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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,886 1,999 3,046
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.56% 11.92% 13.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.10% 39.98% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 1,118 2,157
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,625 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% -3.33% +3.45%

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 6,265 5,000 8,835
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.12% 29.82% 39.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,649 3,319 5,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,529
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 30 September 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 50 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.33%) Apache
2 44 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.48%) SAS
6 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.32%) Confluence
9 5 (0.27%) nginx
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.16%) CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Hedera
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.37%) Simulink
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.27%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
7 3 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.053%) Revit
9 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.053%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.053%) Actimize
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.053%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 652 (34.57%) AWS
2 608 (32.24%) Azure
3 293 (15.54%) GCP
4 175 (9.28%) Power Platform
5 165 (8.75%) SaaS
6 131 (6.95%) GitHub
7 83 (4.40%) Serverless
8 81 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 72 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (3.71%) Snowflake
11 66 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 66 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 58 (3.08%) Amazon S3
13 58 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
14 54 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (2.76%) dbt
16 35 (1.86%) Azure Databricks
17 34 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.87%) Broadband
2 67 (3.55%) Firewall
3 58 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 43 (2.28%) VPN
5 35 (1.86%) DNS
6 30 (1.59%) WAN
7 28 (1.48%) LAN
8 27 (1.43%) Network Security
9 25 (1.33%) Wireless
10 22 (1.17%) BGP
11 18 (0.95%) VLAN
12 15 (0.80%) DHCP
12 15 (0.80%) OSPF
13 14 (0.74%) 5G
13 14 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.48%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
16 8 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.95%) Power BI
2 135 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (4.56%) SQL Server
5 77 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 71 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 66 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 65 (3.45%) Metadata
9 51 (2.70%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.55%) Tableau
11 47 (2.49%) Big Data
12 46 (2.44%) BigQuery
13 43 (2.28%) Delta Lake
14 32 (1.70%) DynamoDB
15 31 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
16 30 (1.59%) MySQL
17 29 (1.54%) Star Schema
18 27 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
18 27 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
19 25 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 195 (10.34%) Git
2 84 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.13%) GitLab
4 37 (1.96%) JIRA
5 19 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 16 (0.85%) MLflow
7 14 (0.74%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.69%) LabVIEW
8 13 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 12 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.53%) Selenium
11 9 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.32%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.27%) Poetry
14 5 (0.27%) Postman
14 5 (0.27%) Subversion
15 4 (0.21%) JMeter
15 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 606 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 434 (23.01%) Finance
3 329 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 128 (6.79%) Banking
7 122 (6.47%) Legal
8 105 (5.57%) Law
9 94 (4.98%) Marketing
10 83 (4.40%) Retail
11 42 (2.23%) Front Office
12 40 (2.12%) Games
13 36 (1.91%) Electronics
14 35 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.80%) Local Government
19 13 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 544 (28.84%) Senior
2 269 (14.26%) Developer
3 264 (14.00%) Software Engineer
4 239 (12.67%) Lead
5 227 (12.04%) Data Engineer
6 214 (11.35%) Python Engineer
7 132 (7.00%) Analyst
8 115 (6.10%) Python Developer
9 103 (5.46%) Data Scientist
10 100 (5.30%) Python Software Engineer
11 85 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
12 82 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 77 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 74 (3.92%) Senior Developer
15 70 (3.71%) Architect
16 68 (3.61%) Data Analyst
17 62 (3.29%) Consultant
18 60 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
19 58 (3.08%) Senior Data Scientist
20 55 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (14.90%) Terraform
2 129 (6.84%) React
3 110 (5.83%) PySpark
4 93 (4.93%) Node.js
5 82 (4.35%) .NET
6 75 (3.98%) PyTorch
7 73 (3.87%) RESTful
8 67 (3.55%) REST
8 67 (3.55%) TensorFlow
9 64 (3.39%) LangChain
10 60 (3.18%) Django
11 59 (3.13%) FastAPI
12 51 (2.70%) Kafka
13 44 (2.33%) Next.js
14 41 (2.17%) LangGraph
15 35 (1.86%) Pandas
16 32 (1.70%) Spring
17 31 (1.64%) Spring Boot
18 30 (1.59%) scikit-learn
19 26 (1.38%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 248 (13.15%) Cloud Native
2 166 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (4.98%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.76%) Virtual Team
5 70 (3.71%) Algorithms
6 56 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 46 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 40 (2.12%) Video\Live Streaming
9 39 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 39 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.96%) Blog
11 37 (1.96%) Credit Risk
12 35 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
13 29 (1.54%) Hedge funds
13 29 (1.54%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.48%) Public Cloud
15 27 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
15 27 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 207 (10.98%) Linux
2 82 (4.35%) Windows
3 33 (1.75%) Unix
4 18 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 14 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.42%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Debian
11 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
12 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
13 3 (0.16%) Solaris
14 1 (0.053%) AIX
14 1 (0.053%) CentOS
14 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (40.03%) AI
2 616 (32.66%) Software Engineering
3 583 (30.91%) CI/CD
4 436 (23.12%) Analytics
5 430 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
6 404 (21.42%) Mentoring
7 390 (20.68%) DevOps
8 380 (20.15%) Agile
9 360 (19.09%) Machine Learning
10 335 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 331 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 260 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
13 259 (13.73%) Test Automation
14 250 (13.26%) Data Engineering
14 250 (13.26%) Data Science
15 245 (12.99%) Decision-Making
16 243 (12.88%) Data Modelling
16 243 (12.88%) Observability
17 242 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
18 226 (11.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 651 (34.52%) SQL
2 254 (13.47%) JavaScript
3 253 (13.41%) Java
4 226 (11.98%) C#
5 213 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 195 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 144 (7.64%) Bash
8 109 (5.78%) Go
9 96 (5.09%) C++
10 75 (3.98%) R
11 54 (2.86%) C
12 48 (2.55%) Bicep
13 37 (1.96%) Scala
14 33 (1.75%) Rust
15 27 (1.43%) PHP
16 24 (1.27%) Ruby
17 23 (1.22%) MATLAB
17 23 (1.22%) VBA
18 22 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 17 (0.90%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 242 (12.83%) Degree
2 235 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 188 (9.97%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.01%) CISSP
10 19 (1.01%) PhD
11 18 (0.95%) GIAC
11 18 (0.95%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
13 15 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.80%) OSCP
14 14 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.69%) CCNP
15 13 (0.69%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (10.82%) Data Quality
2 123 (6.52%) QA
3 47 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 46 (2.44%) GDPR
5 38 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.59%) NIST
7 18 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.42%) SLA
11 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.21%) ECSS
13 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.21%) MiFID
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) UCITS
15 2 (0.11%) GAAP
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 230 (12.20%) Docker
2 20 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.06%) Firmware
3 19 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 4 (0.21%) vSphere
8 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.053%) HDFS
10 1 (0.053%) QEMU
10 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 240 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.36%) Ansible
3 81 (4.29%) Grafana
4 52 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.11%) Argo
6 13 (0.69%) Istio
6 13 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.37%) Puppet
9 6 (0.32%) Graylog
9 6 (0.32%) Packer
9 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.27%) Cilium
10 5 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.27%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.21%) Nmap
11 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 288 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 148 (7.85%) Databricks
3 89 (4.72%) Google
4 50 (2.65%) OpenAI
5 46 (2.44%) Oracle
6 41 (2.17%) Cisco
7 29 (1.54%) Splunk
8 28 (1.48%) Foundry
9 26 (1.38%) VMware
10 23 (1.22%) Informatica
11 20 (1.06%) New Relic
12 19 (1.01%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 17 (0.90%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.90%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.74%) HubSpot
15 14 (0.74%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.64%) Talend
17 11 (0.58%) Palantir
18 10 (0.53%) Alteryx
3,423 hybrid/remote Python jobs