Python Jobs with Work from Home Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,811 6,769 10,754
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.29% 15.69% 16.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.74% 31.86% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,837 4,110 5,669
10th Percentile £41,500 £43,697 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £117,236 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,739 21,246 39,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.72% 49.24% 58.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,385 15,601 23,937
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python.

Python salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Python salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 323 (8.48%) Apache
2 303 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.98%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.67%) GeoServer
5 120 (3.15%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.36%) SAS
7 35 (0.92%) Confluence
8 27 (0.71%) nginx
9 20 (0.52%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.13%) CMS
11 5 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.13%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.13%) IIS
11 5 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.13%) WordPress
12 4 (0.10%) Drupal
12 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.079%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.079%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 69 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.23%) Simulink
3 12 (0.31%) SPSS
4 9 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.21%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.052%) CANalyzer
8 2 (0.052%) EViews
8 2 (0.052%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.052%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.052%) Stata
9 1 (0.026%) Blender
9 1 (0.026%) CATIA
9 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) Odoo
4 4 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.079%) Shopify
6 2 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.052%) Primavera
6 2 (0.052%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.052%) Relativity
7 1 (0.026%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,707 (44.79%) AWS
2 1,119 (29.36%) Azure
3 650 (17.06%) GCP
4 300 (7.87%) Serverless
4 300 (7.87%) Snowflake
5 292 (7.66%) dbt
6 266 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 217 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 176 (4.62%) SaaS
9 174 (4.57%) GitHub
10 166 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
11 153 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 71 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
15 65 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
15 65 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
16 60 (1.57%) PaaS
17 49 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 48 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.78%) Firewall
2 90 (2.36%) VPN
3 87 (2.28%) Internet
4 83 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 76 (1.99%) DNS
6 67 (1.76%) SNMP
7 59 (1.55%) IPsec
8 57 (1.50%) Network Security
9 48 (1.26%) WAN
10 37 (0.97%) LAN
11 29 (0.76%) Wireless
12 23 (0.60%) HTTP
13 20 (0.52%) DHCP
13 20 (0.52%) MQTT
14 16 (0.42%) 5G
15 14 (0.37%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.34%) VSAN
17 11 (0.29%) SSL
17 11 (0.29%) tcpdump
18 10 (0.26%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 309 (8.11%) Data Lake
3 267 (7.01%) Tableau
4 246 (6.45%) GIS
5 242 (6.35%) Power BI
6 225 (5.90%) Amazon Athena
7 218 (5.72%) QGIS
8 213 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
8 213 (5.59%) Dremio
9 207 (5.43%) Apache Arrow
10 196 (5.14%) SQL Server
11 178 (4.67%) Apache Ignite
12 169 (4.43%) Big Data
13 158 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
14 141 (3.70%) Relational Database
15 131 (3.44%) NoSQL
16 129 (3.38%) MongoDB
17 120 (3.15%) MySQL
18 95 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
19 89 (2.34%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 512 (13.43%) Git
2 238 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 140 (3.67%) GitLab
4 111 (2.91%) JIRA
5 36 (0.94%) JDeveloper
6 31 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 30 (0.79%) Maven
8 28 (0.73%) Subversion
9 25 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 25 (0.66%) Selenium
10 22 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 20 (0.52%) JUnit
12 19 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
13 18 (0.47%) Appium
14 17 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
14 17 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
16 14 (0.37%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,173 (30.78%) Finance
2 835 (21.91%) Social Skills
3 426 (11.18%) Banking
4 425 (11.15%) Front Office
5 415 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 240 (6.30%) Retail
7 203 (5.33%) Investment Banking
8 149 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 126 (3.31%) Marketing
10 117 (3.07%) Law
10 117 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
10 117 (3.07%) Public Sector
11 105 (2.76%) Back Office
12 94 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 83 (2.18%) Electronics
14 81 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 78 (2.05%) Games
16 70 (1.84%) Legal
17 63 (1.65%) Tech for Good
18 50 (1.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,087 (28.52%) Senior
2 971 (25.48%) Software Engineer
3 740 (19.42%) Developer
4 436 (11.44%) Senior Software Engineer
5 404 (10.60%) Data Engineer
6 369 (9.68%) Lead
7 331 (8.69%) Analyst
8 293 (7.69%) Python Engineer
9 273 (7.16%) Python Developer
10 250 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
11 195 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 182 (4.78%) Senior Developer
13 162 (4.25%) Data Analyst
14 160 (4.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 155 (4.07%) Software Developer
16 146 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
17 117 (3.07%) Full Stack Developer
17 117 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
18 114 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
18 114 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 683 (17.92%) React
2 376 (9.87%) .NET
3 295 (7.74%) CSS
4 269 (7.06%) Pandas
5 252 (6.61%) Node.js
6 238 (6.25%) gRPC
7 231 (6.06%) Protocol Buffers
8 219 (5.75%) Django
8 219 (5.75%) PostGIS
9 216 (5.67%) OpenLayers
10 215 (5.64%) AngularJS
10 215 (5.64%) Leaflet
11 212 (5.56%) .NET Core
12 204 (5.35%) NumPy
13 170 (4.46%) SciPy
14 167 (4.38%) HTML
15 143 (3.75%) Kafka
16 126 (3.31%) RESTful
17 124 (3.25%) Spring
18 116 (3.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 392 (10.29%) Hedge funds
2 351 (9.21%) Fixed Income
3 339 (8.90%) Derivative
4 293 (7.69%) Equities
5 253 (6.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 214 (5.62%) Algorithms
7 187 (4.91%) Data Structures
8 128 (3.36%) IoT
9 112 (2.94%) Cloud Native
10 111 (2.91%) Data Centre
11 103 (2.70%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.20%) Client/Server
13 73 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
14 69 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
15 57 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
16 55 (1.44%) Clustering
17 53 (1.39%) Public Cloud
18 49 (1.29%) Onboarding
19 47 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
19 47 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 710 (18.63%) Linux
2 259 (6.80%) Windows
3 85 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 84 (2.20%) Unix
5 76 (1.99%) Embedded Linux
6 75 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 57 (1.50%) Windows Server
8 54 (1.42%) Data ONTAP
9 49 (1.29%) CentOS
10 42 (1.10%) Android
11 27 (0.71%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.39%) Debian
13 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.26%) AIX
14 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
14 10 (0.26%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.24%) Solaris
16 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.18%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,466 (38.47%) Software Engineering
2 1,284 (33.69%) Agile
3 987 (25.90%) DevOps
4 896 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
5 653 (17.13%) Analytics
6 565 (14.83%) CI/CD
7 512 (13.43%) Actionable Insight
8 476 (12.49%) Asset Management
9 462 (12.12%) Machine Learning
10 429 (11.26%) Data Science
11 418 (10.97%) Artificial Intelligence
12 404 (10.60%) Mentoring
13 386 (10.13%) Investment Management
14 346 (9.08%) Computer Science
15 343 (9.00%) Full Stack Development
16 315 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
17 309 (8.11%) Data Pipeline
18 298 (7.82%) Data Engineering
19 288 (7.56%) Visualisation
20 287 (7.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,199 (31.46%) SQL
2 1,081 (28.37%) JavaScript
3 898 (23.56%) Java
4 549 (14.41%) C#
5 476 (12.49%) TypeScript
6 397 (10.42%) Bash
7 303 (7.95%) C
8 248 (6.51%) C++
9 237 (6.22%) Go
10 231 (6.06%) PowerShell
10 231 (6.06%) R
11 154 (4.04%) Ruby
12 132 (3.46%) Perl
13 88 (2.31%) Embedded C
14 86 (2.26%) Scala
15 82 (2.15%) Rust
16 60 (1.57%) PHP
16 60 (1.57%) T-SQL
17 54 (1.42%) Kotlin
18 41 (1.08%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 728 (19.10%) Degree
2 573 (15.04%) Security Cleared
3 390 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 182 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 166 (4.36%) Master's Degree
6 149 (3.91%) DBS Check
7 77 (2.02%) PhD
8 57 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 45 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.58%) CISSP
15 20 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.42%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.42%) CEH
17 15 (0.39%) SANS
18 13 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.38%) QA
3 38 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (0.73%) NIST
6 21 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.50%) GDPR
8 9 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.24%) CRD IV
9 8 (0.21%) PMO
10 7 (0.18%) IFRS
10 7 (0.18%) IFRS 9
11 6 (0.16%) SLA
12 5 (0.13%) NCSC
13 4 (0.10%) COBIT
13 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.079%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.052%) GRC
15 2 (0.052%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 540 (14.17%) Docker
2 101 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 39 (1.02%) Firmware
4 39 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
7 19 (0.50%) vSphere
8 16 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.39%) NFS
10 14 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.26%) pfSense
12 4 (0.10%) Ceph
12 4 (0.10%) KVM
13 3 (0.079%) Gluster
13 3 (0.079%) oVirt
14 2 (0.052%) HDFS
14 2 (0.052%) OpenSIPS
15 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 533 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 445 (11.68%) Terraform
3 305 (8.00%) Ansible
4 129 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 105 (2.76%) Puppet
6 79 (2.07%) Grafana
7 78 (2.05%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.55%) Nmap
10 18 (0.47%) Salt
11 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 16 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.39%) Packer
13 13 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
14 11 (0.29%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.29%) Kibana
14 11 (0.29%) Nagios
15 10 (0.26%) Graphite
15 10 (0.26%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 279 (7.32%) Databricks
2 247 (6.48%) Microsoft
3 227 (5.96%) Google
4 219 (5.75%) ESRI
5 158 (4.15%) Oracle
6 137 (3.59%) VMware
7 105 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 58 (1.52%) SAP
9 54 (1.42%) NetApp
9 54 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.42%) SolidFire
10 38 (1.00%) Bloomberg
11 29 (0.76%) Dell
11 29 (0.76%) Micro Focus
11 29 (0.76%) Splunk
12 25 (0.66%) Salesforce
13 23 (0.60%) Xilinx
14 21 (0.55%) NVIDIA
15 17 (0.45%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.45%) Qualys