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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,863 2,017 3,045
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.57% 12.48% 13.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.83% 39.85% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 1,149 2,196
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,646
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £143,125
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -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 6,245 5,062 8,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.39% 31.33% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,659 3,393 5,928
10th Percentile £39,130 £36,250 £39,940
25th Percentile £48,725 £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 £118,750
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 23 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 48 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 45 (2.42%) Apache
3 40 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.48%) SAS
7 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.21%) Confluence
8 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.21%) nginx
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Hedera
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) 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 (0.054%) Revit
9 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.054%) 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 ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 636 (34.14%) AWS
2 601 (32.26%) Azure
3 290 (15.57%) GCP
4 170 (9.13%) Power Platform
5 158 (8.48%) SaaS
6 127 (6.82%) GitHub
7 83 (4.46%) Serverless
8 79 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 75 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 65 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (3.49%) Snowflake
12 62 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 59 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (3.06%) Amazon S3
15 54 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
16 47 (2.52%) dbt
17 35 (1.88%) Azure Databricks
18 34 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
19 33 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.40%) Broadband
2 68 (3.65%) Firewall
3 57 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 41 (2.20%) VPN
5 34 (1.83%) DNS
6 32 (1.72%) WAN
7 30 (1.61%) LAN
8 27 (1.45%) Network Security
9 26 (1.40%) Wireless
10 20 (1.07%) BGP
11 19 (1.02%) VLAN
12 15 (0.81%) DHCP
12 15 (0.81%) OSPF
13 14 (0.75%) 5G
13 14 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (0.70%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.48%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.78%) Power BI
2 131 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 118 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 69 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 62 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 60 (3.22%) Metadata
9 52 (2.79%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.63%) Tableau
11 47 (2.52%) Big Data
12 45 (2.42%) BigQuery
13 44 (2.36%) Delta Lake
14 33 (1.77%) DynamoDB
15 29 (1.56%) MySQL
16 28 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
16 28 (1.50%) Star Schema
17 27 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 193 (10.36%) Git
2 82 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 53 (2.84%) GitLab
4 34 (1.83%) JIRA
5 16 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 14 (0.75%) MLflow
8 13 (0.70%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.59%) Selenium
11 10 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.32%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.27%) JMeter
14 5 (0.27%) Poetry
14 5 (0.27%) Postman
14 5 (0.27%) Subversion
15 4 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 599 (32.15%) Social Skills
2 425 (22.81%) Finance
3 316 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 121 (6.49%) Banking
7 118 (6.33%) Legal
8 103 (5.53%) Law
9 89 (4.78%) Marketing
10 81 (4.35%) Retail
11 38 (2.04%) Games
12 36 (1.93%) Front Office
13 35 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.83%) Electronics
15 24 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (0.86%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.81%) Local Government
20 14 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 530 (28.45%) Senior
2 266 (14.28%) Developer
3 253 (13.58%) Software Engineer
4 233 (12.51%) Lead
5 223 (11.97%) Data Engineer
6 206 (11.06%) Python Engineer
7 127 (6.82%) Analyst
8 107 (5.74%) Python Developer
9 101 (5.42%) Data Scientist
10 90 (4.83%) Python Software Engineer
11 82 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
12 76 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 74 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
14 71 (3.81%) Senior Developer
15 70 (3.76%) Architect
16 65 (3.49%) Data Analyst
17 62 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
18 60 (3.22%) Consultant
19 56 (3.01%) Senior Data Scientist
20 54 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (15.03%) Terraform
2 127 (6.82%) React
3 110 (5.90%) PySpark
4 90 (4.83%) Node.js
5 82 (4.40%) .NET
6 75 (4.03%) PyTorch
7 71 (3.81%) RESTful
8 67 (3.60%) TensorFlow
9 66 (3.54%) REST
10 62 (3.33%) Django
11 60 (3.22%) FastAPI
11 60 (3.22%) LangChain
12 50 (2.68%) Kafka
13 45 (2.42%) Next.js
14 38 (2.04%) LangGraph
15 36 (1.93%) Pandas
16 31 (1.66%) scikit-learn
17 30 (1.61%) CSS
18 29 (1.56%) Spring
19 28 (1.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 245 (13.15%) Cloud Native
2 173 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (4.94%) AI Agents
4 75 (4.03%) Virtual Team
5 70 (3.76%) Algorithms
6 57 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 50 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 46 (2.47%) Data Structures
9 40 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.99%) Low-Code
12 36 (1.93%) Blog
13 34 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
14 33 (1.77%) Credit Risk
14 33 (1.77%) Public Cloud
15 29 (1.56%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
17 26 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
17 26 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (1.34%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 207 (11.11%) Linux
2 86 (4.62%) Windows
3 34 (1.83%) Unix
4 23 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.43%) Android
10 7 (0.38%) Debian
10 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Solaris
12 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.054%) AIX
14 1 (0.054%) CentOS
14 1 (0.054%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (39.29%) AI
2 608 (32.64%) Software Engineering
3 578 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 432 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 425 (22.81%) Analytics
6 408 (21.90%) Mentoring
7 389 (20.88%) DevOps
8 378 (20.29%) Agile
9 358 (19.22%) Machine Learning
10 331 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 327 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 255 (13.69%) Data Science
13 252 (13.53%) Test Automation
14 250 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
15 243 (13.04%) Data Engineering
16 239 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
17 237 (12.72%) Observability
18 236 (12.67%) Decision-Making
19 228 (12.24%) Data Modelling
20 226 (12.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 634 (34.03%) SQL
2 253 (13.58%) JavaScript
3 249 (13.37%) Java
4 229 (12.29%) C#
5 218 (11.70%) PowerShell
6 193 (10.36%) TypeScript
7 141 (7.57%) Bash
8 114 (6.12%) Go
9 100 (5.37%) C++
10 69 (3.70%) R
11 51 (2.74%) C
12 48 (2.58%) Bicep
13 46 (2.47%) Scala
14 34 (1.83%) Rust
15 31 (1.66%) PHP
16 25 (1.34%) Ruby
17 24 (1.29%) VBA
18 23 (1.23%) MATLAB
19 20 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 18 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 241 (12.94%) Degree
2 229 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 183 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (0.97%) CISSP
9 18 (0.97%) GIAC
9 18 (0.97%) PhD
9 18 (0.97%) SnowPro
10 15 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
10 15 (0.81%) OSCP
11 14 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.75%) CCNP
11 14 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.70%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.71%) QA
3 48 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.36%) GDPR
5 35 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.45%) NIST
7 16 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.43%) SLA
10 8 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.21%) ECSS
12 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.21%) MiFID
12 4 (0.21%) NCSC
13 3 (0.16%) PMO
13 3 (0.16%) UCITS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 232 (12.45%) Docker
2 23 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.07%) Firmware
5 9 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 5 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.054%) HDFS
10 1 (0.054%) NFS
10 1 (0.054%) QEMU
10 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 233 (12.51%) Kubernetes
2 104 (5.58%) Ansible
3 79 (4.24%) Grafana
4 53 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.07%) Argo
6 14 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.70%) Istio
8 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.43%) Packer
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
11 6 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.32%) Graylog
11 6 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.27%) Podman
13 4 (0.21%) Cilium
13 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.21%) linkerd
Vendors
1 292 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 144 (7.73%) Databricks
3 83 (4.46%) Google
4 50 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.42%) Oracle
6 44 (2.36%) Cisco
7 30 (1.61%) Splunk
7 30 (1.61%) VMware
8 24 (1.29%) Foundry
9 23 (1.23%) Informatica
10 20 (1.07%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.02%) Fortinet
11 19 (1.02%) New Relic
12 18 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.75%) HubSpot
15 12 (0.64%) F5
15 12 (0.64%) Talend
16 10 (0.54%) Alteryx