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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,837 2,172 3,145
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.10% 13.22% 12.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.40% 39.74% 32.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 1,288 2,475
10th Percentile £44,500 £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 £109,063 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £143,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,137
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.21% +2.26%

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 6,043 5,466 9,564
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 33.27% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,547 3,760 7,419
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,500
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 £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,000
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 12 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 53 (2.89%) Apache Spark
2 49 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (2.12%) Apache
4 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.54%) SAS
6 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Camunda
11 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) CMS
11 1 (0.054%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
4 4 (0.22%) Simulink
4 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.16%) Blender
5 3 (0.16%) Maya
5 3 (0.16%) Trello
6 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) SPSS
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
7 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%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 676 (36.80%) AWS
2 583 (31.74%) Azure
3 311 (16.93%) GCP
4 157 (8.55%) SaaS
5 147 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 112 (6.10%) GitHub
7 92 (5.01%) Serverless
8 73 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 63 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 62 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (3.10%) dbt
12 57 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
12 57 (3.10%) Snowflake
13 54 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 40 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (1.85%) PaaS
17 33 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 149 (8.11%) Broadband
2 80 (4.35%) Firewall
3 52 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.45%) VPN
5 32 (1.74%) DNS
6 31 (1.69%) WAN
7 30 (1.63%) LAN
8 23 (1.25%) Wireless
9 22 (1.20%) Network Security
10 18 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (0.98%) VLAN
11 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.60%) 5G
12 11 (0.60%) BGP
12 11 (0.60%) DHCP
13 10 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (0.54%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.54%) WebEx
14 9 (0.49%) OSPF
15 7 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (6.64%) Power BI
3 96 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 76 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 61 (3.32%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.05%) Metadata
8 53 (2.89%) NoSQL
8 53 (2.89%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.67%) Tableau
10 48 (2.61%) Big Data
11 47 (2.56%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.96%) Delta Lake
13 33 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
14 29 (1.58%) MySQL
15 28 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.47%) Redis
17 26 (1.42%) DynamoDB
18 23 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
18 23 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 175 (9.53%) Git
2 79 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.16%) GitLab
4 37 (2.01%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.76%) MLflow
7 12 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.54%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.54%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.49%) JMeter
9 9 (0.49%) Selenium
10 7 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.38%) Postman
11 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.27%) Locust
12 5 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 586 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 422 (22.97%) Finance
3 299 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (6.10%) Legal
6 108 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 106 (5.77%) Banking
8 103 (5.61%) Law
9 75 (4.08%) Marketing
10 69 (3.76%) Retail
11 45 (2.45%) Games
12 43 (2.34%) Front Office
12 43 (2.34%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.69%) Electronics
15 18 (0.98%) Aerospace
16 16 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.76%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 517 (28.14%) Senior
2 298 (16.22%) Developer
3 249 (13.55%) Lead
4 232 (12.63%) Software Engineer
5 207 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 187 (10.18%) Python Engineer
7 103 (5.61%) Analyst
8 102 (5.55%) Python Developer
9 100 (5.44%) Data Scientist
10 82 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 79 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 66 (3.59%) Architect
13 66 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 63 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
15 59 (3.21%) Senior Data Scientist
16 56 (3.05%) Python Software Engineer
17 55 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
17 55 (2.99%) Engineering Manager
18 53 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (8.06%) React
2 103 (5.61%) Node.js
3 87 (4.74%) PySpark
4 85 (4.63%) PyTorch
5 83 (4.52%) .NET
6 82 (4.46%) Kafka
7 81 (4.41%) REST
8 73 (3.97%) Django
8 73 (3.97%) TensorFlow
9 67 (3.65%) RESTful
10 64 (3.48%) FastAPI
11 56 (3.05%) LangChain
12 38 (2.07%) Next.js
13 37 (2.01%) Pandas
14 36 (1.96%) Vue
15 34 (1.85%) CSS
16 33 (1.80%) scikit-learn
17 32 (1.74%) Flask
17 32 (1.74%) LangGraph
18 30 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 235 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 189 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.68%) Algorithms
4 81 (4.41%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
5 80 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 54 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 54 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 46 (2.50%) Low-Code
7 46 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 43 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 38 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 34 (1.85%) Over-the-Top Content
12 31 (1.69%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
14 29 (1.58%) Blog
14 29 (1.58%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.31%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 223 (12.14%) Linux
2 82 (4.46%) Windows
3 48 (2.61%) Unix
4 32 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Android
7 7 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Debian
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.054%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (36.69%) AI
2 601 (32.72%) Software Engineering
3 584 (31.79%) CI/CD
4 435 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 413 (22.48%) Mentoring
6 410 (22.32%) Agile
7 388 (21.12%) Machine Learning
8 387 (21.07%) DevOps
9 366 (19.92%) Analytics
10 351 (19.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 322 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 284 (15.46%) Data Science
13 257 (13.99%) Test Automation
14 240 (13.06%) Observability
15 226 (12.30%) Roadmaps
16 225 (12.25%) Decision-Making
17 222 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
18 221 (12.03%) Data Engineering
18 221 (12.03%) Data Modelling
19 205 (11.16%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 552 (30.05%) SQL
2 284 (15.46%) JavaScript
3 271 (14.75%) Java
4 218 (11.87%) C#
4 218 (11.87%) PowerShell
5 204 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 147 (8.00%) Go
7 132 (7.19%) Bash
8 101 (5.50%) C++
9 67 (3.65%) Scala
10 58 (3.16%) R
11 45 (2.45%) C
12 41 (2.23%) Bicep
13 39 (2.12%) PHP
14 30 (1.63%) VBA
15 27 (1.47%) Ruby
16 25 (1.36%) Rust
17 20 (1.09%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.98%) Groovy
19 14 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 238 (12.96%) Degree
2 218 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 175 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.31%) PhD
10 19 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.82%) CISSP
13 15 (0.82%) SnowPro
14 14 (0.76%) OSCP
15 13 (0.71%) CCNP
15 13 (0.71%) CEH
15 13 (0.71%) CREST Certified
15 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (8.87%) Data Quality
2 143 (7.78%) QA
3 44 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.58%) GDPR
6 26 (1.42%) NIST
7 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.33%) PMO
12 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.27%) WCAG
13 4 (0.22%) GAAP
13 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
14 3 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 256 (13.94%) Docker
2 30 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.31%) Firmware
5 20 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.44%) vSphere
8 7 (0.38%) KVM
8 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 279 (15.19%) Terraform
2 230 (12.52%) Kubernetes
3 102 (5.55%) Ansible
4 93 (5.06%) Grafana
5 51 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.09%) Istio
7 19 (1.03%) Argo
8 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
9 10 (0.54%) Packer
10 8 (0.44%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.38%) Puppet
12 6 (0.33%) Graylog
12 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.22%) CASB
14 4 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 283 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.62%) Databricks
3 79 (4.30%) Google
4 55 (2.99%) Cisco
5 44 (2.40%) VMware
6 39 (2.12%) Oracle
7 38 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.47%) Splunk
10 27 (1.47%) Typelevel
11 26 (1.42%) Foundry
12 24 (1.31%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 19 (1.03%) F5
14 17 (0.93%) Salesforce
15 15 (0.82%) Informatica
16 14 (0.76%) HubSpot
16 14 (0.76%) New Relic
17 13 (0.71%) Dynatrace