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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,352 2,381 2,667
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.89% 14.46% 12.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.58% 33.40% 26.81%
Number of salaries quoted 932 1,596 2,157
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,846 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,313 £95,063
90th Percentile £119,875 £118,750 £120,000
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 4,150 7,129 9,948
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.28% 43.29% 46.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,129 4,469 8,469
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 15 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
1 104 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (4.36%) Apache
3 36 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.55%) Confluence
5 18 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
8 14 (1.04%) SAS
9 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.15%) CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.88%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.074%) Actimize
7 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 535 (39.57%) Azure
2 534 (39.50%) AWS
3 198 (14.64%) GitHub
4 183 (13.54%) Power Platform
5 163 (12.06%) GCP
6 160 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (9.84%) Serverless
8 110 (8.14%) Snowflake
9 100 (7.40%) dbt
10 89 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (6.43%) Amazon S3
12 83 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
12 83 (6.14%) SaaS
13 77 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 56 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (3.40%) OCI
18 43 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (3.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.11%) Firewall
2 37 (2.74%) Broadband
3 36 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.00%) VPN
5 22 (1.63%) WAN
6 21 (1.55%) LAN
7 18 (1.33%) BGP
8 16 (1.18%) DNS
8 16 (1.18%) SSL
8 16 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.96%) MPLS
9 13 (0.96%) Wireshark
10 12 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.81%) Network Security
12 10 (0.74%) 4G
12 10 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (0.74%) IOS XR
12 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.67%) VLAN
14 8 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (12.43%) Power BI
2 102 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (6.66%) Tableau
5 83 (6.14%) Data Lake
6 78 (5.77%) SQL Server
7 73 (5.40%) NoSQL
8 69 (5.10%) Apache Iceberg
9 64 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
10 52 (3.85%) Apache Arrow
10 52 (3.85%) Dremio
11 49 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
12 48 (3.55%) Relational Database
13 42 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (2.74%) Metadata
15 34 (2.51%) BigQuery
16 30 (2.22%) MongoDB
17 29 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
17 29 (2.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 121 (8.95%) Git
2 96 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.66%) JIRA
4 37 (2.74%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.59%) GitLab
6 22 (1.63%) Selenium
7 13 (0.96%) Jaeger
8 12 (0.89%) ER Studio
8 12 (0.89%) ERwin
8 12 (0.89%) MLflow
9 11 (0.81%) JUnit
10 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.30%) Postman
13 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 417 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 412 (30.47%) Finance
3 182 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (7.69%) Banking
5 86 (6.36%) Front Office
6 76 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (5.03%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.92%) Marketing
9 51 (3.77%) Law
10 46 (3.40%) Investment Banking
11 42 (3.11%) Retail
12 38 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 35 (2.59%) Publishing
14 32 (2.37%) Tech for Good
15 29 (2.14%) Health Technology
16 27 (2.00%) Legal
16 27 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.92%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.33%) Electronics
19 16 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 309 (22.86%) Senior
2 269 (19.90%) Developer
3 176 (13.02%) Data Engineer
4 143 (10.58%) Lead
5 139 (10.28%) Python Engineer
6 137 (10.13%) Software Engineer
7 134 (9.91%) Python Developer
8 100 (7.40%) Analyst
9 87 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 85 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
11 78 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
12 63 (4.66%) Architect
12 63 (4.66%) AWS Developer
13 57 (4.22%) Applications Engineer
13 57 (4.22%) Senior Developer
14 55 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
15 52 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
16 51 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
16 51 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
17 50 (3.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (10.58%) React
2 87 (6.43%) RESTful
3 86 (6.36%) Node.js
4 72 (5.33%) Pandas
5 62 (4.59%) NumPy
6 61 (4.51%) Django
7 54 (3.99%) .NET
7 54 (3.99%) Kafka
7 54 (3.99%) PySpark
8 53 (3.92%) SciPy
9 50 (3.70%) Vue
10 48 (3.55%) SOAP
11 45 (3.33%) REST
12 43 (3.18%) XML
13 42 (3.11%) JSON
14 41 (3.03%) AngularJS
15 38 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
15 38 (2.81%) Flask
16 37 (2.74%) gRPC
17 34 (2.51%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 85 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 60 (4.44%) Fixed Income
6 59 (4.36%) Equities
6 59 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 49 (3.62%) Onboarding
8 47 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
9 43 (3.18%) Management Information System
10 41 (3.03%) Hedge funds
11 40 (2.96%) Data Structures
11 40 (2.96%) Low-Code
12 36 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 36 (2.66%) Derivative
13 29 (2.14%) Pricing Data
14 28 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 199 (14.72%) Linux
2 89 (6.58%) Windows
3 82 (6.07%) Unix
4 30 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.59%) Debian
7 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.59%) Solaris
8 7 (0.52%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Android
11 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (35.13%) Agile
2 460 (34.02%) CI/CD
3 440 (32.54%) DevOps
4 328 (24.26%) AI
5 305 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
6 283 (20.93%) Analytics
7 282 (20.86%) Software Engineering
8 226 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 220 (16.27%) Mentoring
10 196 (14.50%) Data Modelling
11 195 (14.42%) Business Intelligence
12 193 (14.28%) Data Pipeline
13 191 (14.13%) Data Engineering
13 191 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 189 (13.98%) Asset Management
15 184 (13.61%) Data Science
16 178 (13.17%) Coaching
17 176 (13.02%) Machine Learning
18 163 (12.06%) ETL
19 159 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 511 (37.80%) SQL
2 272 (20.12%) Java
3 252 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 164 (12.13%) TypeScript
5 150 (11.09%) Bash
6 141 (10.43%) PowerShell
7 101 (7.47%) C#
8 70 (5.18%) Go
9 55 (4.07%) C++
9 55 (4.07%) R
10 45 (3.33%) Scala
10 45 (3.33%) Shell Script
11 44 (3.25%) PL/SQL
12 39 (2.88%) C
13 32 (2.37%) Bicep
14 19 (1.41%) PHP
15 18 (1.33%) Perl
16 15 (1.11%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 248 (18.34%) Degree
2 149 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.66%) AWS Certification
5 79 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.51%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.63%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.33%) PhD
14 17 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.11%) CISSP
16 14 (1.04%) ACCA
16 14 (1.04%) CIMA
16 14 (1.04%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.96%) CEH
17 13 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 83 (6.14%) QA
3 37 (2.74%) GDPR
3 37 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.85%) SLA
6 19 (1.41%) NIST
7 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.37%) GRC
11 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
12 2 (0.15%) EMIR
12 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 204 (15.09%) Docker
2 36 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) vSphere
6 7 (0.52%) Firmware
7 6 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.074%) HDFS
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.074%) vCloud
11 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 286 (21.15%) Terraform
2 223 (16.49%) Kubernetes
3 119 (8.80%) Ansible
4 61 (4.51%) Grafana
5 49 (3.62%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.22%) Argo
8 14 (1.04%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.44%) Control-M
12 4 (0.30%) Cilium
12 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 4 (0.30%) Puppet
13 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.22%) Nmap
13 3 (0.22%) QRadar
14 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 180 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 118 (8.73%) Databricks
3 87 (6.43%) Oracle
4 68 (5.03%) Google
5 46 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.66%) VMware
7 30 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.14%) Cisco
9 27 (2.00%) IBM
10 22 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.48%) Okta
11 20 (1.48%) Talend
12 18 (1.33%) Commvault
12 18 (1.33%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.26%) SAP
14 14 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.96%) Workday
16 12 (0.89%) Informatica
17 10 (0.74%) Dell
17 10 (0.74%) Splunk