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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,647 2,366 3,858
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.23% 15.35% 11.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.12% 40.61% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 1,423 3,066
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,046 £42,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £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 5,292 5,826 14,067
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 37.81% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,913 4,038 11,657
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,538
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,813 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 18 June 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 74 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 39 (2.37%) Apache
4 18 (1.09%) SAS
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) Confluence
9 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) CMS
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Blender
6 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
8 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 645 (39.16%) AWS
2 527 (32.00%) Azure
3 275 (16.70%) GCP
4 135 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 122 (7.41%) SaaS
6 105 (6.38%) GitHub
7 102 (6.19%) Serverless
8 87 (5.28%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 55 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (2.55%) dbt
17 42 (2.55%) Snowflake
18 39 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 37 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 202 (12.26%) Broadband
2 79 (4.80%) Firewall
3 47 (2.85%) VPN
4 27 (1.64%) LAN
4 27 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.58%) WAN
6 22 (1.34%) VLAN
7 21 (1.28%) DNS
8 20 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.15%) Network Security
9 19 (1.15%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.03%) BGP
10 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.03%) NGFW
11 15 (0.91%) MPLS
11 15 (0.91%) VXLAN
11 15 (0.91%) Wireless
12 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.56%) Power BI
3 87 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 60 (3.64%) BigQuery
8 59 (3.58%) NoSQL
9 57 (3.46%) Metadata
10 55 (3.34%) Tableau
11 47 (2.85%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (2.06%) Big Data
16 32 (1.94%) Semantic Layer
17 31 (1.88%) MySQL
18 30 (1.82%) Delta Lake
19 27 (1.64%) Redis
20 25 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 145 (8.80%) Git
2 65 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 59 (3.58%) GitLab
4 33 (2.00%) JIRA
5 18 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 16 (0.97%) MLflow
7 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
9 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.30%) Locust
10 5 (0.30%) Postman
10 5 (0.30%) Selenium
10 5 (0.30%) Subversion
11 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 458 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 360 (21.86%) Finance
3 286 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 99 (6.01%) Banking
7 71 (4.31%) Law
8 62 (3.76%) Retail
9 52 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 51 (3.10%) Marketing
11 48 (2.91%) Games
12 47 (2.85%) Front Office
13 46 (2.79%) Legal
14 22 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.79%) Electronics
17 13 (0.79%) Publishing
18 12 (0.73%) Tech for Good
19 11 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 382 (23.19%) Senior
2 325 (19.73%) Developer
3 278 (16.88%) Lead
4 198 (12.02%) Data Engineer
5 193 (11.72%) Software Engineer
6 160 (9.71%) Python Engineer
7 110 (6.68%) Python Developer
8 96 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
9 93 (5.65%) Analyst
10 92 (5.59%) Data Scientist
11 69 (4.19%) Lead Developer
12 66 (4.01%) Senior Developer
13 64 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 63 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
15 59 (3.58%) Data Analyst
16 57 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
17 55 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (2.85%) Architect
18 47 (2.85%) Python Software Engineer
18 47 (2.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.05%) React
2 105 (6.38%) Node.js
3 95 (5.77%) Kafka
3 95 (5.77%) PyTorch
4 85 (5.16%) TensorFlow
5 73 (4.43%) REST
6 72 (4.37%) .NET
7 66 (4.01%) PySpark
7 66 (4.01%) RESTful
8 57 (3.46%) Django
9 55 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 49 (2.98%) LangChain
11 48 (2.91%) gRPC
12 39 (2.37%) Vue
13 36 (2.19%) JSON
14 35 (2.13%) Flask
15 32 (1.94%) Redux
16 29 (1.76%) Web Services
17 28 (1.70%) GraphQL
18 27 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 208 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 176 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 79 (4.80%) Algorithms
5 67 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 66 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 59 (3.58%) AI Agents
7 59 (3.58%) Low-Code
8 55 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
9 44 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (2.25%) Public Cloud
12 36 (2.19%) Fixed Income
13 35 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.82%) Data Centre
15 28 (1.70%) Equities
16 27 (1.64%) Virtual Team
17 25 (1.52%) Management Information System
17 25 (1.52%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.17%) Linux
2 61 (3.70%) Windows
3 43 (2.61%) Unix
4 30 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.49%) Debian
6 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) CentOS
11 1 (0.061%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.061%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (33.58%) CI/CD
2 547 (33.21%) AI
3 494 (29.99%) Software Engineering
4 396 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
5 390 (23.68%) Agile
6 362 (21.98%) Machine Learning
7 341 (20.70%) Mentoring
8 330 (20.04%) DevOps
9 309 (18.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 304 (18.46%) Analytics
11 296 (17.97%) Data Science
12 224 (13.60%) Containerisation
13 221 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
14 218 (13.24%) Roadmaps
15 215 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 210 (12.75%) Data Engineering
17 209 (12.69%) Data Modelling
18 199 (12.08%) Observability
19 194 (11.78%) Full-Stack Development
20 191 (11.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 480 (29.14%) SQL
2 282 (17.12%) Java
3 227 (13.78%) JavaScript
4 192 (11.66%) Go
5 152 (9.23%) Bash
6 151 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 149 (9.05%) TypeScript
8 138 (8.38%) C#
9 85 (5.16%) Scala
10 72 (4.37%) C++
11 54 (3.28%) R
12 38 (2.31%) PHP
13 35 (2.13%) C
14 26 (1.58%) Bicep
15 19 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.15%) VBA
16 17 (1.03%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.97%) Ruby
18 15 (0.91%) Groovy
19 14 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 230 (13.96%) Degree
2 152 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 123 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 14 (0.85%) PhD
11 12 (0.73%) OSCP
12 11 (0.67%) ACCA
12 11 (0.67%) CEH
12 11 (0.67%) CIMA
12 11 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.55%) CISSP
15 8 (0.49%) CCNP
15 8 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 99 (6.01%) QA
3 39 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.09%) NIST
6 16 (0.97%) GDPR
7 12 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.49%) SLA
10 7 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 6 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 5 (0.30%) WCAG
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) IFRS
13 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 266 (16.15%) Docker
2 34 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.03%) Firmware
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) KVM
7 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 272 (16.51%) Terraform
2 227 (13.78%) Kubernetes
3 110 (6.68%) Ansible
4 81 (4.92%) Grafana
5 69 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.43%) Argo
7 24 (1.46%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.03%) Istio
9 12 (0.73%) Packer
9 12 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 9 (0.55%) Kubeflow
10 9 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.43%) Puppet
12 6 (0.36%) Graylog
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.30%) FTK
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 238 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.04%) Databricks
3 79 (4.80%) Google
4 56 (3.40%) Cisco
5 49 (2.98%) VMware
6 45 (2.73%) Typelevel
7 35 (2.13%) OpenAI
8 29 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.64%) Oracle
9 27 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.52%) Foundry
11 23 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.34%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.21%) Splunk
14 16 (0.97%) F5
15 15 (0.91%) Arista
15 15 (0.91%) Aruba
15 15 (0.91%) NetScout
15 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.79%) Commvault