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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,353 2,499 2,570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.84% 14.44% 12.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.56% 33.88% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,751 2,083
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,612 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 4,155 7,375 9,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 42.62% 46.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 4,740 7,737
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 24 December 2025.

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
1 117 (8.65%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (5.03%) Apache
3 37 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.55%) Confluence
5 19 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.74%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.67%) SAS
11 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.37%) CMS
12 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
14 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.22%) nginx
15 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 54 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.074%) Blender
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (2.88%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.074%) Actimize
7 1 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 550 (40.65%) Azure
2 549 (40.58%) AWS
3 195 (14.41%) GitHub
4 178 (13.16%) Power Platform
5 176 (13.01%) GCP
6 158 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (9.16%) Serverless
8 123 (9.09%) Snowflake
9 121 (8.94%) dbt
10 84 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
10 84 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
11 76 (5.62%) Amazon S3
12 73 (5.40%) SaaS
13 69 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 57 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 51 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (3.40%) OCI
18 45 (3.33%) Entra ID
19 40 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.25%) Firewall
2 36 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 31 (2.29%) VPN
4 28 (2.07%) WAN
5 24 (1.77%) LAN
6 23 (1.70%) Broadband
7 17 (1.26%) DNS
7 17 (1.26%) SSL
8 14 (1.03%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.96%) BGP
9 13 (0.96%) Network Security
9 13 (0.96%) Wireshark
10 9 (0.67%) OSPF
10 9 (0.67%) VLAN
10 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.67%) Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) SAN
12 7 (0.52%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.52%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.34%) Power BI
2 114 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (6.95%) Data Lake
5 84 (6.21%) Apache Iceberg
6 82 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
6 82 (6.06%) Tableau
7 74 (5.47%) NoSQL
8 73 (5.40%) Apache Arrow
8 73 (5.40%) Dremio
9 70 (5.17%) SQL Server
10 48 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
11 46 (3.40%) Relational Database
12 41 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
13 38 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (2.59%) Metadata
15 33 (2.44%) MySQL
16 32 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (2.14%) DynamoDB
18 28 (2.07%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 119 (8.80%) Git
2 100 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.36%) JIRA
4 37 (2.73%) Oracle Forms
5 36 (2.66%) GitLab
6 22 (1.63%) Selenium
7 12 (0.89%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.89%) ERwin
8 11 (0.81%) JUnit
9 10 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.74%) MLflow
10 8 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.37%) JMeter
14 4 (0.30%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.30%) Postman
14 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 454 (33.56%) Finance
2 401 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 173 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (8.87%) Front Office
5 113 (8.35%) Banking
6 62 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (4.21%) Investment Banking
8 56 (4.14%) Marketing
8 56 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 50 (3.70%) Law
10 46 (3.40%) Retail
11 32 (2.37%) Tech for Good
12 31 (2.29%) Health Technology
12 31 (2.29%) Publishing
13 27 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 27 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.70%) Legal
16 20 (1.48%) Electronics
17 17 (1.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 319 (23.58%) Senior
2 277 (20.47%) Developer
3 164 (12.12%) Software Engineer
4 159 (11.75%) Data Engineer
5 142 (10.50%) Python Engineer
6 134 (9.90%) Python Developer
7 132 (9.76%) Lead
8 104 (7.69%) Analyst
9 103 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
10 94 (6.95%) Python Software Engineer
11 82 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
12 77 (5.69%) Architect
13 73 (5.40%) AWS Software Engineer
14 67 (4.95%) AWS Developer
15 58 (4.29%) Senior Developer
16 57 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
17 56 (4.14%) Applications Engineer
18 55 (4.07%) Lead Developer
19 54 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
19 54 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (11.31%) React
2 100 (7.39%) Node.js
3 97 (7.17%) Pandas
4 91 (6.73%) RESTful
5 83 (6.13%) NumPy
6 73 (5.40%) SciPy
7 65 (4.80%) Kafka
8 64 (4.73%) Vue
9 63 (4.66%) Django
10 54 (3.99%) .NET
11 53 (3.92%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.84%) gRPC
13 50 (3.70%) REST
13 50 (3.70%) SOAP
14 47 (3.47%) PySpark
15 45 (3.33%) Flask
16 42 (3.10%) JSON
16 42 (3.10%) XML
17 41 (3.03%) Protocol Buffers
18 38 (2.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.87%) Fixed Income
3 81 (5.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 79 (5.84%) Product Ownership
5 78 (5.76%) Equities
6 69 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (4.51%) Algorithms
8 55 (4.07%) Hedge funds
9 51 (3.77%) Management Information System
10 49 (3.62%) Derivative
11 48 (3.55%) Onboarding
12 44 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
13 41 (3.03%) Pricing Data
14 36 (2.66%) Data Structures
15 33 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 33 (2.44%) Low-Code
16 26 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
19 19 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 200 (14.78%) Linux
2 92 (6.80%) Windows
3 77 (5.69%) Unix
4 33 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.59%) Debian
7 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.59%) Solaris
8 7 (0.52%) VMS
9 5 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Android
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.074%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (37.25%) Agile
2 466 (34.44%) CI/CD
3 438 (32.37%) DevOps
4 315 (23.28%) AI
5 302 (22.32%) Software Engineering
6 300 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
7 272 (20.10%) Analytics
8 214 (15.82%) Asset Management
8 214 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 208 (15.37%) Mentoring
10 190 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
11 182 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 180 (13.30%) Data Modelling
13 178 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
14 177 (13.08%) Data Engineering
15 173 (12.79%) Data Science
15 173 (12.79%) Machine Learning
16 170 (12.56%) Coaching
17 164 (12.12%) Containerisation
18 160 (11.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 510 (37.69%) SQL
2 279 (20.62%) Java
3 270 (19.96%) JavaScript
4 181 (13.38%) TypeScript
5 150 (11.09%) Bash
6 147 (10.86%) PowerShell
7 105 (7.76%) C#
8 74 (5.47%) Go
9 56 (4.14%) R
10 55 (4.07%) C++
11 45 (3.33%) PL/SQL
11 45 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 40 (2.96%) C
13 39 (2.88%) Scala
14 36 (2.66%) Bicep
15 20 (1.48%) PHP
16 19 (1.40%) Perl
17 15 (1.11%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 231 (17.07%) Degree
2 137 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.50%) AWS Certification
5 72 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 31 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.40%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.33%) PhD
14 17 (1.26%) CISSP
14 17 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.96%) CEH
16 13 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.81%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.74%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 76 (5.62%) QA
3 45 (3.33%) GDPR
4 38 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.85%) SLA
7 24 (1.77%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.67%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.30%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) ECSS
13 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.074%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 211 (15.59%) Docker
2 37 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Firmware
5 8 (0.59%) vSphere
6 6 (0.44%) NFS
7 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Ceph
9 2 (0.15%) Lustre
10 1 (0.074%) HDFS
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.074%) vCloud
10 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 278 (20.55%) Terraform
2 222 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 120 (8.87%) Ansible
4 60 (4.43%) Grafana
5 46 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (3.03%) Prometheus
7 24 (1.77%) Argo
8 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (0.59%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.44%) Control-M
11 5 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.30%) Cilium
12 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 4 (0.30%) Nmap
12 4 (0.30%) QRadar
13 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.22%) Puppet
14 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 186 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 117 (8.65%) Databricks
3 94 (6.95%) Oracle
4 62 (4.58%) Google
5 54 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.66%) VMware
7 27 (2.00%) IBM
8 25 (1.85%) Cisco
9 24 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.55%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.48%) Okta
12 19 (1.40%) Talend
13 18 (1.33%) Commvault
13 18 (1.33%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.26%) SAP
15 13 (0.96%) Workday
16 11 (0.81%) Informatica
17 10 (0.74%) Dell
17 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.74%) Splunk