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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,384 2,797 2,759
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.06% 14.09% 13.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.90% 33.51% 28.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 2,006 2,233
10th Percentile £42,525 £46,250 £43,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 4,207 8,348 9,817
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.53% 42.06% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,271 5,360 8,307
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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
1 133 (9.61%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (5.92%) Apache
3 36 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.37%) Confluence
6 16 (1.16%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 16 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.94%) Apache Solr
9 12 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.72%) CMS
11 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.51%) SAS
12 5 (0.36%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.29%) nginx
14 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.22%) GeoServer
15 2 (0.14%) Luigi
15 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 61 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.36%) Blender
4 5 (0.36%) Simulink
5 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.072%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.072%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
Business Applications
1 29 (2.10%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.58%) Shopify
2 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.072%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.072%) FastStats
6 1 (0.072%) Magento
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 590 (42.63%) AWS
2 524 (37.86%) Azure
3 195 (14.09%) GCP
4 166 (11.99%) Power Platform
5 163 (11.78%) GitHub
6 138 (9.97%) dbt
7 135 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (9.25%) Snowflake
9 121 (8.74%) Serverless
10 84 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
11 73 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (5.20%) SaaS
13 60 (4.34%) Amazon S3
14 59 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 49 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 41 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 41 (2.96%) Entra ID
16 41 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 38 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.25%) Firewall
2 43 (3.11%) WAN
3 34 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.17%) LAN
4 30 (2.17%) VPN
5 23 (1.66%) DNS
6 22 (1.59%) SD-WAN
7 17 (1.23%) SSL
8 15 (1.08%) Broadband
9 14 (1.01%) BGP
9 14 (1.01%) Network Security
10 13 (0.94%) Wireshark
11 11 (0.79%) DHCP
12 10 (0.72%) OSPF
12 10 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.65%) 5G
13 9 (0.65%) VLAN
13 9 (0.65%) Wireless
14 8 (0.58%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (11.49%) Power BI
2 133 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
3 118 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (7.51%) Amazon Athena
5 103 (7.44%) Apache Iceberg
6 97 (7.01%) Apache Arrow
6 97 (7.01%) Dremio
7 90 (6.50%) Data Lake
8 80 (5.78%) Tableau
9 74 (5.35%) NoSQL
10 66 (4.77%) SQL Server
11 53 (3.83%) Apache Ignite
12 52 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (2.89%) Relational Database
14 38 (2.75%) MySQL
15 37 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (2.53%) DynamoDB
16 35 (2.53%) MongoDB
17 31 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
18 23 (1.66%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 121 (8.74%) Git
2 95 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.05%) JIRA
4 44 (3.18%) GitLab
5 28 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
6 22 (1.59%) Selenium
7 12 (0.87%) JUnit
8 10 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.65%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.58%) ERwin
10 8 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.43%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.43%) MLflow
11 6 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.36%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.29%) Appium
13 4 (0.29%) JMeter
13 4 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 462 (33.38%) Finance
2 396 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 160 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (11.05%) Front Office
5 128 (9.25%) Banking
6 75 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (4.99%) Investment Banking
8 66 (4.77%) Marketing
9 58 (4.19%) Public Sector
10 55 (3.97%) Retail
11 50 (3.61%) Law
12 31 (2.24%) Tech for Good
13 28 (2.02%) Health Technology
14 27 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.88%) Publishing
16 23 (1.66%) Electronics
16 23 (1.66%) Legal
17 19 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 350 (25.29%) Senior
2 313 (22.62%) Developer
3 185 (13.37%) Software Engineer
4 156 (11.27%) Python Engineer
5 151 (10.91%) Python Developer
6 133 (9.61%) Data Engineer
7 131 (9.47%) Lead
8 128 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
9 112 (8.09%) Analyst
10 110 (7.95%) Python Software Engineer
11 97 (7.01%) AWS Software Engineer
12 78 (5.64%) Senior Developer
13 74 (5.35%) Architect
13 74 (5.35%) AWS Developer
14 68 (4.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 67 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 65 (4.70%) Java Engineer
16 65 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
17 63 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
18 62 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (12.72%) React
2 129 (9.32%) Pandas
3 118 (8.53%) Node.js
4 109 (7.88%) NumPy
5 97 (7.01%) SciPy
6 84 (6.07%) RESTful
7 82 (5.92%) Vue
8 74 (5.35%) AngularJS
9 65 (4.70%) Django
10 64 (4.62%) Kafka
11 63 (4.55%) gRPC
12 61 (4.41%) REST
13 54 (3.90%) .NET
14 53 (3.83%) Protocol Buffers
15 50 (3.61%) Flask
16 45 (3.25%) SOAP
17 42 (3.03%) FastAPI
18 40 (2.89%) JSON
19 38 (2.75%) XML
20 32 (2.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.25%) Fixed Income
2 122 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 111 (8.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 108 (7.80%) Equities
5 74 (5.35%) Product Ownership
6 72 (5.20%) Hedge funds
7 64 (4.62%) Derivative
8 60 (4.34%) Management Information System
9 59 (4.26%) Algorithms
10 53 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (3.83%) Onboarding
10 53 (3.83%) Pricing Data
11 39 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
12 38 (2.75%) Data Structures
13 30 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 24 (1.73%) Low-Code
15 22 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
15 22 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (14.31%) Linux
2 100 (7.23%) Windows
3 73 (5.27%) Unix
4 37 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.58%) Debian
6 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.58%) Solaris
7 7 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.51%) VMS
8 5 (0.36%) CentOS
9 3 (0.22%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (37.50%) Agile
2 431 (31.14%) CI/CD
3 396 (28.61%) DevOps
4 320 (23.12%) Software Engineering
5 311 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
6 307 (22.18%) AI
7 258 (18.64%) Analytics
8 217 (15.68%) Asset Management
9 197 (14.23%) Mentoring
10 186 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 183 (13.22%) Business Intelligence
12 178 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 177 (12.79%) Data Science
14 167 (12.07%) Containerisation
15 163 (11.78%) Machine Learning
16 151 (10.91%) Data Engineering
17 150 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
17 150 (10.84%) Test Automation
18 148 (10.69%) Data Modelling
19 140 (10.12%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 507 (36.63%) SQL
2 298 (21.53%) JavaScript
3 276 (19.94%) Java
4 204 (14.74%) TypeScript
5 150 (10.84%) Bash
6 144 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 102 (7.37%) C#
8 66 (4.77%) Go
9 60 (4.34%) C++
10 58 (4.19%) R
11 40 (2.89%) C
12 35 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 34 (2.46%) PL/SQL
14 33 (2.38%) Bicep
15 26 (1.88%) Scala
16 25 (1.81%) PHP
17 23 (1.66%) MATLAB
18 22 (1.59%) Perl
19 13 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 10 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 240 (17.34%) Degree
2 132 (9.54%) Security Cleared
3 106 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.50%) AWS Certification
5 64 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 28 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.30%) CISSP
12 18 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
12 18 (1.30%) PhD
13 17 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.72%) CEH
16 9 (0.65%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.35%) QA
2 56 (4.05%) GDPR
3 53 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.95%) SLA
6 25 (1.81%) NIST
7 24 (1.73%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.43%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.36%) GRC
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) ECSS
15 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.072%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.072%) SEPA
System Software
1 212 (15.32%) Docker
2 38 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.79%) Firmware
5 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.58%) NFS
6 8 (0.58%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Lustre
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) GPFS
10 1 (0.072%) HDFS
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.072%) vCloud
10 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 245 (17.70%) Terraform
2 208 (15.03%) Kubernetes
3 131 (9.47%) Ansible
4 55 (3.97%) Grafana
5 36 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.94%) Argo
7 13 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
8 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (0.36%) SCCM
9 5 (0.36%) SCOM
9 5 (0.36%) WSUS
10 4 (0.29%) Cilium
10 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.29%) Nmap
10 4 (0.29%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) QRadar
11 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 179 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.02%) Databricks
3 87 (6.29%) Oracle
4 70 (5.06%) Google
5 58 (4.19%) Red Hat
6 33 (2.38%) VMware
7 31 (2.24%) Cisco
8 24 (1.73%) IBM
9 23 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.23%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.16%) Talend
14 15 (1.08%) Commvault
14 15 (1.08%) Okta
14 15 (1.08%) SAP
15 14 (1.01%) Workday
16 12 (0.87%) Fortinet
17 11 (0.79%) Aruba
17 11 (0.79%) Informatica