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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,381 2,376 3,019
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.85% 14.51% 12.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.45% 33.34% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 941 1,594 2,462
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +6.27% +0.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 4,256 7,126 11,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.27% 43.52% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,181 4,461 9,868
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £39,105
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 24 January 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
1 102 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (4.06%) Apache
3 40 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.52%) Confluence
5 18 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.16%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
8 15 (1.09%) SAS
9 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.51%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.14%) CMS
14 2 (0.14%) Luigi
14 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.072%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
6 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.43%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 555 (40.19%) Azure
2 548 (39.68%) AWS
3 203 (14.70%) GitHub
4 187 (13.54%) Power Platform
5 165 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
6 164 (11.88%) GCP
7 131 (9.49%) Serverless
8 109 (7.89%) Snowflake
9 93 (6.73%) dbt
10 92 (6.66%) Amazon S3
11 88 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
12 87 (6.30%) SaaS
13 85 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
14 79 (5.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 61 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 56 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
16 56 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 53 (3.84%) OCI
18 47 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 44 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.77%) Firewall
2 45 (3.26%) Broadband
3 37 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.39%) VPN
5 26 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (1.74%) Wireshark
7 21 (1.52%) BGP
7 21 (1.52%) LAN
7 21 (1.52%) WAN
8 17 (1.23%) DNS
9 16 (1.16%) SSL
10 15 (1.09%) MPLS
10 15 (1.09%) NGFW
11 14 (1.01%) VLAN
12 13 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (0.94%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.87%) Network Security
14 11 (0.80%) 4G
14 11 (0.80%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.09%) Power BI
2 99 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (6.95%) Tableau
5 81 (5.87%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.72%) NoSQL
7 75 (5.43%) Data Lake
8 64 (4.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 57 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
10 54 (3.91%) Relational Database
11 46 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
13 43 (3.11%) Apache Arrow
13 43 (3.11%) Dremio
14 41 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 41 (2.97%) Metadata
15 38 (2.75%) BigQuery
16 31 (2.24%) MongoDB
17 29 (2.10%) Delta Lake
18 27 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 118 (8.54%) Git
2 93 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 61 (4.42%) JIRA
4 37 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.61%) GitLab
6 21 (1.52%) Selenium
7 19 (1.38%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.01%) MLflow
9 12 (0.87%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.87%) ERwin
10 11 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.80%) JUnit
11 5 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.29%) Postman
12 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 424 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 416 (30.12%) Finance
3 195 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.39%) Banking
5 86 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 77 (5.58%) Front Office
8 53 (3.84%) Marketing
9 52 (3.77%) Law
10 46 (3.33%) Retail
11 39 (2.82%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.24%) Publishing
13 28 (2.03%) Legal
14 27 (1.96%) Tech for Good
15 26 (1.88%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.74%) Health Technology
17 19 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.23%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 303 (21.94%) Senior
2 271 (19.62%) Developer
3 181 (13.11%) Data Engineer
4 156 (11.30%) Lead
5 134 (9.70%) Python Engineer
6 133 (9.63%) Python Developer
6 133 (9.63%) Software Engineer
7 100 (7.24%) Analyst
8 89 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
10 71 (5.14%) Python Software Engineer
11 62 (4.49%) Architect
12 58 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
12 58 (4.20%) AWS Developer
13 54 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
14 53 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
14 53 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
14 53 (3.84%) Senior Developer
15 50 (3.62%) Lead Developer
16 48 (3.48%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (10.43%) React
2 85 (6.15%) Node.js
3 84 (6.08%) RESTful
4 61 (4.42%) Django
5 60 (4.34%) Pandas
6 58 (4.20%) .NET
6 58 (4.20%) Kafka
7 53 (3.84%) PySpark
8 52 (3.77%) NumPy
9 50 (3.62%) SOAP
10 49 (3.55%) Vue
11 48 (3.48%) REST
12 44 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
12 44 (3.19%) SciPy
13 43 (3.11%) JSON
14 42 (3.04%) XML
15 40 (2.90%) AngularJS
16 38 (2.75%) Flask
17 35 (2.53%) HTML
17 35 (2.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
4 66 (4.78%) Algorithms
5 52 (3.77%) Fixed Income
6 50 (3.62%) Equities
6 50 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (3.62%) Onboarding
7 49 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
8 44 (3.19%) Low-Code
9 41 (2.97%) Data Structures
10 39 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 35 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 35 (2.53%) Hedge funds
12 32 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.24%) Derivative
14 27 (1.96%) Data Centre
15 24 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
16 23 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.67%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 209 (15.13%) Linux
2 87 (6.30%) Unix
3 86 (6.23%) Windows
4 30 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.72%) Debian
8 9 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.51%) Solaris
9 7 (0.51%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (34.54%) CI/CD
2 463 (33.53%) Agile
3 453 (32.80%) DevOps
4 341 (24.69%) AI
5 325 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 287 (20.78%) Analytics
7 286 (20.71%) Software Engineering
8 239 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 236 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 201 (14.55%) Data Modelling
12 200 (14.48%) Data Engineering
13 199 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
14 196 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
15 189 (13.69%) Coaching
16 184 (13.32%) Machine Learning
17 182 (13.18%) Data Science
18 181 (13.11%) Asset Management
19 163 (11.80%) ETL
20 162 (11.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 509 (36.86%) SQL
2 277 (20.06%) Java
3 255 (18.46%) JavaScript
4 162 (11.73%) Bash
5 154 (11.15%) TypeScript
6 146 (10.57%) PowerShell
7 102 (7.39%) C#
8 84 (6.08%) Go
9 60 (4.34%) C++
10 52 (3.77%) R
11 46 (3.33%) Scala
12 44 (3.19%) Shell Script
13 41 (2.97%) PL/SQL
14 40 (2.90%) C
15 34 (2.46%) Bicep
16 19 (1.38%) PHP
17 16 (1.16%) Perl
18 15 (1.09%) MATLAB
18 15 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 254 (18.39%) Degree
2 153 (11.08%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 97 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.84%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.39%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.38%) PhD
14 17 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.09%) CEH
15 15 (1.09%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.01%) ACCA
16 14 (1.01%) CIMA
16 14 (1.01%) CISSP
17 12 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.72%) QA
3 43 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.46%) GDPR
5 28 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.88%) SLA
7 21 (1.52%) NIST
8 15 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.87%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.72%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.43%) GRC
13 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.14%) ECSS
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.072%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.072%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 215 (15.57%) Docker
2 36 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.51%) Firmware
5 7 (0.51%) vSphere
6 5 (0.36%) NFS
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 1 (0.072%) HDFS
10 1 (0.072%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.072%) vCloud
10 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 310 (22.45%) Terraform
2 231 (16.73%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.49%) Ansible
4 64 (4.63%) Grafana
5 57 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (2.68%) Argo
8 20 (1.45%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.43%) Control-M
12 5 (0.36%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) Cilium
13 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
13 4 (0.29%) QRadar
14 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
15 2 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 186 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 115 (8.33%) Databricks
3 86 (6.23%) Oracle
4 74 (5.36%) Google
5 44 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 41 (2.97%) VMware
7 33 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.17%) Cisco
9 29 (2.10%) IBM
10 24 (1.74%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.45%) Commvault
11 20 (1.45%) Okta
11 20 (1.45%) Talend
12 18 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.23%) SAP
14 15 (1.09%) Aruba
14 15 (1.09%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.94%) Arista
15 13 (0.94%) Informatica
15 13 (0.94%) Workday