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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,636 2,373 3,795
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.41% 15.70% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.69% 40.68% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 1,428 3,023
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,161 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,468 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,789 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £135,000 £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 5,163 5,834 13,867
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.54% 38.59% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,782 4,044 11,564
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 10 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 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.44%) Apache
4 19 (1.16%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) 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 33 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) SPSS
5 3 (0.18%) Trello
6 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 (0.24%) 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
1 639 (39.06%) AWS
2 533 (32.58%) Azure
3 268 (16.38%) GCP
4 140 (8.56%) Power Platform
5 117 (7.15%) SaaS
6 113 (6.91%) GitHub
7 105 (6.42%) Serverless
8 94 (5.75%) Amazon S3
9 73 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 60 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 45 (2.75%) Snowflake
15 44 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (2.69%) dbt
16 42 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
17 41 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 38 (2.32%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 195 (11.92%) Broadband
2 77 (4.71%) Firewall
3 43 (2.63%) VPN
4 27 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (1.53%) LAN
6 23 (1.41%) WAN
7 22 (1.34%) VLAN
8 20 (1.22%) DNS
9 19 (1.16%) Wireshark
10 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.04%) Network Security
11 17 (1.04%) NGFW
12 16 (0.98%) BGP
13 15 (0.92%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.79%) MPLS
14 13 (0.79%) Wireless
15 12 (0.73%) 4G
15 12 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (6.85%) Power BI
3 91 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 70 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 67 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 63 (3.85%) Metadata
8 59 (3.61%) BigQuery
9 57 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 57 (3.48%) Tableau
10 55 (3.36%) Data Lake
11 38 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
12 37 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.20%) Big Data
14 31 (1.89%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
16 29 (1.77%) MySQL
17 27 (1.65%) Redis
18 25 (1.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (8.25%) Git
2 63 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.36%) GitLab
4 30 (1.83%) JIRA
5 18 (1.10%) Jaeger
6 16 (0.98%) MLflow
7 13 (0.79%) 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 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.24%) Postman
13 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 440 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 360 (22.00%) Finance
3 285 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.99%) Banking
7 72 (4.40%) Law
8 62 (3.79%) Retail
9 49 (3.00%) Front Office
10 47 (2.87%) Games
10 47 (2.87%) Marketing
11 46 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 45 (2.75%) Legal
13 24 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.79%) Electronics
16 13 (0.79%) Publishing
17 12 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 382 (23.35%) Senior
2 318 (19.44%) Developer
3 269 (16.44%) Lead
4 210 (12.84%) Data Engineer
5 184 (11.25%) Software Engineer
6 156 (9.54%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.78%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
9 93 (5.68%) Analyst
9 93 (5.68%) Data Scientist
10 66 (4.03%) Lead Developer
11 64 (3.91%) Senior Developer
12 62 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
12 62 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
13 60 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 58 (3.55%) Data Analyst
15 53 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
18 45 (2.75%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (9.17%) React
2 105 (6.42%) Node.js
3 100 (6.11%) Kafka
4 91 (5.56%) PyTorch
5 82 (5.01%) TensorFlow
6 72 (4.40%) REST
7 70 (4.28%) PySpark
8 69 (4.22%) .NET
9 62 (3.79%) RESTful
10 57 (3.48%) Django
11 55 (3.36%) FastAPI
12 49 (3.00%) gRPC
13 41 (2.51%) LangChain
14 37 (2.26%) JSON
15 36 (2.20%) Vue
16 33 (2.02%) Flask
17 32 (1.96%) Redux
18 28 (1.71%) GraphQL
18 28 (1.71%) Web Services
19 27 (1.65%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 195 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 169 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (6.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 69 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 67 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 62 (3.79%) Low-Code
8 54 (3.30%) Over-the-Top Content
9 51 (3.12%) AI Agents
10 44 (2.69%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.14%) Fixed Income
12 35 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 34 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.77%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.59%) Equities
16 25 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 24 (1.47%) Management Information System
18 23 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (1.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 176 (10.76%) Linux
2 59 (3.61%) Windows
3 44 (2.69%) Unix
4 30 (1.83%) 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 (0.24%) 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
1 546 (33.37%) CI/CD
2 518 (31.66%) AI
3 475 (29.03%) Software Engineering
4 390 (23.84%) Agile
5 386 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
6 361 (22.07%) Machine Learning
7 349 (21.33%) DevOps
8 331 (20.23%) Mentoring
9 318 (19.44%) Analytics
10 304 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 296 (18.09%) Data Science
12 237 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
13 227 (13.88%) Containerisation
14 216 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 216 (13.20%) Data Modelling
15 212 (12.96%) Data Engineering
16 205 (12.53%) Roadmaps
17 191 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
18 189 (11.55%) Observability
19 188 (11.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 482 (29.46%) SQL
2 282 (17.24%) Java
3 228 (13.94%) JavaScript
4 197 (12.04%) Go
5 151 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 150 (9.17%) Bash
7 149 (9.11%) PowerShell
8 136 (8.31%) C#
9 92 (5.62%) Scala
10 68 (4.16%) C++
11 56 (3.42%) R
12 35 (2.14%) PHP
13 32 (1.96%) C
14 23 (1.41%) Bicep
15 21 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.10%) Apex Code
16 18 (1.10%) VBA
17 15 (0.92%) Groovy
18 14 (0.86%) Ruby
19 13 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 228 (13.94%) Degree
2 148 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.40%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.86%) PhD
11 12 (0.73%) CEH
11 12 (0.73%) OSCP
12 10 (0.61%) ACCA
12 10 (0.61%) CIMA
12 10 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
13 9 (0.55%) CISSP
14 7 (0.43%) CCNP
14 7 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.35%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.05%) QA
3 39 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.16%) NIST
6 16 (0.98%) GDPR
7 12 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) ISO 22301
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 (0.24%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 265 (16.20%) Docker
2 35 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.98%) 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%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 279 (17.05%) Terraform
2 227 (13.88%) Kubernetes
3 108 (6.60%) Ansible
4 80 (4.89%) Grafana
5 68 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.51%) Argo
7 24 (1.47%) Kustomize
8 15 (0.92%) Istio
9 12 (0.73%) Packer
9 12 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.49%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.37%) Graylog
14 6 (0.37%) Puppet
15 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.31%) FTK
15 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 239 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.09%) Databricks
3 78 (4.77%) Google
4 54 (3.30%) Cisco
5 50 (3.06%) VMware
6 45 (2.75%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.71%) Oracle
10 26 (1.59%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.34%) Foundry
13 20 (1.22%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.22%) Splunk
14 15 (0.92%) Arista
14 15 (0.92%) Aruba
14 15 (0.92%) F5
14 15 (0.92%) NetScout
14 15 (0.92%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.86%) Commvault