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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,350 2,461 2,615
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.79% 14.29% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.45% 33.61% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,711 2,119
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 £95,031
90th Percentile £134,600 £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 4,160 7,323 9,469
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.09% 42.53% 46.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,166 4,681 8,013
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,221 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,125 £48,000 £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 £82,548
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 26 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
1 116 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.81%) Apache
3 37 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.56%) Confluence
5 19 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.19%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.19%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.74%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.67%) SAS
11 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.37%) CMS
12 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
14 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.22%) nginx
15 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 54 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.074%) Blender
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (2.89%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.074%) Actimize
7 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 546 (40.44%) AWS
1 546 (40.44%) Azure
2 195 (14.44%) GitHub
3 178 (13.19%) Power Platform
4 176 (13.04%) GCP
5 157 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (9.19%) Serverless
7 119 (8.81%) Snowflake
8 117 (8.67%) dbt
9 84 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
9 84 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (5.78%) Amazon S3
11 73 (5.41%) SaaS
12 70 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 57 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 51 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 48 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
16 46 (3.41%) OCI
17 45 (3.33%) Entra ID
18 40 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.19%) Firewall
2 36 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 30 (2.22%) VPN
4 27 (2.00%) WAN
5 23 (1.70%) Broadband
5 23 (1.70%) LAN
6 17 (1.26%) SSL
7 16 (1.19%) DNS
8 13 (0.96%) BGP
8 13 (0.96%) Network Security
8 13 (0.96%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.89%) Wireshark
10 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 9 (0.67%) VLAN
10 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.59%) SAN
11 8 (0.59%) Wireless
12 7 (0.52%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.52%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.37%) Power BI
2 114 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 84 (6.22%) Tableau
6 82 (6.07%) Apache Iceberg
7 79 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
8 74 (5.48%) NoSQL
9 69 (5.11%) Apache Arrow
9 69 (5.11%) Dremio
9 69 (5.11%) SQL Server
10 49 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
11 46 (3.41%) Relational Database
12 38 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (2.74%) Apache Ignite
14 36 (2.67%) Metadata
15 33 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 31 (2.30%) MySQL
17 29 (2.15%) DynamoDB
18 28 (2.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 121 (8.96%) Git
2 100 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.44%) JIRA
4 37 (2.74%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.67%) GitLab
6 22 (1.63%) Selenium
7 12 (0.89%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.89%) ERwin
8 11 (0.81%) JUnit
8 11 (0.81%) MLflow
9 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.44%) 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
1 448 (33.19%) Finance
2 400 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (8.59%) Front Office
5 110 (8.15%) Banking
6 62 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (4.15%) Marketing
7 56 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.93%) Investment Banking
9 51 (3.78%) Law
10 45 (3.33%) Retail
11 32 (2.37%) Tech for Good
12 31 (2.30%) Health Technology
12 31 (2.30%) Publishing
13 28 (2.07%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.78%) Legal
17 20 (1.48%) Electronics
18 17 (1.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 316 (23.41%) Senior
2 276 (20.44%) Developer
3 163 (12.07%) Software Engineer
4 161 (11.93%) Data Engineer
5 142 (10.52%) Python Engineer
6 134 (9.93%) Lead
6 134 (9.93%) Python Developer
7 102 (7.56%) Analyst
8 99 (7.33%) AWS Engineer
9 90 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
10 82 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 74 (5.48%) Architect
12 69 (5.11%) AWS Software Engineer
13 67 (4.96%) AWS Developer
14 57 (4.22%) Applications Engineer
14 57 (4.22%) Senior Developer
15 56 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
16 55 (4.07%) Lead Developer
17 53 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
18 50 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (11.48%) React
2 101 (7.48%) Node.js
3 93 (6.89%) Pandas
4 91 (6.74%) RESTful
5 79 (5.85%) NumPy
6 69 (5.11%) SciPy
7 66 (4.89%) Kafka
8 63 (4.67%) Django
8 63 (4.67%) Vue
9 54 (4.00%) .NET
10 53 (3.93%) AngularJS
11 50 (3.70%) REST
11 50 (3.70%) SOAP
12 48 (3.56%) gRPC
12 48 (3.56%) PySpark
13 45 (3.33%) Flask
14 43 (3.19%) JSON
14 43 (3.19%) XML
15 38 (2.81%) FastAPI
16 37 (2.74%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.59%) Fixed Income
3 82 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 77 (5.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 75 (5.56%) Equities
6 69 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (4.59%) Algorithms
8 52 (3.85%) Hedge funds
9 49 (3.63%) Management Information System
10 48 (3.56%) Onboarding
11 46 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
12 45 (3.33%) Derivative
13 37 (2.74%) Data Structures
13 37 (2.74%) Pricing Data
14 34 (2.52%) Low-Code
15 33 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
16 27 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
17 23 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
19 19 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (14.59%) Linux
2 91 (6.74%) Windows
3 77 (5.70%) Unix
4 32 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.59%) Debian
7 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.59%) Solaris
8 7 (0.52%) VMS
9 5 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Android
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.074%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (36.74%) Agile
2 464 (34.37%) CI/CD
3 435 (32.22%) DevOps
4 318 (23.56%) AI
5 301 (22.30%) Software Engineering
6 299 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
7 275 (20.37%) Analytics
8 216 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 210 (15.56%) Asset Management
10 208 (15.41%) Mentoring
11 193 (14.30%) Business Intelligence
12 183 (13.56%) Data Modelling
13 180 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 179 (13.26%) Data Pipeline
15 178 (13.19%) Data Engineering
16 176 (13.04%) Data Science
17 175 (12.96%) Machine Learning
18 171 (12.67%) Coaching
19 161 (11.93%) Containerisation
20 160 (11.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 513 (38.00%) SQL
2 279 (20.67%) Java
3 267 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 180 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 147 (10.89%) Bash
6 141 (10.44%) PowerShell
7 104 (7.70%) C#
8 77 (5.70%) Go
9 56 (4.15%) R
10 55 (4.07%) C++
11 45 (3.33%) PL/SQL
11 45 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 41 (3.04%) Scala
13 40 (2.96%) C
14 35 (2.59%) Bicep
15 19 (1.41%) PHP
16 18 (1.33%) Perl
17 15 (1.11%) MATLAB
18 14 (1.04%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 231 (17.11%) Degree
2 137 (10.15%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 85 (6.30%) AWS Certification
5 72 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.33%) PhD
14 17 (1.26%) CISSP
14 17 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.96%) CEH
16 13 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.89%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.74%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.85%) QA
3 44 (3.26%) GDPR
4 37 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.85%) SLA
7 21 (1.56%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.074%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 209 (15.48%) Docker
2 36 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Firmware
5 8 (0.59%) vSphere
6 6 (0.44%) 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 (0.074%) HDFS
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.074%) vCloud
10 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 278 (20.59%) Terraform
2 222 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 116 (8.59%) Ansible
4 60 (4.44%) Grafana
5 46 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (3.04%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.78%) Argo
8 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (0.59%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.44%) Control-M
12 5 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.30%) Cilium
13 4 (0.30%) logstash
14 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
14 3 (0.22%) Puppet
14 3 (0.22%) QRadar
15 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 184 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 117 (8.67%) Databricks
3 91 (6.74%) Oracle
4 62 (4.59%) Google
5 51 (3.78%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.67%) VMware
7 27 (2.00%) IBM
8 25 (1.85%) Cisco
9 24 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.48%) Okta
12 19 (1.41%) Talend
13 18 (1.33%) Commvault
13 18 (1.33%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.26%) SAP
15 13 (0.96%) Workday
16 11 (0.81%) Informatica
17 10 (0.74%) Dell
17 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.74%) Splunk