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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,830 2,090 3,214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.87% 12.63% 12.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.95% 39.33% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 1,254 2,495
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £79,932
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.17% +6.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 6,110 5,314 9,507
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.29% 32.11% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,606 3,670 7,146
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £39,110
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 27 August 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 48 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 43 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.24%) Apache
4 17 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.55%) SAS
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.11%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.055%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.27%) Simulink
6 4 (0.22%) Lightworks
6 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Blender
7 3 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (35.90%) AWS
2 574 (31.37%) Azure
3 286 (15.63%) GCP
4 156 (8.52%) Power Platform
4 156 (8.52%) SaaS
5 115 (6.28%) GitHub
6 88 (4.81%) Serverless
7 70 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 68 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (3.44%) Amazon S3
11 61 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (3.06%) Snowflake
13 53 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
14 51 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 49 (2.68%) dbt
16 39 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (2.02%) Datadog
18 32 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 124 (6.78%) Broadband
2 74 (4.04%) Firewall
3 51 (2.79%) TCP/IP
4 41 (2.24%) VPN
5 35 (1.91%) DNS
6 32 (1.75%) WAN
7 30 (1.64%) LAN
8 26 (1.42%) Network Security
9 25 (1.37%) Wireless
10 16 (0.87%) VLAN
11 14 (0.77%) BGP
11 14 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (0.77%) DHCP
11 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.71%) 5G
13 12 (0.66%) OSPF
14 10 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.49%) MPLS
16 8 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (7.21%) Power BI
3 103 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 80 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 60 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 54 (2.95%) Relational Database
9 51 (2.79%) Metadata
10 49 (2.68%) Tableau
11 47 (2.57%) Big Data
12 41 (2.24%) BigQuery
12 41 (2.24%) Delta Lake
13 31 (1.69%) MySQL
14 30 (1.64%) DynamoDB
15 28 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
17 21 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 182 (9.95%) Git
2 81 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.11%) GitLab
4 36 (1.97%) JIRA
5 17 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 14 (0.77%) MLflow
7 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.66%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.49%) JMeter
10 9 (0.49%) Selenium
11 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.38%) Postman
13 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.27%) Locust
14 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 581 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 418 (22.84%) Finance
3 302 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (6.34%) Legal
6 111 (6.07%) Banking
7 107 (5.85%) Public Sector
8 93 (5.08%) Law
9 80 (4.37%) Marketing
10 69 (3.77%) Retail
11 44 (2.40%) Games
12 40 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.86%) Electronics
14 30 (1.64%) Front Office
15 29 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.66%) Advertising
18 12 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 503 (27.49%) Senior
2 277 (15.14%) Developer
3 236 (12.90%) Lead
4 225 (12.30%) Software Engineer
5 198 (10.82%) Data Engineer
6 187 (10.22%) Python Engineer
7 109 (5.96%) Analyst
8 104 (5.68%) Python Developer
9 97 (5.30%) Data Scientist
10 79 (4.32%) Senior Developer
11 72 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
12 70 (3.83%) Architect
13 68 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
14 67 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 60 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
16 58 (3.17%) Python Software Engineer
17 57 (3.11%) Engineering Manager
18 56 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
18 56 (3.06%) Senior Data Scientist
19 54 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (15.52%) Terraform
2 139 (7.60%) React
3 95 (5.19%) PySpark
4 94 (5.14%) Node.js
5 84 (4.59%) .NET
6 81 (4.43%) PyTorch
7 75 (4.10%) REST
8 69 (3.77%) TensorFlow
9 67 (3.66%) Django
9 67 (3.66%) RESTful
10 63 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 63 (3.44%) Kafka
11 53 (2.90%) LangChain
12 43 (2.35%) Next.js
13 37 (2.02%) Pandas
14 34 (1.86%) CSS
15 32 (1.75%) scikit-learn
16 30 (1.64%) Spring
16 30 (1.64%) Vue
17 29 (1.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 238 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 183 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (4.64%) Algorithms
4 82 (4.48%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.37%) Virtual Team
6 67 (3.66%) Video\Live Streaming
7 58 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.68%) Data Structures
9 43 (2.35%) Low-Code
9 43 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.75%) Blog
13 29 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
14 27 (1.48%) Credit Risk
14 27 (1.48%) Security Posture
15 25 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 213 (11.64%) Linux
2 83 (4.54%) Windows
3 37 (2.02%) Unix
4 28 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Android
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Debian
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (37.87%) AI
2 593 (32.40%) Software Engineering
3 567 (30.98%) CI/CD
4 432 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
5 401 (21.91%) Mentoring
6 386 (21.09%) Agile
7 384 (20.98%) DevOps
8 378 (20.66%) Analytics
8 378 (20.66%) Machine Learning
9 345 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 330 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 267 (14.59%) Data Science
12 257 (14.04%) Test Automation
13 241 (13.17%) Observability
14 227 (12.40%) Decision-Making
15 225 (12.30%) Roadmaps
16 220 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
17 218 (11.91%) Data Engineering
18 215 (11.75%) Data Modelling
19 210 (11.48%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 573 (31.31%) SQL
2 268 (14.64%) JavaScript
3 254 (13.88%) Java
4 227 (12.40%) C#
5 216 (11.80%) PowerShell
6 196 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 132 (7.21%) Bash
8 130 (7.10%) Go
9 99 (5.41%) C++
10 55 (3.01%) Scala
11 53 (2.90%) R
12 48 (2.62%) C
13 46 (2.51%) Bicep
14 39 (2.13%) PHP
15 28 (1.53%) Rust
16 27 (1.48%) Ruby
17 26 (1.42%) VBA
18 21 (1.15%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.98%) Groovy
20 15 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 243 (13.28%) Degree
2 211 (11.53%) Security Cleared
3 166 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 40 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 29 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.26%) PhD
10 21 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.93%) SnowPro
13 16 (0.87%) CISSP
14 15 (0.82%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.77%) CCNP
16 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.71%) GIAC
16 13 (0.71%) OSCP
17 12 (0.66%) CEH
17 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (9.07%) Data Quality
2 143 (7.81%) QA
3 45 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.75%) GDPR
6 25 (1.37%) NIST
7 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.55%) SLA
10 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.33%) PMO
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.27%) WCAG
12 4 (0.22%) GAAP
12 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) IFRS
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 3 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 249 (13.61%) Docker
2 26 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.37%) Firmware
4 21 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.38%) vSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.33%) KVM
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.055%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 235 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 105 (5.74%) Ansible
3 91 (4.97%) Grafana
4 49 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.15%) Istio
6 20 (1.09%) Argo
7 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.55%) Packer
9 8 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) Puppet
11 6 (0.33%) Graylog
11 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.22%) linkerd
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
12 4 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 282 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.70%) Databricks
3 72 (3.93%) Google
4 52 (2.84%) Cisco
5 45 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 37 (2.02%) VMware
7 36 (1.97%) Oracle
8 27 (1.48%) Splunk
9 26 (1.42%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.20%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.20%) Foundry
13 19 (1.04%) Informatica
14 18 (0.98%) Typelevel
15 17 (0.93%) F5
16 16 (0.87%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.87%) New Relic
17 14 (0.77%) HubSpot
18 11 (0.60%) Alteryx