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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,740 2,363 3,714
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.15% 14.32% 11.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.22% 40.18% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 1,450 2,981
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,150 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 5,757 5,881 12,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 35.63% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,350 4,112 10,327
10th Percentile £38,961 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 16 July 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 58 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.07%) Apache
4 14 (0.80%) SAS
5 12 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.11%) Confluence
10 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) Camunda
11 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) CMS
11 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.057%) nginx
11 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.23%) Lightworks
5 4 (0.23%) Simulink
5 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Blender
6 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) SPSS
8 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 668 (38.39%) AWS
2 555 (31.90%) Azure
3 290 (16.67%) GCP
4 155 (8.91%) SaaS
5 138 (7.93%) Power Platform
6 111 (6.38%) GitHub
7 99 (5.69%) Serverless
8 78 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 52 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 50 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
15 47 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (2.59%) Snowflake
17 42 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.41%) dbt
18 37 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 35 (2.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (10.40%) Broadband
2 83 (4.77%) Firewall
3 54 (3.10%) VPN
4 32 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.67%) WAN
6 28 (1.61%) LAN
7 27 (1.55%) DNS
8 22 (1.26%) VLAN
9 21 (1.21%) Wireless
10 20 (1.15%) Network Security
11 17 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.69%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.63%) BGP
14 11 (0.63%) DHCP
14 11 (0.63%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.52%) MQTT
15 9 (0.52%) VoIP
15 9 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (6.32%) Power BI
3 83 (4.77%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 56 (3.22%) Relational Database
7 55 (3.16%) Metadata
8 54 (3.10%) Data Lake
9 50 (2.87%) BigQuery
10 46 (2.64%) NoSQL
10 46 (2.64%) Tableau
11 40 (2.30%) Big Data
12 35 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
13 34 (1.95%) MySQL
14 30 (1.72%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
15 28 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
16 27 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (1.55%) Redis
17 24 (1.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 147 (8.45%) Git
2 71 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 60 (3.45%) GitLab
4 33 (1.90%) JIRA
5 13 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 11 (0.63%) LabVIEW
7 10 (0.57%) MLflow
8 9 (0.52%) JMeter
9 7 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.40%) Jaeger
9 7 (0.40%) Postman
10 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.34%) Selenium
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.29%) Locust
12 4 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.23%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 529 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 378 (21.72%) Finance
3 289 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (6.09%) Banking
6 105 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 103 (5.92%) Law
8 86 (4.94%) Legal
9 68 (3.91%) Retail
10 51 (2.93%) Marketing
11 49 (2.82%) Front Office
12 44 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.47%) Games
14 32 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.38%) Electronics
16 17 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.92%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.69%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.69%) Tech for Good
19 11 (0.63%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 461 (26.49%) Senior
2 326 (18.74%) Developer
3 269 (15.46%) Lead
4 220 (12.64%) Software Engineer
5 196 (11.26%) Data Engineer
6 157 (9.02%) Python Engineer
7 108 (6.21%) Python Developer
8 91 (5.23%) Analyst
8 91 (5.23%) Data Scientist
9 88 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
10 84 (4.83%) Senior Developer
11 68 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 62 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
12 62 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 61 (3.51%) Lead Developer
14 60 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
15 57 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
16 55 (3.16%) Data Analyst
16 55 (3.16%) Python Software Engineer
17 53 (3.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (8.33%) React
2 103 (5.92%) Node.js
3 95 (5.46%) Kafka
4 91 (5.23%) PyTorch
5 83 (4.77%) TensorFlow
6 76 (4.37%) REST
7 75 (4.31%) .NET
8 72 (4.14%) PySpark
9 70 (4.02%) RESTful
10 62 (3.56%) FastAPI
11 61 (3.51%) Django
12 56 (3.22%) LangChain
13 47 (2.70%) gRPC
14 41 (2.36%) Vue
15 37 (2.13%) Flask
16 35 (2.01%) JSON
17 32 (1.84%) GraphQL
17 32 (1.84%) LangGraph
17 32 (1.84%) Pandas
17 32 (1.84%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 224 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 190 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (5.92%) Video\Live Streaming
4 78 (4.48%) Algorithms
5 74 (4.25%) AI Agents
6 67 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 67 (3.85%) Virtual Team
7 57 (3.28%) Product Ownership
8 54 (3.10%) Over-the-Top Content
9 52 (2.99%) Low-Code
10 47 (2.70%) Onboarding
11 43 (2.47%) Public Cloud
12 40 (2.30%) Fixed Income
13 36 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
15 33 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
16 29 (1.67%) Equities
17 27 (1.55%) Security Posture
18 26 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
19 25 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 207 (11.90%) Linux
2 77 (4.43%) Windows
3 38 (2.18%) Unix
4 33 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.52%) Debian
7 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.23%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.057%) AIX
13 1 (0.057%) CentOS
13 1 (0.057%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (34.20%) AI
2 585 (33.62%) CI/CD
3 577 (33.16%) Software Engineering
4 422 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
5 390 (22.41%) Agile
6 378 (21.72%) Mentoring
7 371 (21.32%) DevOps
8 368 (21.15%) Machine Learning
9 332 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 314 (18.05%) Analytics
11 283 (16.26%) Data Science
12 276 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 238 (13.68%) Test Automation
14 224 (12.87%) Containerisation
15 221 (12.70%) Roadmaps
16 218 (12.53%) Observability
17 215 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
18 205 (11.78%) Data Engineering
19 204 (11.72%) Decision-Making
20 201 (11.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 488 (28.05%) SQL
2 274 (15.75%) Java
3 263 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 207 (11.90%) PowerShell
5 187 (10.75%) C#
6 181 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 175 (10.06%) Go
8 146 (8.39%) Bash
9 92 (5.29%) C++
10 81 (4.66%) Scala
11 51 (2.93%) C
11 51 (2.93%) R
12 39 (2.24%) PHP
13 38 (2.18%) Bicep
14 25 (1.44%) VBA
15 24 (1.38%) Rust
16 21 (1.21%) Ruby
17 17 (0.98%) Groovy
17 17 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.86%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 233 (13.39%) Degree
2 175 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 142 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.32%) PhD
10 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.86%) OSCP
12 14 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.75%) CEH
13 13 (0.75%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.69%) CISSP
15 11 (0.63%) GIAC
16 10 (0.57%) CCNP
16 10 (0.57%) SnowPro
17 7 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 130 (7.47%) QA
3 48 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.38%) GDPR
6 22 (1.26%) NIST
7 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.46%) SLA
10 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 6 (0.34%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) GRC
11 5 (0.29%) PMO
11 5 (0.29%) WCAG
12 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.23%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS
13 3 (0.17%) ECSS
System Software
1 268 (15.40%) Docker
2 34 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.21%) Firmware
5 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.46%) KVM
7 7 (0.40%) vSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.17%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) Xen
Systems Management
1 273 (15.69%) Terraform
2 229 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 104 (5.98%) Ansible
4 93 (5.34%) Grafana
5 62 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.67%) Argo
7 17 (0.98%) Istio
8 12 (0.69%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.69%) Proxmox
9 10 (0.57%) Packer
9 10 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (0.46%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.46%) Puppet
12 6 (0.34%) Graylog
12 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.29%) FTK
13 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 259 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.78%) Databricks
3 62 (3.56%) Google
4 51 (2.93%) Cisco
4 51 (2.93%) VMware
5 45 (2.59%) Typelevel
6 36 (2.07%) OpenAI
6 36 (2.07%) Oracle
7 29 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 28 (1.61%) Foundry
9 24 (1.38%) Fortinet
9 24 (1.38%) Splunk
10 23 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.21%) F5
13 15 (0.86%) Informatica
14 12 (0.69%) HubSpot
14 12 (0.69%) IBM
15 11 (0.63%) New Relic