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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,549 2,293 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.39% 15.76% 10.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.37% 38.20% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 1,545 2,882
10th Percentile £44,348 £46,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,789 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +2.73% +0.82%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £137,375
UK median annual salary £68,679 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,938 6,002 13,377
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.75% 41.26% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,649 4,392 11,421
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 12 May 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 79 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.32%) Apache
4 23 (1.48%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.065%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) SPSS
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) Notion
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.065%) Actimize
5 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 627 (40.48%) AWS
2 553 (35.70%) Azure
3 251 (16.20%) GCP
4 157 (10.14%) Power Platform
5 149 (9.62%) GitHub
6 123 (7.94%) Serverless
7 115 (7.42%) SaaS
8 103 (6.65%) Amazon S3
9 95 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
11 74 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
12 69 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 54 (3.49%) Snowflake
14 51 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (3.29%) dbt
15 48 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
16 47 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 40 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
19 37 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 165 (10.65%) Broadband
2 73 (4.71%) Firewall
3 39 (2.52%) VPN
4 26 (1.68%) LAN
5 25 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (1.55%) VLAN
7 23 (1.48%) WAN
8 20 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.23%) Wireshark
10 18 (1.16%) BGP
10 18 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (1.16%) DNS
10 18 (1.16%) NGFW
11 15 (0.97%) MPLS
11 15 (0.97%) Network Security
11 15 (0.97%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.77%) 4G
12 12 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.77%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (8.33%) Power BI
2 115 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 65 (4.20%) Tableau
5 64 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (3.87%) Metadata
6 60 (3.87%) MongoDB
6 60 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 59 (3.81%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.55%) Data Lake
9 50 (3.23%) BigQuery
10 41 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 41 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 37 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (1.94%) Delta Lake
13 28 (1.81%) MySQL
14 26 (1.68%) Redis
15 24 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (1.42%) DynamoDB
17 21 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 133 (8.59%) Git
2 58 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.84%) GitLab
4 34 (2.19%) JIRA
5 18 (1.16%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.03%) MLflow
7 14 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.52%) JMeter
9 8 (0.52%) Selenium
9 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.45%) Locust
11 6 (0.39%) Postman
12 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.32%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
14 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
General
1 444 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 338 (21.82%) Finance
3 245 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 90 (5.81%) Banking
7 65 (4.20%) Law
8 61 (3.94%) Retail
9 53 (3.42%) Front Office
10 47 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.78%) Marketing
12 39 (2.52%) Games
13 37 (2.39%) Legal
14 31 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.61%) Publishing
16 19 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.16%) Health Technology
18 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
18 17 (1.10%) Tech for Good
19 13 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 345 (22.27%) Senior
2 315 (20.34%) Developer
3 250 (16.14%) Lead
4 205 (13.23%) Data Engineer
5 173 (11.17%) Software Engineer
6 147 (9.49%) Python Engineer
7 126 (8.13%) Python Developer
8 89 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
9 80 (5.16%) Analyst
10 65 (4.20%) Lead Developer
11 60 (3.87%) Data Scientist
12 59 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 59 (3.81%) Senior Developer
13 58 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
14 54 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
15 53 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
16 51 (3.29%) React Developer
17 49 (3.16%) Architect
17 49 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
18 45 (2.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (10.46%) React
2 105 (6.78%) Kafka
3 102 (6.58%) Node.js
4 76 (4.91%) .NET
5 71 (4.58%) PySpark
6 65 (4.20%) REST
6 65 (4.20%) RESTful
7 63 (4.07%) PyTorch
8 57 (3.68%) Django
9 55 (3.55%) TensorFlow
10 50 (3.23%) gRPC
11 43 (2.78%) FastAPI
12 41 (2.65%) JSON
13 35 (2.26%) Vue
14 33 (2.13%) Redux
15 31 (2.00%) CSS
16 30 (1.94%) HTML
17 29 (1.87%) XML
18 28 (1.81%) AngularJS
18 28 (1.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 137 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (5.29%) Video\Live Streaming
4 74 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 73 (4.71%) Algorithms
6 63 (4.07%) Data Structures
7 62 (4.00%) Low-Code
8 51 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
9 45 (2.91%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.39%) Fixed Income
12 33 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
13 32 (2.07%) AI Agents
13 32 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (2.07%) Public Cloud
14 28 (1.81%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.68%) Equities
16 25 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
16 25 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (1.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 176 (11.36%) Linux
2 57 (3.68%) Windows
3 43 (2.78%) Unix
4 27 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.39%) Android
7 6 (0.39%) Debian
7 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.19%) CentOS
8 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.065%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (34.99%) CI/CD
2 432 (27.89%) Software Engineering
3 409 (26.40%) Agile
4 399 (25.76%) AI
5 375 (24.21%) DevOps
6 356 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (19.50%) Mentoring
8 285 (18.40%) Machine Learning
9 272 (17.56%) Analytics
10 260 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 246 (15.88%) Data Science
12 232 (14.98%) Data Pipeline
13 229 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 224 (14.46%) Data Modelling
15 213 (13.75%) Containerisation
16 211 (13.62%) Data Engineering
17 183 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
18 180 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
19 178 (11.49%) Test Automation
20 160 (10.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 454 (29.31%) SQL
2 307 (19.82%) Java
3 235 (15.17%) JavaScript
4 190 (12.27%) Go
5 154 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 137 (8.84%) Bash
6 137 (8.84%) PowerShell
7 135 (8.72%) C#
8 95 (6.13%) Scala
9 67 (4.33%) C++
10 47 (3.03%) R
11 34 (2.19%) C
11 34 (2.19%) PHP
12 23 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.29%) Apex Code
13 20 (1.29%) Bicep
14 17 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.10%) VBA
15 13 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 249 (16.07%) Degree
2 134 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 103 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 86 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 46 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.90%) PhD
11 13 (0.84%) ACCA
11 13 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.84%) CIMA
12 12 (0.77%) CEH
12 12 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.71%) OSCP
14 9 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.58%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.04%) QA
3 40 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.42%) NIST
6 16 (1.03%) GDPR
7 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.71%) ISO 22301
9 8 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.39%) GRC
11 5 (0.32%) PMO
11 5 (0.32%) WCAG
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.13%) EMIR
14 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 264 (17.04%) Docker
2 40 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.84%) Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 279 (18.01%) Terraform
2 228 (14.72%) Kubernetes
3 113 (7.30%) Ansible
4 75 (4.84%) Grafana
5 61 (3.94%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.45%) Argo
7 22 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.77%) Istio
10 11 (0.71%) Packer
11 10 (0.65%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.39%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.39%) Puppet
14 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.32%) FTK
14 5 (0.32%) SCCM
15 4 (0.26%) Control-M
15 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 232 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 120 (7.75%) Databricks
3 73 (4.71%) Google
4 52 (3.36%) Cisco
5 51 (3.29%) VMware
6 45 (2.91%) Typelevel
7 41 (2.65%) Oracle
8 35 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 19 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 19 (1.23%) Foundry
13 17 (1.10%) Commvault
14 15 (0.97%) Arista
14 15 (0.97%) Aruba
14 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.97%) NetScout
14 15 (0.97%) Splunk
15 14 (0.90%) F5