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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,371 2,797 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.06% 13.95% 13.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.00% 33.37% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 993 2,009 2,271
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 4,155 8,381 9,979
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.47% 41.81% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,223 5,400 8,428
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 24 November 2025.

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
1 134 (9.77%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (6.13%) Apache
3 34 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.39%) Confluence
6 16 (1.17%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 16 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.95%) Apache Solr
9 12 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.66%) CMS
11 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.51%) SAS
12 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.22%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.22%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 65 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.36%) Blender
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.36%) Simulink
4 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.15%) Weka
5 1 (0.073%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.073%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.073%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.58%) Shopify
2 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.073%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.073%) FastStats
6 1 (0.073%) Magento
6 1 (0.073%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 587 (42.82%) AWS
2 516 (37.64%) Azure
3 192 (14.00%) GCP
4 169 (12.33%) Power Platform
5 162 (11.82%) GitHub
6 139 (10.14%) dbt
7 137 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (9.56%) Snowflake
9 120 (8.75%) Serverless
10 85 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
11 73 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (5.18%) SaaS
13 60 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 59 (4.30%) Amazon S3
15 50 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 41 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 41 (2.99%) Entra ID
16 41 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 38 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.50%) Firewall
2 42 (3.06%) WAN
3 34 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.41%) VPN
5 29 (2.12%) LAN
6 23 (1.68%) DNS
7 22 (1.60%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.24%) SSL
9 16 (1.17%) BGP
9 16 (1.17%) Network Security
10 15 (1.09%) Broadband
11 13 (0.95%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.88%) OSPF
13 11 (0.80%) VLAN
14 10 (0.73%) DHCP
14 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.66%) 5G
15 9 (0.66%) Wireless
16 8 (0.58%) Ethernet
17 7 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (11.74%) Power BI
2 131 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (7.80%) Amazon Athena
5 106 (7.73%) Apache Iceberg
6 101 (7.37%) Apache Arrow
6 101 (7.37%) Dremio
7 94 (6.86%) Data Lake
8 78 (5.69%) Tableau
9 72 (5.25%) NoSQL
10 67 (4.89%) SQL Server
11 57 (4.16%) Apache Ignite
12 50 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (2.84%) Relational Database
14 38 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (2.55%) MongoDB
15 35 (2.55%) MySQL
16 34 (2.48%) DynamoDB
17 29 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (1.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 118 (8.61%) Git
2 95 (6.93%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.08%) JIRA
4 42 (3.06%) GitLab
5 28 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (1.53%) Selenium
7 12 (0.88%) JUnit
8 10 (0.73%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.73%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.58%) ERwin
11 7 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.44%) MLflow
12 6 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.36%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.29%) Appium
14 4 (0.29%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 465 (33.92%) Finance
2 387 (28.23%) Social Skills
3 161 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.45%) Front Office
5 133 (9.70%) Banking
6 74 (5.40%) Investment Banking
7 73 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 68 (4.96%) Marketing
9 60 (4.38%) Public Sector
10 52 (3.79%) Retail
11 50 (3.65%) Law
12 30 (2.19%) Tech for Good
13 28 (2.04%) Health Technology
13 28 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 28 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.82%) Electronics
14 25 (1.82%) Publishing
15 22 (1.60%) Legal
16 19 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 345 (25.16%) Senior
2 311 (22.68%) Developer
3 184 (13.42%) Software Engineer
4 156 (11.38%) Python Engineer
5 148 (10.80%) Python Developer
6 133 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
7 131 (9.56%) Data Engineer
8 127 (9.26%) Lead
9 116 (8.46%) Analyst
10 113 (8.24%) Python Software Engineer
11 101 (7.37%) AWS Software Engineer
12 77 (5.62%) Senior Developer
13 73 (5.32%) AWS Developer
14 72 (5.25%) Architect
15 69 (5.03%) Java Engineer
16 68 (4.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 68 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
17 67 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
18 62 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (12.40%) React
2 133 (9.70%) Pandas
3 114 (8.32%) Node.js
4 113 (8.24%) NumPy
5 101 (7.37%) SciPy
6 83 (6.05%) RESTful
7 79 (5.76%) Vue
8 70 (5.11%) AngularJS
9 67 (4.89%) gRPC
10 61 (4.45%) Django
11 60 (4.38%) Kafka
12 59 (4.30%) REST
13 57 (4.16%) Protocol Buffers
14 52 (3.79%) .NET
15 50 (3.65%) Flask
16 45 (3.28%) SOAP
17 42 (3.06%) FastAPI
18 40 (2.92%) JSON
19 39 (2.84%) XML
20 33 (2.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.63%) Fixed Income
2 122 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 115 (8.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 112 (8.17%) Equities
5 76 (5.54%) Hedge funds
6 72 (5.25%) Product Ownership
7 69 (5.03%) Derivative
8 60 (4.38%) Management Information System
9 57 (4.16%) Algorithms
9 57 (4.16%) Pricing Data
10 53 (3.87%) Onboarding
11 51 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (2.55%) Data Structures
14 29 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
16 23 (1.68%) Low-Code
17 22 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (1.60%) Public Cloud
18 21 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (14.00%) Linux
2 98 (7.15%) Windows
3 72 (5.25%) Unix
4 36 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.58%) Debian
6 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.58%) Solaris
7 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.51%) VMS
8 4 (0.29%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Android
10 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.073%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (37.71%) Agile
2 422 (30.78%) CI/CD
3 393 (28.67%) DevOps
4 315 (22.98%) Software Engineering
5 310 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
6 305 (22.25%) AI
7 258 (18.82%) Analytics
8 221 (16.12%) Asset Management
9 191 (13.93%) Mentoring
10 186 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
11 185 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 177 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
13 175 (12.76%) Data Science
14 165 (12.04%) Containerisation
15 160 (11.67%) Machine Learning
16 150 (10.94%) Data Engineering
17 149 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
18 146 (10.65%) Test Automation
19 143 (10.43%) Data Modelling
20 139 (10.14%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 504 (36.76%) SQL
2 297 (21.66%) JavaScript
3 274 (19.99%) Java
4 203 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 148 (10.80%) Bash
6 145 (10.58%) PowerShell
7 103 (7.51%) C#
8 66 (4.81%) Go
9 58 (4.23%) R
10 57 (4.16%) C++
11 39 (2.84%) C
12 35 (2.55%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.41%) Bicep
13 33 (2.41%) PL/SQL
14 25 (1.82%) PHP
14 25 (1.82%) Scala
15 24 (1.75%) MATLAB
16 20 (1.46%) Perl
17 13 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 237 (17.29%) Degree
2 133 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 108 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.42%) AWS Certification
5 58 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.72%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.48%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
12 18 (1.31%) CISSP
12 18 (1.31%) PhD
13 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.73%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.66%) CEH
16 9 (0.66%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.40%) QA
2 54 (3.94%) GDPR
3 51 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.97%) SLA
6 24 (1.75%) NIST
7 22 (1.60%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
14 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.073%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 209 (15.24%) Docker
2 38 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.88%) Firmware
5 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.58%) NFS
6 8 (0.58%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Lustre
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Ceph
9 2 (0.15%) GPFS
10 1 (0.073%) HDFS
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.073%) vCloud
10 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 245 (17.87%) Terraform
2 207 (15.10%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.56%) Ansible
4 55 (4.01%) Grafana
5 36 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.95%) Argo
8 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (0.36%) SCCM
9 5 (0.36%) SCOM
9 5 (0.36%) WSUS
10 4 (0.29%) Cilium
10 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.29%) Nmap
10 4 (0.29%) QRadar
11 3 (0.22%) Control-M
11 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 178 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.10%) Databricks
3 86 (6.27%) Oracle
4 67 (4.89%) Google
5 56 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 31 (2.26%) Cisco
6 31 (2.26%) VMware
7 24 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.68%) IBM
9 20 (1.46%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.24%) SAP
12 15 (1.09%) Okta
12 15 (1.09%) Talend
12 15 (1.09%) Workday
13 14 (1.02%) Commvault
14 12 (0.88%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.80%) Aruba
15 11 (0.80%) Informatica