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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,645 2,361 3,834
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.24% 15.38% 11.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.21% 40.52% 27.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,420 3,042
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,970 £42,250
25th Percentile £54,000 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 5,271 5,827 14,019
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.40% 37.96% 40.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,892 4,039 11,606
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,657
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 17 June 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 76 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 39 (2.37%) Apache
4 19 (1.16%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) Confluence
9 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) CMS
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Blender
6 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
8 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 645 (39.21%) AWS
2 530 (32.22%) Azure
3 275 (16.72%) GCP
4 134 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 121 (7.36%) SaaS
6 106 (6.44%) GitHub
7 102 (6.20%) Serverless
8 88 (5.35%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 55 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (2.61%) dbt
16 43 (2.61%) Snowflake
17 42 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
18 41 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 37 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 202 (12.28%) Broadband
2 79 (4.80%) Firewall
3 46 (2.80%) VPN
4 27 (1.64%) LAN
4 27 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.58%) WAN
6 22 (1.34%) VLAN
7 20 (1.22%) DNS
7 20 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.16%) Network Security
8 19 (1.16%) Wireshark
9 17 (1.03%) BGP
9 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (1.03%) NGFW
10 15 (0.91%) MPLS
10 15 (0.91%) VXLAN
10 15 (0.91%) Wireless
11 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.57%) Power BI
3 88 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.32%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 60 (3.65%) BigQuery
8 59 (3.59%) NoSQL
9 57 (3.47%) Metadata
10 55 (3.34%) Tableau
11 49 (2.98%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (2.07%) Big Data
16 32 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
17 31 (1.88%) Delta Lake
17 31 (1.88%) MySQL
18 27 (1.64%) Redis
19 25 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 146 (8.88%) Git
2 64 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.59%) GitLab
4 33 (2.01%) JIRA
5 18 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 16 (0.97%) MLflow
7 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
9 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.30%) Locust
10 5 (0.30%) Postman
10 5 (0.30%) Selenium
10 5 (0.30%) Subversion
11 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 454 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 358 (21.76%) Finance
3 285 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 100 (6.08%) Banking
7 71 (4.32%) Law
8 62 (3.77%) Retail
9 52 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 49 (2.98%) Marketing
11 48 (2.92%) Games
12 47 (2.86%) Front Office
13 45 (2.74%) Legal
14 22 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.79%) Electronics
17 13 (0.79%) Publishing
18 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
19 11 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 381 (23.16%) Senior
2 327 (19.88%) Developer
3 278 (16.90%) Lead
4 200 (12.16%) Data Engineer
5 191 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 159 (9.67%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.75%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (5.71%) Analyst
10 92 (5.59%) Data Scientist
11 69 (4.19%) Lead Developer
12 66 (4.01%) Senior Developer
13 64 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 62 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
15 59 (3.59%) Data Analyst
16 57 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
17 55 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
19 46 (2.80%) Architect
19 46 (2.80%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.06%) React
2 105 (6.38%) Node.js
3 96 (5.84%) Kafka
4 95 (5.78%) PyTorch
5 85 (5.17%) TensorFlow
6 74 (4.50%) REST
7 72 (4.38%) .NET
8 67 (4.07%) PySpark
9 66 (4.01%) RESTful
10 57 (3.47%) Django
11 55 (3.34%) FastAPI
12 49 (2.98%) LangChain
13 48 (2.92%) gRPC
14 39 (2.37%) Vue
15 36 (2.19%) JSON
16 35 (2.13%) Flask
17 32 (1.95%) Redux
18 28 (1.70%) GraphQL
18 28 (1.70%) Web Services
19 27 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 206 (12.52%) Cloud Native
2 176 (10.70%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (6.32%) Video\Live Streaming
4 79 (4.80%) Algorithms
5 67 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 66 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 59 (3.59%) Low-Code
8 58 (3.53%) AI Agents
9 55 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
10 45 (2.74%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (2.25%) Public Cloud
13 36 (2.19%) Fixed Income
14 35 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (1.82%) Data Centre
16 28 (1.70%) Equities
17 27 (1.64%) Virtual Team
18 25 (1.52%) Security Posture
19 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
20 23 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 183 (11.12%) Linux
2 61 (3.71%) Windows
3 43 (2.61%) Unix
4 30 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Debian
6 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (33.68%) CI/CD
2 542 (32.95%) AI
3 492 (29.91%) Software Engineering
4 396 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 388 (23.59%) Agile
6 361 (21.95%) Machine Learning
7 341 (20.73%) Mentoring
8 332 (20.18%) DevOps
9 310 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 306 (18.60%) Analytics
11 297 (18.05%) Data Science
12 224 (13.62%) Containerisation
13 223 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
14 217 (13.19%) Roadmaps
15 214 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 213 (12.95%) Data Modelling
17 210 (12.77%) Data Engineering
18 199 (12.10%) Observability
19 195 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 191 (11.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 482 (29.30%) SQL
2 280 (17.02%) Java
3 226 (13.74%) JavaScript
4 192 (11.67%) Go
5 152 (9.24%) Bash
6 150 (9.12%) PowerShell
7 148 (9.00%) TypeScript
8 138 (8.39%) C#
9 86 (5.23%) Scala
10 71 (4.32%) C++
11 54 (3.28%) R
12 38 (2.31%) PHP
13 35 (2.13%) C
14 26 (1.58%) Bicep
15 19 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.16%) VBA
16 18 (1.09%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.97%) Ruby
18 14 (0.85%) Groovy
18 14 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 230 (13.98%) Degree
2 150 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 122 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.85%) PhD
11 12 (0.73%) OSCP
12 11 (0.67%) CEH
12 11 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.61%) ACCA
13 10 (0.61%) CIMA
13 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.55%) CISSP
15 8 (0.49%) CCNP
15 8 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.02%) QA
3 38 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.09%) NIST
6 15 (0.91%) GDPR
7 12 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) SLA
10 7 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 6 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 5 (0.30%) WCAG
13 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.18%) GAAP
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 266 (16.17%) Docker
2 34 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.03%) Firmware
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) KVM
7 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 271 (16.47%) Terraform
2 225 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 110 (6.69%) Ansible
4 81 (4.92%) Grafana
5 69 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.43%) Argo
7 24 (1.46%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.03%) Istio
9 12 (0.73%) Packer
9 12 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.55%) Kubeflow
10 9 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.43%) Puppet
13 6 (0.36%) Graylog
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.30%) FTK
14 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 236 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.11%) Databricks
3 77 (4.68%) Google
4 56 (3.40%) Cisco
5 49 (2.98%) VMware
6 45 (2.74%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.64%) Oracle
9 27 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 24 (1.46%) Foundry
11 23 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.34%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.22%) Splunk
14 16 (0.97%) F5
15 15 (0.91%) Arista
15 15 (0.91%) Aruba
15 15 (0.91%) NetScout
15 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.79%) MuleSoft