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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,499 2,107 3,456
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.39% 15.76% 10.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.49% 37.04% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 1,580 2,827
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £42,100
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £126,500
UK median annual salary £66,750 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,760 5,688 13,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 42.55% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,487 4,523 11,432
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,275
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 22 April 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 77 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 33 (2.20%) Apache
4 17 (1.13%) SAS
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.33%) Confluence
7 5 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.067%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) SPSS
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Notion
5 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.067%) Actimize
5 1 (0.067%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.067%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 628 (41.89%) AWS
2 546 (36.42%) Azure
3 251 (16.74%) GCP
4 179 (11.94%) GitHub
5 159 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 128 (8.54%) Serverless
7 111 (7.40%) SaaS
8 106 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 100 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 82 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
10 82 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
11 75 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 58 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (3.80%) dbt
14 53 (3.54%) Snowflake
15 50 (3.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 45 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
17 44 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
18 43 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.41%) Broadband
2 72 (4.80%) Firewall
3 40 (2.67%) VPN
4 31 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.80%) VLAN
6 26 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (1.60%) LAN
8 22 (1.47%) WAN
8 22 (1.47%) Wireshark
9 20 (1.33%) BGP
10 18 (1.20%) DNS
11 17 (1.13%) NGFW
12 16 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (1.00%) MPLS
13 15 (1.00%) Network Security
13 15 (1.00%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.73%) IOS XR
15 11 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.81%) Power BI
2 116 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (6.34%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.80%) NoSQL
5 69 (4.60%) Tableau
6 65 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (4.34%) Relational Database
7 57 (3.80%) Metadata
8 49 (3.27%) Data Lake
9 48 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 45 (3.00%) MongoDB
11 44 (2.94%) BigQuery
12 40 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (2.00%) Delta Lake
15 27 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.80%) Redis
16 26 (1.73%) MySQL
17 20 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
18 19 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 130 (8.67%) Git
2 62 (4.14%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.54%) GitLab
4 34 (2.27%) JIRA
5 19 (1.27%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 16 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.07%) Selenium
7 15 (1.00%) MLflow
8 12 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.53%) JMeter
9 8 (0.53%) JUnit
10 7 (0.47%) Locust
10 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
12 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.33%) Subversion
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 464 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 339 (22.62%) Finance
3 230 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 87 (5.80%) Banking
7 68 (4.54%) Law
8 61 (4.07%) Retail
9 55 (3.67%) Front Office
10 48 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.47%) Marketing
12 36 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.33%) Legal
14 25 (1.67%) Publishing
15 24 (1.60%) Games
16 20 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.20%) Health Technology
18 18 (1.20%) Tech for Good
19 16 (1.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 326 (21.75%) Senior
2 313 (20.88%) Developer
3 234 (15.61%) Lead
4 195 (13.01%) Data Engineer
5 166 (11.07%) Software Engineer
6 139 (9.27%) Python Engineer
7 125 (8.34%) Python Developer
8 77 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
9 76 (5.07%) Analyst
10 75 (5.00%) Lead Developer
11 59 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
12 58 (3.87%) Senior Developer
13 57 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
14 55 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
16 52 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (3.40%) React Developer
18 49 (3.27%) Software Developer
19 43 (2.87%) Architect
19 43 (2.87%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (11.27%) React
2 106 (7.07%) Kafka
3 98 (6.54%) Node.js
4 75 (5.00%) Django
5 70 (4.67%) .NET
6 69 (4.60%) REST
7 67 (4.47%) PySpark
8 56 (3.74%) RESTful
9 54 (3.60%) PyTorch
10 52 (3.47%) gRPC
11 46 (3.07%) TensorFlow
12 44 (2.94%) FastAPI
12 44 (2.94%) JSON
12 44 (2.94%) Vue
13 42 (2.80%) Flask
14 38 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
15 35 (2.33%) HTML
16 33 (2.20%) CSS
16 33 (2.20%) Redux
17 31 (2.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 118 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 66 (4.40%) Video\Live Streaming
6 64 (4.27%) Algorithms
7 53 (3.54%) Low-Code
8 52 (3.47%) Onboarding
9 50 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
10 41 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (2.67%) Fixed Income
12 39 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (2.00%) Public Cloud
15 28 (1.87%) Data Centre
16 27 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 25 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
18 24 (1.60%) Equities
18 24 (1.60%) Security Posture
19 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 182 (12.14%) Linux
2 58 (3.87%) Unix
2 58 (3.87%) Windows
3 27 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 10 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.40%) Android
7 6 (0.40%) Debian
8 3 (0.20%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.067%) AIX
10 1 (0.067%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.067%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.067%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.067%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (36.89%) CI/CD
2 422 (28.15%) Agile
3 401 (26.75%) Software Engineering
4 393 (26.22%) DevOps
5 368 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
6 347 (23.15%) AI
7 290 (19.35%) Mentoring
8 250 (16.68%) Analytics
9 243 (16.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 243 (16.21%) Machine Learning
10 234 (15.61%) Containerisation
11 231 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 220 (14.68%) Data Science
13 219 (14.61%) Data Pipeline
14 214 (14.28%) Data Modelling
15 198 (13.21%) Data Engineering
16 181 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
17 171 (11.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 171 (11.41%) Test Automation
18 170 (11.34%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 450 (30.02%) SQL
2 319 (21.28%) Java
3 244 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 185 (12.34%) Go
5 150 (10.01%) TypeScript
6 141 (9.41%) PowerShell
7 140 (9.34%) Bash
8 127 (8.47%) C#
9 93 (6.20%) Scala
10 59 (3.94%) C++
11 41 (2.74%) R
12 32 (2.13%) PHP
13 28 (1.87%) C
14 22 (1.47%) Apex Code
14 22 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 17 (1.13%) Bicep
16 17 (1.13%) VBA
17 11 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 260 (17.34%) Degree
2 127 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 98 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 93 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 52 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 17 (1.13%) CEH
10 16 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.07%) PhD
11 15 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.93%) OSCP
13 13 (0.87%) ACCA
13 13 (0.87%) CIMA
14 11 (0.73%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.27%) QA
3 48 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.73%) NIST
6 18 (1.20%) GDPR
7 16 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.80%) ISO 22301
8 12 (0.80%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.67%) SLA
10 8 (0.53%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) PMO
11 5 (0.33%) WCAG
12 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.20%) EMIR
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 295 (19.68%) Docker
2 42 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.67%) Firmware
6 6 (0.40%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.20%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.13%) KVM
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 296 (19.75%) Terraform
2 253 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 115 (7.67%) Ansible
4 87 (5.80%) Grafana
5 68 (4.54%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.80%) Argo
7 23 (1.53%) Kustomize
8 21 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.80%) Istio
10 8 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.47%) Packer
12 6 (0.40%) Puppet
13 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.33%) FTK
13 5 (0.33%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.33%) SCCM
14 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 4 (0.27%) Control-M
14 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 220 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.87%) Databricks
3 76 (5.07%) Google
4 58 (3.87%) Oracle
5 52 (3.47%) VMware
6 48 (3.20%) Cisco
7 45 (3.00%) Typelevel
8 39 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 32 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.47%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.33%) Commvault
11 20 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.20%) Foundry
12 18 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.20%) Splunk
13 17 (1.13%) SAP
14 16 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.00%) Arista
15 15 (1.00%) Aruba
15 15 (1.00%) NetScout