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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,496 2,065 3,470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.63% 15.87% 10.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.78% 36.15% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 1,578 2,826
10th Percentile £42,975 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,707 5,712 13,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 43.90% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,430 4,532 11,503
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £64,559 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% +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 11 April 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 80 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.27%) Apache
4 18 (1.20%) SAS
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.40%) Confluence
8 5 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Mendix
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 32 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) SPSS
4 2 (0.13%) Weka
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Notion
5 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.33%) Shopify
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.067%) Actimize
5 1 (0.067%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.067%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 641 (42.85%) AWS
2 551 (36.83%) Azure
3 256 (17.11%) GCP
4 184 (12.30%) GitHub
5 156 (10.43%) Power Platform
6 133 (8.89%) Serverless
7 111 (7.42%) SaaS
8 110 (7.35%) Amazon S3
9 104 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 60 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
14 57 (3.81%) dbt
15 53 (3.54%) Snowflake
16 52 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
18 46 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
19 44 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 37 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.43%) Broadband
2 68 (4.55%) Firewall
3 39 (2.61%) VPN
4 35 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.67%) VLAN
7 23 (1.54%) Wireshark
8 21 (1.40%) LAN
9 20 (1.34%) BGP
10 19 (1.27%) WAN
11 17 (1.14%) Network Security
11 17 (1.14%) NGFW
12 15 (1.00%) DNS
12 15 (1.00%) MPLS
12 15 (1.00%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.74%) 4G
15 11 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.74%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.82%) Power BI
2 112 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.22%) SQL Server
4 75 (5.01%) NoSQL
5 71 (4.75%) Tableau
6 67 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 66 (4.41%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.68%) Metadata
9 51 (3.41%) Data Lake
10 49 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (3.01%) BigQuery
12 44 (2.94%) MongoDB
13 42 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (2.07%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.94%) Redis
17 27 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
18 24 (1.60%) MySQL
19 21 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
20 19 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 130 (8.69%) Git
2 65 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.81%) GitLab
4 35 (2.34%) JIRA
5 19 (1.27%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 16 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.07%) Selenium
7 15 (1.00%) MLflow
8 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.53%) JMeter
9 8 (0.53%) JUnit
10 7 (0.47%) Locust
10 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
12 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.33%) Subversion
12 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 480 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 352 (23.53%) Finance
3 232 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 92 (6.15%) Banking
7 73 (4.88%) Law
8 63 (4.21%) Retail
9 57 (3.81%) Front Office
10 48 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.47%) Marketing
11 37 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.34%) Legal
13 26 (1.74%) Publishing
14 25 (1.67%) Games
15 22 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.34%) Health Technology
16 20 (1.34%) Tech for Good
17 18 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 318 (21.26%) Senior
2 312 (20.86%) Developer
3 231 (15.44%) Lead
4 195 (13.03%) Data Engineer
5 154 (10.29%) Software Engineer
6 133 (8.89%) Python Engineer
7 124 (8.29%) Python Developer
8 77 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
9 76 (5.08%) Lead Developer
10 73 (4.88%) Analyst
11 59 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
11 59 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 59 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
12 55 (3.68%) Senior Developer
13 53 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
14 52 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 52 (3.48%) React Developer
15 47 (3.14%) Architect
15 47 (3.14%) Software Developer
16 44 (2.94%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (11.16%) React
2 103 (6.89%) Kafka
3 91 (6.08%) Node.js
4 79 (5.28%) Django
5 73 (4.88%) REST
6 68 (4.55%) .NET
7 65 (4.34%) PySpark
8 60 (4.01%) RESTful
9 56 (3.74%) PyTorch
10 52 (3.48%) gRPC
11 48 (3.21%) TensorFlow
12 46 (3.07%) FastAPI
12 46 (3.07%) JSON
13 45 (3.01%) Vue
14 44 (2.94%) Flask
15 41 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
16 37 (2.47%) HTML
17 35 (2.34%) CSS
17 35 (2.34%) SOAP
18 33 (2.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 117 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.41%) Algorithms
4 66 (4.41%) Data Structures
4 66 (4.41%) Video\Live Streaming
5 58 (3.88%) Low-Code
6 52 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 50 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
8 41 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (2.67%) Fixed Income
10 39 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (2.07%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.07%) Public Cloud
13 29 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
14 24 (1.60%) Equities
14 24 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.54%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 193 (12.90%) Linux
2 70 (4.68%) Unix
3 62 (4.14%) Windows
4 27 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Android
8 6 (0.40%) Debian
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
10 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.067%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.067%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.067%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.067%) Solaris
12 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (37.70%) CI/CD
2 428 (28.61%) Agile
3 408 (27.27%) DevOps
4 388 (25.94%) Software Engineering
5 382 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
6 346 (23.13%) AI
7 281 (18.78%) Mentoring
8 253 (16.91%) Analytics
9 245 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 244 (16.31%) Machine Learning
11 242 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 239 (15.98%) Containerisation
13 224 (14.97%) Data Science
14 217 (14.51%) Data Pipeline
15 215 (14.37%) Data Modelling
16 198 (13.24%) Data Engineering
17 175 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
18 173 (11.56%) Test Automation
19 172 (11.50%) Coaching
20 168 (11.23%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 455 (30.41%) SQL
2 311 (20.79%) Java
3 245 (16.38%) JavaScript
4 186 (12.43%) Go
5 143 (9.56%) TypeScript
6 141 (9.43%) Bash
6 141 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 124 (8.29%) C#
8 89 (5.95%) Scala
9 65 (4.34%) C++
10 44 (2.94%) R
11 31 (2.07%) C
12 24 (1.60%) PHP
13 23 (1.54%) Apex Code
13 23 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.27%) Bicep
15 19 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 15 (1.00%) VBA
17 11 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 269 (17.98%) Degree
2 132 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 95 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.27%) CEH
9 19 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 18 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.20%) PhD
11 17 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.94%) ACCA
12 14 (0.94%) CIMA
12 14 (0.94%) OSCP
13 12 (0.80%) CREST Certified
14 7 (0.47%) CCNP
14 7 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 107 (7.15%) QA
3 53 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.87%) NIST
5 26 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.34%) GDPR
6 20 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.94%) ISO 22301
7 14 (0.94%) SLA
7 14 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.67%) GRC
9 5 (0.33%) PMO
9 5 (0.33%) WCAG
10 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.20%) EMIR
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.13%) ECSS
12 2 (0.13%) GAAP
12 2 (0.13%) IFRS
System Software
1 300 (20.05%) Docker
2 41 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.67%) Firmware
6 7 (0.47%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.20%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Ceph
9 2 (0.13%) KVM
9 2 (0.13%) Lustre
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) vCloud
10 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 305 (20.39%) Terraform
2 251 (16.78%) Kubernetes
3 117 (7.82%) Ansible
4 86 (5.75%) Grafana
5 68 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.54%) Argo
7 20 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.27%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.53%) Istio
9 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.47%) Packer
11 6 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.33%) FTK
12 5 (0.33%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.33%) Puppet
12 5 (0.33%) SCCM
13 4 (0.27%) Cilium
13 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 213 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 120 (8.02%) Databricks
3 78 (5.21%) Google
4 61 (4.08%) Oracle
5 55 (3.68%) VMware
6 47 (3.14%) Cisco
7 45 (3.01%) Typelevel
8 42 (2.81%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.54%) MuleSoft
11 22 (1.47%) Commvault
12 21 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 19 (1.27%) IBM
13 19 (1.27%) Splunk
14 18 (1.20%) SAP
15 16 (1.07%) Foundry
15 16 (1.07%) Talend
16 15 (1.00%) Aruba
16 15 (1.00%) Informatica
16 15 (1.00%) NetScout