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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,628 2,370 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.41% 15.92% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.83% 40.64% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,422 2,983
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,234 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% -3.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £134,300 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 5,115 5,832 13,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 39.18% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,758 4,043 11,505
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 6 June 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 78 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.46%) Apache
4 20 (1.23%) SAS
5 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.37%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.18%) Confluence
8 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.25%) SPSS
6 3 (0.18%) Blender
6 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 628 (38.57%) AWS
2 536 (32.92%) Azure
3 266 (16.34%) GCP
4 143 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 115 (7.06%) SaaS
6 114 (7.00%) GitHub
7 106 (6.51%) Serverless
8 94 (5.77%) Amazon S3
9 76 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 64 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 59 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (2.76%) dbt
16 44 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (2.64%) Snowflake
18 42 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 184 (11.30%) Broadband
2 76 (4.67%) Firewall
3 42 (2.58%) VPN
4 27 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (1.47%) LAN
6 22 (1.35%) VLAN
6 22 (1.35%) WAN
7 20 (1.23%) DNS
8 19 (1.17%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.17%) Wireshark
9 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (1.04%) NGFW
10 16 (0.98%) BGP
10 16 (0.98%) Network Security
11 15 (0.92%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.80%) MPLS
13 12 (0.74%) 4G
13 12 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.74%) Unified Communications
13 12 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (7.13%) Power BI
3 90 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 68 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 63 (3.87%) Metadata
7 60 (3.69%) MongoDB
8 57 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 57 (3.50%) NoSQL
9 56 (3.44%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.44%) Tableau
10 38 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 36 (2.21%) Big Data
13 31 (1.90%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.84%) MySQL
15 29 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
16 26 (1.60%) Redis
17 25 (1.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (8.29%) Git
2 62 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.38%) GitLab
4 31 (1.90%) JIRA
5 18 (1.11%) Jaeger
6 16 (0.98%) MLflow
7 13 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.37%) JMeter
11 5 (0.31%) Locust
11 5 (0.31%) Selenium
11 5 (0.31%) Subversion
12 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.25%) Postman
13 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 441 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 365 (22.42%) Finance
3 290 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 97 (5.96%) Banking
7 73 (4.48%) Law
8 63 (3.87%) Retail
9 48 (2.95%) Front Office
10 47 (2.89%) Marketing
11 46 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.70%) Legal
13 38 (2.33%) Games
14 24 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.86%) Electronics
18 13 (0.80%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.80%) Publishing
19 12 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 377 (23.16%) Senior
2 317 (19.47%) Developer
3 266 (16.34%) Lead
4 211 (12.96%) Data Engineer
5 187 (11.49%) Software Engineer
6 154 (9.46%) Python Engineer
7 108 (6.63%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.90%) Analyst
9 95 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
10 93 (5.71%) Data Scientist
11 65 (3.99%) Lead Developer
12 64 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
13 62 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
14 61 (3.75%) Senior Developer
15 58 (3.56%) Data Analyst
16 57 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 53 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
18 50 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
19 47 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
20 45 (2.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.15%) React
2 104 (6.39%) Node.js
3 100 (6.14%) Kafka
4 89 (5.47%) PyTorch
5 81 (4.98%) TensorFlow
6 72 (4.42%) PySpark
7 70 (4.30%) .NET
7 70 (4.30%) REST
8 58 (3.56%) Django
9 55 (3.38%) FastAPI
10 53 (3.26%) RESTful
11 49 (3.01%) gRPC
12 38 (2.33%) JSON
13 37 (2.27%) LangChain
14 36 (2.21%) Vue
15 32 (1.97%) Flask
15 32 (1.97%) Redux
16 28 (1.72%) CSS
16 28 (1.72%) GraphQL
16 28 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 183 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 157 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (5.71%) Video\Live Streaming
4 82 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 70 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 67 (4.12%) Data Structures
7 54 (3.32%) Low-Code
8 53 (3.26%) Over-the-Top Content
9 45 (2.76%) AI Agents
10 44 (2.70%) Onboarding
11 40 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.21%) Public Cloud
13 34 (2.09%) Fixed Income
13 34 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.78%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.60%) Equities
16 24 (1.47%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.47%) Security Posture
17 23 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (1.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 176 (10.81%) Linux
2 62 (3.81%) Windows
3 43 (2.64%) Unix
4 30 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 6 (0.37%) Debian
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.061%) AIX
12 1 (0.061%) CentOS
12 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (32.86%) CI/CD
2 494 (30.34%) AI
3 464 (28.50%) Software Engineering
4 391 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
5 388 (23.83%) Agile
6 355 (21.81%) DevOps
7 348 (21.38%) Machine Learning
8 326 (20.02%) Mentoring
9 315 (19.35%) Analytics
10 294 (18.06%) Data Science
10 294 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 243 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
12 227 (13.94%) Containerisation
13 221 (13.57%) Data Modelling
14 214 (13.14%) Data Engineering
15 204 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 202 (12.41%) Roadmaps
17 185 (11.36%) Decision-Making
18 179 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
19 178 (10.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 482 (29.61%) SQL
2 283 (17.38%) Java
3 228 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 189 (11.61%) Go
5 153 (9.40%) PowerShell
6 150 (9.21%) Bash
7 149 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 138 (8.48%) C#
9 93 (5.71%) Scala
10 72 (4.42%) C++
11 54 (3.32%) R
12 34 (2.09%) C
12 34 (2.09%) PHP
13 22 (1.35%) Bicep
14 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.17%) Apex Code
16 17 (1.04%) VBA
17 15 (0.92%) Groovy
18 14 (0.86%) Ruby
19 13 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 230 (14.13%) Degree
2 150 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 123 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.92%) PhD
12 13 (0.80%) CEH
13 12 (0.74%) OSCP
14 10 (0.61%) ACCA
14 10 (0.61%) CIMA
14 10 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.55%) CISSP
16 7 (0.43%) CCNP
16 7 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.08%) QA
3 40 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.29%) NIST
6 16 (0.98%) GDPR
7 12 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) ISO 22301
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) SLA
10 6 (0.37%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) PMO
11 5 (0.31%) WCAG
12 4 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.18%) GAAP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) EMIR
System Software
1 265 (16.28%) Docker
2 36 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.92%) Firmware
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) KVM
7 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 278 (17.08%) Terraform
2 228 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 109 (6.70%) Ansible
4 80 (4.91%) Grafana
5 68 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.46%) Argo
7 24 (1.47%) Kustomize
8 14 (0.86%) Istio
9 12 (0.74%) Packer
9 12 (0.74%) Proxmox
10 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (0.43%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.37%) Graylog
13 6 (0.37%) Puppet
14 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.31%) FTK
14 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.31%) Databricks
3 78 (4.79%) Google
4 53 (3.26%) Cisco
5 51 (3.13%) VMware
6 45 (2.76%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 31 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.78%) Oracle
10 26 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.29%) Foundry
13 20 (1.23%) Splunk
14 19 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 15 (0.92%) Arista
15 15 (0.92%) Aruba
15 15 (0.92%) Commvault
15 15 (0.92%) F5
15 15 (0.92%) NetScout
15 15 (0.92%) ServiceNow