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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,556 2,462 3,621
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.28% 16.31% 11.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.31% 40.41% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 1,489 2,897
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £110,000 £133,000 £138,750
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 4,970 6,093 13,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 40.36% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,657 4,260 11,388
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £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 £79,313
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 20 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 75 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.19%) Apache
4 23 (1.48%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.26%) Confluence
7 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.13%) CMS
9 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.064%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.064%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.26%) SPSS
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.064%) Actimize
5 1 (0.064%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.064%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 618 (39.72%) AWS
2 544 (34.96%) Azure
3 251 (16.13%) GCP
4 152 (9.77%) Power Platform
5 139 (8.93%) GitHub
6 117 (7.52%) Serverless
7 114 (7.33%) SaaS
8 100 (6.43%) Amazon S3
9 92 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
12 67 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 51 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (3.28%) Snowflake
14 49 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (3.08%) dbt
16 46 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 41 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (2.51%) Azure Machine Learning
19 37 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 175 (11.25%) Broadband
2 74 (4.76%) Firewall
3 39 (2.51%) VPN
4 25 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (1.54%) LAN
6 23 (1.48%) VLAN
7 22 (1.41%) WAN
8 19 (1.22%) Wireshark
9 18 (1.16%) DNS
9 18 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.09%) BGP
10 17 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (1.09%) NGFW
11 15 (0.96%) Network Security
11 15 (0.96%) VXLAN
12 14 (0.90%) MPLS
13 12 (0.77%) 4G
13 12 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (0.77%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.90%) Power BI
2 115 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 64 (4.11%) Tableau
5 62 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (3.98%) Metadata
6 58 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 56 (3.60%) NoSQL
8 55 (3.53%) BigQuery
9 54 (3.47%) Data Lake
10 53 (3.41%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 38 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.93%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.86%) MySQL
15 26 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
16 25 (1.61%) Redis
17 24 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (1.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 132 (8.48%) Git
2 61 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 46 (2.96%) GitLab
4 32 (2.06%) JIRA
5 18 (1.16%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.03%) MLflow
7 12 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.51%) JMeter
9 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.39%) Locust
11 5 (0.32%) Selenium
11 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.32%) Subversion
12 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.26%) ERwin
12 4 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 440 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 347 (22.30%) Finance
3 256 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 93 (5.98%) Banking
7 70 (4.50%) Law
8 63 (4.05%) Retail
9 52 (3.34%) Front Office
10 43 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 42 (2.70%) Marketing
12 40 (2.57%) Games
12 40 (2.57%) Legal
13 29 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.41%) Publishing
15 17 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.09%) Health Technology
16 15 (0.96%) Tech for Good
17 14 (0.90%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 351 (22.56%) Senior
2 303 (19.47%) Developer
3 254 (16.32%) Lead
4 199 (12.79%) Data Engineer
5 178 (11.44%) Software Engineer
6 154 (9.90%) Python Engineer
7 121 (7.78%) Python Developer
8 92 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
9 83 (5.33%) Analyst
10 69 (4.43%) Data Scientist
11 62 (3.98%) Lead Developer
12 60 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
13 59 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
14 56 (3.60%) Senior Developer
15 55 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
17 49 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.08%) React Developer
19 47 (3.02%) Architect
20 44 (2.83%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (10.03%) React
2 104 (6.68%) Kafka
3 98 (6.30%) Node.js
4 72 (4.63%) .NET
5 69 (4.43%) PySpark
5 69 (4.43%) PyTorch
6 63 (4.05%) REST
7 61 (3.92%) RESTful
7 61 (3.92%) TensorFlow
8 57 (3.66%) Django
9 49 (3.15%) gRPC
10 44 (2.83%) FastAPI
11 38 (2.44%) JSON
12 32 (2.06%) Redux
12 32 (2.06%) Vue
13 30 (1.93%) CSS
14 28 (1.80%) HTML
15 27 (1.74%) Flask
15 27 (1.74%) Web Services
15 27 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 140 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.66%) Video\Live Streaming
4 76 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 69 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.98%) Data Structures
7 61 (3.92%) Low-Code
8 53 (3.41%) Over-the-Top Content
9 45 (2.89%) Onboarding
10 40 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (2.31%) Fixed Income
12 35 (2.25%) AI Agents
13 32 (2.06%) Public Cloud
14 31 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (1.80%) Data Centre
15 28 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (1.67%) Equities
16 26 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
17 23 (1.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 179 (11.50%) Linux
2 58 (3.73%) Windows
3 42 (2.70%) Unix
4 27 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.45%) Android
8 6 (0.39%) Debian
8 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.064%) AIX
12 1 (0.064%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.064%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (34.45%) CI/CD
2 437 (28.08%) Software Engineering
3 417 (26.80%) AI
4 397 (25.51%) Agile
5 365 (23.46%) DevOps
6 353 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
7 308 (19.79%) Mentoring
8 300 (19.28%) Machine Learning
9 281 (18.06%) Analytics
10 270 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 259 (16.65%) Data Science
12 224 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
13 221 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 218 (14.01%) Data Modelling
15 210 (13.50%) Containerisation
16 203 (13.05%) Data Engineering
17 179 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
17 179 (11.50%) Test Automation
18 173 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
19 160 (10.28%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 450 (28.92%) SQL
2 294 (18.89%) Java
3 228 (14.65%) JavaScript
4 187 (12.02%) Go
5 152 (9.77%) TypeScript
6 140 (9.00%) PowerShell
7 138 (8.87%) Bash
8 136 (8.74%) C#
9 95 (6.11%) Scala
10 70 (4.50%) C++
11 50 (3.21%) R
12 35 (2.25%) C
13 33 (2.12%) PHP
14 23 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.22%) Apex Code
16 18 (1.16%) Bicep
17 17 (1.09%) VBA
18 15 (0.96%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.90%) PL/SQL
20 13 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 240 (15.42%) Degree
2 131 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 45 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.29%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.96%) PhD
11 13 (0.84%) ACCA
11 13 (0.84%) CIMA
12 12 (0.77%) CEH
12 12 (0.77%) OSCP
13 10 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.64%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.51%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 103 (6.62%) QA
3 38 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.29%) NIST
6 17 (1.09%) GDPR
7 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.64%) ISO 22301
9 8 (0.51%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.39%) GRC
11 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.32%) PMO
11 5 (0.32%) WCAG
12 3 (0.19%) GAAP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.13%) EMIR
13 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 262 (16.84%) Docker
2 39 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.84%) Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.32%) KVM
9 3 (0.19%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (17.99%) Terraform
2 224 (14.40%) Kubernetes
3 111 (7.13%) Ansible
4 77 (4.95%) Grafana
5 63 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.38%) Argo
7 22 (1.41%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.77%) Istio
10 11 (0.71%) Packer
10 11 (0.71%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
12 7 (0.45%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.39%) Puppet
14 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.32%) FTK
14 5 (0.32%) Graylog
14 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.32%) SCCM
15 4 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 234 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.52%) Databricks
3 76 (4.88%) Google
4 52 (3.34%) Cisco
5 50 (3.21%) VMware
6 45 (2.89%) Typelevel
7 36 (2.31%) Oracle
8 34 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.86%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.35%) Foundry
12 18 (1.16%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.96%) Arista
13 15 (0.96%) Aruba
13 15 (0.96%) Commvault
13 15 (0.96%) F5
13 15 (0.96%) NetScout
14 14 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 14 (0.90%) Splunk