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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,437 2,350 3,251
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.85% 14.99% 11.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.31% 33.70% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 962 1,595 2,661
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,338 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.91%

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 4,447 6,974 12,591
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.39% 44.50% 45.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,279 4,463 10,949
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14 February 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 90 (6.26%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.34%) Apache
3 41 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.32%) Confluence
6 18 (1.25%) SAS
7 17 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 16 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 12 (0.84%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.84%) WebSphere
9 12 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
10 7 (0.49%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.35%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
13 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.14%) Mendix
Applications
1 44 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.35%) Simulink
5 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.070%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.070%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.070%) Notion
6 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (2.57%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.35%) Shopify
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.070%) Actimize
6 1 (0.070%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.070%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 582 (40.50%) AWS
2 575 (40.01%) Azure
3 199 (13.85%) GitHub
4 193 (13.43%) GCP
5 186 (12.94%) Power Platform
6 155 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (8.84%) Serverless
8 96 (6.68%) SaaS
9 94 (6.54%) Amazon S3
10 90 (6.26%) Snowflake
11 87 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (5.64%) dbt
13 80 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
14 78 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 62 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 58 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
17 53 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 53 (3.69%) OCI
18 51 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 46 (3.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.73%) Broadband
2 54 (3.76%) Firewall
3 38 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 33 (2.30%) VPN
5 29 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.81%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.39%) BGP
8 17 (1.18%) NGFW
8 17 (1.18%) VLAN
9 15 (1.04%) LAN
9 15 (1.04%) MPLS
9 15 (1.04%) VXLAN
9 15 (1.04%) WAN
10 14 (0.97%) DNS
10 14 (0.97%) Network Security
11 12 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (0.84%) SSL
12 11 (0.77%) 4G
12 11 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
12 11 (0.77%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (11.41%) Power BI
2 101 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (6.54%) Tableau
4 88 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 87 (6.05%) SQL Server
6 70 (4.87%) NoSQL
7 63 (4.38%) Data Lake
8 54 (3.76%) Relational Database
9 52 (3.62%) Apache Iceberg
10 49 (3.41%) Metadata
11 45 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
12 44 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
14 39 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (2.71%) BigQuery
15 34 (2.37%) MySQL
16 32 (2.23%) MongoDB
17 31 (2.16%) Delta Lake
18 28 (1.95%) Apache Arrow
18 28 (1.95%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 114 (7.93%) Git
2 89 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.97%) JIRA
4 44 (3.06%) GitLab
5 35 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
6 21 (1.46%) Selenium
7 19 (1.32%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.18%) MLflow
9 11 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.77%) ER Studio
9 11 (0.77%) ERwin
9 11 (0.77%) JUnit
10 6 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.35%) JMeter
11 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.35%) Postman
11 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.35%) Subversion
12 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 441 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 400 (27.84%) Finance
3 220 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (6.47%) Banking
6 89 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 74 (5.15%) Front Office
8 58 (4.04%) Law
9 48 (3.34%) Retail
10 44 (3.06%) Marketing
11 40 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.16%) Legal
13 28 (1.95%) Investment Banking
14 27 (1.88%) Publishing
15 26 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.74%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.60%) Tech for Good
18 20 (1.39%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.39%) Health Technology
19 19 (1.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 306 (21.29%) Senior
2 297 (20.67%) Developer
3 183 (12.73%) Lead
4 180 (12.53%) Data Engineer
5 146 (10.16%) Software Engineer
6 129 (8.98%) Python Developer
7 125 (8.70%) Python Engineer
8 102 (7.10%) Analyst
9 92 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.66%) Lead Developer
12 61 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 61 (4.24%) Python Software Engineer
13 59 (4.11%) Architect
14 54 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
14 54 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
15 51 (3.55%) Data Analyst
15 51 (3.55%) React Developer
16 50 (3.48%) AWS Developer
16 50 (3.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (11.00%) React
2 98 (6.82%) Node.js
3 77 (5.36%) RESTful
4 73 (5.08%) Kafka
5 67 (4.66%) Django
6 62 (4.31%) .NET
7 52 (3.62%) PySpark
7 52 (3.62%) REST
8 51 (3.55%) JSON
9 50 (3.48%) SOAP
10 47 (3.27%) Vue
11 44 (3.06%) XML
12 40 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
12 40 (2.78%) gRPC
12 40 (2.78%) PyTorch
12 40 (2.78%) TensorFlow
13 39 (2.71%) Flask
14 38 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 38 (2.64%) Pandas
15 36 (2.51%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 73 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
5 67 (4.66%) Algorithms
6 53 (3.69%) Fixed Income
6 53 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 51 (3.55%) Data Structures
8 49 (3.41%) Low-Code
9 42 (2.92%) Equities
10 36 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 35 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 32 (2.23%) Data Centre
12 32 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.16%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (1.81%) Derivative
15 26 (1.81%) Hedge funds
15 26 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
16 24 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 202 (14.06%) Linux
2 84 (5.85%) Unix
3 77 (5.36%) Windows
4 24 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.56%) Debian
7 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) VMS
9 4 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) CentOS
9 4 (0.28%) Solaris
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (36.88%) CI/CD
2 461 (32.08%) Agile
3 446 (31.04%) DevOps
4 352 (24.50%) AI
5 338 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
6 327 (22.76%) Software Engineering
7 275 (19.14%) Analytics
8 252 (17.54%) Mentoring
9 242 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 218 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 208 (14.47%) Coaching
12 206 (14.34%) Data Modelling
13 205 (14.27%) Machine Learning
14 200 (13.92%) Data Engineering
15 198 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
15 198 (13.78%) Data Science
16 191 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
17 187 (13.01%) Containerisation
18 169 (11.76%) Test Automation
19 161 (11.20%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 489 (34.03%) SQL
2 305 (21.22%) Java
3 263 (18.30%) JavaScript
4 159 (11.06%) Bash
5 150 (10.44%) TypeScript
6 149 (10.37%) PowerShell
7 124 (8.63%) Go
8 102 (7.10%) C#
9 65 (4.52%) C++
10 59 (4.11%) Scala
11 55 (3.83%) R
12 47 (3.27%) C
13 43 (2.99%) Shell Script
14 38 (2.64%) PL/SQL
15 30 (2.09%) Bicep
16 21 (1.46%) T-SQL
17 18 (1.25%) PHP
18 15 (1.04%) Apex Code
19 13 (0.90%) Perl
19 13 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 271 (18.86%) Degree
2 164 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 132 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (2.23%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 21 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.25%) PhD
13 16 (1.11%) CEH
14 14 (0.97%) ACCA
14 14 (0.97%) CIMA
15 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.77%) CISSP
16 11 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.57%) QA
3 50 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.95%) GDPR
5 27 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.60%) NIST
7 20 (1.39%) SLA
8 19 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.77%) ISO 22301
11 10 (0.70%) GRC
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.14%) ECSS
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.070%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.070%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.070%) SEPA
System Software
1 243 (16.91%) Docker
2 43 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.56%) Firmware
7 5 (0.35%) vSphere
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Ceph
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) NFS
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.070%) HDFS
11 1 (0.070%) KVM
11 1 (0.070%) vCloud
11 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 315 (21.92%) Terraform
2 231 (16.08%) Kubernetes
3 126 (8.77%) Ansible
4 71 (4.94%) Grafana
5 63 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.64%) Argo
8 20 (1.39%) Kustomize
9 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.42%) Control-M
10 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.35%) FTK
11 5 (0.35%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.28%) Cilium
12 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.28%) logstash
12 4 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 191 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.72%) Databricks
3 86 (5.98%) Oracle
4 77 (5.36%) Google
5 42 (2.92%) VMware
6 35 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 35 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.95%) Cisco
8 26 (1.81%) IBM
9 25 (1.74%) MuleSoft
10 19 (1.32%) Commvault
10 19 (1.32%) Okta
11 18 (1.25%) Typelevel
12 17 (1.18%) Talend
13 16 (1.11%) SAP
14 15 (1.04%) Arista
14 15 (1.04%) Aruba
14 15 (1.04%) NetScout
14 15 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 15 (1.04%) ServiceNow