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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,370 2,379 2,963
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.81% 14.51% 12.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.46% 33.36% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 935 1,597 2,411
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +6.27% +0.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,250 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 4,221 7,132 11,230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 43.50% 46.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,162 4,466 9,638
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,534 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,475 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 January 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
1 100 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (4.09%) Apache
3 40 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.53%) Confluence
5 18 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.17%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
8 15 (1.09%) SAS
9 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.51%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.36%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.15%) CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.073%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.073%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
6 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.85%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.073%) Actimize
7 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.073%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 547 (39.93%) Azure
2 544 (39.71%) AWS
3 200 (14.60%) GitHub
4 185 (13.50%) Power Platform
5 164 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
6 161 (11.75%) GCP
7 131 (9.56%) Serverless
8 108 (7.88%) Snowflake
9 92 (6.72%) dbt
10 90 (6.57%) Amazon S3
11 86 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (6.20%) SaaS
13 78 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 53 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
17 51 (3.72%) OCI
18 45 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 44 (3.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.58%) Firewall
2 45 (3.28%) Broadband
3 35 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.26%) VPN
5 24 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (1.61%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.46%) BGP
7 20 (1.46%) LAN
7 20 (1.46%) WAN
8 16 (1.17%) DNS
8 16 (1.17%) SSL
9 15 (1.09%) MPLS
10 13 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (0.95%) NGFW
11 12 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (0.88%) Network Security
11 12 (0.88%) VLAN
12 11 (0.80%) 4G
12 11 (0.80%) IOS XR
12 11 (0.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.19%) Power BI
2 100 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (7.01%) Tableau
5 80 (5.84%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.77%) NoSQL
7 75 (5.47%) Data Lake
8 64 (4.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 57 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
10 53 (3.87%) Relational Database
11 48 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (3.14%) Apache Arrow
12 43 (3.14%) Dremio
13 41 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (2.92%) Metadata
15 38 (2.77%) BigQuery
16 31 (2.26%) MongoDB
17 29 (2.12%) Delta Lake
18 28 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 119 (8.69%) Git
2 93 (6.79%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.53%) JIRA
4 37 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.55%) GitLab
6 22 (1.61%) Selenium
7 19 (1.39%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.02%) MLflow
9 12 (0.88%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.88%) ERwin
10 11 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.80%) JUnit
11 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.36%) JMeter
12 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.29%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.29%) Postman
13 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 423 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 411 (30.00%) Finance
3 190 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.30%) Banking
5 86 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 76 (5.55%) Front Office
8 53 (3.87%) Marketing
9 52 (3.80%) Law
10 44 (3.21%) Retail
11 39 (2.85%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.41%) Publishing
13 29 (2.12%) Legal
13 29 (2.12%) Tech for Good
14 26 (1.90%) Health Technology
14 26 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.24%) Electronics
15 17 (1.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 302 (22.04%) Senior
2 270 (19.71%) Developer
3 179 (13.07%) Data Engineer
4 154 (11.24%) Lead
5 134 (9.78%) Python Developer
6 132 (9.64%) Python Engineer
6 132 (9.64%) Software Engineer
7 102 (7.45%) Analyst
8 89 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 80 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
10 71 (5.18%) Python Software Engineer
11 61 (4.45%) Architect
12 59 (4.31%) AWS Developer
13 57 (4.16%) Applications Engineer
14 54 (3.94%) Senior Developer
15 53 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
16 52 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
18 50 (3.65%) Lead Developer
19 48 (3.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (10.58%) React
2 85 (6.20%) Node.js
2 85 (6.20%) RESTful
3 61 (4.45%) Django
4 60 (4.38%) Pandas
5 58 (4.23%) Kafka
6 57 (4.16%) .NET
7 53 (3.87%) PySpark
8 52 (3.80%) NumPy
9 50 (3.65%) SOAP
10 49 (3.58%) Vue
11 48 (3.50%) REST
12 44 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
12 44 (3.21%) SciPy
13 43 (3.14%) XML
14 42 (3.07%) JSON
15 40 (2.92%) AngularJS
16 38 (2.77%) Flask
17 35 (2.55%) HTML
17 35 (2.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 71 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.74%) Algorithms
5 52 (3.80%) Fixed Income
6 50 (3.65%) Equities
6 50 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 48 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (3.07%) Low-Code
9 40 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 37 (2.70%) Management Information System
11 35 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 35 (2.55%) Hedge funds
12 32 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.26%) Derivative
14 24 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 24 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
15 23 (1.68%) Pricing Data
16 21 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (15.11%) Linux
2 87 (6.35%) Unix
3 86 (6.28%) Windows
4 30 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.73%) Debian
8 9 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.51%) Solaris
9 7 (0.51%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (34.16%) CI/CD
2 464 (33.87%) Agile
3 450 (32.85%) DevOps
4 338 (24.67%) AI
5 317 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
6 281 (20.51%) Analytics
6 281 (20.51%) Software Engineering
7 235 (17.15%) Mentoring
8 233 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 200 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 199 (14.53%) Data Modelling
11 197 (14.38%) Data Engineering
12 196 (14.31%) Business Intelligence
12 196 (14.31%) Data Pipeline
13 187 (13.65%) Coaching
14 183 (13.36%) Data Science
14 183 (13.36%) Machine Learning
15 181 (13.21%) Asset Management
16 162 (11.82%) ETL
17 161 (11.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 509 (37.15%) SQL
2 277 (20.22%) Java
3 253 (18.47%) JavaScript
4 161 (11.75%) Bash
5 155 (11.31%) TypeScript
6 147 (10.73%) PowerShell
7 100 (7.30%) C#
8 82 (5.99%) Go
9 59 (4.31%) C++
10 51 (3.72%) R
11 46 (3.36%) Scala
12 44 (3.21%) Shell Script
13 41 (2.99%) PL/SQL
14 40 (2.92%) C
15 34 (2.48%) Bicep
16 19 (1.39%) PHP
17 16 (1.17%) Perl
18 15 (1.09%) MATLAB
18 15 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 255 (18.61%) Degree
2 151 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 96 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.87%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (1.68%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.39%) PhD
14 17 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.09%) CEH
15 15 (1.09%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.02%) ACCA
16 14 (1.02%) CIMA
16 14 (1.02%) CISSP
17 13 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.91%) QA
3 41 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.48%) GDPR
5 28 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.82%) SLA
7 21 (1.53%) NIST
8 14 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.73%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.44%) GRC
13 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.15%) ECSS
14 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.073%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.073%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.073%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 212 (15.47%) Docker
2 37 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.51%) Firmware
5 7 (0.51%) vSphere
6 5 (0.36%) NFS
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.15%) Ceph
8 2 (0.15%) Lustre
9 1 (0.073%) HDFS
9 1 (0.073%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.073%) vCloud
9 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 302 (22.04%) Terraform
2 228 (16.64%) Kubernetes
3 127 (9.27%) Ansible
4 62 (4.53%) Grafana
5 55 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (2.70%) Argo
8 20 (1.46%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.44%) Control-M
12 5 (0.36%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) Cilium
13 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
13 4 (0.29%) QRadar
14 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
15 2 (0.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 184 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 115 (8.39%) Databricks
3 86 (6.28%) Oracle
4 72 (5.26%) Google
5 44 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 38 (2.77%) VMware
7 33 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.19%) Cisco
9 29 (2.12%) IBM
10 24 (1.75%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.46%) Okta
11 20 (1.46%) Talend
12 19 (1.39%) Commvault
13 18 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.24%) SAP
15 15 (1.09%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.95%) Aruba
16 13 (0.95%) Informatica
16 13 (0.95%) Workday
17 11 (0.80%) Splunk