Python Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,082 3,840 6,684
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 11.35% 15.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.85% 27.87% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 2,869 4,072
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £135,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% +3.57%

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Python
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Python.

Python salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Python over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Python salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 260 (12.49%) Apache Airflow
2 233 (11.19%) Apache
3 165 (7.93%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.83%) Confluence
5 30 (1.44%) Jupyter
6 22 (1.06%) CMS
7 20 (0.96%) SAS
8 15 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.48%) WordPress
10 9 (0.43%) Drupal
11 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.34%) IIS
12 7 (0.34%) nginx
13 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.096%) Kinematics
15 2 (0.096%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.048%) Luigi
16 1 (0.048%) OpenEdge
16 1 (0.048%) OpenStack
Applications
1 134 (6.44%) Chatbot
2 56 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.24%) Stata
6 4 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.14%) Simulink
8 2 (0.096%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.096%) SPSS
8 2 (0.096%) Trello
8 2 (0.096%) Zemax
9 1 (0.048%) Blender
9 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 49 (2.35%) Aladdin
2 28 (1.34%) thinkFolio
3 17 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Shopify
5 2 (0.096%) Odoo
5 2 (0.096%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.048%) Endur
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 813 (39.05%) AWS
2 540 (25.94%) Azure
3 366 (17.58%) GCP
4 248 (11.91%) dbt
5 225 (10.81%) Serverless
6 192 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
7 157 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
8 154 (7.40%) Power Platform
9 135 (6.48%) Snowflake
10 123 (5.91%) GitHub
11 116 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 111 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
13 104 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
14 103 (4.95%) Amazon S3
15 85 (4.08%) OpenShift
16 84 (4.03%) SaaS
17 71 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
18 49 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
19 43 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
20 39 (1.87%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.64%) Firewall
2 41 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.87%) HTTP
4 31 (1.49%) WAN
5 30 (1.44%) DNS
6 19 (0.91%) 5G
7 18 (0.86%) LAN
8 17 (0.82%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.82%) VLAN
9 16 (0.77%) Internet
10 15 (0.72%) DHCP
11 14 (0.67%) Network Security
12 13 (0.62%) Wireless
13 11 (0.53%) VPN
14 10 (0.48%) SAN
15 7 (0.34%) Broadband
15 7 (0.34%) OSPF
16 6 (0.29%) BGP
16 6 (0.29%) Bluetooth
17 5 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (11.10%) Amazon Athena
2 221 (10.61%) Apache Iceberg
3 214 (10.28%) Dremio
4 207 (9.94%) Apache Arrow
5 170 (8.17%) Apache Ignite
6 156 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
7 141 (6.77%) Tableau
8 138 (6.63%) Power BI
9 129 (6.20%) Data Lake
10 119 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
11 91 (4.37%) NoSQL
12 85 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
13 81 (3.89%) SQL Server
14 76 (3.65%) Big Data
15 74 (3.55%) Relational Database
16 65 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
17 64 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
18 56 (2.69%) MySQL
19 36 (1.73%) MongoDB
20 32 (1.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 234 (11.24%) Git
2 108 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 62 (2.98%) GitLab
5 58 (2.79%) JIRA
6 37 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (1.49%) Selenium
9 19 (0.91%) JUnit
10 18 (0.86%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.72%) Maven
12 13 (0.62%) Appium
13 11 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.53%) Subversion
13 11 (0.53%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.43%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.38%) Moq
15 8 (0.38%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 751 (36.07%) Finance
2 437 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 367 (17.63%) Front Office
4 312 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
5 305 (14.65%) Banking
6 180 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (4.61%) Investment Banking
8 92 (4.42%) Retail
9 73 (3.51%) Law
10 67 (3.22%) Games
10 67 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (3.12%) Marketing
12 63 (3.03%) Legal
13 53 (2.55%) Public Sector
14 49 (2.35%) Advertising
15 48 (2.31%) Telecoms
16 44 (2.11%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.83%) Tech for Good
18 31 (1.49%) Publishing
19 29 (1.39%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 549 (26.37%) Senior
2 443 (21.28%) Software Engineer
3 426 (20.46%) Developer
4 295 (14.17%) Python Engineer
5 289 (13.88%) AWS Engineer
6 245 (11.77%) Analyst
7 241 (11.58%) Data Engineer
8 182 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 179 (8.60%) Lead
10 152 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 142 (6.82%) AWS Software Engineer
12 129 (6.20%) AWS DevOps
13 123 (5.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 120 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 116 (5.57%) Trainer
16 111 (5.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 111 (5.33%) Python Developer
17 103 (4.95%) Software Developer
18 90 (4.32%) Data Analyst
19 81 (3.89%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (11.67%) React
2 225 (10.81%) Pandas
3 207 (9.94%) Node.js
4 187 (8.98%) PySpark
5 167 (8.02%) HTML
6 156 (7.49%) Kafka
7 151 (7.25%) NumPy
8 137 (6.58%) .NET
9 127 (6.10%) SciPy
10 104 (5.00%) gRPC
11 99 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
12 89 (4.27%) REST
13 86 (4.13%) AngularJS
14 84 (4.03%) Django
15 79 (3.79%) Vue
16 75 (3.60%) RESTful
17 71 (3.41%) J2EE
18 68 (3.27%) Redux
19 55 (2.64%) CSS
20 53 (2.55%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 239 (11.48%) Fixed Income
2 167 (8.02%) Hedge funds
3 163 (7.83%) Derivative
4 154 (7.40%) Algorithms
5 120 (5.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 116 (5.57%) Equities
7 87 (4.18%) Management Information System
8 72 (3.46%) Cyberattack
9 70 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (2.98%) Cloud Native
11 60 (2.88%) Product Ownership
12 54 (2.59%) Onboarding
13 45 (2.16%) Robotics
14 44 (2.11%) Mobile App
15 43 (2.07%) Credit Risk
16 39 (1.87%) Pricing Data
16 39 (1.87%) Public Cloud
17 34 (1.63%) Learning Management System
18 33 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
19 27 (1.30%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 318 (15.27%) Linux
2 118 (5.67%) Windows
3 86 (4.13%) Unix
4 55 (2.64%) Android
5 28 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.43%) VMS
9 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.29%) CentOS
9 6 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.14%) Solaris
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.096%) AIX
11 2 (0.096%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Rocky
11 2 (0.096%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (38.18%) Agile
2 750 (36.02%) Software Engineering
3 518 (24.88%) CI/CD
4 499 (23.97%) DevOps
5 419 (20.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 376 (18.06%) Analytics
7 353 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 350 (16.81%) Asset Management
9 326 (15.66%) Machine Learning
10 250 (12.01%) Data Science
11 247 (11.86%) Computer Science
12 246 (11.82%) Containerisation
13 239 (11.48%) Mentoring
14 232 (11.14%) Visualisation
15 220 (10.57%) Data Engineering
16 212 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
17 195 (9.37%) Investment Management
18 187 (8.98%) Fintech
19 185 (8.89%) Mathematics
20 181 (8.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 761 (36.55%) SQL
2 616 (29.59%) JavaScript
3 487 (23.39%) Java
4 317 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 301 (14.46%) C++
6 269 (12.92%) C#
7 210 (10.09%) Go
8 173 (8.31%) PowerShell
9 163 (7.83%) Bash
10 105 (5.04%) C
11 77 (3.70%) Rust
12 75 (3.60%) R
13 55 (2.64%) Scala
14 39 (1.87%) PHP
15 38 (1.83%) Perl
16 35 (1.68%) Ruby
17 31 (1.49%) MATLAB
18 23 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (1.06%) Kotlin
20 19 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 524 (25.17%) Degree
2 174 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.44%) Master's Degree
4 114 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 93 (4.47%) DBS Check
7 88 (4.23%) PhD
8 69 (3.31%) SC Cleared
9 40 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 26 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.77%) CISSP
13 11 (0.53%) CEH
13 11 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (0.48%) OSCP
15 9 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (0.43%) GCIA
15 9 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (4.27%) QA
2 88 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.31%) GDPR
5 21 (1.01%) NIST
6 17 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 14 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.43%) IFRS
10 9 (0.43%) IFRS 9
10 9 (0.43%) SLA
11 8 (0.38%) Basel III
12 7 (0.34%) Basel II
12 7 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
13 6 (0.29%) CDISC
14 5 (0.24%) FINRA
14 5 (0.24%) NCSC
15 4 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 446 (21.42%) Docker
2 38 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.62%) Firmware
6 8 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.34%) HDFS
8 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.096%) KVM
9 2 (0.096%) Postfix
9 2 (0.096%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 472 (22.67%) Kubernetes
2 405 (19.45%) Terraform
3 182 (8.74%) Ansible
4 47 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 40 (1.92%) Grafana
6 26 (1.25%) Istio
7 17 (0.82%) Puppet
8 15 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.62%) Nagios
10 11 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
10 11 (0.53%) SCCM
11 9 (0.43%) SCOM
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.34%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.24%) Argo
15 5 (0.24%) CASB
15 5 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
15 5 (0.24%) Kibana
15 5 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 223 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 150 (7.20%) Databricks
3 135 (6.48%) Google
4 116 (5.57%) PayPal
5 49 (2.35%) BISAM
6 40 (1.92%) VMware
7 39 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 34 (1.63%) Charles River
9 32 (1.54%) SAP
10 31 (1.49%) Oracle
11 29 (1.39%) IBM
12 28 (1.34%) Calypso
12 28 (1.34%) SimCorp
13 23 (1.10%) Apple
14 15 (0.72%) Adobe
15 13 (0.62%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.58%) Cisco
16 12 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.58%) Splunk
17 11 (0.53%) F5