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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,461 2,074 3,410
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.72% 16.19% 10.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.87% 35.81% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 977 1,577 2,793
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.04% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,584 5,791 13,194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.38% 45.20% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,341 4,513 11,435
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 1 April 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 77 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.46%) Apache
4 18 (1.23%) SAS
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.41%) Confluence
9 5 (0.34%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.068%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.34%) Shopify
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.068%) Actimize
5 1 (0.068%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.068%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 624 (42.71%) AWS
2 544 (37.23%) Azure
3 245 (16.77%) GCP
4 183 (12.53%) GitHub
5 154 (10.54%) Power Platform
6 129 (8.83%) Serverless
7 109 (7.46%) SaaS
8 107 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 106 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 63 (4.31%) dbt
14 58 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
15 55 (3.76%) Snowflake
16 53 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 48 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
18 45 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
19 44 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 35 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 143 (9.79%) Broadband
2 64 (4.38%) Firewall
3 36 (2.46%) VPN
4 34 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.71%) VLAN
6 25 (1.71%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.37%) BGP
7 20 (1.37%) LAN
8 18 (1.23%) WAN
9 17 (1.16%) Network Security
9 17 (1.16%) NGFW
10 15 (1.03%) MPLS
10 15 (1.03%) VXLAN
11 14 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.82%) DNS
12 12 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.75%) 4G
13 11 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.75%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.03%) Power BI
2 106 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (6.23%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 71 (4.86%) Tableau
6 65 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (4.18%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.76%) Metadata
9 52 (3.56%) Data Lake
10 48 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
11 42 (2.87%) MongoDB
12 41 (2.81%) BigQuery
13 39 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
15 31 (2.12%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.98%) MySQL
17 28 (1.92%) Redis
18 27 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
19 25 (1.71%) Apache Iceberg
20 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 126 (8.62%) Git
2 65 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 54 (3.70%) GitLab
4 35 (2.40%) JIRA
5 19 (1.30%) Jaeger
6 17 (1.16%) Selenium
7 16 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 16 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
8 15 (1.03%) MLflow
9 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.55%) JMeter
10 8 (0.55%) JUnit
11 7 (0.48%) Locust
11 7 (0.48%) Postman
11 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.34%) Subversion
12 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.27%) ERwin
General
1 463 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 346 (23.68%) Finance
3 230 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 95 (6.50%) Banking
7 67 (4.59%) Law
8 60 (4.11%) Front Office
9 56 (3.83%) Retail
10 48 (3.29%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.60%) Marketing
12 36 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.26%) Legal
14 26 (1.78%) Publishing
15 25 (1.71%) Games
16 21 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.37%) Tech for Good
18 19 (1.30%) Health Technology
18 19 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 314 (21.49%) Developer
2 307 (21.01%) Senior
3 223 (15.26%) Lead
4 182 (12.46%) Data Engineer
5 154 (10.54%) Software Engineer
6 128 (8.76%) Python Engineer
7 125 (8.56%) Python Developer
8 78 (5.34%) Lead Developer
9 72 (4.93%) Analyst
9 72 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
10 63 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 61 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
12 57 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 55 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 55 (3.76%) Senior Developer
14 53 (3.63%) Architect
15 52 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
15 52 (3.56%) React Developer
16 46 (3.15%) Lead Python Developer
17 43 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (11.36%) React
2 102 (6.98%) Node.js
3 101 (6.91%) Kafka
4 81 (5.54%) Django
5 71 (4.86%) REST
6 65 (4.45%) .NET
7 58 (3.97%) PySpark
7 58 (3.97%) RESTful
8 56 (3.83%) gRPC
9 54 (3.70%) PyTorch
10 48 (3.29%) TensorFlow
11 45 (3.08%) Flask
12 44 (3.01%) JSON
12 44 (3.01%) Vue
13 43 (2.94%) FastAPI
14 41 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
15 36 (2.46%) HTML
16 35 (2.40%) SOAP
17 34 (2.33%) Redux
18 33 (2.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.52%) Video\Live Streaming
5 65 (4.45%) Algorithms
6 63 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 54 (3.70%) Low-Code
8 50 (3.42%) Onboarding
8 50 (3.42%) Over-the-Top Content
9 44 (3.01%) Fixed Income
10 40 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (2.12%) Data Centre
14 30 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (1.85%) Public Cloud
16 26 (1.78%) Equities
17 25 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (1.44%) Private Cloud
19 19 (1.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 197 (13.48%) Linux
2 73 (5.00%) Unix
3 66 (4.52%) Windows
4 29 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Debian
9 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
10 3 (0.21%) Android
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.068%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.068%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.068%) Solaris
12 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (38.19%) CI/CD
2 424 (29.02%) Agile
3 401 (27.45%) DevOps
4 379 (25.94%) Software Engineering
5 373 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
6 343 (23.48%) AI
7 268 (18.34%) Mentoring
8 249 (17.04%) Machine Learning
9 248 (16.97%) Analytics
10 238 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 237 (16.22%) Containerisation
12 233 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 220 (15.06%) Data Science
14 208 (14.24%) Data Modelling
15 207 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
16 187 (12.80%) Data Engineering
17 177 (12.11%) Test Automation
18 171 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
19 165 (11.29%) Coaching
20 161 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 439 (30.05%) SQL
2 296 (20.26%) Java
3 247 (16.91%) JavaScript
4 181 (12.39%) Go
5 141 (9.65%) Bash
6 140 (9.58%) TypeScript
7 133 (9.10%) PowerShell
8 116 (7.94%) C#
9 89 (6.09%) Scala
10 66 (4.52%) C++
11 43 (2.94%) R
12 33 (2.26%) C
13 27 (1.85%) PHP
14 23 (1.57%) Apex Code
15 22 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 22 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 21 (1.44%) Bicep
17 19 (1.30%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.96%) VBA
19 11 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 257 (17.59%) Degree
2 132 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.37%) CEH
11 19 (1.30%) PhD
12 18 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (1.03%) ACCA
14 15 (1.03%) CIMA
15 11 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.75%) OSCP
16 9 (0.62%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.78%) QA
3 54 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.92%) NIST
5 24 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.03%) GDPR
7 15 (1.03%) ISO 22301
8 14 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 13 (0.89%) SLA
10 10 (0.68%) GRC
11 5 (0.34%) PMO
11 5 (0.34%) WCAG
12 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.21%) EMIR
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.14%) ECSS
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 295 (20.19%) Docker
2 37 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) Firmware
6 7 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) KVM
9 2 (0.14%) Lustre
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 293 (20.05%) Terraform
2 245 (16.77%) Kubernetes
3 117 (8.01%) Ansible
4 83 (5.68%) Grafana
5 64 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.60%) Argo
7 20 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.55%) Istio
10 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.41%) Packer
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.34%) Control-M
12 5 (0.34%) FTK
12 5 (0.34%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.34%) Puppet
12 5 (0.34%) SCCM
13 4 (0.27%) Cilium
13 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 205 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 115 (7.87%) Databricks
3 78 (5.34%) Google
4 62 (4.24%) Oracle
5 55 (3.76%) VMware
6 47 (3.22%) Cisco
7 45 (3.08%) Typelevel
8 42 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.57%) Commvault
10 23 (1.57%) MuleSoft
11 21 (1.44%) IBM
11 21 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.23%) SAP
12 18 (1.23%) Splunk
12 18 (1.23%) Talend
13 16 (1.10%) Foundry
14 15 (1.03%) Aruba
14 15 (1.03%) Informatica
14 15 (1.03%) NetScout