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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,392 2,359 3,202
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.82% 14.61% 11.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.44% 33.40% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 930 1,595 2,608
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,875 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.49% -2.14%

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 4,291 7,063 12,412
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 43.76% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 4,423 10,749
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 1 February 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 92 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.45%) Apache
3 40 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.51%) Confluence
5 18 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.15%) SAS
8 14 (1.01%) Tomcat
8 14 (1.01%) WebSphere
8 14 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (0.50%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 46 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.14%) SPSS
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.072%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.072%) Notion
7 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.80%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.43%) Shopify
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.072%) Actimize
8 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 561 (40.30%) Azure
2 554 (39.80%) AWS
3 200 (14.37%) GitHub
4 182 (13.07%) Power Platform
5 171 (12.28%) GCP
6 160 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (9.63%) Serverless
8 97 (6.97%) Amazon S3
9 95 (6.82%) Snowflake
10 88 (6.32%) SaaS
11 87 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
13 80 (5.75%) dbt
14 78 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 60 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 59 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 55 (3.95%) OCI
18 51 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 47 (3.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.24%) Broadband
2 51 (3.66%) Firewall
3 36 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.37%) VPN
5 30 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.80%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.44%) BGP
8 17 (1.22%) DNS
8 17 (1.22%) LAN
8 17 (1.22%) NGFW
8 17 (1.22%) WAN
9 16 (1.15%) VLAN
10 15 (1.08%) MPLS
10 15 (1.08%) VXLAN
11 14 (1.01%) SSL
12 13 (0.93%) Network Security
13 12 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.79%) 4G
14 11 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.79%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (11.64%) Power BI
2 97 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (6.75%) Tableau
4 90 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (5.75%) NoSQL
5 80 (5.75%) SQL Server
6 64 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 56 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
9 47 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
10 46 (3.30%) Metadata
11 45 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.59%) BigQuery
14 32 (2.30%) Apache Arrow
14 32 (2.30%) Dremio
14 32 (2.30%) MongoDB
15 30 (2.16%) MySQL
16 29 (2.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 115 (8.26%) Git
2 93 (6.68%) Jenkins
3 61 (4.38%) JIRA
4 38 (2.73%) GitLab
5 37 (2.66%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (1.51%) Selenium
7 19 (1.36%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.08%) MLflow
9 12 (0.86%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.86%) ERwin
10 11 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.79%) JUnit
11 5 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.29%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.29%) Subversion
12 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 429 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 399 (28.66%) Finance
3 205 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (6.82%) Banking
5 89 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 64 (4.60%) Front Office
8 54 (3.88%) Law
9 49 (3.52%) Marketing
10 46 (3.30%) Retail
11 39 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 30 (2.16%) Investment Banking
12 30 (2.16%) Publishing
13 29 (2.08%) Legal
14 26 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.80%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.80%) Tech for Good
16 22 (1.58%) Health Technology
17 19 (1.36%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 298 (21.41%) Senior
2 274 (19.68%) Developer
3 181 (13.00%) Data Engineer
4 162 (11.64%) Lead
5 130 (9.34%) Python Developer
6 128 (9.20%) Software Engineer
7 122 (8.76%) Python Engineer
8 97 (6.97%) Analyst
9 92 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 74 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
11 62 (4.45%) Architect
12 60 (4.31%) Python Software Engineer
13 57 (4.09%) Applications Engineer
14 56 (4.02%) AWS Developer
15 55 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
16 53 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
16 53 (3.81%) Senior Developer
17 52 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.66%) Lead Developer
19 49 (3.52%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.13%) React
2 86 (6.18%) Node.js
3 84 (6.03%) RESTful
4 63 (4.53%) Django
5 61 (4.38%) .NET
5 61 (4.38%) Kafka
6 53 (3.81%) PySpark
7 52 (3.74%) REST
7 52 (3.74%) SOAP
8 46 (3.30%) JSON
8 46 (3.30%) Vue
9 44 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
9 44 (3.16%) Pandas
10 42 (3.02%) XML
11 41 (2.95%) PyTorch
12 39 (2.80%) Flask
12 39 (2.80%) TensorFlow
13 37 (2.66%) AngularJS
14 36 (2.59%) HTML
14 36 (2.59%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.12%) Cloud Native
2 91 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (4.96%) Algorithms
5 60 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.23%) Data Structures
7 45 (3.23%) Low-Code
8 41 (2.95%) Fixed Income
9 40 (2.87%) Equities
10 39 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 35 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 35 (2.51%) Management Information System
12 30 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (2.08%) Data Centre
14 27 (1.94%) Hedge funds
15 25 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.65%) Derivative
17 22 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 204 (14.66%) Linux
2 84 (6.03%) Windows
3 82 (5.89%) Unix
4 25 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.72%) Debian
8 9 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.50%) VMS
10 6 (0.43%) Solaris
11 4 (0.29%) CentOS
12 3 (0.22%) Android
12 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (36.06%) CI/CD
2 451 (32.40%) Agile
3 449 (32.26%) DevOps
4 346 (24.86%) AI
5 335 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (21.26%) Software Engineering
7 279 (20.04%) Analytics
8 247 (17.74%) Mentoring
9 241 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 211 (15.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 204 (14.66%) Data Modelling
12 202 (14.51%) Coaching
13 201 (14.44%) Data Engineering
14 197 (14.15%) Machine Learning
15 195 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
16 191 (13.72%) Business Intelligence
17 190 (13.65%) Data Science
18 170 (12.21%) Asset Management
19 169 (12.14%) Containerisation
20 163 (11.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 501 (35.99%) SQL
2 279 (20.04%) Java
3 246 (17.67%) JavaScript
4 166 (11.93%) Bash
5 151 (10.85%) PowerShell
6 142 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 103 (7.40%) C#
8 95 (6.82%) Go
9 64 (4.60%) C++
10 53 (3.81%) Scala
11 51 (3.66%) R
12 45 (3.23%) C
13 44 (3.16%) Shell Script
14 40 (2.87%) PL/SQL
15 33 (2.37%) Bicep
16 19 (1.36%) PHP
17 17 (1.22%) T-SQL
18 14 (1.01%) MATLAB
18 14 (1.01%) Perl
19 13 (0.93%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 259 (18.61%) Degree
2 155 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 96 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.30%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.36%) PhD
14 16 (1.15%) CEH
15 15 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (1.01%) ACCA
16 14 (1.01%) CIMA
16 14 (1.01%) CISSP
16 14 (1.01%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.82%) QA
3 47 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.37%) GDPR
5 28 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.65%) SLA
7 22 (1.58%) NIST
8 17 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.79%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.57%) GRC
12 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 231 (16.59%) Docker
2 41 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.57%) Firmware
6 5 (0.36%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) NFS
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 1 (0.072%) HDFS
10 1 (0.072%) vCloud
10 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 315 (22.63%) Terraform
2 236 (16.95%) Kubernetes
3 129 (9.27%) Ansible
4 68 (4.89%) Grafana
5 61 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.73%) Argo
8 20 (1.44%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.57%) 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%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.22%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 186 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 114 (8.19%) Databricks
3 87 (6.25%) Oracle
4 70 (5.03%) Google
5 40 (2.87%) VMware
6 39 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 32 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.94%) Cisco
8 27 (1.94%) IBM
9 26 (1.87%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.44%) Okta
11 19 (1.36%) Commvault
12 17 (1.22%) SAP
12 17 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.15%) Talend
14 15 (1.08%) Arista
14 15 (1.08%) Aruba
14 15 (1.08%) NetScout
15 13 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.93%) Workday