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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,825 2,049 3,130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.50% 12.56% 13.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.47% 40.02% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 1,177 2,265
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,375 £57,500
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 £108,000 £136,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 6,193 5,120 9,065
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.44% 31.39% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 3,451 6,180
10th Percentile £38,814 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £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 18 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 46 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 42 (2.30%) Apache
3 38 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.49%) SAS
7 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.22%) nginx
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.055%) Camunda
11 1 (0.055%) Ethereum
Applications
1 51 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Simulink
5 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.33%) 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%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 628 (34.41%) AWS
2 590 (32.33%) Azure
3 273 (14.96%) GCP
4 169 (9.26%) Power Platform
5 147 (8.05%) SaaS
6 125 (6.85%) GitHub
7 83 (4.55%) Serverless
8 79 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 62 (3.40%) Snowflake
13 58 (3.18%) Amazon S3
13 58 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
14 54 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (2.52%) dbt
16 34 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
17 33 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.55%) Broadband
2 67 (3.67%) Firewall
3 54 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 38 (2.08%) VPN
5 34 (1.86%) DNS
6 32 (1.75%) WAN
7 30 (1.64%) LAN
8 26 (1.42%) Wireless
9 25 (1.37%) Network Security
10 17 (0.93%) BGP
10 17 (0.93%) VLAN
11 15 (0.82%) DHCP
11 15 (0.82%) OSPF
12 14 (0.77%) 5G
12 14 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
14 9 (0.49%) MPLS
14 9 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.89%) Power BI
2 124 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.16%) MongoDB
6 68 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 62 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 59 (3.23%) Metadata
9 51 (2.79%) Relational Database
10 47 (2.58%) Tableau
11 45 (2.47%) Big Data
12 43 (2.36%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.36%) Delta Lake
13 32 (1.75%) DynamoDB
14 29 (1.59%) MySQL
15 27 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (1.48%) Star Schema
16 26 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
17 25 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 189 (10.36%) Git
2 80 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 52 (2.85%) GitLab
4 33 (1.81%) JIRA
5 16 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 15 (0.82%) Claude Code
7 14 (0.77%) MLflow
8 13 (0.71%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.60%) Selenium
11 10 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.44%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.27%) JMeter
14 5 (0.27%) Poetry
14 5 (0.27%) Postman
14 5 (0.27%) Subversion
15 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 590 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 415 (22.74%) Finance
3 306 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 118 (6.47%) Legal
7 113 (6.19%) Banking
8 97 (5.32%) Law
9 86 (4.71%) Marketing
10 75 (4.11%) Retail
11 37 (2.03%) Games
12 35 (1.92%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.86%) Electronics
14 33 (1.81%) Front Office
15 24 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.82%) Local Government
19 13 (0.71%) Advertising
19 13 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 517 (28.33%) Senior
2 265 (14.52%) Developer
3 241 (13.21%) Software Engineer
4 226 (12.38%) Lead
5 217 (11.89%) Data Engineer
6 193 (10.58%) Python Engineer
7 120 (6.58%) Analyst
8 103 (5.64%) Python Developer
9 98 (5.37%) Data Scientist
10 80 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
11 79 (4.33%) Python Software Engineer
12 73 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 71 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 71 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 70 (3.84%) Architect
15 63 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
16 62 (3.40%) Data Analyst
17 58 (3.18%) Consultant
18 54 (2.96%) Senior Data Scientist
19 53 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (14.96%) Terraform
2 127 (6.96%) React
3 106 (5.81%) PySpark
4 90 (4.93%) Node.js
5 82 (4.49%) .NET
6 75 (4.11%) PyTorch
7 67 (3.67%) REST
7 67 (3.67%) RESTful
7 67 (3.67%) TensorFlow
8 61 (3.34%) Django
9 57 (3.12%) LangChain
10 54 (2.96%) FastAPI
11 50 (2.74%) Kafka
12 44 (2.41%) Next.js
13 35 (1.92%) CSS
13 35 (1.92%) LangGraph
13 35 (1.92%) Pandas
14 31 (1.70%) scikit-learn
15 29 (1.59%) Spring
16 28 (1.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 240 (13.15%) Cloud Native
2 170 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (4.82%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.38%) Virtual Team
5 71 (3.89%) Algorithms
6 58 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 51 (2.79%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.47%) Data Structures
9 40 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.08%) Low-Code
11 36 (1.97%) Management Information System
12 33 (1.81%) Blog
12 33 (1.81%) Public Cloud
13 31 (1.70%) Credit Risk
13 31 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
14 28 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 28 (1.53%) Security Posture
15 27 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 205 (11.23%) Linux
2 84 (4.60%) Windows
3 34 (1.86%) Unix
4 24 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.38%) Debian
8 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (39.01%) AI
2 590 (32.33%) Software Engineering
3 566 (31.01%) CI/CD
4 423 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
5 412 (22.58%) Analytics
6 406 (22.25%) Mentoring
7 382 (20.93%) DevOps
8 376 (20.60%) Agile
9 353 (19.34%) Machine Learning
10 327 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 320 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 251 (13.75%) Test Automation
13 249 (13.64%) Data Science
14 243 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
15 240 (13.15%) Data Engineering
16 235 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
17 234 (12.82%) Observability
18 230 (12.60%) Decision-Making
19 224 (12.27%) Roadmaps
20 223 (12.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 622 (34.08%) SQL
2 255 (13.97%) JavaScript
3 246 (13.48%) Java
4 236 (12.93%) C#
5 216 (11.84%) PowerShell
6 188 (10.30%) TypeScript
7 135 (7.40%) Bash
8 107 (5.86%) Go
9 103 (5.64%) C++
10 60 (3.29%) R
11 51 (2.79%) C
12 48 (2.63%) Bicep
13 45 (2.47%) Scala
14 36 (1.97%) PHP
15 32 (1.75%) Rust
16 25 (1.37%) Ruby
17 24 (1.32%) VBA
18 23 (1.26%) MATLAB
19 20 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 18 (0.99%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 241 (13.21%) Degree
2 228 (12.49%) Security Cleared
3 182 (9.97%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.12%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.99%) PhD
11 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.93%) CISSP
13 16 (0.88%) GIAC
14 14 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.77%) CCNP
14 14 (0.77%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.77%) OSCP
15 13 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
16 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (10.30%) Data Quality
2 126 (6.90%) QA
3 47 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 43 (2.36%) GDPR
5 32 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.37%) NIST
7 12 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.22%) ECSS
11 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.22%) MiFID
11 4 (0.22%) NCSC
12 3 (0.16%) PMO
12 3 (0.16%) UCITS
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 228 (12.49%) Docker
2 22 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.10%) Firmware
5 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.33%) 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 (0.055%) HDFS
10 1 (0.055%) QEMU
10 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (12.22%) Kubernetes
2 104 (5.70%) Ansible
3 75 (4.11%) Grafana
4 50 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.10%) Argo
6 14 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.71%) Istio
8 8 (0.44%) Packer
9 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.38%) Puppet
9 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (0.33%) Graylog
10 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.27%) Podman
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 295 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 136 (7.45%) Databricks
3 74 (4.05%) Google
4 50 (2.74%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.47%) Oracle
6 44 (2.41%) Cisco
7 29 (1.59%) VMware
8 28 (1.53%) Splunk
9 23 (1.26%) Informatica
10 22 (1.21%) Foundry
11 20 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.04%) Fortinet
13 18 (0.99%) New Relic
13 18 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 16 (0.88%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.77%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.66%) F5
16 12 (0.66%) Talend
17 10 (0.55%) Alteryx