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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,909 1,956 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.67% 11.77% 13.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.83% 39.55% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 1,076 2,122
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,713
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% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -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 6,193 4,946 8,723
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.89% 29.76% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,538 3,269 5,609
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £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 £116,250
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 11 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 49 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 44 (2.30%) Apache
3 40 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.47%) SAS
8 7 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.31%) Confluence
10 5 (0.26%) nginx
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.16%) CMS
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.10%) IIS
13 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.42%) Simulink
4 7 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.31%) Lightworks
5 6 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.10%) Revit
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.052%) 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 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.052%) Actimize
5 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.052%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 656 (34.36%) AWS
2 618 (32.37%) Azure
3 305 (15.98%) GCP
4 177 (9.27%) SaaS
5 176 (9.22%) Power Platform
6 142 (7.44%) GitHub
7 78 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 77 (4.03%) Serverless
9 75 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 71 (3.72%) Snowflake
11 70 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 64 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 60 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (2.93%) dbt
16 55 (2.88%) Amazon S3
17 51 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
18 38 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
19 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
20 34 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.82%) Broadband
2 69 (3.61%) Firewall
3 68 (3.56%) TCP/IP
4 53 (2.78%) VPN
5 32 (1.68%) BGP
5 32 (1.68%) DNS
6 31 (1.62%) Network Security
7 29 (1.52%) WAN
8 27 (1.41%) LAN
9 24 (1.26%) VLAN
10 23 (1.20%) Wireless
11 15 (0.79%) OSPF
12 14 (0.73%) 5G
12 14 (0.73%) 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
1 153 (8.01%) Power BI
2 140 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
3 128 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.45%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 69 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 69 (3.61%) Metadata
7 63 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 49 (2.57%) Big Data
9 48 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.51%) Tableau
10 45 (2.36%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.20%) Delta Lake
12 39 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
13 33 (1.73%) MySQL
14 29 (1.52%) DynamoDB
15 26 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (1.36%) Star Schema
16 24 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
17 23 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 189 (9.90%) Git
2 84 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 64 (3.35%) GitLab
4 37 (1.94%) JIRA
5 25 (1.31%) Claude Code
6 24 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.89%) MLflow
8 13 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.58%) Selenium
11 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.31%) Postman
15 5 (0.26%) Poetry
15 5 (0.26%) Subversion
16 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
16 4 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 615 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 466 (24.41%) Finance
3 337 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.07%) Banking
5 139 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (6.65%) Public Sector
7 124 (6.50%) Legal
8 104 (5.45%) Marketing
9 103 (5.40%) Law
10 85 (4.45%) Retail
11 51 (2.67%) Front Office
12 40 (2.10%) Games
13 36 (1.89%) Electronics
14 35 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.00%) Back Office
17 19 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 549 (28.76%) Senior
2 294 (15.40%) Software Engineer
3 278 (14.56%) Developer
4 230 (12.05%) Lead
5 223 (11.68%) Data Engineer
6 215 (11.26%) Python Engineer
7 134 (7.02%) Analyst
8 123 (6.44%) Python Developer
9 112 (5.87%) Python Software Engineer
10 106 (5.55%) Data Scientist
11 90 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 81 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 81 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 78 (4.09%) Architect
13 78 (4.09%) Senior Developer
14 68 (3.56%) Data Analyst
15 65 (3.40%) Consultant
16 56 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
17 53 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
17 53 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (15.24%) Terraform
2 127 (6.65%) React
3 109 (5.71%) PySpark
4 98 (5.13%) Node.js
5 82 (4.30%) .NET
6 78 (4.09%) RESTful
7 75 (3.93%) LangChain
7 75 (3.93%) PyTorch
8 71 (3.72%) REST
9 67 (3.51%) TensorFlow
10 57 (2.99%) Django
10 57 (2.99%) FastAPI
11 49 (2.57%) LangGraph
12 45 (2.36%) Kafka
13 44 (2.30%) Next.js
14 32 (1.68%) Spring
14 32 (1.68%) Spring Boot
15 31 (1.62%) Pandas
16 30 (1.57%) scikit-learn
17 27 (1.41%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 255 (13.36%) Cloud Native
2 175 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (5.50%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.72%) Algorithms
5 69 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 53 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.46%) Blog
8 44 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 40 (2.10%) Video\Live Streaming
10 39 (2.04%) Credit Risk
10 39 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
10 39 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 36 (1.89%) Hedge funds
13 33 (1.73%) Low-Code
14 28 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
14 28 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.47%) Security Posture
15 27 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 214 (11.21%) Linux
2 79 (4.14%) Windows
3 33 (1.73%) Unix
4 17 (0.89%) Ubuntu
4 17 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.63%) macOS
7 10 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.37%) Debian
9 6 (0.31%) Android
10 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
12 3 (0.16%) Solaris
13 1 (0.052%) AIX
13 1 (0.052%) CentOS
13 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.052%) VMS
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (41.96%) AI
2 645 (33.79%) Software Engineering
3 599 (31.38%) CI/CD
4 451 (23.62%) Analytics
5 439 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
6 401 (21.01%) Mentoring
7 393 (20.59%) DevOps
8 385 (20.17%) Machine Learning
9 377 (19.75%) Agile
10 336 (17.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 325 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 278 (14.56%) Test Automation
13 262 (13.72%) Data Science
14 261 (13.67%) Data Pipeline
15 257 (13.46%) Decision-Making
16 253 (13.25%) Data Engineering
17 248 (12.99%) Observability
18 244 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
19 241 (12.62%) Data Modelling
20 224 (11.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 666 (34.89%) SQL
2 260 (13.62%) Java
3 256 (13.41%) JavaScript
4 226 (11.84%) C#
5 207 (10.84%) PowerShell
5 207 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 152 (7.96%) Bash
7 126 (6.60%) Go
8 95 (4.98%) C++
9 84 (4.40%) R
10 55 (2.88%) C
11 50 (2.62%) Bicep
12 45 (2.36%) Rust
13 39 (2.04%) Scala
14 25 (1.31%) PHP
15 24 (1.26%) MATLAB
16 22 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (1.15%) Ruby
16 22 (1.15%) VBA
17 15 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 245 (12.83%) Degree
2 228 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 181 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 46 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.20%) CISSP
11 22 (1.15%) PhD
12 21 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.00%) GIAC
13 19 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (0.94%) SnowPro
15 16 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.73%) CISM
17 12 (0.63%) CCNP
18 11 (0.58%) OSCP
19 10 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 113 (5.92%) QA
3 53 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.30%) GDPR
6 35 (1.83%) NIST
7 29 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 16 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 235 (12.31%) 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 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) HDFS
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 255 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.24%) Ansible
3 91 (4.77%) Grafana
4 57 (2.99%) 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 (0.31%) Graylog
10 6 (0.31%) 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
1 289 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 145 (7.60%) Databricks
3 122 (6.39%) Google
4 51 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 46 (2.41%) Oracle
6 41 (2.15%) Cisco
7 31 (1.62%) Foundry
8 30 (1.57%) Splunk
9 27 (1.41%) VMware
10 23 (1.20%) Informatica
11 20 (1.05%) New Relic
12 18 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 18 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 17 (0.89%) Dynatrace
13 17 (0.89%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.73%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.68%) HubSpot
15 13 (0.68%) Palantir
16 12 (0.63%) Talend
17 10 (0.52%) Alteryx