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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,699 2,378 3,832
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.16% 14.90% 11.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.54% 40.65% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 1,447 3,067
10th Percentile £44,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,938 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £105,000
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 5,563 5,850 13,579
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.72% 36.64% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,189 4,080 11,219
10th Percentile £39,964 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 2 July 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 66 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.18%) Apache
4 18 (1.06%) SAS
5 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.059%) Camunda
9 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.059%) CMS
9 1 (0.059%) Confluence
9 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.059%) nginx
9 1 (0.059%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.24%) Simulink
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
Business Applications
1 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 661 (38.91%) AWS
2 543 (31.96%) Azure
3 281 (16.54%) GCP
4 138 (8.12%) Power Platform
5 133 (7.83%) SaaS
6 109 (6.42%) GitHub
7 102 (6.00%) Serverless
8 83 (4.89%) Amazon S3
9 70 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 49 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
16 45 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (2.59%) Snowflake
18 43 (2.53%) dbt
19 38 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 37 (2.18%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 196 (11.54%) Broadband
2 84 (4.94%) Firewall
3 52 (3.06%) VPN
4 28 (1.65%) LAN
5 27 (1.59%) WAN
5 27 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.35%) DNS
8 22 (1.29%) VLAN
9 20 (1.18%) Network Security
10 19 (1.12%) Wireless
10 19 (1.12%) Wireshark
11 17 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.00%) NGFW
12 16 (0.94%) BGP
13 15 (0.88%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.77%) MPLS
14 13 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.71%) Unified Communications
16 11 (0.65%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.42%) Power BI
3 88 (5.18%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.24%) MongoDB
5 71 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (3.59%) Relational Database
7 57 (3.35%) Metadata
8 56 (3.30%) BigQuery
9 52 (3.06%) NoSQL
10 51 (3.00%) Tableau
11 46 (2.71%) Data Lake
12 37 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (2.12%) Big Data
14 35 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
15 34 (2.00%) MySQL
16 33 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (1.82%) Delta Lake
18 30 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
19 26 (1.53%) Redis
20 25 (1.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 150 (8.83%) Git
2 68 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 61 (3.59%) GitLab
4 33 (1.94%) JIRA
5 14 (0.82%) MLflow
6 13 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (0.71%) Jaeger
8 11 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.53%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.41%) JMeter
10 7 (0.41%) Selenium
10 7 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.29%) Locust
12 5 (0.29%) Postman
12 5 (0.29%) Subversion
13 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.18%) Metasploit
General
1 494 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 368 (21.66%) Finance
3 291 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.94%) Banking
7 79 (4.65%) Law
8 67 (3.94%) Retail
9 55 (3.24%) Legal
10 51 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 50 (2.94%) Front Office
12 49 (2.88%) Marketing
13 45 (2.65%) Games
14 30 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.24%) Electronics
16 17 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.71%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 419 (24.66%) Senior
2 331 (19.48%) Developer
3 277 (16.30%) Lead
4 202 (11.89%) Software Engineer
5 195 (11.48%) Data Engineer
6 158 (9.30%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.53%) Python Developer
8 95 (5.59%) Analyst
8 95 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
9 91 (5.36%) Data Scientist
10 76 (4.47%) Senior Developer
11 67 (3.94%) Lead Developer
12 66 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 63 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
14 59 (3.47%) Data Analyst
14 59 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
15 56 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
16 54 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
17 50 (2.94%) Architect
18 49 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (8.36%) React
2 103 (6.06%) Node.js
3 94 (5.53%) PyTorch
4 92 (5.41%) Kafka
5 85 (5.00%) TensorFlow
6 76 (4.47%) REST
7 75 (4.41%) .NET
8 69 (4.06%) PySpark
9 68 (4.00%) RESTful
10 58 (3.41%) FastAPI
11 57 (3.35%) Django
12 52 (3.06%) LangChain
13 49 (2.88%) gRPC
14 40 (2.35%) Vue
15 36 (2.12%) JSON
16 34 (2.00%) Flask
17 32 (1.88%) Redux
18 30 (1.77%) GraphQL
19 29 (1.71%) LangGraph
19 29 (1.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 218 (12.83%) Cloud Native
2 184 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (6.06%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.71%) Algorithms
5 71 (4.18%) AI Agents
6 69 (4.06%) Data Structures
7 60 (3.53%) Product Ownership
8 55 (3.24%) Low-Code
9 54 (3.18%) Over-the-Top Content
10 46 (2.71%) Onboarding
11 44 (2.59%) Public Cloud
12 39 (2.30%) Fixed Income
12 39 (2.30%) Virtual Team
13 37 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 31 (1.82%) Data Centre
15 31 (1.82%) Equities
15 31 (1.82%) Management Information System
16 26 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 23 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 201 (11.83%) Linux
2 70 (4.12%) Windows
3 41 (2.41%) Unix
4 32 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.53%) Debian
7 8 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.41%) Android
9 5 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) CentOS
13 1 (0.059%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.059%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (33.67%) AI
1 572 (33.67%) CI/CD
2 531 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 415 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
4 399 (23.48%) Agile
5 365 (21.48%) Machine Learning
6 355 (20.89%) Mentoring
7 344 (20.25%) DevOps
8 327 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 303 (17.83%) Analytics
10 288 (16.95%) Data Science
11 241 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 227 (13.36%) Containerisation
13 221 (13.01%) Roadmaps
14 211 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
15 207 (12.18%) Observability
15 207 (12.18%) Test Automation
16 204 (12.01%) Data Engineering
17 199 (11.71%) Data Modelling
18 194 (11.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 476 (28.02%) SQL
2 278 (16.36%) Java
3 238 (14.01%) JavaScript
4 185 (10.89%) Go
5 172 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 154 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 153 (9.01%) C#
8 150 (8.83%) Bash
9 84 (4.94%) C++
10 83 (4.89%) Scala
11 55 (3.24%) R
12 45 (2.65%) C
13 40 (2.35%) PHP
14 34 (2.00%) Bicep
15 23 (1.35%) VBA
16 20 (1.18%) Ruby
17 18 (1.06%) Rust
18 17 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.94%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 238 (14.01%) Degree
2 166 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 133 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 69 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.24%) PhD
10 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.82%) OSCP
13 12 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.71%) CREST Certified
14 11 (0.65%) CEH
15 10 (0.59%) ACCA
15 10 (0.59%) CIMA
15 10 (0.59%) CISSP
16 9 (0.53%) GIAC
17 8 (0.47%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.18%) QA
3 45 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.18%) NIST
6 17 (1.00%) GDPR
7 16 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.47%) SLA
10 6 (0.35%) GRC
10 6 (0.35%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 5 (0.29%) PMO
11 5 (0.29%) WCAG
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 271 (15.95%) Docker
2 34 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.29%) Firmware
5 19 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.41%) vSphere
7 6 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.35%) KVM
7 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.059%) Xen
Systems Management
1 278 (16.36%) Terraform
2 232 (13.66%) Kubernetes
3 111 (6.53%) Ansible
4 85 (5.00%) Grafana
5 66 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.06%) Argo
7 18 (1.06%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.00%) Istio
9 12 (0.71%) Packer
9 12 (0.71%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.47%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.41%) Puppet
13 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.35%) Graylog
15 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.29%) FTK
15 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 243 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.18%) Databricks
3 72 (4.24%) Google
4 55 (3.24%) Cisco
5 48 (2.83%) VMware
6 45 (2.65%) Typelevel
7 39 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 34 (2.00%) Oracle
9 29 (1.71%) Foundry
10 28 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 23 (1.35%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.29%) Splunk
14 21 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.12%) ServiceNow
16 17 (1.00%) F5
17 15 (0.88%) Arista
17 15 (0.88%) Aruba
17 15 (0.88%) NetScout
18 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft