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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,332 2,362 2,697
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.88% 14.32% 12.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.65% 33.27% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,591 2,188
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 4,080 7,099 10,025
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.03% 46.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,078 4,462 8,542
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 11 January 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
1 107 (8.03%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (4.35%) Apache
3 36 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.58%) Confluence
5 18 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.20%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
8 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.83%) SAS
10 7 (0.53%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.53%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.38%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.38%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.23%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 52 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.38%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.075%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) Notion
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.93%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.45%) Shopify
4 3 (0.23%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.075%) Actimize
6 1 (0.075%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 527 (39.56%) Azure
2 526 (39.49%) AWS
3 198 (14.86%) GitHub
4 180 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 162 (12.16%) GCP
6 160 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (9.76%) Serverless
8 110 (8.26%) Snowflake
9 101 (7.58%) dbt
10 88 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (6.46%) Amazon S3
12 85 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
13 82 (6.16%) SaaS
14 70 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
15 57 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (3.23%) Entra ID
19 42 (3.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.85%) Firewall
2 37 (2.78%) Broadband
2 37 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 26 (1.95%) VPN
4 23 (1.73%) WAN
5 20 (1.50%) LAN
6 19 (1.43%) BGP
7 17 (1.28%) SSL
8 16 (1.20%) DNS
9 13 (0.98%) MPLS
10 12 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.83%) Network Security
12 10 (0.75%) 4G
12 10 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (0.75%) IOS XR
12 10 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.68%) VLAN
13 9 (0.68%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (12.39%) Power BI
2 103 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (6.68%) Tableau
5 82 (6.16%) Data Lake
6 75 (5.63%) SQL Server
7 72 (5.41%) Apache Iceberg
8 71 (5.33%) NoSQL
9 67 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
10 55 (4.13%) Apache Arrow
10 55 (4.13%) Dremio
11 49 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (3.53%) Relational Database
13 41 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (2.78%) Metadata
15 36 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (2.48%) BigQuery
17 29 (2.18%) Apache Ignite
18 28 (2.10%) DynamoDB
19 27 (2.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (8.86%) Git
2 99 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 61 (4.58%) JIRA
4 37 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.63%) GitLab
6 21 (1.58%) Selenium
7 13 (0.98%) Jaeger
8 12 (0.90%) ER Studio
8 12 (0.90%) ERwin
9 11 (0.83%) JUnit
9 11 (0.83%) MLflow
10 10 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.45%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.38%) JMeter
13 4 (0.30%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.30%) Postman
13 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 408 (30.63%) Finance
2 403 (30.26%) Social Skills
3 174 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.73%) Banking
5 89 (6.68%) Front Office
6 74 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.98%) Marketing
9 50 (3.75%) Law
10 45 (3.38%) Investment Banking
11 41 (3.08%) Retail
12 38 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 34 (2.55%) Publishing
14 32 (2.40%) Tech for Good
15 29 (2.18%) Health Technology
16 27 (2.03%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.95%) Legal
17 26 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (1.43%) Electronics
19 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 303 (22.75%) Senior
2 269 (20.20%) Developer
3 165 (12.39%) Data Engineer
4 138 (10.36%) Python Engineer
5 137 (10.29%) Python Developer
6 136 (10.21%) Software Engineer
7 134 (10.06%) Lead
8 99 (7.43%) Analyst
9 88 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
10 87 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 80 (6.01%) Python Software Engineer
12 66 (4.95%) Architect
12 66 (4.95%) AWS Developer
13 57 (4.28%) Applications Engineer
14 56 (4.20%) Senior Developer
15 55 (4.13%) AWS Software Engineer
16 52 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 52 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
17 48 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
18 47 (3.53%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (10.81%) React
2 88 (6.61%) RESTful
3 87 (6.53%) Node.js
4 76 (5.71%) Pandas
5 65 (4.88%) NumPy
6 61 (4.58%) Django
7 56 (4.20%) SciPy
8 54 (4.05%) .NET
9 53 (3.98%) Vue
10 52 (3.90%) Kafka
11 49 (3.68%) PySpark
12 47 (3.53%) SOAP
13 45 (3.38%) REST
14 43 (3.23%) AngularJS
14 43 (3.23%) XML
15 42 (3.15%) JSON
16 39 (2.93%) Flask
17 38 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (2.85%) gRPC
18 34 (2.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 63 (4.73%) Fixed Income
6 62 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 61 (4.58%) Equities
8 48 (3.60%) Onboarding
9 46 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
10 43 (3.23%) Management Information System
11 41 (3.08%) Hedge funds
12 40 (3.00%) Low-Code
13 38 (2.85%) Data Structures
14 36 (2.70%) Derivative
15 34 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
16 29 (2.18%) Pricing Data
17 28 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
18 24 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
19 19 (1.43%) Public Cloud
20 18 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 198 (14.86%) Linux
2 88 (6.61%) Windows
3 82 (6.16%) Unix
4 30 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.60%) Debian
7 8 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.60%) Solaris
8 7 (0.53%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.075%) Android
11 1 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.075%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (35.51%) Agile
2 452 (33.93%) CI/CD
3 433 (32.51%) DevOps
4 323 (24.25%) AI
5 296 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 278 (20.87%) Analytics
6 278 (20.87%) Software Engineering
7 222 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 216 (16.22%) Mentoring
9 192 (14.41%) Asset Management
10 191 (14.34%) Business Intelligence
11 187 (14.04%) Data Modelling
11 187 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 184 (13.81%) Data Pipeline
13 182 (13.66%) Data Engineering
13 182 (13.66%) Data Science
14 176 (13.21%) Machine Learning
15 172 (12.91%) Coaching
16 156 (11.71%) Test Automation
17 152 (11.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 502 (37.69%) SQL
2 266 (19.97%) Java
3 251 (18.84%) JavaScript
4 162 (12.16%) TypeScript
5 152 (11.41%) Bash
6 141 (10.59%) PowerShell
7 103 (7.73%) C#
8 70 (5.26%) Go
9 55 (4.13%) C++
9 55 (4.13%) R
10 45 (3.38%) PL/SQL
10 45 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 44 (3.30%) Scala
12 39 (2.93%) C
13 34 (2.55%) Bicep
14 19 (1.43%) PHP
15 18 (1.35%) Perl
16 15 (1.13%) MATLAB
16 15 (1.13%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 245 (18.39%) Degree
2 141 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 113 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 78 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.50%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.35%) PhD
14 17 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.20%) CISSP
16 13 (0.98%) ACCA
16 13 (0.98%) CEH
16 13 (0.98%) CIMA
16 13 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 80 (6.01%) QA
3 37 (2.78%) GDPR
3 37 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.88%) SLA
6 19 (1.43%) NIST
7 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.68%) ISO 22301
9 9 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) ECSS
11 2 (0.15%) EMIR
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.075%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.075%) SEPA
System Software
1 200 (15.02%) Docker
2 36 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.60%) vSphere
6 7 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.45%) NFS
8 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.075%) HDFS
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.075%) vCloud
11 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 280 (21.02%) Terraform
2 218 (16.37%) Kubernetes
3 115 (8.63%) Ansible
4 61 (4.58%) Grafana
5 48 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.25%) Argo
8 14 (1.05%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.45%) Control-M
12 4 (0.30%) Cilium
12 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.30%) logstash
12 4 (0.30%) Puppet
13 3 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.23%) Nmap
13 3 (0.23%) QRadar
14 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 182 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 110 (8.26%) Databricks
3 86 (6.46%) Oracle
4 67 (5.03%) Google
5 47 (3.53%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.70%) VMware
7 29 (2.18%) Cisco
8 27 (2.03%) IBM
8 27 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.58%) MuleSoft
10 20 (1.50%) Okta
11 19 (1.43%) Talend
12 18 (1.35%) Commvault
12 18 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.28%) SAP
14 13 (0.98%) Workday
15 11 (0.83%) Informatica
16 10 (0.75%) Dell
16 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.75%) Splunk
1,841 hybrid/remote Python jobs