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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,815 2,048 3,124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.58% 12.58% 13.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.65% 40.13% 34.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 1,186 2,293
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,136 £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% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -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 6,121 5,103 9,030
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.57% 31.34% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,573 3,455 6,308
10th Percentile £38,772 £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 £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 13 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 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 42 (2.31%) Apache
3 38 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.50%) SAS
7 7 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.17%) Confluence
9 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.055%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.33%) Simulink
5 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
7 3 (0.17%) Blender
7 3 (0.17%) Maya
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 645 (35.54%) AWS
2 589 (32.45%) Azure
3 283 (15.59%) GCP
4 161 (8.87%) Power Platform
5 143 (7.88%) SaaS
6 118 (6.50%) GitHub
7 84 (4.63%) Serverless
8 79 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 68 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (3.36%) Amazon S3
12 60 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 59 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
14 58 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (3.20%) Snowflake
15 57 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
16 42 (2.31%) dbt
17 35 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
18 32 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
19 31 (1.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.17%) Broadband
2 67 (3.69%) Firewall
3 53 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.98%) VPN
5 34 (1.87%) DNS
5 34 (1.87%) WAN
6 32 (1.76%) LAN
7 26 (1.43%) Network Security
7 26 (1.43%) Wireless
8 18 (0.99%) VLAN
9 17 (0.94%) BGP
10 15 (0.83%) DHCP
10 15 (0.83%) OSPF
11 14 (0.77%) 5G
11 14 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
11 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (0.50%) MPLS
13 9 (0.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.55%) Power BI
2 129 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 79 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 67 (3.69%) Data Lake
7 61 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.98%) Metadata
9 51 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.64%) Tableau
11 46 (2.53%) Big Data
12 43 (2.37%) Delta Lake
13 40 (2.20%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.65%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.65%) MySQL
15 28 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
17 23 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
17 23 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 185 (10.19%) Git
2 82 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 51 (2.81%) GitLab
4 32 (1.76%) JIRA
5 17 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.77%) MLflow
7 13 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 13 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 10 (0.55%) Selenium
8 10 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.28%) JMeter
12 5 (0.28%) Poetry
12 5 (0.28%) Postman
13 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 580 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 415 (22.87%) Finance
3 300 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 120 (6.61%) Banking
6 116 (6.39%) Legal
7 114 (6.28%) Public Sector
8 94 (5.18%) Law
9 82 (4.52%) Marketing
10 74 (4.08%) Retail
11 42 (2.31%) Games
12 36 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.76%) Electronics
14 30 (1.65%) Front Office
15 26 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.83%) Local Government
18 13 (0.72%) Advertising
18 13 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 513 (28.26%) Senior
2 263 (14.49%) Developer
3 231 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 227 (12.51%) Lead
5 205 (11.29%) Data Engineer
6 190 (10.47%) Python Engineer
7 114 (6.28%) Analyst
8 102 (5.62%) Python Developer
9 98 (5.40%) Data Scientist
10 72 (3.97%) Architect
10 72 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 72 (3.97%) Python Software Engineer
10 72 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 72 (3.97%) Senior Developer
11 70 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 65 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
13 57 (3.14%) Data Analyst
13 57 (3.14%) Engineering Manager
14 56 (3.09%) Consultant
14 56 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (15.26%) Terraform
2 129 (7.11%) React
3 103 (5.67%) PySpark
4 88 (4.85%) Node.js
5 80 (4.41%) .NET
5 80 (4.41%) PyTorch
6 70 (3.86%) REST
7 67 (3.69%) RESTful
7 67 (3.69%) TensorFlow
8 65 (3.58%) Django
9 60 (3.31%) LangChain
10 56 (3.09%) FastAPI
11 55 (3.03%) Kafka
12 44 (2.42%) Next.js
13 35 (1.93%) LangGraph
13 35 (1.93%) Pandas
13 35 (1.93%) scikit-learn
14 33 (1.82%) CSS
15 29 (1.60%) Spring
16 28 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 242 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 171 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.79%) AI Agents
4 79 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 76 (4.19%) Algorithms
6 59 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 56 (3.09%) Video\Live Streaming
8 46 (2.53%) Data Structures
9 42 (2.31%) Low-Code
10 41 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 37 (2.04%) Management Information System
12 35 (1.93%) Public Cloud
13 33 (1.82%) Blog
14 31 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
15 28 (1.54%) Credit Risk
15 28 (1.54%) Security Posture
15 28 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
17 24 (1.32%) Data Centre
18 23 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 204 (11.24%) Linux
2 83 (4.57%) Windows
3 33 (1.82%) Unix
4 26 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.39%) Android
8 7 (0.39%) Debian
8 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (39.28%) AI
2 590 (32.51%) Software Engineering
3 556 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 428 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
5 403 (22.20%) Mentoring
6 392 (21.60%) Analytics
7 379 (20.88%) Agile
8 375 (20.66%) DevOps
9 370 (20.39%) Machine Learning
10 332 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 325 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 255 (14.05%) Test Automation
13 254 (13.99%) Data Science
14 243 (13.39%) Observability
15 238 (13.11%) Data Engineering
16 233 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
17 231 (12.73%) Decision-Making
18 228 (12.56%) Roadmaps
19 223 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
20 219 (12.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 597 (32.89%) SQL
2 252 (13.88%) JavaScript
3 249 (13.72%) Java
4 227 (12.51%) C#
5 214 (11.79%) PowerShell
6 190 (10.47%) TypeScript
7 131 (7.22%) Bash
8 113 (6.23%) Go
9 101 (5.56%) C++
10 58 (3.20%) R
11 48 (2.64%) C
12 46 (2.53%) Bicep
13 45 (2.48%) Scala
14 35 (1.93%) PHP
15 31 (1.71%) Rust
16 26 (1.43%) Ruby
17 25 (1.38%) VBA
18 22 (1.21%) MATLAB
19 17 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 17 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 237 (13.06%) Degree
2 223 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 176 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.21%) PhD
10 21 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.94%) CISSP
13 15 (0.83%) CCNP
13 15 (0.83%) GIAC
13 15 (0.83%) OSCP
14 14 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.72%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 133 (7.33%) QA
3 48 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.98%) GDPR
5 31 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.38%) NIST
7 13 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 7 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 4 (0.22%) NCSC
12 4 (0.22%) PMO
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
13 3 (0.17%) UCITS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 228 (12.56%) Docker
2 23 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.16%) Firmware
5 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.33%) KVM
7 6 (0.33%) vSphere
8 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
11 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 225 (12.40%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.84%) Ansible
3 82 (4.52%) Grafana
4 48 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.05%) Argo
5 19 (1.05%) Istio
6 14 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.50%) Packer
8 7 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.39%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.39%) Puppet
8 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.33%) Graylog
9 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.28%) Podman
10 5 (0.28%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.22%) linkerd
11 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 286 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 138 (7.60%) Databricks
3 78 (4.30%) Google
4 48 (2.64%) OpenAI
5 47 (2.59%) Cisco
6 40 (2.20%) Oracle
7 30 (1.65%) VMware
8 27 (1.49%) Splunk
9 24 (1.32%) Foundry
10 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
10 21 (1.16%) Informatica
10 21 (1.16%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 17 (0.94%) New Relic
13 16 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.77%) HubSpot
15 13 (0.72%) F5
16 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.55%) Talend