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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,740 2,363 3,724
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.15% 14.33% 11.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.21% 40.19% 29.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 1,450 2,984
10th Percentile £42,550 £46,682 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,114 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 5,759 5,880 12,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.98% 35.66% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,348 4,111 10,383
10th Percentile £38,914 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 15 July 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 60 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.13%) Apache
4 14 (0.80%) SAS
5 12 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.11%) Confluence
10 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) Camunda
11 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) CMS
11 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.057%) nginx
11 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.23%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.23%) Simulink
5 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) SPSS
8 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 670 (38.51%) AWS
2 558 (32.07%) Azure
3 290 (16.67%) GCP
4 156 (8.97%) SaaS
5 137 (7.87%) Power Platform
6 110 (6.32%) GitHub
7 99 (5.69%) Serverless
8 79 (4.54%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 51 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 49 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
15 47 (2.70%) Snowflake
16 46 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
17 43 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
18 42 (2.41%) dbt
19 37 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 36 (2.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (10.40%) Broadband
2 85 (4.89%) Firewall
3 54 (3.10%) VPN
4 31 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.67%) WAN
6 28 (1.61%) LAN
7 26 (1.49%) DNS
8 22 (1.26%) VLAN
9 21 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.15%) Network Security
10 20 (1.15%) Wireless
11 17 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.86%) Wireshark
13 13 (0.75%) NGFW
14 12 (0.69%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.63%) BGP
15 11 (0.63%) DHCP
15 11 (0.63%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.26%) Power BI
3 82 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 57 (3.28%) Metadata
7 55 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 54 (3.10%) Data Lake
9 51 (2.93%) BigQuery
10 48 (2.76%) Tableau
11 47 (2.70%) NoSQL
12 41 (2.36%) Big Data
13 35 (2.01%) MySQL
14 34 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
15 32 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
16 29 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.67%) Delta Lake
17 28 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
18 27 (1.55%) Redis
19 24 (1.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 147 (8.45%) Git
2 71 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.45%) GitLab
4 33 (1.90%) JIRA
5 13 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 11 (0.63%) LabVIEW
6 11 (0.63%) MLflow
7 9 (0.52%) JMeter
8 7 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.40%) Jaeger
8 7 (0.40%) Postman
8 7 (0.40%) Selenium
9 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.29%) Locust
11 4 (0.23%) Subversion
12 3 (0.17%) Maven
12 3 (0.17%) Metasploit
General
1 526 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 377 (21.67%) Finance
3 292 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 103 (5.92%) Banking
6 103 (5.92%) Law
7 86 (4.94%) Legal
8 68 (3.91%) Retail
9 50 (2.87%) Marketing
10 49 (2.82%) Front Office
11 44 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.47%) Games
13 32 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.38%) Electronics
15 17 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.69%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.69%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.63%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 458 (26.32%) Senior
2 326 (18.74%) Developer
3 269 (15.46%) Lead
4 220 (12.64%) Software Engineer
5 195 (11.21%) Data Engineer
6 156 (8.97%) Python Engineer
7 108 (6.21%) Python Developer
8 92 (5.29%) Analyst
9 90 (5.17%) Data Scientist
10 88 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
11 84 (4.83%) Senior Developer
12 68 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 61 (3.51%) Lead Developer
13 61 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
14 60 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
14 60 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
15 57 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
16 56 (3.22%) Data Analyst
17 55 (3.16%) Python Software Engineer
18 53 (3.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (8.33%) React
2 104 (5.98%) Node.js
3 96 (5.52%) Kafka
4 91 (5.23%) PyTorch
5 83 (4.77%) TensorFlow
6 77 (4.43%) REST
7 74 (4.25%) .NET
8 71 (4.08%) PySpark
8 71 (4.08%) RESTful
9 62 (3.56%) FastAPI
10 61 (3.51%) Django
11 54 (3.10%) LangChain
12 49 (2.82%) gRPC
13 41 (2.36%) Vue
14 37 (2.13%) Flask
15 35 (2.01%) JSON
16 32 (1.84%) GraphQL
16 32 (1.84%) Redux
17 31 (1.78%) Pandas
17 31 (1.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 223 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 188 (10.80%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (5.92%) Video\Live Streaming
4 78 (4.48%) Algorithms
5 74 (4.25%) AI Agents
6 67 (3.85%) Data Structures
7 66 (3.79%) Virtual Team
8 56 (3.22%) Product Ownership
9 54 (3.10%) Over-the-Top Content
10 52 (2.99%) Low-Code
11 47 (2.70%) Onboarding
12 44 (2.53%) Public Cloud
13 40 (2.30%) Fixed Income
14 36 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
15 35 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 35 (2.01%) Management Information System
16 29 (1.67%) Equities
17 28 (1.61%) Data Centre
18 26 (1.49%) Security Posture
19 25 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 207 (11.90%) Linux
2 75 (4.31%) Windows
3 38 (2.18%) Unix
4 33 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.57%) Debian
7 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.057%) AIX
13 1 (0.057%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.057%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (34.02%) AI
2 583 (33.51%) CI/CD
3 577 (33.16%) Software Engineering
4 426 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
5 388 (22.30%) Agile
6 382 (21.95%) Mentoring
7 369 (21.21%) DevOps
7 369 (21.21%) Machine Learning
8 332 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 314 (18.05%) Analytics
10 284 (16.32%) Data Science
11 275 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 237 (13.62%) Test Automation
13 227 (13.05%) Containerisation
14 221 (12.70%) Roadmaps
15 216 (12.41%) Observability
16 214 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
17 206 (11.84%) Data Engineering
18 203 (11.67%) Decision-Making
19 201 (11.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 487 (27.99%) SQL
2 276 (15.86%) Java
3 264 (15.17%) JavaScript
4 205 (11.78%) PowerShell
5 187 (10.75%) C#
6 181 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 177 (10.17%) Go
8 147 (8.45%) Bash
9 93 (5.34%) C++
10 81 (4.66%) Scala
11 51 (2.93%) C
11 51 (2.93%) R
12 39 (2.24%) PHP
13 38 (2.18%) Bicep
14 25 (1.44%) VBA
15 24 (1.38%) Rust
16 21 (1.21%) Ruby
17 17 (0.98%) Groovy
17 17 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.86%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 234 (13.45%) Degree
2 174 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 140 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.32%) PhD
9 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 14 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.80%) OSCP
12 12 (0.69%) CEH
12 12 (0.69%) CREST Certified
13 11 (0.63%) CISSP
14 10 (0.57%) CCNP
14 10 (0.57%) GIAC
14 10 (0.57%) SnowPro
15 7 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 130 (7.47%) QA
3 48 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.32%) NIST
6 21 (1.21%) GDPR
7 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.46%) SLA
10 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 6 (0.34%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) GRC
11 5 (0.29%) PMO
11 5 (0.29%) WCAG
12 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 269 (15.46%) Docker
2 34 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.21%) Firmware
5 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.46%) KVM
7 7 (0.40%) vSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.17%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) Xen
Systems Management
1 276 (15.86%) Terraform
2 229 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 110 (6.32%) Ansible
4 91 (5.23%) Grafana
5 61 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.67%) Argo
7 17 (0.98%) Istio
8 12 (0.69%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.69%) Proxmox
9 11 (0.63%) Packer
10 10 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.52%) Puppet
12 8 (0.46%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.34%) Graylog
13 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.29%) FTK
14 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 256 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.61%) Databricks
3 63 (3.62%) Google
4 52 (2.99%) VMware
5 50 (2.87%) Cisco
6 45 (2.59%) Typelevel
7 37 (2.13%) Oracle
8 36 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 29 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 28 (1.61%) Foundry
11 24 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.38%) Splunk
12 23 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 22 (1.26%) ServiceNow
14 21 (1.21%) F5
15 16 (0.92%) Informatica
16 13 (0.75%) Arista
17 12 (0.69%) Commvault
17 12 (0.69%) IBM