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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,033 3,109 3,448
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.55% 13.36% 13.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.11% 34.64% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 2,256 2,860
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £143,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 5,068 8,976 11,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.30% 38.57% 47.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,419 6,148 10,236
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Python
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Python over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Python salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 191 (9.39%) Apache Airflow
2 127 (6.25%) Apache
3 48 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.98%) CMS
5 19 (0.93%) Confluence
6 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.59%) Apache Solr
8 11 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.25%) nginx
11 5 (0.25%) SAS
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.098%) Luigi
15 1 (0.049%) GeoServer
Applications
1 62 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.59%) Blender
2 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.34%) Simulink
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.15%) Civil 3D
5 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 3 (0.15%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.15%) Revit
6 2 (0.098%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.049%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.049%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 34 (1.67%) Aladdin
2 33 (1.62%) thinkFolio
3 13 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.49%) Shopify
5 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.25%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.15%) Visualfiles
8 2 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.049%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.049%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.049%) FastStats
9 1 (0.049%) Magento
9 1 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 860 (42.30%) AWS
2 725 (35.66%) Azure
3 426 (20.95%) GCP
4 180 (8.85%) dbt
5 174 (8.56%) Power Platform
6 163 (8.02%) Snowflake
7 119 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (5.76%) Serverless
9 105 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (5.02%) GitHub
11 101 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 82 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
13 68 (3.34%) SaaS
14 58 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (2.51%) Amazon S3
16 44 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
17 38 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 37 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
19 32 (1.57%) Entra ID
20 31 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 297 (14.61%) VPN
2 269 (13.23%) Cisco IOS
3 56 (2.75%) WAN
4 55 (2.71%) Firewall
5 34 (1.67%) LAN
6 27 (1.33%) DNS
6 27 (1.33%) SD-WAN
7 24 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.84%) BGP
9 16 (0.79%) 5G
9 16 (0.79%) Broadband
9 16 (0.79%) OSPF
10 15 (0.74%) Network Security
11 14 (0.69%) DHCP
12 13 (0.64%) SSL
12 13 (0.64%) Wireless
13 12 (0.59%) VLAN
14 7 (0.34%) EIGRP
14 7 (0.34%) Internet
14 7 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
2 161 (7.92%) Power BI
3 159 (7.82%) Apache Arrow
3 159 (7.82%) Apache Iceberg
3 159 (7.82%) Dremio
4 146 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
5 135 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
6 130 (6.39%) Data Lake
7 113 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
8 88 (4.33%) Apache Ignite
9 78 (3.84%) Tableau
10 77 (3.79%) NoSQL
11 60 (2.95%) SQL Server
12 55 (2.71%) DynamoDB
13 48 (2.36%) MySQL
14 37 (1.82%) MongoDB
15 35 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
16 31 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 30 (1.48%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 141 (6.94%) Git
2 82 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 49 (2.41%) JIRA
4 38 (1.87%) GitLab
5 25 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.08%) Selenium
6 22 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (0.64%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.64%) JUnit
7 13 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.54%) Appium
9 10 (0.49%) Maven
10 8 (0.39%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.34%) MLflow
11 7 (0.34%) Subversion
12 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.25%) ERwin
12 5 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 5 (0.25%) Locust
12 5 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 564 (27.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 539 (26.51%) Finance
3 493 (24.25%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (15.35%) Social Skills
5 260 (12.79%) Front Office
6 174 (8.56%) Banking
7 99 (4.87%) Investment Banking
8 78 (3.84%) Marketing
9 59 (2.90%) Retail
10 47 (2.31%) Public Sector
11 44 (2.16%) Tech for Good
12 38 (1.87%) Law
13 37 (1.82%) Health Technology
14 34 (1.67%) Publishing
15 28 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.13%) Advertising
18 22 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (1.03%) Electronics
20 18 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 594 (29.22%) Senior
2 456 (22.43%) Software Engineer
3 390 (19.18%) Developer
4 296 (14.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 285 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 213 (10.48%) Python Engineer
7 204 (10.03%) AWS Engineer
8 166 (8.17%) Python Software Engineer
9 164 (8.07%) Python Developer
10 159 (7.82%) AWS Software Engineer
11 154 (7.58%) Analyst
12 140 (6.89%) Data Engineer
13 129 (6.35%) Lead
14 112 (5.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 105 (5.16%) Java Engineer
16 101 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
17 99 (4.87%) Senior Developer
18 92 (4.53%) Senior Java Engineer
19 90 (4.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 88 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (18.15%) Node.js
2 285 (14.02%) .NET
3 282 (13.87%) Elastic Stack
4 244 (12.00%) Pandas
5 238 (11.71%) React
6 172 (8.46%) NumPy
7 159 (7.82%) SciPy
8 103 (5.07%) AngularJS
9 102 (5.02%) Vue
10 98 (4.82%) gRPC
11 88 (4.33%) Protocol Buffers
12 81 (3.98%) HTML
13 78 (3.84%) RESTful
14 70 (3.44%) REST
15 64 (3.15%) Kafka
16 44 (2.16%) Redux
17 43 (2.12%) Flask
18 42 (2.07%) PySpark
19 35 (1.72%) Django
19 35 (1.72%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 491 (24.15%) Cyberattack
2 237 (11.66%) Fixed Income
3 210 (10.33%) Self-Motivation
4 189 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
5 187 (9.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 186 (9.15%) Equities
7 144 (7.08%) Hedge funds
8 136 (6.69%) Derivative
9 96 (4.72%) Cloud Native
10 88 (4.33%) Pricing Data
11 74 (3.64%) Management Information System
12 68 (3.34%) Onboarding
13 64 (3.15%) Algorithms
14 53 (2.61%) Product Ownership
15 36 (1.77%) Data Structures
16 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 24 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
18 21 (1.03%) Public Cloud
19 20 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
19 20 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 704 (34.63%) Linux
2 360 (17.71%) Windows
3 314 (15.45%) Android
4 63 (3.10%) Unix
5 37 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.44%) Solaris
8 8 (0.39%) Debian
8 8 (0.39%) VMS
9 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.098%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.098%) CentOS
11 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.049%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.049%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (40.19%) Agile
2 629 (30.94%) DevOps
3 613 (30.15%) Software Engineering
4 555 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (19.92%) CI/CD
6 389 (19.13%) Machine Learning
7 380 (18.69%) Mathematics
8 353 (17.36%) Risk Management
9 344 (16.92%) Mentoring
10 327 (16.08%) Line Management
11 326 (16.04%) Platform Engineering
12 306 (15.05%) Task Automation
13 304 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 301 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
15 298 (14.66%) Data Engineering
16 278 (13.67%) Asset Management
17 277 (13.63%) Microservices
18 266 (13.08%) Storage Management
19 261 (12.84%) Analytics
20 243 (11.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 647 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 572 (28.14%) Java
3 567 (27.89%) SQL
4 414 (20.36%) Bash
5 392 (19.28%) PowerShell
6 358 (17.61%) C++
6 358 (17.61%) TypeScript
7 294 (14.46%) Go
8 278 (13.67%) Rust
9 154 (7.58%) C#
10 137 (6.74%) R
11 103 (5.07%) C
12 95 (4.67%) MATLAB
13 82 (4.03%) PHP
14 60 (2.95%) Ruby
15 49 (2.41%) Dart
16 34 (1.67%) Scala
17 33 (1.62%) Perl
18 27 (1.33%) Bicep
19 20 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 337 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 255 (12.54%) AWS Certification
3 254 (12.49%) Degree
4 243 (11.95%) DV Cleared
5 197 (9.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 180 (8.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 84 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 82 (4.03%) SC Cleared
9 44 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 38 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.18%) PhD
12 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.74%) CISSP
14 15 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.49%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.44%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.53%) QA
2 68 (3.34%) GDPR
3 54 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.28%) NIST
5 23 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.98%) SLA
7 17 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.15%) CDISC
10 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.15%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.098%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.049%) Dublin Core
12 1 (0.049%) GRC
12 1 (0.049%) MiFID
12 1 (0.049%) NIST 800
System Software
1 543 (26.71%) Docker
2 271 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 269 (13.23%) vSphere
4 264 (12.99%) VMware NSX
5 41 (2.02%) Active Directory
6 18 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (0.69%) Firmware
8 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.44%) NFS
10 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.15%) GPFS
11 3 (0.15%) KVM
11 3 (0.15%) Lustre
12 1 (0.049%) Corosync
12 1 (0.049%) HDFS
12 1 (0.049%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.049%) Xen
Systems Management
1 556 (27.35%) Terraform
2 459 (22.58%) Ansible
3 274 (13.48%) Kubernetes
4 40 (1.97%) Grafana
5 33 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
8 13 (0.64%) Istio
9 11 (0.54%) Puppet
10 10 (0.49%) SCCM
11 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.44%) SCOM
12 7 (0.34%) Argo
12 7 (0.34%) Kibana
12 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.34%) WSUS
13 4 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.20%) Nmap
14 3 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 300 (14.76%) Cisco
2 271 (13.33%) Splunk
3 267 (13.13%) Juniper
4 262 (12.89%) 3PAR
5 169 (8.31%) Microsoft
6 116 (5.71%) Databricks
7 75 (3.69%) Google
8 50 (2.46%) Red Hat
9 45 (2.21%) Oracle
10 33 (1.62%) BISAM
10 33 (1.62%) Calypso
10 33 (1.62%) Charles River
10 33 (1.62%) SimCorp
11 30 (1.48%) VMware
12 24 (1.18%) Palo Alto
13 19 (0.93%) Aruba
14 17 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.79%) SAP
16 15 (0.74%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.64%) NVIDIA