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

 6 months to
5 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,324 2,369 2,657
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.80% 14.25% 12.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.32% 33.27% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 919 1,603 2,154
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +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 4,096 7,121 9,669
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.22% 42.85% 46.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,103 4,475 8,203
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,752 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,750
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 £108,617 £101,250
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 5 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
1 108 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (4.61%) Apache
3 37 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.59%) Confluence
5 18 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.21%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.21%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.21%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.83%) SAS
10 10 (0.76%) Apache Solr
11 7 (0.53%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.38%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.38%) CMS
12 5 (0.38%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
14 3 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.23%) nginx
15 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 52 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.45%) 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 (2.95%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) Shopify
4 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.076%) Actimize
7 1 (0.076%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.076%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 536 (40.48%) Azure
2 526 (39.73%) AWS
3 199 (15.03%) GitHub
4 178 (13.44%) Power Platform
5 164 (12.39%) GCP
6 158 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (9.74%) Serverless
8 115 (8.69%) Snowflake
9 107 (8.08%) dbt
10 87 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (6.34%) Amazon S3
13 78 (5.89%) SaaS
14 68 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 59 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
16 50 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 44 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (3.25%) Entra ID
18 43 (3.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.95%) Firewall
2 36 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 27 (2.04%) VPN
4 24 (1.81%) Broadband
4 24 (1.81%) WAN
5 21 (1.59%) LAN
6 17 (1.28%) SSL
7 16 (1.21%) DNS
8 11 (0.83%) BGP
8 11 (0.83%) Network Security
8 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 9 (0.68%) VLAN
10 9 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.60%) SAN
12 7 (0.53%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.53%) Internet
12 7 (0.53%) OSPF
13 6 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.54%) Power BI
2 106 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (6.50%) Data Lake
4 86 (6.50%) Tableau
5 74 (5.59%) Apache Iceberg
6 71 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 71 (5.36%) SQL Server
7 70 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
8 59 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
8 59 (4.46%) Dremio
9 50 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
10 44 (3.32%) Relational Database
11 42 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
12 36 (2.72%) Metadata
13 34 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 33 (2.49%) Apache Ignite
15 31 (2.34%) MySQL
16 30 (2.27%) BigQuery
17 29 (2.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (8.91%) Git
2 101 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.68%) JIRA
4 37 (2.79%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.64%) GitLab
6 21 (1.59%) Selenium
7 12 (0.91%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.91%) ERwin
7 12 (0.91%) MLflow
8 11 (0.83%) JUnit
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.45%) 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
1 416 (31.42%) Finance
2 398 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 173 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.01%) Banking
5 93 (7.02%) Front Office
6 59 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 55 (4.15%) Marketing
9 50 (3.78%) Law
10 49 (3.70%) Investment Banking
11 41 (3.10%) Retail
12 33 (2.49%) Publishing
13 32 (2.42%) Tech for Good
14 29 (2.19%) Health Technology
14 29 (2.19%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.96%) Legal
15 26 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.44%) Electronics
17 17 (1.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 305 (23.04%) Senior
2 267 (20.17%) Developer
3 163 (12.31%) Data Engineer
4 137 (10.35%) Software Engineer
5 135 (10.20%) Python Engineer
6 133 (10.05%) Python Developer
7 124 (9.37%) Lead
8 98 (7.40%) Analyst
9 93 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
10 83 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 80 (6.04%) Python Software Engineer
12 71 (5.36%) Architect
13 64 (4.83%) AWS Developer
14 59 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
15 58 (4.38%) Applications Engineer
16 56 (4.23%) Senior Developer
17 54 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
19 48 (3.63%) Lead Developer
19 48 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (10.50%) React
2 90 (6.80%) RESTful
3 87 (6.57%) Node.js
4 81 (6.12%) Pandas
5 69 (5.21%) NumPy
6 62 (4.68%) Django
7 59 (4.46%) SciPy
8 55 (4.15%) Kafka
9 53 (4.00%) Vue
10 52 (3.93%) .NET
11 47 (3.55%) PySpark
11 47 (3.55%) REST
11 47 (3.55%) SOAP
12 44 (3.32%) JSON
12 44 (3.32%) XML
13 43 (3.25%) AngularJS
13 43 (3.25%) gRPC
14 42 (3.17%) Flask
15 36 (2.72%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.49%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (5.06%) Fixed Income
5 66 (4.98%) Equities
5 66 (4.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 63 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 49 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 48 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (3.55%) Hedge funds
10 45 (3.40%) Management Information System
11 40 (3.02%) Derivative
12 38 (2.87%) Data Structures
13 36 (2.72%) Low-Code
14 33 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 33 (2.49%) Pricing Data
15 28 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
17 19 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (14.95%) Linux
2 91 (6.87%) Windows
3 77 (5.82%) Unix
4 31 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.60%) Debian
7 8 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.60%) 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
1 467 (35.27%) Agile
2 463 (34.97%) CI/CD
3 434 (32.78%) DevOps
4 327 (24.70%) AI
5 295 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (21.30%) Software Engineering
7 275 (20.77%) Analytics
8 220 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 211 (15.94%) Mentoring
10 198 (14.95%) Asset Management
11 192 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
12 189 (14.27%) Data Modelling
13 184 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 183 (13.82%) Data Pipeline
15 179 (13.52%) Data Engineering
16 177 (13.37%) Machine Learning
17 176 (13.29%) Data Science
18 171 (12.92%) Coaching
19 161 (12.16%) Test Automation
20 155 (11.71%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 505 (38.14%) SQL
2 266 (20.09%) Java
3 248 (18.73%) JavaScript
4 159 (12.01%) TypeScript
5 148 (11.18%) Bash
6 140 (10.57%) PowerShell
7 102 (7.70%) C#
8 65 (4.91%) Go
9 54 (4.08%) C++
9 54 (4.08%) R
10 45 (3.40%) PL/SQL
10 45 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 43 (3.25%) Scala
12 39 (2.95%) C
13 34 (2.57%) Bicep
14 19 (1.44%) PHP
15 18 (1.36%) Perl
16 15 (1.13%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.06%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 238 (17.98%) Degree
2 139 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 85 (6.42%) AWS Certification
5 75 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.42%) Master's Degree
9 31 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.44%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.36%) PhD
14 17 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.21%) CISSP
16 13 (0.98%) CEH
16 13 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.91%) ACCA
17 12 (0.91%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 80 (6.04%) QA
3 39 (2.95%) GDPR
4 37 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.89%) SLA
7 20 (1.51%) NIST
8 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.68%) ISO 22301
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
1 203 (15.33%) Docker
2 36 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.60%) vSphere
6 7 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.45%) 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 (20.92%) Terraform
2 221 (16.69%) Kubernetes
3 111 (8.38%) Ansible
4 62 (4.68%) Grafana
5 46 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
6 43 (3.25%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.81%) Argo
8 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (0.60%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.45%) Control-M
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 3 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.23%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.23%) Nmap
12 3 (0.23%) Puppet
12 3 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 182 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 113 (8.53%) Databricks
3 87 (6.57%) Oracle
4 61 (4.61%) Google
5 49 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.72%) VMware
7 27 (2.04%) IBM
8 26 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.59%) Cisco
9 21 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.51%) Okta
11 19 (1.44%) Talend
12 18 (1.36%) Commvault
12 18 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.28%) SAP
14 13 (0.98%) Workday
15 11 (0.83%) Informatica
16 10 (0.76%) Dell
16 10 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.76%) Splunk
3,053 hybrid/remote Python jobs