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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,359 2,503 2,588
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.87% 14.42% 13.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.59% 33.86% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,761 2,102
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 4,170 7,393 9,246
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.22% 42.59% 46.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,191 4,762 7,815
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 December 2025.

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
1 119 (8.76%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.93%) Apache
3 36 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.55%) Confluence
5 19 (1.40%) 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 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.74%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.66%) SAS
11 8 (0.59%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.37%) CMS
12 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
14 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.22%) nginx
15 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 55 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.074%) Blender
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.44%) Shopify
4 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.074%) Actimize
6 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.074%) FastStats
6 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 552 (40.62%) AWS
2 551 (40.54%) Azure
3 196 (14.42%) GitHub
4 179 (13.17%) GCP
5 178 (13.10%) Power Platform
6 160 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (9.12%) Snowflake
8 123 (9.05%) dbt
9 121 (8.90%) Serverless
10 85 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
11 83 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
12 75 (5.52%) Amazon S3
12 75 (5.52%) SaaS
13 67 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 58 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 50 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 49 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (3.38%) OCI
18 45 (3.31%) Entra ID
19 41 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.24%) Firewall
2 36 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 31 (2.28%) VPN
4 28 (2.06%) WAN
5 24 (1.77%) LAN
6 17 (1.25%) Broadband
6 17 (1.25%) DNS
6 17 (1.25%) SSL
7 14 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.96%) BGP
8 13 (0.96%) Network Security
8 13 (0.96%) Wireshark
9 9 (0.66%) OSPF
9 9 (0.66%) VLAN
9 9 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.66%) Wireless
10 8 (0.59%) Internet
10 8 (0.59%) SAN
11 7 (0.52%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.29%) Power BI
2 118 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (6.77%) Data Lake
5 87 (6.40%) Apache Iceberg
6 85 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 84 (6.18%) Tableau
8 76 (5.59%) Apache Arrow
8 76 (5.59%) Dremio
9 70 (5.15%) SQL Server
10 67 (4.93%) NoSQL
11 48 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
12 41 (3.02%) Apache Ignite
13 40 (2.94%) Relational Database
14 39 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (2.58%) Metadata
16 33 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (2.43%) MySQL
17 29 (2.13%) DynamoDB
18 28 (2.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 121 (8.90%) Git
2 102 (7.51%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.42%) JIRA
4 37 (2.72%) GitLab
4 37 (2.72%) Oracle Forms
5 23 (1.69%) Selenium
6 12 (0.88%) ER Studio
6 12 (0.88%) ERwin
7 11 (0.81%) JUnit
8 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.74%) MLflow
9 9 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
10 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 4 (0.29%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.29%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 458 (33.70%) Finance
2 401 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (9.05%) Front Office
5 115 (8.46%) Banking
6 60 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.34%) Marketing
7 59 (4.34%) Public Sector
8 57 (4.19%) Investment Banking
9 49 (3.61%) Law
10 46 (3.38%) Retail
11 32 (2.35%) Health Technology
11 32 (2.35%) Tech for Good
12 31 (2.28%) Publishing
13 28 (2.06%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.62%) Legal
17 21 (1.55%) Electronics
18 17 (1.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 323 (23.77%) Senior
2 279 (20.53%) Developer
3 166 (12.21%) Software Engineer
4 157 (11.55%) Data Engineer
5 144 (10.60%) Python Engineer
6 134 (9.86%) Python Developer
7 129 (9.49%) Lead
8 106 (7.80%) Analyst
8 106 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
9 97 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 80 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 76 (5.59%) Architect
11 76 (5.59%) AWS Software Engineer
12 68 (5.00%) AWS Developer
13 59 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 56 (4.12%) Applications Engineer
15 55 (4.05%) Lead Developer
15 55 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
16 54 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (11.33%) React
2 101 (7.43%) Node.js
2 101 (7.43%) Pandas
3 92 (6.77%) RESTful
4 86 (6.33%) NumPy
5 76 (5.59%) SciPy
6 67 (4.93%) Kafka
6 67 (4.93%) Vue
7 64 (4.71%) Django
8 56 (4.12%) AngularJS
9 54 (3.97%) .NET
10 52 (3.83%) gRPC
10 52 (3.83%) REST
11 50 (3.68%) SOAP
12 47 (3.46%) PySpark
13 46 (3.38%) Flask
14 43 (3.16%) JSON
15 42 (3.09%) XML
16 41 (3.02%) Protocol Buffers
17 39 (2.87%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.06%) Fixed Income
3 84 (6.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 81 (5.96%) Equities
5 78 (5.74%) Product Ownership
6 67 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (4.42%) Algorithms
8 55 (4.05%) Hedge funds
9 51 (3.75%) Management Information System
9 51 (3.75%) Onboarding
10 49 (3.61%) Derivative
11 45 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
12 41 (3.02%) Pricing Data
13 37 (2.72%) Data Structures
14 33 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 33 (2.43%) Low-Code
15 26 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 194 (14.28%) Linux
2 92 (6.77%) Windows
3 71 (5.22%) Unix
4 33 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.59%) Debian
7 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.59%) Solaris
8 7 (0.52%) VMS
9 5 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Android
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.074%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (37.38%) Agile
2 471 (34.66%) CI/CD
3 438 (32.23%) DevOps
4 320 (23.55%) AI
5 307 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (22.30%) Software Engineering
7 275 (20.24%) Analytics
8 218 (16.04%) Asset Management
9 215 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (14.79%) Mentoring
11 192 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
12 180 (13.25%) Data Modelling
13 179 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 178 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
15 175 (12.88%) Data Engineering
16 172 (12.66%) Machine Learning
17 171 (12.58%) Coaching
18 170 (12.51%) Data Science
19 161 (11.85%) Test Automation
20 159 (11.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 512 (37.67%) SQL
2 274 (20.16%) Java
3 266 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 183 (13.47%) TypeScript
5 149 (10.96%) PowerShell
6 147 (10.82%) Bash
7 104 (7.65%) C#
8 69 (5.08%) Go
9 56 (4.12%) C++
9 56 (4.12%) R
10 45 (3.31%) PL/SQL
10 45 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 41 (3.02%) C
12 38 (2.80%) Scala
13 36 (2.65%) Bicep
14 20 (1.47%) PHP
15 19 (1.40%) Perl
16 15 (1.10%) MATLAB
17 14 (1.03%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 233 (17.14%) Degree
2 137 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 82 (6.03%) AWS Certification
5 71 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.40%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.40%) PhD
14 17 (1.25%) CISSP
15 16 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.88%) CEH
17 12 (0.88%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.74%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 77 (5.67%) QA
3 44 (3.24%) GDPR
4 37 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.84%) SLA
7 23 (1.69%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.59%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 210 (15.45%) Docker
2 37 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.66%) Firmware
6 8 (0.59%) vSphere
7 6 (0.44%) NFS
8 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
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
1 275 (20.24%) Terraform
2 220 (16.19%) Kubernetes
3 116 (8.54%) Ansible
4 61 (4.49%) Grafana
5 46 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (2.72%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.40%) Argo
8 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (0.44%) Control-M
10 5 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.29%) Cilium
11 4 (0.29%) logstash
11 4 (0.29%) Nmap
11 4 (0.29%) Puppet
11 4 (0.29%) QRadar
12 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 189 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 117 (8.61%) Databricks
3 95 (6.99%) Oracle
4 59 (4.34%) Google
5 54 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 35 (2.58%) VMware
7 27 (1.99%) IBM
8 25 (1.84%) Cisco
8 25 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.47%) Okta
11 19 (1.40%) Talend
12 18 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.25%) Commvault
13 17 (1.25%) SAP
14 13 (0.96%) Workday
15 11 (0.81%) Informatica
16 10 (0.74%) Dell
16 10 (0.74%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.74%) Splunk