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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,642 2,367 3,836
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.25% 15.44% 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.16% 40.63% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,424 3,043
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,791 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 5,269 5,826 14,013
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.47% 38.00% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,889 4,037 11,599
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,551
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,250 £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 16 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 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.44%) 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 33 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) Trello
6 2 (0.12%) SPSS
7 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.37%) 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
1 643 (39.16%) AWS
2 528 (32.16%) Azure
3 274 (16.69%) GCP
4 135 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 117 (7.13%) SaaS
6 107 (6.52%) GitHub
7 102 (6.21%) Serverless
8 88 (5.36%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
10 68 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 55 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (2.62%) dbt
17 42 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (2.56%) Snowflake
18 41 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 38 (2.31%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 202 (12.30%) Broadband
2 78 (4.75%) Firewall
3 45 (2.74%) VPN
4 27 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.58%) LAN
6 25 (1.52%) WAN
7 22 (1.34%) VLAN
8 20 (1.22%) DNS
8 20 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.16%) Wireshark
10 18 (1.10%) Network Security
11 17 (1.04%) BGP
11 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.04%) NGFW
12 15 (0.91%) MPLS
12 15 (0.91%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.85%) Wireless
14 13 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.58%) Power BI
3 88 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 67 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 60 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 59 (3.59%) BigQuery
9 57 (3.47%) Metadata
10 55 (3.35%) Tableau
11 49 (2.98%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
13 35 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.13%) Big Data
14 32 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
15 30 (1.83%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.83%) MySQL
16 27 (1.64%) Redis
17 25 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 143 (8.71%) Git
2 64 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.53%) GitLab
4 32 (1.95%) JIRA
5 18 (1.10%) Jaeger
6 15 (0.91%) 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
1 451 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 357 (21.74%) Finance
3 286 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 100 (6.09%) Banking
7 71 (4.32%) Law
8 62 (3.78%) Retail
9 50 (3.05%) Marketing
9 50 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 48 (2.92%) Games
11 47 (2.86%) Front Office
12 44 (2.68%) Legal
13 22 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.79%) Electronics
16 13 (0.79%) Publishing
17 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
18 11 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 380 (23.14%) Senior
2 325 (19.79%) Developer
3 278 (16.93%) Lead
4 201 (12.24%) Data Engineer
5 191 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 160 (9.74%) Python Engineer
7 111 (6.76%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (5.72%) Analyst
10 93 (5.66%) Data Scientist
11 69 (4.20%) Lead Developer
12 65 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 65 (3.96%) Senior Developer
13 62 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
14 59 (3.59%) Data Analyst
15 57 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
16 54 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
17 47 (2.86%) Senior Data Scientist
18 46 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
18 46 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.01%) React
2 106 (6.46%) Node.js
3 97 (5.91%) Kafka
4 95 (5.79%) PyTorch
5 86 (5.24%) TensorFlow
6 73 (4.45%) REST
7 70 (4.26%) .NET
8 66 (4.02%) PySpark
9 64 (3.90%) RESTful
10 57 (3.47%) Django
11 56 (3.41%) FastAPI
12 48 (2.92%) gRPC
12 48 (2.92%) LangChain
13 38 (2.31%) Vue
14 36 (2.19%) JSON
15 35 (2.13%) Flask
16 32 (1.95%) Redux
17 28 (1.71%) GraphQL
17 28 (1.71%) Web Services
18 27 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 206 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 174 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (6.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.87%) Algorithms
5 67 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 67 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.65%) Low-Code
7 56 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 55 (3.35%) Over-the-Top Content
9 44 (2.68%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (2.19%) Public Cloud
12 35 (2.13%) Fixed Income
13 34 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.83%) Data Centre
15 28 (1.71%) Equities
16 26 (1.58%) Virtual Team
17 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
17 24 (1.46%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 181 (11.02%) Linux
2 61 (3.71%) Windows
3 43 (2.62%) Unix
4 30 (1.83%) 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%) CentOS
11 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (33.56%) CI/CD
2 542 (33.01%) AI
3 490 (29.84%) Software Engineering
4 395 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
5 391 (23.81%) Agile
6 363 (22.11%) Machine Learning
7 340 (20.71%) Mentoring
8 334 (20.34%) DevOps
9 309 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 307 (18.70%) Analytics
11 299 (18.21%) Data Science
12 224 (13.64%) Containerisation
12 224 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
13 216 (13.15%) Roadmaps
14 214 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 212 (12.91%) Data Modelling
16 208 (12.67%) Data Engineering
17 198 (12.06%) Observability
18 194 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
19 191 (11.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 480 (29.23%) SQL
2 281 (17.11%) Java
3 228 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 194 (11.81%) Go
5 152 (9.26%) Bash
6 149 (9.07%) PowerShell
7 148 (9.01%) TypeScript
8 137 (8.34%) C#
9 86 (5.24%) Scala
10 71 (4.32%) C++
11 52 (3.17%) R
12 37 (2.25%) PHP
13 35 (2.13%) C
14 25 (1.52%) Bicep
15 19 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.10%) Apex Code
16 18 (1.10%) VBA
17 16 (0.97%) Ruby
18 15 (0.91%) Groovy
19 14 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 228 (13.89%) Degree
2 150 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 122 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.56%) 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
1 148 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.03%) QA
3 38 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.10%) 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 (0.37%) 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
1 265 (16.14%) Docker
2 34 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.04%) Firmware
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) KVM
7 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.37%) 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
1 272 (16.57%) Terraform
2 225 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 110 (6.70%) Ansible
4 81 (4.93%) Grafana
5 69 (4.20%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.44%) Argo
7 24 (1.46%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.04%) 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 (0.37%) 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 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.06%) Databricks
3 78 (4.75%) Google
4 55 (3.35%) Cisco
5 49 (2.98%) VMware
6 45 (2.74%) Typelevel
7 35 (2.13%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.58%) Oracle
11 24 (1.46%) Foundry
12 23 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 21 (1.28%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.22%) Splunk
15 16 (0.97%) F5
16 15 (0.91%) Arista
16 15 (0.91%) Aruba
16 15 (0.91%) NetScout
16 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
17 13 (0.79%) Commvault