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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,902 1,970 2,992
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.65% 11.81% 13.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.76% 39.77% 34.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 1,086 2,110
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,625 £46,666
25th Percentile £55,725 £55,000 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.73%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +4.17%

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 6,183 4,954 8,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.88% 29.71% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,543 3,275 5,602
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,950 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 10 October 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 48 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.31%) Apache
3 41 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
6 9 (0.47%) SAS
7 7 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.32%) Confluence
9 5 (0.26%) nginx
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.16%) CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.11%) Hedera
12 2 (0.11%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.42%) Simulink
4 7 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.32%) Lightworks
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
6 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) SPSS
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Trello
8 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.053%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.053%) Actimize
5 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.053%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 656 (34.49%) AWS
2 616 (32.39%) Azure
3 307 (16.14%) GCP
4 177 (9.31%) SaaS
5 174 (9.15%) Power Platform
6 143 (7.52%) GitHub
7 78 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 77 (4.05%) Serverless
9 75 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (3.79%) Snowflake
11 71 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
12 64 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 60 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (2.94%) dbt
16 55 (2.89%) Amazon S3
17 51 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
18 37 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
19 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
20 34 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.84%) Broadband
2 69 (3.63%) Firewall
3 68 (3.58%) TCP/IP
4 53 (2.79%) VPN
5 32 (1.68%) BGP
5 32 (1.68%) DNS
6 31 (1.63%) Network Security
7 29 (1.52%) WAN
8 27 (1.42%) LAN
9 24 (1.26%) VLAN
10 23 (1.21%) Wireless
11 15 (0.79%) OSPF
12 14 (0.74%) 5G
12 14 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (0.63%) DHCP
13 12 (0.63%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
14 9 (0.47%) HTTP
14 9 (0.47%) MPLS
14 9 (0.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (7.94%) Power BI
2 139 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.94%) MongoDB
6 69 (3.63%) Data Lake
6 69 (3.63%) Metadata
7 63 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 48 (2.52%) Tableau
9 47 (2.47%) Big Data
10 45 (2.37%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.21%) Delta Lake
12 39 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
13 33 (1.74%) MySQL
14 30 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 26 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (1.37%) Star Schema
16 24 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
17 23 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 188 (9.88%) Git
2 84 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 63 (3.31%) GitLab
4 37 (1.95%) JIRA
5 24 (1.26%) Claude Code
5 24 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 16 (0.84%) MLflow
7 13 (0.68%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.58%) Selenium
10 10 (0.53%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.32%) Postman
14 5 (0.26%) Poetry
14 5 (0.26%) Subversion
15 4 (0.21%) PetaLinux
15 4 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 614 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 463 (24.34%) Finance
3 332 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (8.15%) Banking
5 140 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (6.68%) Public Sector
7 124 (6.52%) Legal
8 104 (5.47%) Law
8 104 (5.47%) Marketing
9 85 (4.47%) Retail
10 51 (2.68%) Front Office
11 40 (2.10%) Games
12 36 (1.89%) Electronics
13 35 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.00%) Back Office
16 19 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 550 (28.92%) Senior
2 291 (15.30%) Software Engineer
3 277 (14.56%) Developer
4 230 (12.09%) Lead
5 222 (11.67%) Data Engineer
6 214 (11.25%) Python Engineer
7 134 (7.05%) Analyst
8 123 (6.47%) Python Developer
9 110 (5.78%) Python Software Engineer
10 103 (5.42%) Data Scientist
11 90 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 83 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
13 80 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
14 78 (4.10%) Architect
15 77 (4.05%) Senior Developer
16 68 (3.58%) Data Analyst
17 65 (3.42%) Consultant
18 55 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
18 55 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
19 53 (2.79%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (15.19%) Terraform
2 126 (6.62%) React
3 108 (5.68%) PySpark
4 97 (5.10%) Node.js
5 83 (4.36%) .NET
6 78 (4.10%) RESTful
7 75 (3.94%) LangChain
7 75 (3.94%) PyTorch
8 69 (3.63%) REST
9 67 (3.52%) TensorFlow
10 57 (3.00%) Django
10 57 (3.00%) FastAPI
11 49 (2.58%) LangGraph
12 46 (2.42%) Kafka
13 44 (2.31%) Next.js
14 31 (1.63%) Pandas
14 31 (1.63%) Spring
14 31 (1.63%) Spring Boot
15 30 (1.58%) scikit-learn
16 27 (1.42%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 255 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 176 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.47%) AI Agents
4 70 (3.68%) Algorithms
5 69 (3.63%) Virtual Team
6 53 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.47%) Blog
8 45 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 40 (2.10%) Video\Live Streaming
10 39 (2.05%) Credit Risk
10 39 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 38 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
12 37 (1.95%) Hedge funds
12 37 (1.95%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.74%) Low-Code
14 28 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
14 28 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.47%) Security Posture
15 27 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 211 (11.09%) Linux
2 79 (4.15%) Windows
3 33 (1.74%) Unix
4 17 (0.89%) Ubuntu
4 17 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.37%) Android
8 7 (0.37%) Debian
9 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.16%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) AIX
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (41.75%) AI
2 642 (33.75%) Software Engineering
3 595 (31.28%) CI/CD
4 448 (23.55%) Analytics
5 433 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
6 400 (21.03%) Mentoring
7 388 (20.40%) DevOps
8 380 (19.98%) Machine Learning
9 375 (19.72%) Agile
10 334 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 324 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 276 (14.51%) Test Automation
13 259 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
14 258 (13.56%) Data Science
15 255 (13.41%) Decision-Making
16 250 (13.14%) Data Engineering
17 249 (13.09%) Observability
18 243 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
19 239 (12.57%) Data Modelling
20 223 (11.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 664 (34.91%) SQL
2 262 (13.77%) Java
3 255 (13.41%) JavaScript
4 227 (11.93%) C#
5 208 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 205 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 151 (7.94%) Bash
8 126 (6.62%) Go
9 95 (4.99%) C++
10 81 (4.26%) R
11 55 (2.89%) C
12 50 (2.63%) Bicep
13 44 (2.31%) Rust
14 39 (2.05%) Scala
15 25 (1.31%) PHP
16 24 (1.26%) MATLAB
17 22 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 22 (1.16%) Ruby
17 22 (1.16%) VBA
18 15 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 245 (12.88%) Degree
2 227 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 180 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 45 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.21%) CISSP
11 21 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.10%) PhD
12 19 (1.00%) GIAC
12 19 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (0.95%) SnowPro
14 16 (0.84%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.74%) CISM
16 12 (0.63%) CCNP
16 12 (0.63%) OSCP
17 10 (0.53%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 113 (5.94%) QA
3 50 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.26%) GDPR
6 35 (1.84%) NIST
7 29 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 14 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.32%) SLA
13 5 (0.26%) ECSS
13 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.21%) COPPA
14 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.21%) MiFID
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
15 3 (0.16%) UCITS
16 2 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 233 (12.25%) Docker
2 21 (1.10%) Firmware
2 21 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.32%) KVM
8 5 (0.26%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) NFS
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.053%) HDFS
11 1 (0.053%) QEMU
11 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 252 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 98 (5.15%) Ansible
3 91 (4.78%) Grafana
4 57 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.05%) Argo
6 15 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.68%) Istio
7 13 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.47%) Cilium
9 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 6 (0.32%) Graylog
10 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Nmap
12 4 (0.21%) Podman
12 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 287 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 144 (7.57%) Databricks
3 121 (6.36%) Google
4 51 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 46 (2.42%) Oracle
6 41 (2.16%) Cisco
7 30 (1.58%) Foundry
7 30 (1.58%) Splunk
8 27 (1.42%) VMware
9 23 (1.21%) Informatica
10 20 (1.05%) New Relic
11 18 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 18 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.68%) HubSpot
15 12 (0.63%) Palantir
15 12 (0.63%) Talend
16 10 (0.53%) Alteryx