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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,316 2,358 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.72% 14.32% 12.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.33% 33.29% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,588 2,133
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
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 4,071 7,084 9,800
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 43.01% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 4,446 8,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,438
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 £108,584 £100,000
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 9 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
1 104 (7.90%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (4.41%) Apache
3 36 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.60%) Confluence
5 18 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.22%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.22%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.84%) 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 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.38%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.076%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.076%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.076%) Notion
6 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.46%) Shopify
4 3 (0.23%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.076%) Actimize
6 1 (0.076%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.076%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 529 (40.20%) Azure
2 521 (39.59%) AWS
3 198 (15.05%) GitHub
4 178 (13.53%) Power Platform
5 163 (12.39%) GCP
6 159 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (9.88%) Serverless
8 111 (8.43%) Snowflake
9 102 (7.75%) dbt
10 88 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (6.53%) Amazon S3
12 85 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (6.16%) SaaS
14 70 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
15 57 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (3.27%) Entra ID
18 43 (3.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.96%) Firewall
2 36 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 27 (2.05%) VPN
4 24 (1.82%) Broadband
4 24 (1.82%) WAN
5 21 (1.60%) LAN
6 17 (1.29%) SSL
7 16 (1.22%) DNS
8 11 (0.84%) BGP
8 11 (0.84%) Network Security
8 11 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 9 (0.68%) VLAN
10 9 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.61%) SAN
12 7 (0.53%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 7 (0.53%) OSPF
13 6 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (12.54%) Power BI
2 106 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (6.76%) Tableau
5 81 (6.16%) Data Lake
6 73 (5.55%) SQL Server
7 72 (5.47%) Apache Iceberg
8 68 (5.17%) NoSQL
9 67 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
10 55 (4.18%) Apache Arrow
10 55 (4.18%) Dremio
11 49 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (3.34%) Relational Database
13 41 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
14 38 (2.89%) Metadata
15 36 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
16 32 (2.43%) BigQuery
17 29 (2.20%) Apache Ignite
18 28 (2.13%) DynamoDB
18 28 (2.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 113 (8.59%) Git
2 99 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.79%) JIRA
4 37 (2.81%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.74%) GitLab
6 21 (1.60%) Selenium
7 12 (0.91%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.91%) ERwin
8 11 (0.84%) JUnit
8 11 (0.84%) MLflow
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.46%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.46%) 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
1 410 (31.16%) Finance
2 391 (29.71%) Social Skills
3 172 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.67%) Banking
5 88 (6.69%) Front Office
6 58 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 56 (4.26%) Marketing
8 55 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 50 (3.80%) Law
10 45 (3.42%) Investment Banking
11 42 (3.19%) Retail
12 34 (2.58%) Publishing
13 32 (2.43%) Tech for Good
14 29 (2.20%) Health Technology
14 29 (2.20%) Telecoms
15 27 (2.05%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.98%) Legal
16 26 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (1.44%) Electronics
18 17 (1.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 304 (23.10%) Senior
2 268 (20.36%) Developer
3 165 (12.54%) Data Engineer
4 135 (10.26%) Python Developer
4 135 (10.26%) Python Engineer
4 135 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 127 (9.65%) Lead
6 98 (7.45%) Analyst
7 88 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
8 85 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 79 (6.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 67 (5.09%) Architect
11 66 (5.02%) AWS Developer
12 58 (4.41%) Applications Engineer
13 56 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 55 (4.18%) AWS Software Engineer
15 53 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
16 52 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
17 49 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
18 48 (3.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (10.87%) React
2 90 (6.84%) Node.js
3 89 (6.76%) RESTful
4 77 (5.85%) Pandas
5 65 (4.94%) NumPy
6 60 (4.56%) Django
7 55 (4.18%) SciPy
8 54 (4.10%) .NET
9 53 (4.03%) Vue
10 52 (3.95%) Kafka
11 48 (3.65%) PySpark
12 47 (3.57%) SOAP
13 45 (3.42%) REST
14 44 (3.34%) JSON
14 44 (3.34%) XML
15 43 (3.27%) AngularJS
16 39 (2.96%) Flask
17 38 (2.89%) gRPC
18 35 (2.66%) HTML
19 33 (2.51%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (4.79%) Algorithms
4 63 (4.79%) Fixed Income
5 62 (4.71%) Equities
5 62 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 47 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 39 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 39 (2.96%) Hedge funds
10 38 (2.89%) Low-Code
11 36 (2.74%) Derivative
12 33 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (2.20%) Pricing Data
13 29 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 193 (14.67%) Linux
2 88 (6.69%) Windows
3 77 (5.85%) Unix
4 31 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.61%) Debian
7 8 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.61%) Solaris
8 7 (0.53%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.076%) Android
11 1 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.076%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (34.88%) Agile
2 455 (34.57%) CI/CD
3 429 (32.60%) DevOps
4 318 (24.16%) AI
5 294 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
6 278 (21.12%) Software Engineering
7 273 (20.74%) Analytics
8 222 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 210 (15.96%) Mentoring
10 192 (14.59%) Asset Management
10 192 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
11 190 (14.44%) Data Modelling
12 183 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
13 182 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 180 (13.68%) Data Engineering
15 174 (13.22%) Data Science
15 174 (13.22%) Machine Learning
16 172 (13.07%) Coaching
17 159 (12.08%) Test Automation
18 152 (11.55%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 504 (38.30%) SQL
2 263 (19.98%) Java
3 243 (18.47%) JavaScript
4 161 (12.23%) TypeScript
5 147 (11.17%) Bash
6 141 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 101 (7.67%) C#
8 66 (5.02%) Go
9 55 (4.18%) R
10 53 (4.03%) C++
11 45 (3.42%) PL/SQL
11 45 (3.42%) Scala
11 45 (3.42%) Shell Script
12 38 (2.89%) C
13 34 (2.58%) Bicep
14 19 (1.44%) PHP
15 18 (1.37%) Perl
16 15 (1.14%) MATLAB
16 15 (1.14%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 241 (18.31%) Degree
2 140 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 113 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 85 (6.46%) AWS Certification
5 77 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (4.03%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.43%) Master's Degree
9 31 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.44%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.37%) PhD
14 17 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.22%) CISSP
16 13 (0.99%) ACCA
16 13 (0.99%) CEH
16 13 (0.99%) CIMA
16 13 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 80 (6.08%) QA
3 38 (2.89%) GDPR
4 37 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.90%) SLA
7 20 (1.52%) NIST
8 11 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.68%) ISO 22301
10 9 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.076%) NIST 800
System Software
1 196 (14.89%) Docker
2 36 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.61%) vSphere
6 7 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.46%) 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 (0.076%) HDFS
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.076%) vCloud
11 1 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 277 (21.05%) Terraform
2 216 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 111 (8.43%) Ansible
4 61 (4.64%) Grafana
5 46 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (3.19%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.82%) Argo
8 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (0.61%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.46%) Control-M
12 4 (0.30%) Cilium
12 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 4 (0.30%) Puppet
13 3 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.23%) Nmap
13 3 (0.23%) QRadar
14 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 179 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 113 (8.59%) Databricks
3 87 (6.61%) Oracle
4 62 (4.71%) Google
5 48 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.74%) VMware
7 27 (2.05%) IBM
7 27 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.60%) Cisco
8 21 (1.60%) MuleSoft
9 20 (1.52%) Okta
10 19 (1.44%) Talend
11 18 (1.37%) Commvault
11 18 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.29%) SAP
13 13 (0.99%) Workday
14 11 (0.84%) Informatica
15 10 (0.76%) Dell
15 10 (0.76%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.76%) Splunk