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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,650 2,368 3,884
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.21% 15.34% 11.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.95% 40.66% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 1,426 3,093
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,601 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,938 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £101,185
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 5,331 5,824 14,091
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 37.74% 40.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,947 4,037 11,681
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 June 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 72 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.30%) Apache
4 18 (1.09%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) CMS
10 1 (0.061%) Confluence
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Blender
6 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
8 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 648 (39.27%) AWS
2 528 (32.00%) Azure
3 276 (16.73%) GCP
4 135 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 122 (7.39%) SaaS
6 105 (6.36%) GitHub
7 103 (6.24%) Serverless
8 86 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
12 55 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
13 50 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 45 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
16 42 (2.55%) Snowflake
17 41 (2.48%) dbt
18 39 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 37 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 201 (12.18%) Broadband
2 79 (4.79%) Firewall
3 47 (2.85%) VPN
4 27 (1.64%) LAN
4 27 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.58%) WAN
6 22 (1.33%) VLAN
7 21 (1.27%) DNS
8 20 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.15%) Network Security
9 19 (1.15%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.03%) NGFW
11 16 (0.97%) BGP
12 15 (0.91%) VXLAN
12 15 (0.91%) Wireless
13 14 (0.85%) MPLS
13 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.67%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.55%) Power BI
3 87 (5.27%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 66 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 59 (3.58%) BigQuery
7 59 (3.58%) NoSQL
8 56 (3.39%) Metadata
9 53 (3.21%) Tableau
10 47 (2.85%) Data Lake
11 38 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 36 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
13 34 (2.06%) Big Data
14 32 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.94%) Semantic Layer
15 30 (1.82%) MySQL
16 29 (1.76%) Delta Lake
17 27 (1.64%) Redis
18 25 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 144 (8.73%) Git
2 66 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.58%) GitLab
4 33 (2.00%) JIRA
5 18 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 14 (0.85%) MLflow
7 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.42%) JMeter
9 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.30%) Locust
10 5 (0.30%) Postman
10 5 (0.30%) Selenium
10 5 (0.30%) Subversion
11 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.18%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 456 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 359 (21.76%) Finance
3 288 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (6.55%) Public Sector
6 99 (6.00%) Banking
7 71 (4.30%) Law
8 62 (3.76%) Retail
9 51 (3.09%) Marketing
9 51 (3.09%) Telecoms
10 48 (2.91%) Games
11 47 (2.85%) Front Office
11 47 (2.85%) Legal
12 23 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (0.91%) Electronics
16 13 (0.79%) Publishing
17 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 383 (23.21%) Senior
2 326 (19.76%) Developer
3 279 (16.91%) Lead
4 194 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 193 (11.70%) Data Engineer
6 160 (9.70%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.73%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (5.70%) Analyst
10 92 (5.58%) Data Scientist
11 69 (4.18%) Lead Developer
12 66 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 65 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 63 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
15 60 (3.64%) Data Analyst
16 56 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
17 55 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
18 48 (2.91%) Architect
19 47 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
19 47 (2.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.03%) React
2 105 (6.36%) Node.js
3 94 (5.70%) Kafka
3 94 (5.70%) PyTorch
4 84 (5.09%) TensorFlow
5 73 (4.42%) REST
6 72 (4.36%) .NET
7 66 (4.00%) RESTful
8 65 (3.94%) PySpark
9 57 (3.45%) Django
10 55 (3.33%) FastAPI
11 48 (2.91%) gRPC
11 48 (2.91%) LangChain
12 39 (2.36%) Vue
13 36 (2.18%) JSON
14 35 (2.12%) Flask
15 32 (1.94%) Redux
16 29 (1.76%) GraphQL
16 29 (1.76%) Web Services
17 28 (1.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 209 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 176 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (6.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.85%) Algorithms
5 67 (4.06%) Data Structures
6 65 (3.94%) Product Ownership
7 59 (3.58%) Low-Code
8 58 (3.52%) AI Agents
9 55 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
10 45 (2.73%) Onboarding
11 38 (2.30%) Public Cloud
11 38 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (2.24%) Fixed Income
13 35 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.82%) Data Centre
15 29 (1.76%) Equities
16 27 (1.64%) Virtual Team
17 26 (1.58%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.58%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 187 (11.33%) Linux
2 62 (3.76%) Windows
3 43 (2.61%) Unix
4 31 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.48%) Debian
6 8 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.42%) Android
8 4 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) CentOS
11 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (33.64%) CI/CD
2 548 (33.21%) AI
3 497 (30.12%) Software Engineering
4 394 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
5 390 (23.64%) Agile
6 361 (21.88%) Machine Learning
7 342 (20.73%) Mentoring
8 330 (20.00%) DevOps
9 312 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 302 (18.30%) Analytics
11 292 (17.70%) Data Science
12 226 (13.70%) Containerisation
13 218 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
13 218 (13.21%) Roadmaps
14 216 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 206 (12.48%) Data Modelling
16 205 (12.42%) Data Engineering
17 200 (12.12%) Observability
18 195 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
19 192 (11.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 476 (28.85%) SQL
2 282 (17.09%) Java
3 229 (13.88%) JavaScript
4 191 (11.58%) Go
5 152 (9.21%) PowerShell
6 150 (9.09%) Bash
7 148 (8.97%) TypeScript
8 139 (8.42%) C#
9 84 (5.09%) Scala
10 74 (4.48%) C++
11 53 (3.21%) R
12 38 (2.30%) PHP
13 36 (2.18%) C
14 27 (1.64%) Bicep
15 19 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.15%) VBA
16 17 (1.03%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.97%) Ruby
18 15 (0.91%) Groovy
19 14 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 231 (14.00%) Degree
2 153 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 124 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 25 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.91%) PhD
11 12 (0.73%) CEH
11 12 (0.73%) OSCP
12 11 (0.67%) ACCA
12 11 (0.67%) CIMA
12 11 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.61%) CISSP
13 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.55%) GIAC
15 8 (0.48%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 100 (6.06%) QA
3 40 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.15%) NIST
6 16 (0.97%) GDPR
7 12 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.48%) SLA
10 7 (0.42%) ISO 22301
11 6 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 5 (0.30%) WCAG
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) IFRS
13 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 268 (16.24%) Docker
2 34 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.09%) Firmware
6 7 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.42%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) KVM
7 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 273 (16.55%) Terraform
2 229 (13.88%) Kubernetes
3 111 (6.73%) Ansible
4 82 (4.97%) Grafana
5 69 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.42%) Argo
7 24 (1.45%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.03%) Istio
9 12 (0.73%) Packer
9 12 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.55%) Kubeflow
10 9 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.42%) Puppet
12 6 (0.36%) Graylog
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.30%) FTK
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 238 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.85%) Databricks
3 78 (4.73%) Google
4 55 (3.33%) Cisco
5 49 (2.97%) VMware
6 45 (2.73%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.06%) OpenAI
8 29 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.70%) Oracle
10 27 (1.64%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.52%) Foundry
12 23 (1.39%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.33%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.27%) Splunk
15 16 (0.97%) F5
16 15 (0.91%) Arista
16 15 (0.91%) Aruba
16 15 (0.91%) NetScout
16 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
17 13 (0.79%) Commvault