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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,932 1,932 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.73% 11.71% 13.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.96% 39.44% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 1,065 2,096
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,713
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -3.33% +4.17%

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 6,240 4,898 8,629
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.97% 29.69% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,555 3,240 5,527
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.10% -0.77%

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 13 October 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 49 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 45 (2.33%) Apache
3 42 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.47%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.31%) Confluence
9 6 (0.31%) nginx
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.16%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.10%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.14%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.41%) Simulink
4 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.31%) Lightworks
5 6 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) Blender
6 3 (0.16%) Maya
6 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) SPSS
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.10%) Revit
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.052%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.052%) Actimize
5 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.052%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 666 (34.47%) AWS
2 622 (32.19%) Azure
3 310 (16.05%) GCP
4 181 (9.37%) SaaS
5 178 (9.21%) Power Platform
6 143 (7.40%) GitHub
7 79 (4.09%) Serverless
8 78 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 75 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (3.78%) Snowflake
11 71 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 64 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 61 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
15 58 (3.00%) Amazon S3
16 56 (2.90%) dbt
17 52 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
18 39 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
19 38 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
20 37 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.78%) Broadband
2 71 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 70 (3.62%) Firewall
4 56 (2.90%) VPN
5 35 (1.81%) BGP
6 33 (1.71%) Network Security
7 31 (1.60%) DNS
8 29 (1.50%) WAN
9 27 (1.40%) LAN
10 24 (1.24%) VLAN
11 23 (1.19%) Wireless
12 15 (0.78%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) 5G
13 14 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.62%) DHCP
14 12 (0.62%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.47%) HTTP
15 9 (0.47%) MPLS
15 9 (0.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (8.02%) Power BI
2 143 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 69 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 69 (3.57%) Metadata
7 64 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 51 (2.64%) Big Data
9 49 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.54%) Tableau
10 45 (2.33%) BigQuery
11 43 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
12 42 (2.17%) Delta Lake
13 33 (1.71%) MySQL
14 29 (1.50%) DynamoDB
15 27 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
16 26 (1.35%) Star Schema
17 24 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 189 (9.78%) Git
2 86 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 65 (3.36%) GitLab
4 37 (1.92%) JIRA
5 27 (1.40%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.35%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.88%) MLflow
8 13 (0.67%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.57%) Selenium
11 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.31%) Postman
15 5 (0.26%) Poetry
15 5 (0.26%) Subversion
16 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
16 4 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 621 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 475 (24.59%) Finance
3 343 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (8.07%) Banking
5 141 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 130 (6.73%) Public Sector
7 126 (6.52%) Legal
8 105 (5.43%) Law
9 104 (5.38%) Marketing
10 85 (4.40%) Retail
11 51 (2.64%) Front Office
12 40 (2.07%) Games
13 35 (1.81%) Electronics
13 35 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.14%) Back Office
16 21 (1.09%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 554 (28.67%) Senior
2 299 (15.48%) Software Engineer
3 279 (14.44%) Developer
4 233 (12.06%) Lead
5 226 (11.70%) Data Engineer
6 219 (11.34%) Python Engineer
7 135 (6.99%) Analyst
8 124 (6.42%) Python Developer
9 116 (6.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 108 (5.59%) Data Scientist
11 92 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 82 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 81 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 79 (4.09%) Architect
14 79 (4.09%) Senior Developer
15 69 (3.57%) Data Analyst
16 67 (3.47%) Consultant
17 57 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
18 54 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
18 54 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (15.37%) Terraform
2 129 (6.68%) React
3 113 (5.85%) PySpark
4 99 (5.12%) Node.js
5 84 (4.35%) .NET
6 79 (4.09%) RESTful
7 76 (3.93%) LangChain
7 76 (3.93%) PyTorch
8 71 (3.67%) REST
9 67 (3.47%) TensorFlow
10 58 (3.00%) Django
11 57 (2.95%) FastAPI
12 49 (2.54%) LangGraph
13 45 (2.33%) Kafka
14 44 (2.28%) Next.js
15 32 (1.66%) Spring
15 32 (1.66%) Spring Boot
16 31 (1.60%) Pandas
17 30 (1.55%) scikit-learn
18 28 (1.45%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 260 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 178 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.64%) AI Agents
4 72 (3.73%) Algorithms
5 69 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 53 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 50 (2.59%) Blog
8 44 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 41 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 40 (2.07%) Credit Risk
10 40 (2.07%) Video\Live Streaming
11 39 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
12 37 (1.92%) Onboarding
13 36 (1.86%) Hedge funds
14 33 (1.71%) Low-Code
15 30 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (1.50%) Security Posture
17 27 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
17 27 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
18 25 (1.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 213 (11.02%) Linux
2 78 (4.04%) Windows
3 33 (1.71%) Unix
4 17 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 13 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.57%) macOS
8 9 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.36%) Debian
10 6 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.10%) Solaris
14 1 (0.052%) CentOS
14 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (42.18%) AI
2 650 (33.64%) Software Engineering
3 608 (31.47%) CI/CD
4 459 (23.76%) Analytics
5 445 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
6 405 (20.96%) Mentoring
7 394 (20.39%) DevOps
8 391 (20.24%) Machine Learning
9 379 (19.62%) Agile
10 341 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 326 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 281 (14.54%) Test Automation
13 266 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
14 265 (13.72%) Data Science
15 262 (13.56%) Decision-Making
16 258 (13.35%) Data Engineering
17 251 (12.99%) Observability
18 248 (12.84%) Data Modelling
19 244 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
20 227 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 678 (35.09%) SQL
2 264 (13.66%) Java
3 257 (13.30%) JavaScript
4 226 (11.70%) C#
5 210 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 207 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 153 (7.92%) Bash
8 129 (6.68%) Go
9 95 (4.92%) C++
10 87 (4.50%) R
11 54 (2.80%) C
12 50 (2.59%) Bicep
13 46 (2.38%) Rust
14 39 (2.02%) Scala
15 25 (1.29%) PHP
16 24 (1.24%) MATLAB
17 22 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 22 (1.14%) Ruby
17 22 (1.14%) VBA
18 15 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 244 (12.63%) Degree
2 231 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 184 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 62 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.29%) CISSP
11 22 (1.14%) PhD
12 21 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
14 19 (0.98%) GIAC
15 18 (0.93%) SnowPro
16 17 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.83%) CISM
18 12 (0.62%) CCNP
19 11 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 114 (5.90%) QA
3 55 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 51 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.28%) GDPR
6 37 (1.92%) NIST
7 32 (1.66%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.19%) SOC 2
9 18 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.31%) SLA
13 5 (0.26%) ECSS
13 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.21%) COPPA
14 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.21%) MiFID
14 4 (0.21%) NCSC
15 3 (0.16%) UCITS
16 2 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 239 (12.37%) Docker
2 21 (1.09%) Firmware
2 21 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.31%) KVM
8 5 (0.26%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.052%) HDFS
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) QEMU
11 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 258 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.18%) Ansible
3 96 (4.97%) Grafana
4 59 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.09%) Argo
6 16 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.67%) Istio
7 13 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.57%) Cilium
9 7 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
10 6 (0.31%) Graylog
10 6 (0.31%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Nagios
12 4 (0.21%) Nmap
12 4 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 293 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 148 (7.66%) Databricks
3 126 (6.52%) Google
4 52 (2.69%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.33%) Oracle
6 41 (2.12%) Cisco
7 33 (1.71%) Foundry
8 30 (1.55%) Splunk
9 27 (1.40%) VMware
10 23 (1.19%) Informatica
11 20 (1.04%) New Relic
12 17 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 17 (0.88%) Red Hat
12 17 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.72%) Palantir
14 14 (0.72%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.67%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.62%) Talend
17 10 (0.52%) Alteryx