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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,839 2,231 3,152
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.12% 13.53% 12.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.24% 40.19% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 1,339 2,489
10th Percentile £44,000 £45,000 £44,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.17% +6.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,250 £142,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,950
% change year-on-year -3.45% -0.62% +0.62%

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 6,082 5,551 9,581
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.84% 33.67% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,562 3,823 7,491
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,325
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
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 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 8 August 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 53 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 50 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.12%) Apache
4 17 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) SAS
6 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.054%) Camunda
10 1 (0.054%) CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.054%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.22%) Simulink
5 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
6 3 (0.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) SPSS
8 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.054%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 686 (37.30%) AWS
2 582 (31.65%) Azure
3 317 (17.24%) GCP
4 158 (8.59%) SaaS
5 149 (8.10%) Power Platform
6 113 (6.14%) GitHub
7 93 (5.06%) Serverless
8 73 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 64 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 57 (3.10%) dbt
13 57 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
13 57 (3.10%) Snowflake
14 55 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 34 (1.85%) Datadog
16 34 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 158 (8.59%) Broadband
2 80 (4.35%) Firewall
3 50 (2.72%) TCP/IP
4 46 (2.50%) VPN
5 31 (1.69%) DNS
6 29 (1.58%) WAN
7 28 (1.52%) LAN
8 22 (1.20%) Wireless
9 20 (1.09%) Network Security
10 17 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (0.92%) VLAN
11 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.60%) 5G
12 11 (0.60%) DHCP
13 10 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (0.54%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.54%) WebEx
14 8 (0.44%) BGP
14 8 (0.44%) MQTT
15 7 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (6.74%) Power BI
3 95 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.13%) MongoDB
6 62 (3.37%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.05%) Metadata
8 53 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.77%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.72%) Tableau
11 48 (2.61%) Big Data
11 48 (2.61%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.96%) Delta Lake
13 33 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
14 30 (1.63%) MySQL
15 28 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.47%) Redis
17 26 (1.41%) DynamoDB
18 24 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
19 23 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 174 (9.46%) Git
2 79 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.21%) GitLab
4 37 (2.01%) JIRA
5 17 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.76%) MLflow
7 12 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.54%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.49%) JMeter
10 9 (0.49%) Selenium
11 8 (0.44%) Postman
12 7 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.27%) Locust
14 5 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 581 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 417 (22.68%) Finance
3 294 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (6.04%) Legal
6 107 (5.82%) Public Sector
7 105 (5.71%) Banking
8 102 (5.55%) Law
9 68 (3.70%) Marketing
10 66 (3.59%) Retail
11 46 (2.50%) Games
12 43 (2.34%) Front Office
13 42 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (1.63%) Electronics
16 17 (0.92%) Aerospace
17 15 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.76%) Financial Institution
19 13 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 514 (27.95%) Senior
2 305 (16.59%) Developer
3 250 (13.59%) Lead
4 233 (12.67%) Software Engineer
5 207 (11.26%) Data Engineer
6 186 (10.11%) Python Engineer
7 102 (5.55%) Python Developer
8 101 (5.49%) Data Scientist
9 100 (5.44%) Analyst
10 83 (4.51%) Senior Developer
11 81 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 66 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 65 (3.53%) Architect
15 63 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
16 59 (3.21%) Senior Data Scientist
17 56 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
18 55 (2.99%) Python Software Engineer
19 54 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
19 54 (2.94%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (8.27%) React
2 103 (5.60%) Node.js
3 85 (4.62%) PySpark
3 85 (4.62%) PyTorch
4 82 (4.46%) .NET
4 82 (4.46%) Kafka
4 82 (4.46%) REST
5 73 (3.97%) TensorFlow
6 72 (3.92%) Django
7 68 (3.70%) RESTful
8 65 (3.53%) FastAPI
9 56 (3.05%) LangChain
10 38 (2.07%) Next.js
10 38 (2.07%) Pandas
11 37 (2.01%) gRPC
12 36 (1.96%) Vue
13 35 (1.90%) CSS
14 34 (1.85%) Flask
15 33 (1.79%) scikit-learn
16 32 (1.74%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 234 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 201 (10.93%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (4.84%) Video\Live Streaming
4 85 (4.62%) Algorithms
5 80 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 56 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 54 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 46 (2.50%) Low-Code
8 46 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 44 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.34%) Over-the-Top Content
11 39 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.96%) Management Information System
13 31 (1.69%) Fixed Income
13 31 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
15 29 (1.58%) Security Posture
16 25 (1.36%) Blog
17 24 (1.31%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 220 (11.96%) Linux
2 82 (4.46%) Windows
3 46 (2.50%) Unix
4 33 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.38%) Debian
7 7 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Android
8 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.054%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (36.22%) AI
2 611 (33.22%) Software Engineering
3 598 (32.52%) CI/CD
4 439 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
5 412 (22.40%) Agile
6 407 (22.13%) Mentoring
7 393 (21.37%) DevOps
7 393 (21.37%) Machine Learning
8 356 (19.36%) Analytics
9 353 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 322 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 292 (15.88%) Data Science
12 259 (14.08%) Test Automation
13 241 (13.10%) Observability
14 224 (12.18%) Decision-Making
14 224 (12.18%) Roadmaps
15 220 (11.96%) Data Engineering
16 219 (11.91%) Data Modelling
16 219 (11.91%) Data Pipeline
17 215 (11.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 545 (29.64%) SQL
2 285 (15.50%) JavaScript
3 275 (14.95%) Java
4 219 (11.91%) PowerShell
5 216 (11.75%) C#
6 203 (11.04%) TypeScript
7 154 (8.37%) Go
8 134 (7.29%) Bash
9 99 (5.38%) C++
10 76 (4.13%) Scala
11 58 (3.15%) R
12 45 (2.45%) C
13 41 (2.23%) Bicep
14 39 (2.12%) PHP
15 30 (1.63%) VBA
16 28 (1.52%) Ruby
17 25 (1.36%) Rust
18 19 (1.03%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.98%) Groovy
20 14 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 238 (12.94%) Degree
2 215 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 173 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.23%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.31%) PhD
10 18 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 15 (0.82%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.71%) CISSP
15 12 (0.65%) CCNP
15 12 (0.65%) CEH
15 12 (0.65%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.65%) OSCP
16 11 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 146 (7.94%) QA
3 42 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.58%) GDPR
6 26 (1.41%) NIST
7 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
9 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
11 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.27%) WCAG
12 4 (0.22%) GAAP
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS
12 4 (0.22%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 3 (0.16%) ECSS
System Software
1 264 (14.36%) Docker
2 30 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.25%) Firmware
5 20 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.44%) vSphere
8 7 (0.38%) KVM
8 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 282 (15.33%) Terraform
2 231 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 103 (5.60%) Ansible
4 94 (5.11%) Grafana
5 51 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.09%) Argo
6 20 (1.09%) Istio
7 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
8 10 (0.54%) Packer
9 8 (0.44%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
11 6 (0.33%) Graylog
11 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.22%) CASB
13 4 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 282 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.45%) Databricks
3 79 (4.30%) Google
4 52 (2.83%) Cisco
5 44 (2.39%) VMware
6 39 (2.12%) Oracle
7 38 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 36 (1.96%) Typelevel
9 29 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.47%) Foundry
10 27 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.47%) Splunk
11 24 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.25%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.03%) F5
14 18 (0.98%) Salesforce
15 16 (0.87%) Informatica
16 14 (0.76%) HubSpot
16 14 (0.76%) New Relic
17 13 (0.71%) Alteryx
1,729 hybrid/remote Python jobs