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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,838 2,041 3,096
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.68% 12.58% 13.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.67% 39.96% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 1,193 2,294
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £136,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 6,194 5,107 8,988
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.87% 31.48% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,636 3,478 6,318
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%

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 September 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 46 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.34%) Apache
2 43 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 9 (0.49%) SAS
6 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 2 (0.11%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.054%) Camunda
10 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.14%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.33%) Simulink
6 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
8 3 (0.16%) Blender
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
8 3 (0.16%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.11%) SPSS
10 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.054%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 658 (35.80%) AWS
2 587 (31.94%) Azure
3 285 (15.51%) GCP
4 162 (8.81%) Power Platform
5 147 (8.00%) SaaS
6 124 (6.75%) GitHub
7 85 (4.62%) Serverless
8 77 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 69 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 64 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 58 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
11 58 (3.16%) Snowflake
12 43 (2.34%) dbt
13 36 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
15 34 (1.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 120 (6.53%) Broadband
2 73 (3.97%) Firewall
3 54 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 38 (2.07%) VPN
5 37 (2.01%) DNS
6 34 (1.85%) WAN
7 32 (1.74%) LAN
8 26 (1.41%) Wireless
9 25 (1.36%) Network Security
10 18 (0.98%) VLAN
11 17 (0.92%) BGP
12 16 (0.87%) DHCP
13 15 (0.82%) OSPF
14 14 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.71%) 5G
16 12 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
17 9 (0.49%) MPLS
17 9 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.51%) Power BI
2 132 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 81 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 65 (3.54%) Data Lake
6 65 (3.54%) NoSQL
7 54 (2.94%) Metadata
8 51 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.67%) Tableau
10 47 (2.56%) Big Data
11 43 (2.34%) Delta Lake
12 40 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 32 (1.74%) MySQL
14 31 (1.69%) DynamoDB
15 26 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
17 23 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
17 23 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (10.39%) Git
2 82 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.05%) GitLab
4 33 (1.80%) JIRA
5 18 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.76%) MLflow
7 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.71%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.54%) Selenium
9 10 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.33%) JMeter
11 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.27%) Poetry
12 5 (0.27%) Postman
12 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.22%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 583 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 411 (22.36%) Finance
3 301 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (6.31%) Legal
6 113 (6.15%) Banking
7 111 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 92 (5.01%) Law
9 81 (4.41%) Marketing
10 71 (3.86%) Retail
11 42 (2.29%) Games
12 40 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.85%) Electronics
14 27 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.41%) Front Office
16 19 (1.03%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.82%) Local Government
18 13 (0.71%) Advertising
18 13 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 515 (28.02%) Senior
2 267 (14.53%) Developer
3 231 (12.57%) Software Engineer
4 228 (12.40%) Lead
5 204 (11.10%) Data Engineer
6 187 (10.17%) Python Engineer
7 113 (6.15%) Analyst
8 102 (5.55%) Python Developer
9 98 (5.33%) Data Scientist
10 73 (3.97%) Senior Developer
11 72 (3.92%) Architect
11 72 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 71 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
13 68 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 68 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 67 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
15 58 (3.16%) Engineering Manager
16 57 (3.10%) Data Analyst
16 57 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
17 56 (3.05%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (15.51%) Terraform
2 131 (7.13%) React
3 101 (5.50%) PySpark
4 90 (4.90%) Node.js
5 84 (4.57%) PyTorch
6 81 (4.41%) .NET
7 72 (3.92%) REST
8 71 (3.86%) TensorFlow
9 67 (3.65%) Django
9 67 (3.65%) RESTful
10 57 (3.10%) Kafka
11 56 (3.05%) FastAPI
11 56 (3.05%) LangChain
12 44 (2.39%) Next.js
13 39 (2.12%) Pandas
14 35 (1.90%) scikit-learn
15 34 (1.85%) CSS
16 31 (1.69%) LangGraph
17 29 (1.58%) NumPy
17 29 (1.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 238 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 182 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (4.57%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.41%) Algorithms
5 80 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 65 (3.54%) Video\Live Streaming
7 61 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 42 (2.29%) Low-Code
10 41 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 37 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 37 (2.01%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.74%) Blog
13 31 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
13 31 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.47%) Credit Risk
14 27 (1.47%) Security Posture
15 25 (1.36%) Data Centre
15 25 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.31%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 215 (11.70%) Linux
2 84 (4.57%) Windows
3 36 (1.96%) Unix
4 27 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.92%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.38%) Debian
8 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.054%) AIX
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (38.41%) AI
2 600 (32.64%) Software Engineering
3 574 (31.23%) CI/CD
4 438 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (22.03%) Mentoring
6 387 (21.06%) Analytics
7 383 (20.84%) DevOps
8 382 (20.78%) Agile
9 378 (20.57%) Machine Learning
10 341 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 328 (17.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 263 (14.31%) Data Science
13 258 (14.04%) Test Automation
14 246 (13.38%) Observability
15 232 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
16 230 (12.51%) Data Engineering
16 230 (12.51%) Roadmaps
17 228 (12.40%) Decision-Making
18 220 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
18 220 (11.97%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 592 (32.21%) SQL
2 255 (13.87%) JavaScript
3 248 (13.49%) Java
4 227 (12.35%) C#
5 218 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 192 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 133 (7.24%) Bash
8 122 (6.64%) Go
9 101 (5.50%) C++
10 54 (2.94%) Scala
11 53 (2.88%) R
12 48 (2.61%) C
13 47 (2.56%) Bicep
14 36 (1.96%) PHP
15 31 (1.69%) Rust
16 26 (1.41%) Ruby
16 26 (1.41%) VBA
17 22 (1.20%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.98%) Groovy
19 17 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 244 (13.28%) Degree
2 219 (11.92%) Security Cleared
3 170 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.20%) PhD
10 21 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
12 17 (0.92%) CISSP
13 15 (0.82%) CCNP
14 14 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.76%) GIAC
14 14 (0.76%) OSCP
15 13 (0.71%) CREST Certified
15 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 136 (7.40%) QA
3 45 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.96%) GDPR
5 34 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.31%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 4 (0.22%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) PMO
14 3 (0.16%) ECSS
14 3 (0.16%) GAAP
14 3 (0.16%) UCITS
System Software
1 247 (13.44%) Docker
2 25 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.31%) Firmware
4 18 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.33%) KVM
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.054%) QEMU
10 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 230 (12.51%) Kubernetes
2 111 (6.04%) Ansible
3 85 (4.62%) Grafana
4 48 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.09%) Argo
6 19 (1.03%) Istio
7 14 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.54%) Packer
9 7 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.38%) Puppet
9 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.33%) Graylog
10 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.27%) Podman
11 5 (0.27%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 291 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.73%) Databricks
3 72 (3.92%) Google
4 53 (2.88%) Cisco
5 48 (2.61%) OpenAI
6 38 (2.07%) Oracle
7 34 (1.85%) VMware
8 26 (1.41%) Splunk
9 24 (1.31%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.25%) Foundry
10 23 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.14%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.14%) Informatica
12 18 (0.98%) Typelevel
13 17 (0.92%) New Relic
14 16 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.87%) F5
15 14 (0.76%) HubSpot
16 10 (0.54%) Talend
2,692 hybrid/remote Python jobs