead Developer
18 58 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
19 56 (4.08%) Java Engineer
19 56 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (11.52%) React
2 107 (7.80%) Node.js
2 107 (7.80%) Pandas
3 91 (6.63%) RESTful
4 90 (6.56%) NumPy
5 80 (5.83%) SciPy
6 71 (5.17%) Kafka
7 69 (5.03%) Vue
8 64 (4.66%) Django
9 59 (4.30%) AngularJS
10 56 (4.08%) gRPC
11 54 (3.94%) .NET
12 51 (3.72%) REST
13 49 (3.57%) SOAP
14 45 (3.28%) Flask
14 45 (3.28%) Protocol Buffers
15 44 (3.21%) PySpark
16 43 (3.13%) JSON
17 41 (2.99%) XML
18 39 (2.84%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 106 (7.73%) Fixed Income
3 87 (6.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 85 (6.20%) Equities
5 78 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 65 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (4.52%) Algorithms
8 59 (4.30%) Hedge funds
9 53 (3.86%) Derivative
9 53 (3.86%) Onboarding
10 52 (3.79%) Management Information System
11 45 (3.28%) Pricing Data
12 44 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
13 38 (2.77%) Data Structures
14 33 (2.41%) Low-Code
15 30 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
16 26 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
19 19 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 196 (14.29%) Linux
2 93 (6.78%) Windows
3 71 (5.17%) Unix
4 34 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.58%) Debian
7 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.58%) Solaris
8 7 (0.51%) VMS
9 5 (0.36%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Android
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.073%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (37.61%) Agile
2 470 (34.26%) CI/CD
3 438 (31.92%) DevOps
4 319 (23.25%) AI
5 315 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
5 315 (22.96%) Software Engineering
6 275 (20.04%) Analytics
7 216 (15.74%) Asset Management
8 210 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 202 (14.72%) Mentoring
10 189 (13.78%) Business Intelligence
11 182 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 175 (12.76%) Data Pipeline
13 174 (12.68%) Data Modelling
14 172 (12.54%) Machine Learning
15 170 (12.39%) Data Engineering
16 169 (12.32%) Data Science
17 164 (11.95%) Coaching
18 162 (11.81%) Test Automation
19 161 (11.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 510 (37.17%) SQL
2 279 (20.34%) Java
3 276 (20.12%) JavaScript
4 191 (13.92%) TypeScript
5 153 (11.15%) PowerShell
6 152 (11.08%) Bash
7 104 (7.58%) C#
8 74 (5.39%) Go
9 58 (4.23%) C++
10 56 (4.08%) R
11 43 (3.13%) PL/SQL
11 43 (3.13%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.99%) C
13 39 (2.84%) Bicep
14 36 (2.62%) Scala
15 20 (1.46%) PHP
16 19 (1.38%) Perl
17 17 (1.24%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 234 (17.06%) Degree
2 136 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 110 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 84 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 72 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
12 21 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.38%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.38%) PhD
14 17 (1.24%) CISSP
15 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.87%) CEH
18 11 (0.80%) DBS Check
19 10 (0.73%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.69%) QA
2 74 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.28%) GDPR
4 37 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.82%) SLA
7 23 (1.68%) NIST
8 11 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.58%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 1 (0.073%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.073%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 211 (15.38%) Docker
2 37 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.66%) Firmware
6 8 (0.58%) vSphere
7 6 (0.44%) NFS
8 5 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) Ceph
11 2 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.073%) HDFS
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.073%) vCloud
12 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 274 (19.97%) Terraform
2 223 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 119 (8.67%) Ansible
4 62 (4.52%) Grafana
5 44 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
6 39 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.38%) Argo
8 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (0.44%) Control-M
10 4 (0.29%) Cilium
10 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.29%) logstash
10 4 (0.29%) Nmap
10 4 (0.29%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) QRadar
11 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 190 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 115 (8.38%) Databricks
3 94 (6.85%) Oracle
4 63 (4.59%) Google
5 56 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 35 (2.55%) VMware
7 27 (1.97%) IBM
8 24 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.68%) Cisco
10 21 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.38%) Okta
11 19 (1.38%) Talend
12 18 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.24%) Commvault
14 16 (1.17%) SAP
15 14 (1.02%) Workday
16 11 (0.80%) Informatica
17 10 (0.73%) Dell
17 10 (0.73%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.73%) Splunk
1,340 hybrid/remote Python jobs