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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,942 1,947 2,963
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.71% 11.86% 14.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.96% 39.58% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 1,078 2,097
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,713
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -3.33% +4.17%

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 6,272 4,919 8,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.91% 29.95% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,255 5,522
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 October 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 51 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 46 (2.37%) Apache
3 45 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 13 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.46%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.31%) Confluence
9 6 (0.31%) nginx
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.15%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.10%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.41%) Simulink
4 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.31%) Lightworks
6 5 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.15%) Blender
8 3 (0.15%) Maya
8 3 (0.15%) Revit
8 3 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.10%) Trello
10 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.051%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.051%) Actimize
5 1 (0.051%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.051%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 669 (34.45%) AWS
2 626 (32.23%) Azure
3 313 (16.12%) GCP
4 180 (9.27%) SaaS
5 179 (9.22%) Power Platform
6 145 (7.47%) GitHub
7 80 (4.12%) Serverless
8 79 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (3.86%) Snowflake
11 71 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 63 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 59 (3.04%) Amazon S3
14 59 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
15 58 (2.99%) dbt
16 52 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
17 39 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
18 38 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.76%) Broadband
2 71 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 68 (3.50%) Firewall
4 55 (2.83%) VPN
5 35 (1.80%) BGP
6 33 (1.70%) Network Security
7 30 (1.54%) DNS
8 28 (1.44%) WAN
9 26 (1.34%) LAN
10 23 (1.18%) Wireless
11 22 (1.13%) VLAN
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) 5G
13 14 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.62%) DHCP
14 12 (0.62%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (0.46%) HTTP
15 9 (0.46%) MPLS
15 9 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (8.03%) Power BI
2 143 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.38%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 71 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 70 (3.60%) Metadata
8 64 (3.30%) NoSQL
9 54 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 52 (2.68%) Big Data
11 51 (2.63%) Tableau
12 47 (2.42%) BigQuery
13 43 (2.21%) Delta Lake
14 42 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
15 34 (1.75%) MySQL
16 28 (1.44%) DynamoDB
17 27 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
18 26 (1.34%) Star Schema
19 25 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
19 25 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 192 (9.89%) Git
2 87 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 68 (3.50%) GitLab
4 39 (2.01%) JIRA
5 27 (1.39%) Claude Code
5 27 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 17 (0.88%) MLflow
7 13 (0.67%) LabVIEW
7 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.57%) Selenium
9 10 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.31%) Postman
13 5 (0.26%) Poetry
13 5 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.26%) Subversion
14 4 (0.21%) PetaLinux
General
1 619 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 481 (24.77%) Finance
3 346 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (8.08%) Banking
5 141 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 134 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 126 (6.49%) Legal
8 104 (5.36%) Law
8 104 (5.36%) Marketing
9 84 (4.33%) Retail
10 51 (2.63%) Front Office
11 40 (2.06%) Games
12 35 (1.80%) Electronics
13 34 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.13%) Back Office
16 21 (1.08%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 553 (28.48%) Senior
2 303 (15.60%) Software Engineer
3 278 (14.32%) Developer
4 235 (12.10%) Data Engineer
5 233 (12.00%) Lead
6 222 (11.43%) Python Engineer
7 134 (6.90%) Analyst
8 126 (6.49%) Python Developer
9 120 (6.18%) Python Software Engineer
10 107 (5.51%) Data Scientist
11 93 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 81 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
12 81 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 80 (4.12%) Architect
14 77 (3.96%) Senior Developer
15 69 (3.55%) Data Analyst
16 66 (3.40%) Consultant
17 57 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
18 55 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
18 55 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (15.40%) Terraform
2 129 (6.64%) React
3 120 (6.18%) PySpark
4 97 (4.99%) Node.js
5 86 (4.43%) .NET
6 80 (4.12%) RESTful
7 77 (3.96%) PyTorch
8 76 (3.91%) LangChain
9 72 (3.71%) REST
10 68 (3.50%) TensorFlow
11 60 (3.09%) Django
12 57 (2.94%) FastAPI
13 49 (2.52%) LangGraph
14 44 (2.27%) Kafka
14 44 (2.27%) Next.js
15 32 (1.65%) Spring
15 32 (1.65%) Spring Boot
16 31 (1.60%) Pandas
16 31 (1.60%) scikit-learn
17 28 (1.44%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 259 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 176 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.66%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 70 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 52 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 50 (2.57%) Blog
8 43 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 40 (2.06%) Credit Risk
9 40 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
10 39 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
10 39 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 36 (1.85%) Hedge funds
13 32 (1.65%) Low-Code
14 30 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.49%) Security Posture
16 27 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
17 25 (1.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 214 (11.02%) Linux
2 77 (3.96%) Windows
3 35 (1.80%) Unix
4 17 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 13 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.51%) macOS
8 9 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.36%) Debian
10 6 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.10%) Solaris
14 1 (0.051%) CentOS
14 1 (0.051%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.051%) VMS
14 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (42.33%) AI
2 654 (33.68%) Software Engineering
3 615 (31.67%) CI/CD
4 467 (24.05%) Analytics
5 448 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
6 402 (20.70%) Mentoring
7 398 (20.49%) Machine Learning
8 396 (20.39%) DevOps
9 384 (19.77%) Agile
10 339 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 327 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 286 (14.73%) Test Automation
13 273 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
14 271 (13.95%) Decision-Making
15 268 (13.80%) Data Science
16 266 (13.70%) Data Engineering
17 255 (13.13%) Data Modelling
18 248 (12.77%) Observability
19 245 (12.62%) Business Intelligence
20 226 (11.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 690 (35.53%) SQL
2 264 (13.59%) Java
3 258 (13.29%) JavaScript
4 228 (11.74%) C#
5 212 (10.92%) TypeScript
6 203 (10.45%) PowerShell
7 152 (7.83%) Bash
8 130 (6.69%) Go
9 97 (4.99%) C++
10 87 (4.48%) R
11 54 (2.78%) C
12 50 (2.57%) Bicep
13 47 (2.42%) Rust
14 40 (2.06%) Scala
15 24 (1.24%) MATLAB
15 24 (1.24%) PHP
16 22 (1.13%) Ruby
17 21 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 21 (1.08%) VBA
18 15 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 246 (12.67%) Degree
2 232 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 185 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 62 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.29%) CISSP
11 23 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.18%) PhD
12 21 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
13 19 (0.98%) GIAC
14 18 (0.93%) SnowPro
15 17 (0.88%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.82%) CISM
17 12 (0.62%) CCNP
18 11 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (11.38%) Data Quality
2 117 (6.02%) QA
3 56 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 51 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.37%) GDPR
6 37 (1.91%) NIST
7 32 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 18 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.26%) ECSS
12 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.26%) SLA
13 4 (0.21%) COPPA
13 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.21%) MiFID
13 4 (0.21%) NCSC
14 3 (0.15%) UCITS
15 2 (0.10%) JTAG
System Software
1 241 (12.41%) Docker
2 21 (1.08%) Firmware
2 21 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.31%) KVM
8 5 (0.26%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.051%) HDFS
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.051%) QEMU
11 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.051%) zsh
Systems Management
1 253 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 98 (5.05%) Ansible
3 93 (4.79%) Grafana
4 57 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.98%) Argo
6 16 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.57%) Cilium
8 11 (0.57%) Istio
9 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.31%) Graylog
10 6 (0.31%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.31%) Puppet
11 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.26%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) linkerd
12 4 (0.21%) Nmap
Vendors
1 297 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.03%) Databricks
3 129 (6.64%) Google
4 53 (2.73%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.32%) Oracle
6 40 (2.06%) Cisco
7 33 (1.70%) Foundry
8 29 (1.49%) Splunk
9 27 (1.39%) VMware
10 23 (1.18%) Informatica
11 20 (1.03%) New Relic
12 16 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.82%) Fortinet
12 16 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.72%) Palantir
15 13 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.62%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.62%) Talend
17 10 (0.51%) Alteryx