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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,329 2,383 2,623
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.77% 14.32% 12.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.41% 33.37% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,616 2,125
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 4,101 7,141 9,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.07% 42.91% 45.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,112 4,497 8,152
10th Percentile £36,775 £38,752 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 8 January 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
1 106 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (4.59%) Apache
3 35 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.58%) Confluence
5 18 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.20%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.83%) SAS
10 7 (0.53%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.53%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.38%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.38%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.23%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 51 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.38%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.075%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) Notion
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.93%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.45%) Shopify
4 3 (0.23%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.075%) Actimize
6 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 534 (40.18%) Azure
2 526 (39.58%) AWS
3 200 (15.05%) GitHub
4 180 (13.54%) Power Platform
5 163 (12.26%) GCP
6 159 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (9.86%) Serverless
8 115 (8.65%) Snowflake
9 107 (8.05%) dbt
10 89 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (6.47%) Amazon S3
11 86 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (6.09%) SaaS
13 70 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 58 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 52 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 50 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (3.24%) Entra ID
18 43 (3.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.93%) Firewall
2 36 (2.71%) TCP/IP
3 27 (2.03%) VPN
4 24 (1.81%) Broadband
4 24 (1.81%) WAN
5 21 (1.58%) LAN
6 17 (1.28%) SSL
7 16 (1.20%) DNS
8 11 (0.83%) BGP
8 11 (0.83%) Network Security
8 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 9 (0.68%) VLAN
10 9 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.60%) SAN
12 7 (0.53%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 7 (0.53%) OSPF
13 6 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.57%) Power BI
2 104 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (6.55%) Data Lake
3 87 (6.55%) Tableau
4 74 (5.57%) Apache Iceberg
5 72 (5.42%) SQL Server
6 70 (5.27%) Amazon Athena
7 68 (5.12%) NoSQL
8 59 (4.44%) Apache Arrow
8 59 (4.44%) Dremio
9 48 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
10 44 (3.31%) Relational Database
11 42 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
12 36 (2.71%) Metadata
13 34 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 33 (2.48%) Apache Ignite
15 31 (2.33%) BigQuery
16 28 (2.11%) DynamoDB
16 28 (2.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 115 (8.65%) Git
2 100 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.74%) JIRA
4 37 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.71%) GitLab
6 21 (1.58%) Selenium
7 12 (0.90%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.90%) ERwin
8 11 (0.83%) JUnit
9 10 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.75%) MLflow
10 7 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.38%) JMeter
13 4 (0.30%) Postman
13 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 418 (31.45%) Finance
2 394 (29.65%) Social Skills
3 172 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.98%) Banking
5 93 (7.00%) Front Office
6 59 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 56 (4.21%) Marketing
9 50 (3.76%) Law
10 49 (3.69%) Investment Banking
11 42 (3.16%) Retail
12 34 (2.56%) Publishing
13 32 (2.41%) Tech for Good
14 29 (2.18%) Health Technology
14 29 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.96%) Legal
15 26 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.43%) Electronics
17 17 (1.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 307 (23.10%) Senior
2 272 (20.47%) Developer
3 165 (12.42%) Data Engineer
4 138 (10.38%) Python Developer
4 138 (10.38%) Python Engineer
4 138 (10.38%) Software Engineer
5 128 (9.63%) Lead
6 98 (7.37%) Analyst
7 93 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
8 85 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (6.17%) Python Software Engineer
10 70 (5.27%) Architect
11 66 (4.97%) AWS Developer
12 59 (4.44%) AWS Software Engineer
13 58 (4.36%) Applications Engineer
14 57 (4.29%) Senior Developer
15 54 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 51 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
17 50 (3.76%) Lead Developer
17 50 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (10.76%) React
2 90 (6.77%) Node.js
3 89 (6.70%) RESTful
4 81 (6.09%) Pandas
5 69 (5.19%) NumPy
6 60 (4.51%) Django
7 59 (4.44%) SciPy
8 54 (4.06%) .NET
9 53 (3.99%) Vue
10 52 (3.91%) Kafka
11 48 (3.61%) PySpark
12 47 (3.54%) SOAP
13 46 (3.46%) REST
14 44 (3.31%) JSON
14 44 (3.31%) XML
15 43 (3.24%) AngularJS
16 42 (3.16%) gRPC
17 39 (2.93%) Flask
18 35 (2.63%) HTML
19 33 (2.48%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.27%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (5.04%) Fixed Income
5 66 (4.97%) Equities
5 66 (4.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 63 (4.74%) Algorithms
7 49 (3.69%) Onboarding
8 47 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (3.54%) Hedge funds
9 45 (3.39%) Management Information System
10 40 (3.01%) Derivative
11 39 (2.93%) Data Structures
12 38 (2.86%) Low-Code
13 33 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 33 (2.48%) Pricing Data
14 28 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 196 (14.75%) Linux
2 88 (6.62%) Windows
3 77 (5.79%) Unix
4 31 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.60%) Debian
7 8 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.60%) Solaris
8 7 (0.53%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.075%) Android
11 1 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.075%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (34.99%) Agile
2 459 (34.54%) CI/CD
3 433 (32.58%) DevOps
4 322 (24.23%) AI
5 294 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
6 285 (21.44%) Software Engineering
7 275 (20.69%) Analytics
8 222 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 210 (15.80%) Mentoring
10 198 (14.90%) Asset Management
11 192 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
12 191 (14.37%) Data Modelling
13 184 (13.84%) Data Pipeline
13 184 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 177 (13.32%) Data Engineering
15 175 (13.17%) Data Science
15 175 (13.17%) Machine Learning
16 171 (12.87%) Coaching
17 161 (12.11%) Test Automation
18 153 (11.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 504 (37.92%) SQL
2 266 (20.02%) Java
3 247 (18.59%) JavaScript
4 165 (12.42%) TypeScript
5 147 (11.06%) Bash
6 141 (10.61%) PowerShell
7 103 (7.75%) C#
8 65 (4.89%) Go
9 54 (4.06%) R
10 53 (3.99%) C++
11 45 (3.39%) PL/SQL
11 45 (3.39%) Shell Script
12 44 (3.31%) Scala
13 38 (2.86%) C
14 34 (2.56%) Bicep
15 19 (1.43%) Perl
15 19 (1.43%) PHP
16 15 (1.13%) MATLAB
16 15 (1.13%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 240 (18.06%) Degree
2 140 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 113 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 85 (6.40%) AWS Certification
5 76 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.99%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 31 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.35%) PhD
14 17 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.20%) CISSP
16 13 (0.98%) ACCA
16 13 (0.98%) CEH
16 13 (0.98%) CIMA
16 13 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.09%) QA
3 39 (2.93%) GDPR
4 37 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.88%) SLA
7 20 (1.50%) NIST
8 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.68%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 2 (0.15%) EMIR
13 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.075%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.075%) SEPA
System Software
1 197 (14.82%) Docker
2 36 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.60%) vSphere
6 7 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.45%) NFS
8 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.075%) HDFS
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.075%) vCloud
11 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 278 (20.92%) Terraform
2 218 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 112 (8.43%) Ansible
4 62 (4.67%) Grafana
5 46 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
6 43 (3.24%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.81%) Argo
8 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (0.60%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.45%) Control-M
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.30%) logstash
11 4 (0.30%) Puppet
12 3 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.23%) Nmap
12 3 (0.23%) QRadar
13 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 181 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 113 (8.50%) Databricks
3 87 (6.55%) Oracle
4 62 (4.67%) Google
5 49 (3.69%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.71%) VMware
7 27 (2.03%) IBM
7 27 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.58%) Cisco
8 21 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 20 (1.50%) Okta
10 19 (1.43%) Talend
11 18 (1.35%) Commvault
11 18 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.28%) SAP
13 13 (0.98%) Workday
14 11 (0.83%) Informatica
15 10 (0.75%) Dell
15 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.75%) Splunk
1,910 hybrid/remote Python jobs