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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,399 2,747 2,886
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.16% 14.02% 13.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.10% 33.62% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 1,973 2,311
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,713 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,043 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
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 4,226 8,171 10,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.66% 41.71% 47.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,288 5,191 8,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £100,000
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 19 November 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
1 142 (10.15%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (6.36%) Apache
3 34 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.43%) Confluence
6 16 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.14%) WebSphere
6 16 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.93%) Apache Solr
9 11 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.64%) CMS
11 8 (0.57%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.50%) SAS
13 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.21%) nginx
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 65 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Blender
4 6 (0.43%) Simulink
5 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.071%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.071%) Civil 3D
7 1 (0.071%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.071%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.071%) Notion
7 1 (0.071%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.071%) Revit
Business Applications
1 28 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.64%) Shopify
3 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.21%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.21%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.071%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.071%) FastStats
7 1 (0.071%) Magento
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 610 (43.60%) AWS
2 522 (37.31%) Azure
3 202 (14.44%) GCP
4 172 (12.29%) Power Platform
5 155 (11.08%) GitHub
6 145 (10.36%) dbt
7 137 (9.79%) Snowflake
8 135 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (9.01%) Serverless
10 91 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 68 (4.86%) SaaS
13 61 (4.36%) Amazon S3
13 61 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 46 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
16 40 (2.86%) Entra ID
17 39 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.57%) Firewall
2 43 (3.07%) WAN
3 36 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 35 (2.50%) VPN
5 28 (2.00%) LAN
6 26 (1.86%) DNS
7 23 (1.64%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.43%) Broadband
8 20 (1.43%) SSL
9 18 (1.29%) BGP
10 17 (1.22%) Network Security
11 13 (0.93%) OSPF
11 13 (0.93%) Wireshark
12 12 (0.86%) VLAN
13 11 (0.79%) 5G
13 11 (0.79%) DHCP
14 10 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.64%) Wireless
16 8 (0.57%) Ethernet
16 8 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (11.65%) Power BI
2 136 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 122 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (8.15%) Amazon Athena
5 113 (8.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 108 (7.72%) Apache Arrow
6 108 (7.72%) Dremio
7 102 (7.29%) Data Lake
8 79 (5.65%) Tableau
9 72 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 65 (4.65%) SQL Server
11 61 (4.36%) Apache Ignite
12 56 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
13 41 (2.93%) DynamoDB
14 40 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
14 40 (2.86%) Relational Database
15 36 (2.57%) MongoDB
15 36 (2.57%) MySQL
16 30 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 119 (8.51%) Git
2 93 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.00%) JIRA
4 45 (3.22%) GitLab
5 26 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
6 22 (1.57%) Selenium
7 12 (0.86%) JUnit
8 11 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.79%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.57%) ERwin
10 8 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.43%) MLflow
11 6 (0.43%) Postman
11 6 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.36%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.29%) Appium
13 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 478 (34.17%) Finance
2 382 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 169 (12.08%) Front Office
4 162 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (9.94%) Banking
6 78 (5.58%) Investment Banking
7 72 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (4.79%) Marketing
9 63 (4.50%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.65%) Law
10 51 (3.65%) Retail
11 31 (2.22%) Tech for Good
12 28 (2.00%) Health Technology
13 27 (1.93%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.72%) Electronics
15 24 (1.72%) Publishing
16 23 (1.64%) Legal
17 17 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 359 (25.66%) Senior
2 311 (22.23%) Developer
3 196 (14.01%) Software Engineer
4 164 (11.72%) Python Engineer
5 147 (10.51%) Python Developer
6 142 (10.15%) AWS Engineer
7 134 (9.58%) Data Engineer
8 127 (9.08%) Lead
9 120 (8.58%) Python Software Engineer
10 118 (8.43%) Analyst
11 108 (7.72%) AWS Software Engineer
12 82 (5.86%) Senior Developer
13 76 (5.43%) Architect
13 76 (5.43%) AWS Developer
14 75 (5.36%) Java Engineer
15 74 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
16 73 (5.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 73 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
17 67 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
18 65 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (12.79%) React
2 138 (9.86%) Pandas
3 120 (8.58%) NumPy
4 118 (8.43%) Node.js
5 108 (7.72%) SciPy
6 84 (6.00%) RESTful
7 82 (5.86%) Vue
8 73 (5.22%) AngularJS
9 71 (5.08%) gRPC
10 62 (4.43%) REST
11 61 (4.36%) Django
11 61 (4.36%) Kafka
11 61 (4.36%) Protocol Buffers
12 52 (3.72%) Flask
13 50 (3.57%) .NET
14 44 (3.15%) SOAP
15 43 (3.07%) FastAPI
16 38 (2.72%) JSON
17 37 (2.64%) XML
18 32 (2.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 144 (10.29%) Fixed Income
2 125 (8.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 122 (8.72%) Equities
4 121 (8.65%) Cloud Native
5 85 (6.08%) Hedge funds
6 78 (5.58%) Derivative
7 71 (5.08%) Product Ownership
8 63 (4.50%) Management Information System
9 61 (4.36%) Pricing Data
10 60 (4.29%) Algorithms
11 57 (4.07%) Onboarding
12 49 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
14 36 (2.57%) Data Structures
15 29 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
17 22 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (1.57%) Low-Code
17 22 (1.57%) Public Cloud
18 21 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (13.72%) Linux
2 97 (6.93%) Windows
3 71 (5.08%) Unix
4 36 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.57%) Debian
6 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.57%) Solaris
6 8 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.50%) VMS
8 4 (0.29%) Android
8 4 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.071%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.071%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (38.03%) Agile
2 414 (29.59%) CI/CD
3 393 (28.09%) DevOps
4 319 (22.80%) Software Engineering
5 313 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
6 305 (21.80%) AI
7 264 (18.87%) Analytics
8 228 (16.30%) Asset Management
9 196 (14.01%) Mentoring
10 190 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
11 182 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 181 (12.94%) Data Science
13 179 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 168 (12.01%) Containerisation
15 164 (11.72%) Machine Learning
16 148 (10.58%) Data Engineering
17 147 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
17 147 (10.51%) Test Automation
18 145 (10.36%) Data Modelling
19 142 (10.15%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 509 (36.38%) SQL
2 307 (21.94%) JavaScript
3 279 (19.94%) Java
4 213 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 147 (10.51%) Bash
6 142 (10.15%) PowerShell
7 105 (7.51%) C#
8 68 (4.86%) Go
9 61 (4.36%) R
10 59 (4.22%) C++
11 38 (2.72%) C
12 33 (2.36%) Bicep
12 33 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.14%) PL/SQL
14 27 (1.93%) MATLAB
14 27 (1.93%) PHP
15 26 (1.86%) Scala
16 21 (1.50%) Perl
17 13 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 234 (16.73%) Degree
2 133 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 110 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.43%) AWS Certification
5 57 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 33 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (1.29%) CISSP
13 18 (1.29%) PhD
14 16 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.64%) CEH
17 9 (0.64%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.36%) QA
2 56 (4.00%) GDPR
3 50 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.93%) SLA
6 26 (1.86%) NIST
7 20 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) ECSS
14 1 (0.071%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.071%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.071%) SEPA
System Software
1 212 (15.15%) Docker
2 39 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.86%) Firmware
5 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.64%) NFS
7 8 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.57%) vSphere
8 5 (0.36%) Lustre
9 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.21%) GPFS
10 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Ceph
12 1 (0.071%) HDFS
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) vCloud
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 247 (17.66%) Terraform
2 210 (15.01%) Kubernetes
3 134 (9.58%) Ansible
4 54 (3.86%) Grafana
5 34 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.86%) Argo
7 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.36%) SCCM
8 5 (0.36%) SCOM
8 5 (0.36%) WSUS
9 4 (0.29%) Cilium
9 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.29%) Kibana
9 4 (0.29%) Nmap
9 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.29%) QRadar
10 3 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 182 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 112 (8.01%) Databricks
3 84 (6.00%) Oracle
4 68 (4.86%) Google
5 56 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 32 (2.29%) VMware
7 31 (2.22%) Cisco
8 23 (1.64%) IBM
9 22 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.22%) SAP
13 16 (1.14%) Palo Alto
14 15 (1.07%) Commvault
14 15 (1.07%) Talend
14 15 (1.07%) Workday
15 14 (1.00%) Okta
16 12 (0.86%) Informatica
17 11 (0.79%) Aruba
17 11 (0.79%) Fortinet