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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,837 2,106 3,157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.00% 12.71% 12.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.18% 39.36% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 1,252 2,475
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.17% +6.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 6,086 5,351 9,464
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.51% 32.29% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,583 3,679 7,216
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,450 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 21 August 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 48 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 45 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (2.29%) Apache
4 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.54%) SAS
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.054%) CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.054%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.27%) Simulink
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
6 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.054%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (36.47%) AWS
2 572 (31.14%) Azure
3 301 (16.39%) GCP
4 159 (8.66%) SaaS
5 148 (8.06%) Power Platform
6 112 (6.10%) GitHub
7 92 (5.01%) Serverless
8 68 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 64 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 64 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
12 55 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 49 (2.67%) dbt
14 48 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 40 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.96%) Datadog
17 31 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 136 (7.40%) Broadband
2 75 (4.08%) Firewall
3 51 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 42 (2.29%) VPN
5 35 (1.91%) DNS
6 33 (1.80%) WAN
7 32 (1.74%) LAN
8 26 (1.42%) Network Security
9 24 (1.31%) Wireless
10 17 (0.93%) VLAN
11 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (0.76%) BGP
12 14 (0.76%) DHCP
12 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.65%) 5G
13 12 (0.65%) OSPF
14 10 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.49%) MPLS
15 9 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.49%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (6.80%) Power BI
3 100 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 78 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.43%) Data Lake
7 55 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.67%) Metadata
9 49 (2.67%) Tableau
10 47 (2.56%) Big Data
11 41 (2.23%) BigQuery
12 38 (2.07%) Delta Lake
13 30 (1.63%) MySQL
14 29 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 28 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
17 22 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 178 (9.69%) Git
2 81 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.05%) GitLab
4 37 (2.01%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.71%) MLflow
7 11 (0.60%) LabVIEW
8 10 (0.54%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.49%) JMeter
9 9 (0.49%) Selenium
10 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.38%) Postman
12 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.27%) Locust
13 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 581 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 424 (23.08%) Finance
3 301 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (6.26%) Legal
6 111 (6.04%) Banking
7 108 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 94 (5.12%) Law
9 81 (4.41%) Marketing
10 70 (3.81%) Retail
11 44 (2.40%) Games
12 41 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.96%) Front Office
14 33 (1.80%) Electronics
15 30 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.03%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.76%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.65%) Advertising
19 11 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 502 (27.33%) Senior
2 289 (15.73%) Developer
3 245 (13.34%) Lead
4 230 (12.52%) Software Engineer
5 200 (10.89%) Data Engineer
6 184 (10.02%) Python Engineer
7 109 (5.93%) Analyst
8 105 (5.72%) Python Developer
9 96 (5.23%) Data Scientist
10 81 (4.41%) Senior Developer
11 74 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (3.70%) Architect
13 67 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 67 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 60 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
15 56 (3.05%) Engineering Manager
15 56 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 56 (3.05%) Senior Data Scientist
16 55 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
17 54 (2.94%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (15.46%) Terraform
2 144 (7.84%) React
3 99 (5.39%) Node.js
4 92 (5.01%) PySpark
5 85 (4.63%) .NET
6 81 (4.41%) PyTorch
7 76 (4.14%) REST
8 71 (3.86%) Kafka
9 70 (3.81%) TensorFlow
10 67 (3.65%) Django
10 67 (3.65%) RESTful
11 65 (3.54%) FastAPI
12 54 (2.94%) LangChain
13 41 (2.23%) Next.js
14 38 (2.07%) Pandas
15 34 (1.85%) CSS
16 33 (1.80%) scikit-learn
17 32 (1.74%) Vue
18 31 (1.69%) Spring
19 30 (1.63%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 239 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 193 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.74%) Algorithms
4 82 (4.46%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 76 (4.14%) Video\Live Streaming
7 56 (3.05%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 46 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 43 (2.34%) Low-Code
11 39 (2.12%) Public Cloud
12 38 (2.07%) Management Information System
13 35 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.85%) Over-the-Top Content
15 32 (1.74%) Blog
16 29 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
17 28 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
18 27 (1.47%) Credit Risk
18 27 (1.47%) Security Posture
19 23 (1.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 212 (11.54%) Linux
2 82 (4.46%) Windows
3 37 (2.01%) Unix
4 29 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.27%) Debian
10 4 (0.22%) Solaris
11 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.054%) AIX
13 1 (0.054%) CentOS
13 1 (0.054%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (37.51%) AI
2 604 (32.88%) Software Engineering
3 577 (31.41%) CI/CD
4 444 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (22.05%) Mentoring
6 394 (21.45%) Agile
7 388 (21.12%) Machine Learning
8 384 (20.90%) DevOps
9 373 (20.30%) Analytics
10 349 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 329 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 275 (14.97%) Data Science
13 260 (14.15%) Test Automation
14 241 (13.12%) Observability
15 228 (12.41%) Decision-Making
16 225 (12.25%) Roadmaps
17 222 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
18 216 (11.76%) Data Engineering
18 216 (11.76%) Data Modelling
19 208 (11.32%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 564 (30.70%) SQL
2 276 (15.02%) JavaScript
3 262 (14.26%) Java
4 224 (12.19%) C#
5 217 (11.81%) PowerShell
6 202 (11.00%) TypeScript
7 143 (7.78%) Go
8 130 (7.08%) Bash
9 97 (5.28%) C++
10 63 (3.43%) Scala
11 52 (2.83%) R
12 47 (2.56%) C
13 44 (2.40%) Bicep
14 39 (2.12%) PHP
15 27 (1.47%) Ruby
15 27 (1.47%) Rust
15 27 (1.47%) VBA
16 21 (1.14%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.98%) Groovy
18 14 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 241 (13.12%) Degree
2 215 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 171 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.31%) PhD
10 21 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.87%) CISSP
12 16 (0.87%) SnowPro
13 15 (0.82%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.76%) CCNP
15 13 (0.71%) CEH
15 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.71%) GIAC
15 13 (0.71%) OSCP
16 12 (0.65%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 145 (7.89%) QA
3 45 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.63%) GDPR
6 27 (1.47%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.49%) SLA
10 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.27%) WCAG
12 4 (0.22%) GAAP
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 3 (0.16%) ECSS
13 3 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 258 (14.04%) Docker
2 27 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.31%) Firmware
5 21 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.44%) vSphere
8 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.33%) KVM
8 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.054%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 235 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.77%) Ansible
3 93 (5.06%) Grafana
4 50 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.14%) Istio
6 20 (1.09%) Argo
7 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.54%) Packer
9 9 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
10 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.33%) Graylog
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 280 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.68%) Databricks
3 73 (3.97%) Google
4 53 (2.89%) Cisco
5 42 (2.29%) OpenAI
6 40 (2.18%) VMware
7 36 (1.96%) Oracle
8 28 (1.52%) Splunk
9 27 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 27 (1.47%) Typelevel
10 25 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.20%) Foundry
13 17 (0.93%) F5
13 17 (0.93%) Informatica
14 16 (0.87%) New Relic
15 15 (0.82%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.76%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.65%) Salesforce
780 hybrid/remote Python jobs