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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,357 2,359 2,844
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.85% 14.48% 12.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.51% 33.34% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,574 2,317
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,282
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +6.27% +0.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 4,174 7,076 10,648
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.43% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,142 4,416 9,123
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%

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 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 99 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (4.20%) Apache
3 39 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.55%) Confluence
5 18 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
8 14 (1.03%) SAS
9 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.37%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.37%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.15%) CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Luigi
14 2 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 49 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.37%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.15%) SPSS
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
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%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 544 (40.09%) Azure
2 537 (39.57%) AWS
3 200 (14.74%) GitHub
4 182 (13.41%) Power Platform
5 164 (12.09%) GCP
6 163 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (9.65%) Serverless
8 108 (7.96%) Snowflake
9 92 (6.78%) dbt
10 89 (6.56%) Amazon S3
11 87 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
12 86 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (6.19%) SaaS
14 77 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 57 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 54 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 51 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
18 50 (3.68%) OCI
19 45 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 43 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.39%) Firewall
2 40 (2.95%) Broadband
3 34 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.06%) VPN
5 20 (1.47%) LAN
5 20 (1.47%) WAN
5 20 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (1.33%) BGP
6 18 (1.33%) Wireshark
7 16 (1.18%) DNS
7 16 (1.18%) SSL
8 14 (1.03%) MPLS
9 13 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (0.81%) 4G
10 11 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.81%) IOS XR
10 11 (0.81%) Network Security
11 10 (0.74%) NGFW
11 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (12.16%) Power BI
2 102 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (6.78%) Tableau
5 78 (5.75%) SQL Server
6 77 (5.67%) Data Lake
6 77 (5.67%) NoSQL
7 63 (4.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 57 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
9 48 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
10 47 (3.46%) Relational Database
11 44 (3.24%) Apache Arrow
11 44 (3.24%) Dremio
12 42 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
13 40 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (2.87%) Metadata
15 36 (2.65%) BigQuery
16 33 (2.43%) MongoDB
17 27 (1.99%) DynamoDB
17 27 (1.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 123 (9.06%) Git
2 95 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.57%) JIRA
4 37 (2.73%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (2.58%) GitLab
6 22 (1.62%) Selenium
7 14 (1.03%) Jaeger
8 13 (0.96%) MLflow
9 12 (0.88%) ER Studio
9 12 (0.88%) ERwin
10 11 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.81%) JUnit
11 6 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.29%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.29%) Postman
13 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 418 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 407 (29.99%) Finance
3 187 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.30%) Banking
5 78 (5.75%) Front Office
6 77 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 51 (3.76%) Law
8 51 (3.76%) Marketing
9 41 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 40 (2.95%) Retail
10 40 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 32 (2.36%) Publishing
12 29 (2.14%) Tech for Good
13 27 (1.99%) Legal
14 26 (1.92%) Health Technology
14 26 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.25%) Electronics
15 17 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 304 (22.40%) Senior
2 269 (19.82%) Developer
3 178 (13.12%) Data Engineer
4 148 (10.91%) Lead
5 133 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 132 (9.73%) Python Engineer
7 131 (9.65%) Python Developer
8 99 (7.30%) Analyst
9 86 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 79 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
11 72 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
12 62 (4.57%) Architect
13 59 (4.35%) AWS Developer
14 57 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
15 56 (4.13%) Senior Developer
16 55 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
17 52 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (3.68%) Lead Developer
18 50 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
19 45 (3.32%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (10.54%) React
2 86 (6.34%) Node.js
2 86 (6.34%) RESTful
3 64 (4.72%) Django
4 63 (4.64%) Pandas
5 57 (4.20%) Kafka
6 55 (4.05%) .NET
7 54 (3.98%) PySpark
8 53 (3.91%) NumPy
9 49 (3.61%) Vue
10 48 (3.54%) REST
10 48 (3.54%) SOAP
11 45 (3.32%) SciPy
12 42 (3.10%) XML
13 41 (3.02%) Flask
13 41 (3.02%) JSON
14 40 (2.95%) AngularJS
15 39 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (2.51%) FastAPI
16 34 (2.51%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (4.94%) Algorithms
5 52 (3.83%) Equities
5 52 (3.83%) Fixed Income
6 51 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 49 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 47 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (3.10%) Low-Code
10 40 (2.95%) Data Structures
11 39 (2.87%) Management Information System
12 36 (2.65%) Hedge funds
13 35 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
14 32 (2.36%) Derivative
15 31 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
16 24 (1.77%) Pricing Data
17 21 (1.55%) Data Centre
18 20 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 204 (15.03%) Linux
2 87 (6.41%) Windows
3 83 (6.12%) Unix
4 30 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.66%) Debian
8 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.59%) Solaris
9 7 (0.52%) VMS
10 4 (0.29%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (34.56%) CI/CD
2 465 (34.27%) Agile
3 443 (32.65%) DevOps
4 335 (24.69%) AI
5 313 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
6 284 (20.93%) Analytics
7 280 (20.63%) Software Engineering
8 231 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 226 (16.65%) Mentoring
10 197 (14.52%) Data Engineering
10 197 (14.52%) Data Modelling
11 196 (14.44%) Data Pipeline
12 195 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 192 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
14 185 (13.63%) Data Science
15 182 (13.41%) Coaching
16 181 (13.34%) Asset Management
17 177 (13.04%) Machine Learning
18 165 (12.16%) ETL
19 161 (11.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 509 (37.51%) SQL
2 273 (20.12%) Java
3 248 (18.28%) JavaScript
4 156 (11.50%) TypeScript
5 155 (11.42%) Bash
6 143 (10.54%) PowerShell
7 101 (7.44%) C#
8 74 (5.45%) Go
9 59 (4.35%) C++
10 53 (3.91%) R
11 47 (3.46%) Scala
12 45 (3.32%) Shell Script
13 43 (3.17%) PL/SQL
14 39 (2.87%) C
15 33 (2.43%) Bicep
16 18 (1.33%) PHP
17 17 (1.25%) Perl
18 15 (1.11%) MATLAB
19 14 (1.03%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 251 (18.50%) Degree
2 151 (11.13%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 91 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 81 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
11 23 (1.69%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.40%) PhD
13 17 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.11%) DBS Check
15 14 (1.03%) CISSP
16 13 (0.96%) ACCA
16 13 (0.96%) CEH
16 13 (0.96%) CIMA
16 13 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.97%) QA
3 38 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.58%) GDPR
5 28 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.84%) SLA
7 19 (1.40%) NIST
8 12 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.66%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.37%) GRC
13 3 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.15%) ECSS
14 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.074%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 208 (15.33%) Docker
2 36 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.52%) vSphere
6 6 (0.44%) Firmware
7 5 (0.37%) NFS
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Ceph
10 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.074%) HDFS
11 1 (0.074%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.074%) vCloud
11 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 294 (21.67%) Terraform
2 225 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 125 (9.21%) Ansible
4 62 (4.57%) Grafana
5 50 (3.68%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.36%) Argo
8 15 (1.11%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.44%) Control-M
12 5 (0.37%) Puppet
13 4 (0.29%) Cilium
13 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.29%) logstash
14 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
14 3 (0.22%) QRadar
15 2 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 181 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 116 (8.55%) Databricks
3 87 (6.41%) Oracle
4 69 (5.08%) Google
5 45 (3.32%) Red Hat
6 37 (2.73%) VMware
7 30 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.14%) Cisco
9 27 (1.99%) IBM
10 22 (1.62%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.47%) Okta
11 20 (1.47%) Talend
12 18 (1.33%) Commvault
12 18 (1.33%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.25%) SAP
14 14 (1.03%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.96%) Informatica
15 13 (0.96%) Workday
16 10 (0.74%) Dell
16 10 (0.74%) Splunk