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

 6 months to
5 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,534 2,126 3,516
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.38% 15.29% 10.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.93% 37.33% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,565 2,847
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £53,938 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £134,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 4,804 5,695 13,295
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 40.96% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,528 4,451 11,386
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £78,750
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 5 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 79 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.28%) Apache
4 17 (1.11%) SAS
5 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.065%) Kinematics
Applications
1 30 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) SPSS
6 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.065%) Notion
6 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.065%) Actimize
5 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.065%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 631 (41.13%) AWS
2 545 (35.53%) Azure
3 248 (16.17%) GCP
4 165 (10.76%) GitHub
5 159 (10.37%) Power Platform
6 125 (8.15%) Serverless
7 112 (7.30%) SaaS
8 105 (6.84%) Amazon S3
9 97 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
11 77 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 56 (3.65%) Snowflake
14 53 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
15 52 (3.39%) dbt
16 50 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 48 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
18 42 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 40 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
20 38 (2.48%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 153 (9.97%) Broadband
2 72 (4.69%) Firewall
3 38 (2.48%) VPN
4 25 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (1.56%) LAN
5 24 (1.56%) VLAN
6 22 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.37%) WAN
8 19 (1.24%) BGP
8 19 (1.24%) Wireshark
9 18 (1.17%) DNS
10 17 (1.11%) NGFW
11 16 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (0.98%) MPLS
12 15 (0.98%) VXLAN
13 14 (0.91%) Network Security
14 12 (0.78%) 4G
14 12 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (8.60%) Power BI
2 114 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 67 (4.37%) Tableau
5 64 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 62 (4.04%) Relational Database
7 61 (3.98%) Metadata
8 54 (3.52%) Data Lake
9 50 (3.26%) MongoDB
10 49 (3.19%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
13 35 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.96%) Delta Lake
15 27 (1.76%) MySQL
16 26 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (1.63%) Redis
18 22 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
19 21 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 133 (8.67%) Git
2 69 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 53 (3.46%) GitLab
4 33 (2.15%) JIRA
5 19 (1.24%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 16 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.04%) Selenium
7 15 (0.98%) MLflow
8 10 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.52%) JMeter
9 8 (0.52%) JUnit
10 7 (0.46%) Locust
10 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.39%) Postman
12 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.33%) Subversion
13 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.26%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 452 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 345 (22.49%) Finance
3 234 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 94 (6.13%) Banking
7 64 (4.17%) Law
8 61 (3.98%) Retail
9 54 (3.52%) Front Office
10 46 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.48%) Marketing
12 33 (2.15%) Legal
13 32 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.96%) Games
15 25 (1.63%) Publishing
16 19 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.24%) Health Technology
17 18 (1.17%) Tech for Good
18 17 (1.11%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 340 (22.16%) Senior
2 320 (20.86%) Developer
3 251 (16.36%) Lead
4 199 (12.97%) Data Engineer
5 169 (11.02%) Software Engineer
6 146 (9.52%) Python Engineer
7 126 (8.21%) Python Developer
8 84 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
9 81 (5.28%) Analyst
10 71 (4.63%) Lead Developer
11 61 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
12 60 (3.91%) Senior Developer
13 57 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
14 56 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
14 56 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
15 53 (3.46%) Data Scientist
16 52 (3.39%) React Developer
16 52 (3.39%) Software Developer
17 49 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.13%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (10.76%) React
2 107 (6.98%) Kafka
3 103 (6.71%) Node.js
4 75 (4.89%) .NET
5 69 (4.50%) PySpark
6 66 (4.30%) Django
6 66 (4.30%) REST
7 63 (4.11%) PyTorch
8 60 (3.91%) RESTful
9 55 (3.59%) TensorFlow
10 51 (3.32%) gRPC
11 43 (2.80%) FastAPI
12 41 (2.67%) JSON
13 37 (2.41%) Vue
14 36 (2.35%) Flask
15 35 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
16 33 (2.15%) Redux
17 32 (2.09%) Spring
18 31 (2.02%) CSS
19 30 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 126 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.82%) Video\Live Streaming
4 73 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 69 (4.50%) Algorithms
6 63 (4.11%) Data Structures
7 54 (3.52%) Low-Code
8 51 (3.32%) Over-the-Top Content
9 45 (2.93%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (2.48%) Fixed Income
12 37 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.96%) Public Cloud
15 29 (1.89%) Data Centre
16 28 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
18 26 (1.69%) AI Agents
19 24 (1.56%) Equities
20 22 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 169 (11.02%) Linux
2 53 (3.46%) Windows
3 44 (2.87%) Unix
4 25 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.39%) Android
7 6 (0.39%) Debian
7 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.20%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.065%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.065%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (35.46%) CI/CD
2 419 (27.31%) Software Engineering
3 415 (27.05%) Agile
4 382 (24.90%) DevOps
5 372 (24.25%) AI
6 360 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
7 305 (19.88%) Mentoring
8 262 (17.08%) Machine Learning
9 259 (16.88%) Analytics
10 252 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 233 (15.19%) Data Science
12 227 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 226 (14.73%) Data Pipeline
14 224 (14.60%) Containerisation
15 222 (14.47%) Data Modelling
16 210 (13.69%) Data Engineering
17 184 (11.99%) Test Automation
18 182 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
19 176 (11.47%) Full-Stack Development
20 167 (10.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 451 (29.40%) SQL
2 321 (20.93%) Java
3 235 (15.32%) JavaScript
4 186 (12.13%) Go
5 156 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 138 (9.00%) Bash
7 136 (8.87%) PowerShell
8 134 (8.74%) C#
9 95 (6.19%) Scala
10 64 (4.17%) C++
11 43 (2.80%) R
12 33 (2.15%) PHP
13 32 (2.09%) C
14 23 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 21 (1.37%) Apex Code
16 19 (1.24%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.24%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.17%) Bicep
17 18 (1.17%) VBA
18 12 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 251 (16.36%) Degree
2 131 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 49 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 18 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.04%) PhD
12 15 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.91%) CEH
13 14 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.85%) ACCA
14 13 (0.85%) CIMA
15 11 (0.72%) OSCP
16 10 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
18 8 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.67%) Data Quality
2 113 (7.37%) QA
3 45 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.63%) NIST
6 15 (0.98%) GDPR
7 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.78%) ISO 22301
9 10 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.52%) SLA
11 7 (0.46%) GRC
12 5 (0.33%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) WCAG
13 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.20%) EMIR
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 273 (17.80%) Docker
2 40 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.78%) Firmware
6 6 (0.39%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.20%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 285 (18.58%) Terraform
2 237 (15.45%) Kubernetes
3 113 (7.37%) Ansible
4 83 (5.41%) Grafana
5 64 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.61%) Argo
7 23 (1.50%) Kustomize
8 21 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.78%) Istio
10 10 (0.65%) Packer
11 9 (0.59%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.39%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.39%) Puppet
14 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.33%) FTK
14 5 (0.33%) SCCM
15 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.26%) logstash
15 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 226 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.95%) Databricks
3 74 (4.82%) Google
4 53 (3.46%) Oracle
5 51 (3.32%) VMware
6 49 (3.19%) Cisco
7 45 (2.93%) Typelevel
8 37 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 31 (2.02%) Red Hat
10 24 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.24%) Commvault
12 18 (1.17%) Foundry
13 17 (1.11%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.98%) Arista
15 15 (0.98%) Aruba
15 15 (0.98%) NetScout
16 14 (0.91%) SAP
17 13 (0.85%) F5
1,089 hybrid/remote Python jobs