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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,632 2,380 3,771
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.39% 15.77% 11.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.81% 40.63% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 1,428 3,001
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,161 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,468 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £73,685 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -1.75% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £135,000 £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 5,130 5,858 13,821
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.36% 38.81% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 4,057 11,521
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 9 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 78 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.45%) Apache
4 20 (1.23%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.37%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.18%) Confluence
8 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) SPSS
5 3 (0.18%) Trello
6 1 (0.061%) 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 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 637 (39.03%) AWS
2 533 (32.66%) Azure
3 268 (16.42%) GCP
4 141 (8.64%) Power Platform
5 116 (7.11%) SaaS
6 115 (7.05%) GitHub
7 106 (6.50%) Serverless
8 94 (5.76%) Amazon S3
9 75 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 60 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 45 (2.76%) dbt
15 44 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (2.70%) Snowflake
16 42 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 38 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 192 (11.76%) Broadband
2 77 (4.72%) Firewall
3 43 (2.63%) VPN
4 27 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (1.53%) LAN
6 23 (1.41%) WAN
7 22 (1.35%) VLAN
8 20 (1.23%) DNS
9 19 (1.16%) Wireshark
10 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.04%) Network Security
11 17 (1.04%) NGFW
12 16 (0.98%) BGP
13 15 (0.92%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.80%) MPLS
14 13 (0.80%) Wireless
15 12 (0.74%) 4G
15 12 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
15 12 (0.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (6.92%) Power BI
3 92 (5.64%) SQL Server
4 67 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 65 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 62 (3.80%) Metadata
8 59 (3.62%) BigQuery
9 58 (3.55%) NoSQL
10 57 (3.49%) Tableau
11 56 (3.43%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (2.14%) Big Data
15 31 (1.90%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.84%) Semantic Layer
17 29 (1.78%) MySQL
18 26 (1.59%) Redis
19 25 (1.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (8.27%) Git
2 63 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.37%) GitLab
4 30 (1.84%) JIRA
5 18 (1.10%) Jaeger
6 16 (0.98%) 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 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 440 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 364 (22.30%) Finance
3 286 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 99 (6.07%) Banking
7 72 (4.41%) Law
8 62 (3.80%) Retail
9 48 (2.94%) Front Office
10 47 (2.88%) Marketing
11 46 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 45 (2.76%) Legal
13 44 (2.70%) Games
14 24 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.80%) Electronics
17 13 (0.80%) Publishing
18 12 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 380 (23.28%) Senior
2 315 (19.30%) Developer
3 269 (16.48%) Lead
4 211 (12.93%) Data Engineer
5 186 (11.40%) Software Engineer
6 156 (9.56%) Python Engineer
7 110 (6.74%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (5.76%) Analyst
10 93 (5.70%) Data Scientist
11 66 (4.04%) Lead Developer
12 62 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
12 62 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
12 62 (3.80%) Senior Developer
13 60 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 58 (3.55%) Data Analyst
15 53 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
18 45 (2.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (9.19%) React
2 105 (6.43%) Node.js
3 100 (6.13%) Kafka
4 91 (5.58%) PyTorch
5 82 (5.02%) TensorFlow
6 71 (4.35%) PySpark
6 71 (4.35%) REST
7 69 (4.23%) .NET
8 59 (3.62%) RESTful
9 58 (3.55%) Django
10 56 (3.43%) FastAPI
11 49 (3.00%) gRPC
12 41 (2.51%) LangChain
13 37 (2.27%) JSON
14 36 (2.21%) Vue
15 34 (2.08%) Flask
16 32 (1.96%) Redux
17 28 (1.72%) CSS
17 28 (1.72%) GraphQL
17 28 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 191 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 166 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (6.13%) Video\Live Streaming
4 80 (4.90%) Algorithms
5 70 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 68 (4.17%) Data Structures
7 59 (3.62%) Low-Code
8 54 (3.31%) Over-the-Top Content
9 50 (3.06%) AI Agents
10 44 (2.70%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.14%) Fixed Income
12 35 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 34 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.78%) Data Centre
15 26 (1.59%) Equities
16 25 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 24 (1.47%) Management Information System
18 23 (1.41%) Social Media
18 23 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 177 (10.85%) Linux
2 60 (3.68%) Windows
3 43 (2.63%) Unix
4 30 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.61%) 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 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.061%) AIX
12 1 (0.061%) CentOS
12 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 511 (31.31%) AI
3 472 (28.92%) Software Engineering
4 390 (23.90%) Agile
5 386 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
6 358 (21.94%) Machine Learning
7 353 (21.63%) DevOps
8 331 (20.28%) Mentoring
9 317 (19.42%) Analytics
10 302 (18.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 296 (18.14%) Data Science
12 237 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
13 228 (13.97%) Containerisation
14 216 (13.24%) Data Modelling
15 213 (13.05%) Data Engineering
16 212 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 203 (12.44%) Roadmaps
18 188 (11.52%) Decision-Making
18 188 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
19 186 (11.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 483 (29.60%) SQL
2 282 (17.28%) Java
3 228 (13.97%) JavaScript
4 195 (11.95%) Go
5 151 (9.25%) Bash
5 151 (9.25%) PowerShell
5 151 (9.25%) TypeScript
6 136 (8.33%) C#
7 92 (5.64%) Scala
8 70 (4.29%) C++
9 56 (3.43%) R
10 34 (2.08%) PHP
11 33 (2.02%) C
12 22 (1.35%) Bicep
13 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.10%) Apex Code
15 17 (1.04%) VBA
16 15 (0.92%) Groovy
17 14 (0.86%) Ruby
18 13 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 228 (13.97%) Degree
2 148 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.86%) PhD
12 12 (0.74%) CEH
12 12 (0.74%) OSCP
13 10 (0.61%) ACCA
13 10 (0.61%) CIMA
13 10 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.55%) CISSP
15 7 (0.43%) CCNP
15 7 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.07%) QA
3 39 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.23%) NIST
6 16 (0.98%) GDPR
7 12 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) ISO 22301
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 (0.18%) GAAP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 266 (16.30%) Docker
2 36 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.92%) 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 (0.18%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (17.16%) Terraform
2 228 (13.97%) Kubernetes
3 108 (6.62%) Ansible
4 80 (4.90%) Grafana
5 68 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 41 (2.51%) Argo
7 24 (1.47%) Kustomize
8 15 (0.92%) Istio
9 12 (0.74%) Packer
9 12 (0.74%) Proxmox
10 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.49%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.37%) Graylog
14 6 (0.37%) Puppet
15 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.31%) FTK
15 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 239 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.11%) Databricks
3 78 (4.78%) Google
4 54 (3.31%) Cisco
5 50 (3.06%) VMware
6 45 (2.76%) Typelevel
7 34 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 30 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.72%) Oracle
10 26 (1.59%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.35%) Foundry
13 20 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.23%) Splunk
14 15 (0.92%) Arista
14 15 (0.92%) Aruba
14 15 (0.92%) F5
14 15 (0.92%) NetScout
14 15 (0.92%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.86%) Commvault