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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,511 2,086 3,492
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.32% 15.45% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.49% 37.27% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,562 2,837
10th Percentile £42,600 £46,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 4,798 5,597 13,291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.43% 41.44% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,510 4,479 11,385
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 28 April 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 78 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.25%) Apache
4 17 (1.13%) SAS
5 10 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.33%) Confluence
8 5 (0.33%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.066%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 30 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) SPSS
6 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.066%) Notion
6 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.066%) Actimize
5 1 (0.066%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.066%) Shopify
5 1 (0.066%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 620 (41.03%) AWS
2 545 (36.07%) Azure
3 245 (16.21%) GCP
4 172 (11.38%) GitHub
5 160 (10.59%) Power Platform
6 127 (8.41%) Serverless
7 111 (7.35%) SaaS
8 106 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 98 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 56 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (3.64%) Snowflake
15 51 (3.38%) dbt
16 49 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
18 42 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
19 39 (2.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.33%) Broadband
2 71 (4.70%) Firewall
3 38 (2.51%) VPN
4 26 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (1.65%) VLAN
6 24 (1.59%) LAN
7 23 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 21 (1.39%) WAN
9 19 (1.26%) BGP
9 19 (1.26%) DNS
9 19 (1.26%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.13%) NGFW
11 16 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (0.99%) MPLS
12 15 (0.99%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.86%) Network Security
14 12 (0.79%) 4G
14 12 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.80%) Power BI
2 110 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.57%) Tableau
5 68 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 65 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 58 (3.84%) Metadata
9 50 (3.31%) Data Lake
10 45 (2.98%) MongoDB
11 44 (2.91%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
14 31 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.99%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (1.72%) MySQL
17 23 (1.52%) Redis
18 21 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 134 (8.87%) Git
2 64 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 54 (3.57%) GitLab
4 34 (2.25%) JIRA
5 19 (1.26%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 16 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.06%) Selenium
7 15 (0.99%) MLflow
8 11 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.53%) JMeter
9 8 (0.53%) JUnit
10 7 (0.46%) Locust
10 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
12 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.33%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 451 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 346 (22.90%) Finance
3 232 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 101 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 91 (6.02%) Banking
7 65 (4.30%) Law
8 61 (4.04%) Retail
9 55 (3.64%) Front Office
10 48 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.51%) Marketing
12 35 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.18%) Legal
14 25 (1.65%) Publishing
15 24 (1.59%) Games
16 19 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.26%) Health Technology
17 18 (1.19%) Tech for Good
18 17 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 16 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 333 (22.04%) Senior
2 314 (20.78%) Developer
3 244 (16.15%) Lead
4 198 (13.10%) Data Engineer
5 170 (11.25%) Software Engineer
6 142 (9.40%) Python Engineer
7 122 (8.07%) Python Developer
8 81 (5.36%) Analyst
9 78 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.70%) Lead Developer
11 60 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
12 58 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
12 58 (3.84%) Senior Developer
13 56 (3.71%) Full-Stack Developer
14 55 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
15 52 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
15 52 (3.44%) React Developer
16 50 (3.31%) Data Scientist
16 50 (3.31%) Software Developer
17 42 (2.78%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (11.12%) React
2 107 (7.08%) Kafka
3 100 (6.62%) Node.js
4 73 (4.83%) .NET
5 68 (4.50%) PySpark
6 67 (4.43%) Django
6 67 (4.43%) REST
7 60 (3.97%) PyTorch
8 53 (3.51%) RESTful
9 52 (3.44%) gRPC
9 52 (3.44%) TensorFlow
10 42 (2.78%) FastAPI
10 42 (2.78%) JSON
11 40 (2.65%) Vue
12 37 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (2.45%) Flask
13 33 (2.18%) Redux
14 32 (2.12%) Spring
15 31 (2.05%) AngularJS
16 30 (1.99%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.37%) Video\Live Streaming
5 65 (4.30%) Algorithms
6 62 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 50 (3.31%) Low-Code
7 50 (3.31%) Over-the-Top Content
8 49 (3.24%) Onboarding
9 40 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (2.58%) Fixed Income
11 37 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.99%) Public Cloud
14 27 (1.79%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 26 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.65%) AI Agents
17 24 (1.59%) Equities
18 22 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 172 (11.38%) Linux
2 55 (3.64%) Windows
3 49 (3.24%) Unix
4 26 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.40%) Android
7 6 (0.40%) Debian
8 3 (0.20%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.066%) AIX
10 1 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.066%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.066%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 414 (27.40%) Agile
3 411 (27.20%) Software Engineering
4 390 (25.81%) DevOps
5 368 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
6 363 (24.02%) AI
7 293 (19.39%) Mentoring
8 258 (17.07%) Analytics
9 256 (16.94%) Machine Learning
10 236 (15.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 230 (15.22%) Containerisation
12 229 (15.16%) Data Science
13 228 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 222 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
15 216 (14.30%) Data Modelling
16 203 (13.43%) Data Engineering
17 182 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
18 172 (11.38%) Coaching
19 171 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
20 170 (11.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 451 (29.85%) SQL
2 317 (20.98%) Java
3 237 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 183 (12.11%) Go
5 155 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 139 (9.20%) Bash
7 138 (9.13%) PowerShell
8 126 (8.34%) C#
9 94 (6.22%) Scala
10 62 (4.10%) C++
11 42 (2.78%) R
12 31 (2.05%) C
13 30 (1.99%) PHP
14 23 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.46%) Apex Code
16 20 (1.32%) Shell Script
17 19 (1.26%) PL/SQL
18 17 (1.13%) Bicep
18 17 (1.13%) VBA
19 12 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 255 (16.88%) Degree
2 128 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 98 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 51 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 18 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.06%) PhD
12 15 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.93%) CEH
13 14 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.86%) ACCA
14 13 (0.86%) CIMA
15 11 (0.73%) CREST Certified
15 11 (0.73%) OSCP
16 8 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
17 7 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 109 (7.21%) QA
3 46 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.72%) NIST
6 16 (1.06%) GDPR
7 14 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.79%) ISO 22301
9 10 (0.66%) SLA
9 10 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.46%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) PMO
11 5 (0.33%) WCAG
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.20%) EMIR
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.13%) ECSS
System Software
1 281 (18.60%) Docker
2 43 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.73%) Firmware
6 6 (0.40%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.13%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 286 (18.93%) Terraform
2 247 (16.35%) Kubernetes
3 115 (7.61%) Ansible
4 87 (5.76%) Grafana
5 67 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.71%) Argo
7 23 (1.52%) Kustomize
8 21 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.79%) Istio
10 9 (0.60%) Packer
11 8 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (0.53%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.40%) Puppet
13 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.33%) FTK
13 5 (0.33%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.33%) SCCM
14 4 (0.26%) Control-M
14 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 222 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 120 (7.94%) Databricks
3 71 (4.70%) Google
4 55 (3.64%) Oracle
5 52 (3.44%) VMware
6 48 (3.18%) Cisco
7 45 (2.98%) Typelevel
8 39 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 32 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.52%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.39%) OpenAI
12 20 (1.32%) Commvault
13 18 (1.19%) Foundry
13 18 (1.19%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.06%) Fortinet
15 15 (0.99%) Arista
15 15 (0.99%) Aruba
15 15 (0.99%) NetScout
15 15 (0.99%) SAP
16 14 (0.93%) Splunk