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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,618 2,368 3,730
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.39% 15.93% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.76% 40.57% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,418 2,980
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,161 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,875 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £134,500 £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 5,094 5,837 13,691
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.41% 39.27% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,747 4,038 11,494
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,675 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £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 5 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 77 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.47%) Apache
4 20 (1.24%) SAS
5 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.37%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.19%) Confluence
8 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.062%) nginx
10 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.25%) SPSS
6 3 (0.19%) Blender
6 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.062%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 624 (38.57%) AWS
2 532 (32.88%) Azure
3 265 (16.38%) GCP
4 142 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 114 (7.05%) GitHub
5 114 (7.05%) SaaS
6 105 (6.49%) Serverless
7 93 (5.75%) Amazon S3
8 75 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
10 63 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 59 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 44 (2.72%) dbt
15 43 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 43 (2.66%) Snowflake
16 42 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 184 (11.37%) Broadband
2 75 (4.64%) Firewall
3 41 (2.53%) VPN
4 27 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (1.42%) LAN
6 22 (1.36%) VLAN
7 21 (1.30%) WAN
8 20 (1.24%) DNS
9 19 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.17%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.05%) NGFW
11 16 (0.99%) BGP
12 15 (0.93%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.87%) Network Security
14 13 (0.80%) MPLS
15 12 (0.74%) 4G
15 12 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (0.74%) Unified Communications
16 11 (0.68%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (7.11%) Power BI
3 89 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 68 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 62 (3.83%) Metadata
7 60 (3.71%) MongoDB
8 57 (3.52%) BigQuery
8 57 (3.52%) NoSQL
9 56 (3.46%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.46%) Tableau
10 38 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 36 (2.22%) Big Data
13 31 (1.92%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.85%) MySQL
15 29 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
16 26 (1.61%) Redis
17 25 (1.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (8.34%) Git
2 61 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 54 (3.34%) GitLab
4 31 (1.92%) JIRA
5 18 (1.11%) Jaeger
6 16 (0.99%) MLflow
7 13 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.37%) JMeter
11 5 (0.31%) Locust
11 5 (0.31%) Selenium
11 5 (0.31%) Subversion
12 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.25%) Postman
13 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 439 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 364 (22.50%) Finance
3 290 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 97 (6.00%) Banking
7 73 (4.51%) Law
8 63 (3.89%) Retail
9 48 (2.97%) Front Office
10 46 (2.84%) Marketing
11 45 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.72%) Legal
13 38 (2.35%) Games
14 24 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.87%) Electronics
18 13 (0.80%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.80%) Publishing
19 12 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 374 (23.11%) Senior
2 315 (19.47%) Developer
3 265 (16.38%) Lead
4 210 (12.98%) Data Engineer
5 187 (11.56%) Software Engineer
6 153 (9.46%) Python Engineer
7 107 (6.61%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.93%) Analyst
9 95 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
10 93 (5.75%) Data Scientist
11 65 (4.02%) Lead Developer
12 63 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
13 62 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
14 60 (3.71%) Senior Developer
15 58 (3.58%) Data Analyst
16 56 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 52 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
18 49 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
19 47 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
20 45 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.09%) React
2 104 (6.43%) Node.js
3 99 (6.12%) Kafka
4 88 (5.44%) PyTorch
5 81 (5.01%) TensorFlow
6 72 (4.45%) PySpark
7 70 (4.33%) .NET
7 70 (4.33%) REST
8 58 (3.58%) Django
9 54 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 53 (3.28%) RESTful
11 49 (3.03%) gRPC
12 38 (2.35%) JSON
13 37 (2.29%) LangChain
14 35 (2.16%) Vue
15 32 (1.98%) Redux
16 31 (1.92%) Flask
17 28 (1.73%) CSS
17 28 (1.73%) GraphQL
17 28 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 182 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 154 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (5.75%) Video\Live Streaming
4 82 (5.07%) Algorithms
5 70 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 67 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 54 (3.34%) Low-Code
8 53 (3.28%) Over-the-Top Content
9 45 (2.78%) AI Agents
10 44 (2.72%) Onboarding
11 40 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.16%) Public Cloud
13 34 (2.10%) Fixed Income
14 31 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (1.73%) Data Centre
16 26 (1.61%) Equities
17 24 (1.48%) Management Information System
18 23 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (1.42%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 174 (10.75%) Linux
2 61 (3.77%) Windows
3 43 (2.66%) Unix
4 29 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 6 (0.37%) Debian
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.062%) AIX
12 1 (0.062%) CentOS
12 1 (0.062%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.062%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (32.88%) CI/CD
2 490 (30.28%) AI
3 462 (28.55%) Software Engineering
4 391 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
5 387 (23.92%) Agile
6 353 (21.82%) DevOps
7 347 (21.45%) Machine Learning
8 323 (19.96%) Mentoring
9 315 (19.47%) Analytics
10 294 (18.17%) Data Science
11 293 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 241 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
13 227 (14.03%) Containerisation
14 220 (13.60%) Data Modelling
15 213 (13.16%) Data Engineering
16 201 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 201 (12.42%) Roadmaps
17 185 (11.43%) Decision-Making
18 177 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
18 177 (10.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 479 (29.60%) SQL
2 282 (17.43%) Java
3 227 (14.03%) JavaScript
4 188 (11.62%) Go
5 152 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 149 (9.21%) Bash
7 148 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 138 (8.53%) C#
9 93 (5.75%) Scala
10 71 (4.39%) C++
11 54 (3.34%) R
12 34 (2.10%) C
12 34 (2.10%) PHP
13 22 (1.36%) Bicep
14 21 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.17%) Apex Code
16 17 (1.05%) VBA
17 15 (0.93%) Groovy
18 14 (0.87%) Ruby
19 13 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 228 (14.09%) Degree
2 148 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.34%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.93%) PhD
11 13 (0.80%) CEH
12 12 (0.74%) OSCP
13 10 (0.62%) ACCA
13 10 (0.62%) CIMA
13 10 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.62%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.56%) CISSP
15 7 (0.43%) CCNP
15 7 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.12%) QA
3 40 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.30%) NIST
6 16 (0.99%) GDPR
7 12 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.56%) ISO 22301
8 9 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) SLA
10 6 (0.37%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) PMO
11 5 (0.31%) WCAG
12 4 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) EMIR
System Software
1 264 (16.32%) Docker
2 36 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.93%) 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 (0.19%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 275 (17.00%) Terraform
2 227 (14.03%) Kubernetes
3 109 (6.74%) Ansible
4 80 (4.94%) Grafana
5 67 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.47%) Argo
7 24 (1.48%) Kustomize
8 14 (0.87%) Istio
9 12 (0.74%) Packer
9 12 (0.74%) Proxmox
10 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (0.43%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.37%) Graylog
13 6 (0.37%) Puppet
14 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.31%) FTK
14 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 237 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.35%) Databricks
3 78 (4.82%) Google
4 52 (3.21%) Cisco
5 50 (3.09%) VMware
6 45 (2.78%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.10%) OpenAI
8 31 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.79%) Oracle
10 26 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.55%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.30%) Foundry
13 19 (1.17%) Splunk
14 18 (1.11%) Fortinet
15 15 (0.93%) Arista
15 15 (0.93%) Aruba
15 15 (0.93%) F5
15 15 (0.93%) NetScout
15 15 (0.93%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.87%) MuleSoft