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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,358 2,367 2,699
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.88% 14.42% 12.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.56% 33.31% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,582 2,182
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,938 £95,063
90th Percentile £119,625 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 4,171 7,105 10,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.27% 43.29% 46.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,140 4,447 8,567
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 16 January 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
1 105 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (4.42%) Apache
3 38 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.55%) Confluence
5 18 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
8 14 (1.03%) SAS
9 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.15%) CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.074%) Actimize
7 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 543 (39.99%) Azure
2 542 (39.91%) AWS
3 198 (14.58%) GitHub
4 182 (13.40%) Power Platform
5 167 (12.30%) GCP
6 160 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (9.79%) Serverless
8 111 (8.17%) Snowflake
9 99 (7.29%) dbt
10 89 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (6.41%) Amazon S3
12 84 (6.19%) SaaS
13 83 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
14 77 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 57 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 54 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 50 (3.68%) OCI
18 49 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
19 43 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 43 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.39%) Firewall
2 37 (2.72%) Broadband
3 36 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.99%) VPN
5 22 (1.62%) WAN
6 21 (1.55%) LAN
7 20 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (1.33%) BGP
9 17 (1.25%) Wireshark
10 16 (1.18%) DNS
10 16 (1.18%) SSL
11 13 (0.96%) MPLS
12 12 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.81%) Network Security
14 10 (0.74%) 4G
14 10 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.74%) IOS XR
14 10 (0.74%) NGFW
14 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.30%) Power BI
2 104 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (6.85%) Tableau
5 81 (5.96%) Data Lake
6 78 (5.74%) SQL Server
7 74 (5.45%) NoSQL
8 70 (5.15%) Apache Iceberg
9 64 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
10 51 (3.76%) Apache Arrow
10 51 (3.76%) Dremio
10 51 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
11 48 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 42 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
13 39 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (2.87%) Metadata
14 35 (2.58%) BigQuery
15 30 (2.21%) MongoDB
16 29 (2.14%) DynamoDB
17 28 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 122 (8.98%) Git
2 96 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.64%) JIRA
4 37 (2.72%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.58%) GitLab
6 23 (1.69%) Selenium
7 13 (0.96%) Jaeger
7 13 (0.96%) MLflow
8 12 (0.88%) ER Studio
8 12 (0.88%) ERwin
9 11 (0.81%) JUnit
10 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.29%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.29%) Postman
13 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 416 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 411 (30.27%) Finance
3 188 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.58%) Banking
5 85 (6.26%) Front Office
6 76 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (5.30%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.90%) Marketing
9 51 (3.76%) Law
10 45 (3.31%) Investment Banking
11 41 (3.02%) Retail
12 38 (2.80%) Telecoms
13 34 (2.50%) Publishing
14 31 (2.28%) Tech for Good
15 28 (2.06%) Health Technology
16 27 (1.99%) Legal
17 26 (1.91%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (1.33%) Electronics
19 16 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 309 (22.75%) Senior
2 268 (19.73%) Developer
3 177 (13.03%) Data Engineer
4 144 (10.60%) Lead
5 138 (10.16%) Python Engineer
6 137 (10.09%) Software Engineer
7 133 (9.79%) Python Developer
8 100 (7.36%) Analyst
9 87 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 84 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (5.67%) Python Software Engineer
12 63 (4.64%) Architect
13 62 (4.57%) AWS Developer
14 57 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
14 57 (4.20%) Senior Developer
15 55 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
16 52 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (3.76%) AWS Software Engineer
18 50 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
19 49 (3.61%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (10.60%) React
2 88 (6.48%) Node.js
3 87 (6.41%) RESTful
4 71 (5.23%) Pandas
5 61 (4.49%) Django
5 61 (4.49%) NumPy
6 55 (4.05%) Kafka
7 54 (3.98%) .NET
7 54 (3.98%) PySpark
8 52 (3.83%) SciPy
9 50 (3.68%) Vue
10 48 (3.53%) SOAP
11 46 (3.39%) REST
12 43 (3.17%) XML
13 42 (3.09%) AngularJS
13 42 (3.09%) JSON
14 38 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
14 38 (2.80%) Flask
14 38 (2.80%) gRPC
15 34 (2.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.79%) Algorithms
5 59 (4.34%) Fixed Income
6 58 (4.27%) Equities
6 58 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 49 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 47 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
9 43 (3.17%) Management Information System
10 40 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 40 (2.95%) Hedge funds
10 40 (2.95%) Low-Code
11 36 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 35 (2.58%) Derivative
13 31 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (2.06%) Pricing Data
15 24 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
16 21 (1.55%) Data Centre
17 19 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 202 (14.87%) Linux
2 89 (6.55%) Windows
3 83 (6.11%) Unix
4 31 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.66%) Debian
8 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.59%) Solaris
9 7 (0.52%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.074%) Android
12 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (34.83%) Agile
2 462 (34.02%) CI/CD
3 441 (32.47%) DevOps
4 330 (24.30%) AI
5 310 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
6 284 (20.91%) Analytics
6 284 (20.91%) Software Engineering
7 226 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 224 (16.49%) Mentoring
9 196 (14.43%) Data Modelling
10 195 (14.36%) Business Intelligence
11 194 (14.29%) Data Engineering
11 194 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 193 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 188 (13.84%) Asset Management
14 187 (13.77%) Data Science
15 182 (13.40%) Coaching
16 179 (13.18%) Machine Learning
17 164 (12.08%) ETL
18 160 (11.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 512 (37.70%) SQL
2 275 (20.25%) Java
3 252 (18.56%) JavaScript
4 164 (12.08%) TypeScript
5 152 (11.19%) Bash
6 142 (10.46%) PowerShell
7 100 (7.36%) C#
8 72 (5.30%) Go
9 55 (4.05%) C++
9 55 (4.05%) R
10 46 (3.39%) Scala
11 45 (3.31%) Shell Script
12 43 (3.17%) PL/SQL
13 38 (2.80%) C
14 32 (2.36%) Bicep
15 19 (1.40%) PHP
16 17 (1.25%) Perl
17 15 (1.10%) MATLAB
18 14 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 11 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 249 (18.34%) Degree
2 151 (11.12%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.63%) AWS Certification
5 79 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
11 23 (1.69%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.33%) PhD
13 17 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.10%) CISSP
15 14 (1.03%) ACCA
15 14 (1.03%) CIMA
15 14 (1.03%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.96%) CEH
16 13 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.04%) QA
3 38 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.65%) GDPR
5 26 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.84%) SLA
7 20 (1.47%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.66%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.37%) GRC
13 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.15%) ECSS
14 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 206 (15.17%) Docker
2 36 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) vSphere
6 7 (0.52%) Firmware
7 6 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.074%) HDFS
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.074%) vCloud
11 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 292 (21.50%) Terraform
2 224 (16.49%) Kubernetes
3 125 (9.20%) Ansible
4 61 (4.49%) Grafana
5 49 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.21%) Argo
8 14 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.44%) Control-M
12 5 (0.37%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) Cilium
13 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
14 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
14 3 (0.22%) QRadar
15 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 179 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 118 (8.69%) Databricks
3 88 (6.48%) Oracle
4 69 (5.08%) Google
5 46 (3.39%) Red Hat
6 37 (2.72%) VMware
7 30 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.14%) Cisco
9 27 (1.99%) IBM
10 22 (1.62%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.47%) Okta
11 20 (1.47%) Talend
12 19 (1.40%) Commvault
13 18 (1.33%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.25%) SAP
15 14 (1.03%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.96%) Informatica
16 13 (0.96%) Workday
17 10 (0.74%) Dell
17 10 (0.74%) Splunk