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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,550 2,230 3,551
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.45% 15.52% 10.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.71% 37.70% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,561 2,859
10th Percentile £43,600 £46,250 £42,175
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +2.73% +0.82%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £68,679 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,888 5,915 13,360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.65% 41.16% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,603 4,420 11,416
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 9 May 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 79 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.26%) Apache
4 23 (1.48%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.26%) Confluence
7 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.19%) nginx
8 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.065%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) SPSS
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) Notion
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.065%) Actimize
5 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 631 (40.71%) AWS
2 553 (35.68%) Azure
3 253 (16.32%) GCP
4 160 (10.32%) Power Platform
5 150 (9.68%) GitHub
6 123 (7.94%) Serverless
7 115 (7.42%) SaaS
8 103 (6.65%) Amazon S3
9 94 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
11 74 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 55 (3.55%) Snowflake
14 51 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (3.29%) dbt
15 50 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
17 40 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
19 37 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 167 (10.77%) Broadband
2 73 (4.71%) Firewall
3 39 (2.52%) VPN
4 26 (1.68%) LAN
5 25 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (1.55%) VLAN
7 23 (1.48%) WAN
8 21 (1.35%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.23%) Wireshark
10 18 (1.16%) BGP
10 18 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (1.16%) DNS
10 18 (1.16%) NGFW
11 15 (0.97%) MPLS
11 15 (0.97%) Network Security
11 15 (0.97%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.77%) 4G
12 12 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.77%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.71%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.52%) Power BI
2 115 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 66 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (4.19%) Tableau
6 63 (4.06%) NoSQL
7 60 (3.87%) Metadata
7 60 (3.87%) MongoDB
7 60 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 56 (3.61%) Data Lake
9 49 (3.16%) BigQuery
10 42 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
12 37 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.94%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.81%) MySQL
15 26 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (1.68%) Redis
16 22 (1.42%) DynamoDB
17 21 (1.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 131 (8.45%) Git
2 58 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.84%) GitLab
4 33 (2.13%) JIRA
5 19 (1.23%) Jaeger
6 15 (0.97%) MLflow
7 14 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.52%) JMeter
9 8 (0.52%) Selenium
9 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.45%) Locust
11 6 (0.39%) Postman
12 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.32%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
14 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
General
1 445 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 336 (21.68%) Finance
3 245 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.87%) Banking
7 65 (4.19%) Law
8 61 (3.94%) Retail
9 53 (3.42%) Front Office
10 47 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.77%) Marketing
12 39 (2.52%) Games
13 36 (2.32%) Legal
14 32 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.61%) Publishing
16 19 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.16%) Health Technology
18 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
18 17 (1.10%) Tech for Good
19 13 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 341 (22.00%) Senior
2 319 (20.58%) Developer
3 249 (16.06%) Lead
4 204 (13.16%) Data Engineer
5 169 (10.90%) Software Engineer
6 148 (9.55%) Python Engineer
7 128 (8.26%) Python Developer
8 87 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
9 78 (5.03%) Analyst
10 66 (4.26%) Lead Developer
11 60 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
12 59 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
12 59 (3.81%) Senior Developer
13 58 (3.74%) Data Scientist
14 55 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 53 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
16 51 (3.29%) React Developer
17 49 (3.16%) Architect
17 49 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
18 45 (2.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (10.52%) React
2 105 (6.77%) Kafka
3 102 (6.58%) Node.js
4 76 (4.90%) .NET
5 71 (4.58%) PySpark
6 66 (4.26%) REST
6 66 (4.26%) RESTful
7 63 (4.06%) PyTorch
8 58 (3.74%) Django
9 55 (3.55%) TensorFlow
10 50 (3.23%) gRPC
11 44 (2.84%) FastAPI
12 41 (2.65%) JSON
13 37 (2.39%) Vue
14 33 (2.13%) CSS
14 33 (2.13%) Redux
15 32 (2.06%) HTML
16 29 (1.87%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.87%) XML
17 28 (1.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 137 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 74 (4.77%) Algorithms
4 74 (4.77%) Product Ownership
5 63 (4.06%) Data Structures
6 62 (4.00%) Low-Code
7 51 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
8 46 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 38 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (2.39%) Fixed Income
11 34 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 32 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (2.06%) Public Cloud
13 31 (2.00%) AI Agents
14 28 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 27 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
16 25 (1.61%) Equities
16 25 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 174 (11.23%) Linux
2 57 (3.68%) Windows
3 44 (2.84%) Unix
4 27 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.39%) Android
7 6 (0.39%) Debian
7 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.19%) CentOS
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.065%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.065%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (34.97%) CI/CD
2 427 (27.55%) Software Engineering
3 414 (26.71%) Agile
4 400 (25.81%) AI
5 374 (24.13%) DevOps
6 356 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (19.42%) Mentoring
8 284 (18.32%) Machine Learning
9 272 (17.55%) Analytics
10 260 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 245 (15.81%) Data Science
12 230 (14.84%) Data Pipeline
13 228 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 224 (14.45%) Data Modelling
15 214 (13.81%) Containerisation
16 213 (13.74%) Data Engineering
17 183 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
18 182 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
19 180 (11.61%) Test Automation
20 163 (10.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 458 (29.55%) SQL
2 308 (19.87%) Java
3 236 (15.23%) JavaScript
4 191 (12.32%) Go
5 154 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 138 (8.90%) Bash
7 136 (8.77%) PowerShell
8 132 (8.52%) C#
9 96 (6.19%) Scala
10 65 (4.19%) C++
11 46 (2.97%) R
12 34 (2.19%) PHP
13 33 (2.13%) C
14 23 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 21 (1.35%) Apex Code
16 19 (1.23%) Bicep
17 18 (1.16%) VBA
18 17 (1.10%) PL/SQL
18 17 (1.10%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 250 (16.13%) Degree
2 133 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 102 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 46 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 19 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.97%) PhD
12 13 (0.84%) ACCA
12 13 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.84%) CEH
12 13 (0.84%) CIMA
13 12 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.71%) OSCP
15 9 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.58%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 110 (7.10%) QA
3 41 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.48%) NIST
6 15 (0.97%) GDPR
7 12 (0.77%) ISO 22301
7 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.52%) SLA
8 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.39%) GRC
10 5 (0.32%) PMO
10 5 (0.32%) WCAG
11 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.19%) GAAP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.13%) EMIR
13 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 264 (17.03%) Docker
2 40 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.77%) Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (18.06%) Terraform
2 228 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 115 (7.42%) Ansible
4 75 (4.84%) Grafana
5 62 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.52%) Argo
7 23 (1.48%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.77%) Istio
10 11 (0.71%) Packer
11 10 (0.65%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.39%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.39%) Puppet
14 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.32%) FTK
14 5 (0.32%) SCCM
15 4 (0.26%) Control-M
15 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 232 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 123 (7.94%) Databricks
3 74 (4.77%) Google
4 52 (3.35%) Cisco
4 52 (3.35%) VMware
5 45 (2.90%) Typelevel
6 41 (2.65%) Oracle
7 36 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.16%) Commvault
12 18 (1.16%) Foundry
13 16 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.97%) Arista
14 15 (0.97%) Aruba
14 15 (0.97%) NetScout
14 15 (0.97%) Splunk
15 14 (0.90%) F5