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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,541 2,171 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.44% 15.27% 10.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.88% 37.24% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 1,550 2,861
10th Percentile £42,800 £46,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% +0.82%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £132,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,834 5,830 13,322
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.49% 41.00% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 4,405 11,412
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 8 May 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 79 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.27%) Apache
4 23 (1.49%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.32%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.065%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) SPSS
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) Notion
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.065%) Actimize
5 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 630 (40.88%) AWS
2 546 (35.43%) Azure
3 252 (16.35%) GCP
4 159 (10.32%) Power Platform
5 152 (9.86%) GitHub
6 121 (7.85%) Serverless
7 119 (7.72%) SaaS
8 102 (6.62%) Amazon S3
9 94 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
10 82 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
11 76 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 70 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 55 (3.57%) Snowflake
14 52 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (3.31%) dbt
16 50 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 47 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
18 40 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
19 39 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
20 36 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 168 (10.90%) Broadband
2 73 (4.74%) Firewall
3 39 (2.53%) VPN
4 26 (1.69%) LAN
5 25 (1.62%) VLAN
5 25 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (1.49%) WAN
7 22 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.23%) BGP
8 19 (1.23%) Wireshark
9 18 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (1.17%) DNS
9 18 (1.17%) NGFW
10 16 (1.04%) Network Security
11 15 (0.97%) MPLS
11 15 (0.97%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.78%) 4G
12 12 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (0.78%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.71%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (8.50%) Power BI
2 115 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (5.65%) SQL Server
4 65 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (4.22%) Tableau
5 62 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 60 (3.89%) Metadata
6 60 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 60 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 55 (3.57%) Data Lake
8 49 (3.18%) BigQuery
9 42 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (1.95%) Delta Lake
13 27 (1.75%) MySQL
14 26 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (1.69%) Redis
15 22 (1.43%) DynamoDB
16 21 (1.36%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 129 (8.37%) Git
2 59 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.92%) GitLab
4 33 (2.14%) JIRA
5 19 (1.23%) Jaeger
6 15 (0.97%) MLflow
7 14 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.52%) JMeter
9 8 (0.52%) Selenium
9 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.45%) Locust
11 6 (0.39%) Postman
12 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.32%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
14 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
General
1 448 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 335 (21.74%) Finance
3 242 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 93 (6.04%) Banking
7 65 (4.22%) Law
8 62 (4.02%) Retail
9 53 (3.44%) Front Office
10 47 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 40 (2.60%) Marketing
12 39 (2.53%) Games
13 35 (2.27%) Legal
14 32 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.56%) Publishing
16 19 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.17%) Health Technology
18 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
18 17 (1.10%) Tech for Good
19 15 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 339 (22.00%) Senior
2 315 (20.44%) Developer
3 249 (16.16%) Lead
4 202 (13.11%) Data Engineer
5 169 (10.97%) Software Engineer
6 148 (9.60%) Python Engineer
7 129 (8.37%) Python Developer
8 87 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
9 77 (5.00%) Analyst
10 66 (4.28%) Lead Developer
11 60 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
12 59 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 58 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
14 57 (3.70%) Data Scientist
15 54 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.31%) React Developer
17 49 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.11%) Architect
19 45 (2.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (10.64%) React
2 106 (6.88%) Kafka
3 101 (6.55%) Node.js
4 74 (4.80%) .NET
5 71 (4.61%) PySpark
6 66 (4.28%) RESTful
7 65 (4.22%) REST
8 63 (4.09%) PyTorch
9 58 (3.76%) Django
10 55 (3.57%) TensorFlow
11 50 (3.24%) gRPC
12 44 (2.86%) FastAPI
13 41 (2.66%) JSON
14 37 (2.40%) Vue
15 33 (2.14%) Redux
16 31 (2.01%) CSS
17 30 (1.95%) HTML
18 29 (1.88%) AngularJS
19 28 (1.82%) GraphQL
19 28 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 136 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (5.39%) Video\Live Streaming
4 74 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 74 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 63 (4.09%) Data Structures
6 62 (4.02%) Low-Code
7 51 (3.31%) Over-the-Top Content
8 46 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 37 (2.40%) Fixed Income
9 37 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.88%) Data Centre
13 28 (1.82%) AI Agents
14 27 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
15 25 (1.62%) Equities
16 24 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 174 (11.29%) Linux
2 56 (3.63%) Windows
3 44 (2.86%) Unix
4 27 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.39%) Android
7 6 (0.39%) Debian
7 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.19%) CentOS
8 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.065%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.065%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (35.17%) CI/CD
2 426 (27.64%) Software Engineering
3 408 (26.48%) Agile
4 395 (25.63%) AI
5 373 (24.21%) DevOps
6 355 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (19.34%) Mentoring
8 281 (18.23%) Machine Learning
9 270 (17.52%) Analytics
10 263 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 243 (15.77%) Data Science
12 228 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 228 (14.80%) Data Pipeline
13 223 (14.47%) Data Modelling
14 213 (13.82%) Containerisation
15 210 (13.63%) Data Engineering
16 183 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
17 181 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
18 180 (11.68%) Test Automation
19 162 (10.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 453 (29.40%) SQL
2 308 (19.99%) Java
3 231 (14.99%) JavaScript
4 193 (12.52%) Go
5 155 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 139 (9.02%) Bash
7 135 (8.76%) PowerShell
8 130 (8.44%) C#
9 96 (6.23%) Scala
10 65 (4.22%) C++
11 46 (2.99%) R
12 33 (2.14%) PHP
13 32 (2.08%) C
14 23 (1.49%) T-SQL
15 21 (1.36%) Apex Code
16 19 (1.23%) Bicep
17 18 (1.17%) VBA
18 17 (1.10%) PL/SQL
18 17 (1.10%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 250 (16.22%) Degree
2 133 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 102 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 47 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.97%) PhD
11 13 (0.84%) ACCA
11 13 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.84%) CEH
11 13 (0.84%) CIMA
12 12 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.71%) OSCP
14 9 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.58%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.20%) QA
3 43 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.49%) NIST
6 15 (0.97%) GDPR
7 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.78%) ISO 22301
9 10 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.52%) SLA
11 7 (0.45%) GRC
12 5 (0.32%) PMO
12 5 (0.32%) WCAG
13 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.19%) GAAP
14 3 (0.19%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 263 (17.07%) Docker
2 40 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.78%) Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.19%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 283 (18.36%) Terraform
2 228 (14.80%) Kubernetes
3 117 (7.59%) Ansible
4 75 (4.87%) Grafana
5 63 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.53%) Argo
7 23 (1.49%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.78%) Istio
10 11 (0.71%) Packer
11 9 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.58%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.39%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.39%) Puppet
13 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.32%) FTK
13 5 (0.32%) SCCM
14 4 (0.26%) Control-M
14 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 230 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.85%) Databricks
3 74 (4.80%) Google
4 52 (3.37%) Cisco
4 52 (3.37%) VMware
5 45 (2.92%) Typelevel
6 42 (2.73%) Oracle
7 36 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.17%) Commvault
12 18 (1.17%) Foundry
13 16 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.97%) Arista
14 15 (0.97%) Aruba
14 15 (0.97%) NetScout
14 15 (0.97%) Splunk
15 14 (0.91%) F5