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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,835 2,052 3,118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.65% 12.63% 13.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.67% 40.15% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 1,190 2,299
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +7.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £136,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 6,185 5,111 9,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.79% 31.46% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 3,465 6,346
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 11 September 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 46 (2.51%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.34%) Apache
2 43 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 9 (0.49%) SAS
6 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.11%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.054%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.14%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.33%) Simulink
6 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 3 (0.16%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.11%) SPSS
10 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.054%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 655 (35.69%) AWS
2 586 (31.93%) Azure
3 286 (15.59%) GCP
4 161 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 145 (7.90%) SaaS
6 121 (6.59%) GitHub
7 85 (4.63%) Serverless
8 78 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 69 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (3.49%) Amazon S3
12 62 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (3.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 58 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (3.16%) Snowflake
15 42 (2.29%) dbt
16 35 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.49%) Broadband
2 72 (3.92%) Firewall
3 54 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 37 (2.02%) VPN
5 36 (1.96%) DNS
6 34 (1.85%) WAN
7 32 (1.74%) LAN
8 26 (1.42%) Network Security
8 26 (1.42%) Wireless
9 18 (0.98%) VLAN
10 17 (0.93%) BGP
11 16 (0.87%) DHCP
12 15 (0.82%) OSPF
13 14 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.71%) 5G
15 12 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
16 9 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
16 9 (0.49%) MPLS
16 9 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.47%) Power BI
2 132 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 80 (4.36%) MongoDB
6 66 (3.60%) Data Lake
7 64 (3.49%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.94%) Metadata
9 51 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.67%) Tableau
11 46 (2.51%) Big Data
12 43 (2.34%) Delta Lake
13 40 (2.18%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.74%) MySQL
15 31 (1.69%) DynamoDB
16 27 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
18 24 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
19 23 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
19 23 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (10.35%) Git
2 82 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.05%) GitLab
4 32 (1.74%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.76%) MLflow
7 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 13 (0.71%) LabVIEW
8 10 (0.54%) Selenium
8 10 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.33%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.27%) JMeter
11 5 (0.27%) Poetry
11 5 (0.27%) Postman
12 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 581 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 411 (22.40%) Finance
3 301 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (6.32%) Banking
5 116 (6.32%) Legal
6 113 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 94 (5.12%) Law
8 81 (4.41%) Marketing
9 73 (3.98%) Retail
10 42 (2.29%) Games
11 40 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.85%) Electronics
13 26 (1.42%) Front Office
13 26 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.82%) Local Government
16 13 (0.71%) Advertising
16 13 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 514 (28.01%) Senior
2 267 (14.55%) Developer
3 230 (12.53%) Software Engineer
4 226 (12.32%) Lead
5 207 (11.28%) Data Engineer
6 188 (10.25%) Python Engineer
7 114 (6.21%) Analyst
8 103 (5.61%) Python Developer
9 98 (5.34%) Data Scientist
10 72 (3.92%) Architect
10 72 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 70 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
11 70 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 69 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 68 (3.71%) Python Software Engineer
14 67 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
15 57 (3.11%) Consultant
15 57 (3.11%) Data Analyst
15 57 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 57 (3.11%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (15.37%) Terraform
2 131 (7.14%) React
3 102 (5.56%) PySpark
4 90 (4.90%) Node.js
5 84 (4.58%) PyTorch
6 81 (4.41%) .NET
7 71 (3.87%) REST
7 71 (3.87%) TensorFlow
8 67 (3.65%) RESTful
9 66 (3.60%) Django
10 57 (3.11%) Kafka
11 56 (3.05%) FastAPI
11 56 (3.05%) LangChain
12 44 (2.40%) Next.js
13 39 (2.13%) Pandas
14 35 (1.91%) scikit-learn
15 34 (1.85%) CSS
16 31 (1.69%) LangGraph
17 29 (1.58%) NumPy
17 29 (1.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 239 (13.02%) Cloud Native
2 180 (9.81%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (4.52%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.36%) Algorithms
4 80 (4.36%) Virtual Team
5 64 (3.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 59 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 42 (2.29%) Low-Code
9 41 (2.23%) Onboarding
10 36 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 33 (1.80%) Blog
13 31 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
14 30 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.53%) Credit Risk
15 28 (1.53%) Security Posture
16 25 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
17 24 (1.31%) Data Centre
17 24 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 214 (11.66%) Linux
2 84 (4.58%) Windows
3 36 (1.96%) Unix
4 26 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.38%) Debian
8 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (38.64%) AI
2 596 (32.48%) Software Engineering
3 570 (31.06%) CI/CD
4 436 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
5 404 (22.02%) Mentoring
6 393 (21.42%) Analytics
7 381 (20.76%) DevOps
8 380 (20.71%) Agile
9 379 (20.65%) Machine Learning
10 338 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 325 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 264 (14.39%) Data Science
13 257 (14.01%) Test Automation
14 245 (13.35%) Observability
15 236 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
16 234 (12.75%) Data Engineering
17 230 (12.53%) Decision-Making
18 227 (12.37%) Roadmaps
19 222 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
20 220 (11.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 597 (32.53%) SQL
2 254 (13.84%) JavaScript
3 248 (13.51%) Java
4 227 (12.37%) C#
5 216 (11.77%) PowerShell
6 191 (10.41%) TypeScript
7 133 (7.25%) Bash
8 121 (6.59%) Go
9 100 (5.45%) C++
10 54 (2.94%) R
11 53 (2.89%) Scala
12 48 (2.62%) C
13 47 (2.56%) Bicep
14 36 (1.96%) PHP
15 31 (1.69%) Rust
16 26 (1.42%) Ruby
16 26 (1.42%) VBA
17 22 (1.20%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.98%) Groovy
19 17 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 242 (13.19%) Degree
2 222 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 173 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.20%) PhD
10 21 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.93%) CISSP
13 15 (0.82%) CCNP
13 15 (0.82%) GIAC
14 14 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.76%) OSCP
15 13 (0.71%) CREST Certified
15 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (9.75%) Data Quality
2 134 (7.30%) QA
3 45 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.96%) GDPR
5 34 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.31%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 4 (0.22%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) PMO
14 3 (0.16%) ECSS
14 3 (0.16%) UCITS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 243 (13.24%) Docker
2 24 (1.31%) Firmware
2 24 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.33%) KVM
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.054%) QEMU
10 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 227 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.89%) Ansible
3 84 (4.58%) Grafana
4 49 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.09%) Argo
6 19 (1.04%) Istio
7 14 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.49%) Packer
9 7 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.38%) Puppet
9 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.33%) Graylog
10 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.27%) Podman
11 5 (0.27%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 288 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.74%) Databricks
3 73 (3.98%) Google
4 52 (2.83%) Cisco
5 48 (2.62%) OpenAI
6 40 (2.18%) Oracle
7 33 (1.80%) VMware
8 27 (1.47%) Splunk
9 24 (1.31%) Foundry
9 24 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.14%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.14%) Informatica
11 21 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.93%) New Relic
12 17 (0.93%) Typelevel
13 16 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.82%) F5
15 14 (0.76%) HubSpot
16 10 (0.54%) Talend
2,130 hybrid/remote Python jobs