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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,335 2,744 2,732
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.83% 14.22% 13.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.81% 33.76% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 953 1,973 2,219
10th Percentile £42,754 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,646 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +2.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £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 4,069 8,127 9,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.92% 42.11% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 5,236 8,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,309 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%
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 1 December 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
1 129 (9.66%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (5.99%) Apache
3 35 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.35%) Confluence
6 16 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 16 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 13 (0.97%) Apache Solr
8 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.75%) CMS
10 8 (0.60%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.52%) SAS
12 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.22%) nginx
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
15 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 58 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 4 (0.30%) Blender
6 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Weka
7 1 (0.075%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.075%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.075%) Notion
Business Applications
1 33 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.45%) Shopify
5 4 (0.30%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.075%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.075%) FastStats
7 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 576 (43.15%) AWS
2 511 (38.28%) Azure
3 185 (13.86%) GCP
4 169 (12.66%) GitHub
5 162 (12.13%) Power Platform
6 140 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (10.19%) dbt
8 130 (9.74%) Snowflake
9 124 (9.29%) Serverless
10 87 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
11 75 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
12 68 (5.09%) SaaS
13 66 (4.94%) Amazon S3
14 59 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 51 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 42 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 42 (3.15%) Entra ID
17 40 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (3.00%) OCI
18 39 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.37%) Firewall
2 35 (2.62%) WAN
3 34 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.25%) VPN
5 25 (1.87%) LAN
6 22 (1.65%) DNS
7 20 (1.50%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.27%) SSL
9 15 (1.12%) Broadband
10 14 (1.05%) Network Security
11 13 (0.97%) BGP
11 13 (0.97%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.75%) DHCP
12 10 (0.75%) OSPF
12 10 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.67%) VLAN
13 9 (0.67%) Wireless
14 8 (0.60%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.60%) SAN
15 7 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (11.69%) Power BI
2 124 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (8.69%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (7.57%) Amazon Athena
5 100 (7.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 94 (7.04%) Apache Arrow
6 94 (7.04%) Dremio
7 91 (6.82%) Data Lake
8 80 (5.99%) Tableau
9 70 (5.24%) NoSQL
10 60 (4.49%) SQL Server
11 53 (3.97%) Apache Ignite
12 49 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
14 38 (2.85%) Relational Database
15 34 (2.55%) MySQL
16 33 (2.47%) DynamoDB
17 31 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
18 30 (2.25%) MongoDB
19 23 (1.72%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 117 (8.76%) Git
2 98 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 57 (4.27%) JIRA
4 42 (3.15%) GitLab
5 32 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
6 23 (1.72%) Selenium
7 11 (0.82%) JUnit
8 10 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.75%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.67%) ERwin
10 7 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.45%) MLflow
11 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.30%) Appium
13 4 (0.30%) Burp Suite
General
1 452 (33.86%) Finance
2 386 (28.91%) Social Skills
3 154 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (10.86%) Front Office
5 122 (9.14%) Banking
6 69 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 66 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (4.87%) Marketing
9 54 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.82%) Retail
11 49 (3.67%) Law
12 33 (2.47%) Tech for Good
13 30 (2.25%) Health Technology
14 28 (2.10%) Publishing
15 26 (1.95%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.95%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.65%) Electronics
17 21 (1.57%) Legal
18 20 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 338 (25.32%) Senior
2 285 (21.35%) Developer
3 179 (13.41%) Software Engineer
4 154 (11.54%) Python Engineer
5 135 (10.11%) Python Developer
6 132 (9.89%) Data Engineer
7 127 (9.51%) Lead
8 124 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
9 108 (8.09%) Python Software Engineer
10 107 (8.01%) Analyst
11 94 (7.04%) AWS Software Engineer
12 73 (5.47%) AWS Developer
13 72 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
14 71 (5.32%) Architect
15 67 (5.02%) Senior Developer
16 65 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
17 64 (4.79%) Java Engineer
18 63 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 62 (4.64%) Java Software Engineer
20 61 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (12.13%) React
2 121 (9.06%) Pandas
3 113 (8.46%) Node.js
4 103 (7.72%) NumPy
5 94 (7.04%) SciPy
6 86 (6.44%) RESTful
7 76 (5.69%) Vue
8 67 (5.02%) AngularJS
9 64 (4.79%) Kafka
10 63 (4.72%) Django
10 63 (4.72%) gRPC
11 54 (4.04%) REST
12 53 (3.97%) Protocol Buffers
13 51 (3.82%) .NET
14 46 (3.45%) Flask
14 46 (3.45%) SOAP
15 41 (3.07%) JSON
16 38 (2.85%) XML
17 36 (2.70%) FastAPI
18 30 (2.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.29%) Fixed Income
2 123 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 106 (7.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (7.72%) Equities
5 75 (5.62%) Product Ownership
6 68 (5.09%) Hedge funds
7 61 (4.57%) Derivative
8 58 (4.34%) Algorithms
8 58 (4.34%) Management Information System
9 57 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (4.04%) Onboarding
11 53 (3.97%) Pricing Data
12 39 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
13 38 (2.85%) Data Structures
14 30 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.87%) Low-Code
16 24 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 22 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (1.65%) Public Cloud
18 17 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (14.76%) Linux
2 99 (7.42%) Windows
3 71 (5.32%) Unix
4 37 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.32%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.60%) Debian
6 8 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.60%) Solaris
6 8 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.52%) VMS
8 5 (0.37%) CentOS
9 2 (0.15%) Android
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.075%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.075%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.075%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (38.13%) Agile
2 434 (32.51%) CI/CD
3 397 (29.74%) DevOps
4 309 (23.15%) Software Engineering
5 303 (22.70%) AI
5 303 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (18.88%) Analytics
7 222 (16.63%) Asset Management
8 196 (14.68%) Mentoring
9 195 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 178 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
11 173 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 165 (12.36%) Containerisation
12 165 (12.36%) Data Science
13 156 (11.69%) Machine Learning
14 155 (11.61%) Test Automation
15 152 (11.39%) Coaching
16 149 (11.16%) Data Engineering
17 148 (11.09%) Data Modelling
17 148 (11.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 497 (37.23%) SQL
2 284 (21.27%) JavaScript
3 276 (20.67%) Java
4 196 (14.68%) TypeScript
5 147 (11.01%) Bash
6 144 (10.79%) PowerShell
7 94 (7.04%) C#
8 65 (4.87%) Go
9 57 (4.27%) C++
10 54 (4.04%) R
11 39 (2.92%) C
11 39 (2.92%) Shell Script
12 38 (2.85%) PL/SQL
13 34 (2.55%) Bicep
14 25 (1.87%) Scala
15 21 (1.57%) MATLAB
15 21 (1.57%) Perl
15 21 (1.57%) PHP
16 13 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 226 (16.93%) Degree
2 130 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 106 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 61 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.40%) Master's Degree
9 27 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (1.42%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.35%) PhD
14 17 (1.27%) CISSP
14 17 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
16 11 (0.82%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.75%) CEH
18 9 (0.67%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.62%) QA
2 53 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 53 (3.97%) GDPR
3 35 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.95%) SLA
5 25 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.72%) NIST
7 12 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.45%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.075%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.075%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.075%) SEPA
System Software
1 207 (15.51%) Docker
2 40 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.75%) Firmware
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.60%) vSphere
6 7 (0.52%) NFS
7 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Lustre
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 1 (0.075%) GPFS
10 1 (0.075%) HDFS
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.075%) vCloud
10 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 247 (18.50%) Terraform
2 209 (15.66%) Kubernetes
3 126 (9.44%) Ansible
4 58 (4.34%) Grafana
5 40 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (2.47%) Prometheus
7 15 (1.12%) Argo
8 13 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
9 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.37%) SCCM
10 5 (0.37%) SCOM
10 5 (0.37%) WSUS
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.30%) Nmap
11 4 (0.30%) Puppet
11 4 (0.30%) QRadar
12 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 176 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.94%) Databricks
3 91 (6.82%) Oracle
4 67 (5.02%) Google
5 59 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 33 (2.47%) VMware
7 25 (1.87%) Cisco
8 24 (1.80%) IBM
9 23 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.50%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.27%) Okta
13 16 (1.20%) Talend
14 15 (1.12%) Commvault
15 14 (1.05%) SAP
15 14 (1.05%) Workday
16 12 (0.90%) Palo Alto
17 11 (0.82%) Informatica
18 10 (0.75%) Dell
18 10 (0.75%) Splunk