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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,449 2,107 3,380
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.59% 16.31% 10.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.18% 35.79% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 965 1,583 2,783
10th Percentile £42,600 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,987 £93,750
90th Percentile £116,000 £122,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -6.25%

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 4,503 5,887 13,173
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.70% 45.56% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,278 4,519 11,434
10th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 26 March 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 77 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.48%) Apache
4 19 (1.31%) SAS
5 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.41%) Confluence
7 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 33 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.069%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.35%) Shopify
4 4 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.069%) Actimize
6 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.069%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 614 (42.37%) AWS
2 548 (37.82%) Azure
3 231 (15.94%) GCP
4 187 (12.91%) GitHub
5 155 (10.70%) Power Platform
6 130 (8.97%) Serverless
7 114 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (7.66%) SaaS
9 108 (7.45%) Amazon S3
10 86 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
11 84 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 63 (4.35%) dbt
14 59 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
14 59 (4.07%) Snowflake
15 53 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 50 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
18 39 (2.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 134 (9.25%) Broadband
2 64 (4.42%) Firewall
3 36 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 36 (2.48%) VPN
4 29 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (1.73%) Wireshark
6 23 (1.59%) VLAN
7 20 (1.38%) BGP
8 18 (1.24%) LAN
9 17 (1.17%) NGFW
10 16 (1.10%) WAN
11 15 (1.04%) MPLS
11 15 (1.04%) Network Security
11 15 (1.04%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.97%) DNS
13 12 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.76%) 4G
14 11 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.76%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (9.25%) Power BI
2 103 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (6.28%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.97%) Tableau
5 71 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 69 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 56 (3.86%) Metadata
9 50 (3.45%) Data Lake
10 49 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (2.83%) BigQuery
12 40 (2.76%) MongoDB
13 39 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (2.14%) Delta Lake
15 29 (2.00%) MySQL
16 27 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
16 27 (1.86%) Redis
17 25 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 124 (8.56%) Git
2 72 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.80%) GitLab
4 37 (2.55%) JIRA
5 19 (1.31%) Jaeger
5 19 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
6 17 (1.17%) Selenium
7 15 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.04%) MLflow
8 8 (0.55%) JMeter
8 8 (0.55%) JUnit
8 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.48%) Postman
9 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.41%) Locust
10 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.35%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.35%) ERwin
11 5 (0.35%) Subversion
11 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 463 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 345 (23.81%) Finance
3 225 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 93 (6.42%) Banking
7 66 (4.55%) Law
8 59 (4.07%) Front Office
9 53 (3.66%) Retail
10 46 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.62%) Marketing
12 33 (2.28%) Legal
12 33 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.79%) Publishing
14 25 (1.73%) Games
15 21 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.45%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.38%) Tech for Good
17 19 (1.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 312 (21.53%) Senior
2 310 (21.39%) Developer
3 219 (15.11%) Lead
4 183 (12.63%) Data Engineer
5 151 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 125 (8.63%) Python Developer
7 123 (8.49%) Python Engineer
8 80 (5.52%) Lead Developer
9 74 (5.11%) Analyst
10 69 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
11 67 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
13 60 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
14 57 (3.93%) Architect
15 56 (3.86%) Senior Developer
16 55 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
17 53 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.52%) React Developer
19 46 (3.17%) Lead Python Developer
20 40 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (11.18%) React
2 103 (7.11%) Node.js
3 101 (6.97%) Kafka
4 78 (5.38%) Django
5 70 (4.83%) REST
6 68 (4.69%) .NET
7 59 (4.07%) RESTful
8 56 (3.86%) PySpark
9 54 (3.73%) PyTorch
10 48 (3.31%) TensorFlow
11 47 (3.24%) gRPC
12 46 (3.17%) JSON
13 43 (2.97%) Vue
14 42 (2.90%) Flask
15 40 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
16 39 (2.69%) SOAP
17 38 (2.62%) FastAPI
18 35 (2.42%) HTML
18 35 (2.42%) XML
19 34 (2.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 103 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 64 (4.42%) Algorithms
5 62 (4.28%) Data Structures
6 57 (3.93%) Video\Live Streaming
7 53 (3.66%) Low-Code
8 50 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 45 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (3.04%) Fixed Income
11 41 (2.83%) Over-the-Top Content
12 38 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (2.14%) Data Centre
15 29 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
16 25 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
17 24 (1.66%) Equities
17 24 (1.66%) Public Cloud
18 20 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 199 (13.73%) Linux
2 76 (5.24%) Unix
3 66 (4.55%) Windows
4 29 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Debian
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Android
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.069%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.069%) Solaris
12 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (38.03%) CI/CD
2 427 (29.47%) Agile
3 413 (28.50%) DevOps
4 367 (25.33%) Software Engineering
5 364 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
6 341 (23.53%) AI
7 268 (18.50%) Mentoring
8 250 (17.25%) Analytics
9 244 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 243 (16.77%) Machine Learning
11 232 (16.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 230 (15.87%) Containerisation
13 211 (14.56%) Data Modelling
13 211 (14.56%) Data Science
14 209 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
15 187 (12.91%) Data Engineering
16 178 (12.28%) Test Automation
17 171 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
18 165 (11.39%) Coaching
19 158 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 438 (30.23%) SQL
2 297 (20.50%) Java
3 248 (17.12%) JavaScript
4 169 (11.66%) Go
5 143 (9.87%) Bash
6 138 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 134 (9.25%) PowerShell
8 110 (7.59%) C#
9 80 (5.52%) Scala
10 60 (4.14%) C++
11 44 (3.04%) R
12 31 (2.14%) C
13 25 (1.73%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.66%) Apex Code
15 23 (1.59%) Bicep
15 23 (1.59%) PHP
16 22 (1.52%) PL/SQL
17 21 (1.45%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.97%) VBA
19 9 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 257 (17.74%) Degree
2 132 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.97%) SC Cleared
4 87 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 51 (3.52%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.38%) CEH
11 19 (1.31%) PhD
11 19 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.04%) ACCA
12 15 (1.04%) CIMA
13 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.62%) OSCP
15 7 (0.48%) CREST Certified
15 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 98 (6.76%) QA
3 53 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.93%) NIST
5 24 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.04%) GDPR
7 15 (1.04%) ISO 22301
7 15 (1.04%) SLA
8 13 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.69%) GRC
10 4 (0.28%) PMO
10 4 (0.28%) WCAG
11 3 (0.21%) EMIR
11 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) ECSS
12 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 285 (19.67%) Docker
2 40 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.69%) Firmware
6 6 (0.41%) vSphere
7 5 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.14%) Ceph
10 2 (0.14%) KVM
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.069%) vCloud
11 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 296 (20.43%) Terraform
2 243 (16.77%) Kubernetes
3 119 (8.21%) Ansible
4 81 (5.59%) Grafana
5 64 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.55%) Argo
7 24 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.31%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.55%) Istio
10 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.41%) Control-M
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.35%) FTK
12 5 (0.35%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.35%) Packer
12 5 (0.35%) Puppet
12 5 (0.35%) SCCM
13 4 (0.28%) Cilium
13 4 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 204 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.87%) Databricks
3 77 (5.31%) Google
4 70 (4.83%) Oracle
5 55 (3.80%) VMware
6 44 (3.04%) Cisco
7 43 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 36 (2.48%) Typelevel
9 31 (2.14%) Red Hat
10 25 (1.73%) MuleSoft
11 23 (1.59%) Commvault
11 23 (1.59%) IBM
12 18 (1.24%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.24%) Talend
13 17 (1.17%) SAP
14 16 (1.10%) Splunk
15 15 (1.04%) Aruba
15 15 (1.04%) Foundry
15 15 (1.04%) Informatica
15 15 (1.04%) NetScout