Python Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,083 3,841 6,682
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 11.35% 15.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.82% 27.88% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 2,871 4,069
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,875 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £135,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% +3.57%

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 5,982 13,776 21,000
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.97% 40.70% 49.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,850 11,429 15,460
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Python
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Python.

Python salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Python
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Python over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Python salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 258 (12.39%) Apache Airflow
2 228 (10.95%) Apache
3 165 (7.92%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.82%) Confluence
5 30 (1.44%) Jupyter
6 22 (1.06%) CMS
7 20 (0.96%) SAS
8 14 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.48%) WordPress
10 9 (0.43%) Drupal
10 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.34%) IIS
11 7 (0.34%) nginx
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.096%) Kinematics
14 2 (0.096%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.048%) Luigi
15 1 (0.048%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.048%) OpenStack
Applications
1 134 (6.43%) Chatbot
2 55 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.24%) Stata
6 4 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.14%) Simulink
8 2 (0.096%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.096%) SPSS
8 2 (0.096%) Trello
8 2 (0.096%) Zemax
9 1 (0.048%) Blender
9 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 51 (2.45%) Aladdin
2 30 (1.44%) thinkFolio
3 17 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Shopify
5 2 (0.096%) Odoo
5 2 (0.096%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.048%) Endur
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 810 (38.89%) AWS
2 540 (25.92%) Azure
3 366 (17.57%) GCP
4 246 (11.81%) dbt
5 224 (10.75%) Serverless
6 191 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
8 153 (7.35%) Power Platform
9 132 (6.34%) Snowflake
10 123 (5.90%) GitHub
11 115 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 111 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
13 103 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
14 102 (4.90%) Amazon S3
15 85 (4.08%) OpenShift
16 84 (4.03%) SaaS
17 71 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
18 49 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
19 43 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
20 39 (1.87%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.64%) Firewall
2 41 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.87%) HTTP
4 33 (1.58%) WAN
5 30 (1.44%) DNS
6 20 (0.96%) LAN
7 19 (0.91%) 5G
8 17 (0.82%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.82%) VLAN
9 16 (0.77%) Internet
10 15 (0.72%) DHCP
11 13 (0.62%) Wireless
12 12 (0.58%) Network Security
13 11 (0.53%) VPN
14 10 (0.48%) SAN
15 7 (0.34%) Broadband
15 7 (0.34%) OSPF
16 6 (0.29%) BGP
16 6 (0.29%) Bluetooth
17 5 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (10.99%) Amazon Athena
2 219 (10.51%) Apache Iceberg
3 212 (10.18%) Dremio
4 205 (9.84%) Apache Arrow
5 165 (7.92%) Apache Ignite
6 160 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
7 141 (6.77%) Tableau
8 137 (6.58%) Power BI
9 126 (6.05%) Data Lake
10 119 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
11 91 (4.37%) NoSQL
12 86 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
13 81 (3.89%) SQL Server
14 76 (3.65%) Big Data
15 74 (3.55%) Relational Database
16 63 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
17 62 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
18 56 (2.69%) MySQL
19 36 (1.73%) MongoDB
20 32 (1.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 236 (11.33%) Git
2 108 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 62 (2.98%) GitLab
5 59 (2.83%) JIRA
6 37 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (1.49%) Selenium
9 19 (0.91%) JUnit
10 18 (0.86%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.72%) Maven
12 13 (0.62%) Appium
13 11 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.53%) Subversion
13 11 (0.53%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.43%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.38%) Moq
15 8 (0.38%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 752 (36.10%) Finance
2 440 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 366 (17.57%) Front Office
4 313 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
5 301 (14.45%) Banking
6 183 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (4.42%) Investment Banking
7 92 (4.42%) Retail
8 74 (3.55%) Law
9 67 (3.22%) Games
9 67 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 65 (3.12%) Marketing
11 64 (3.07%) Legal
12 52 (2.50%) Public Sector
13 50 (2.40%) Advertising
14 48 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 44 (2.11%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.82%) Tech for Good
17 31 (1.49%) Publishing
18 29 (1.39%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 546 (26.21%) Senior
2 442 (21.22%) Software Engineer
3 428 (20.55%) Developer
4 292 (14.02%) Python Engineer
5 285 (13.68%) AWS Engineer
6 248 (11.91%) Analyst
7 241 (11.57%) Data Engineer
8 180 (8.64%) Lead
9 179 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 149 (7.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 140 (6.72%) AWS Software Engineer
12 127 (6.10%) AWS DevOps
13 121 (5.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 118 (5.66%) Python Software Engineer
15 116 (5.57%) Trainer
16 113 (5.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 113 (5.42%) Python Developer
17 103 (4.94%) Software Developer
18 91 (4.37%) Data Analyst
19 79 (3.79%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (11.76%) React
2 223 (10.71%) Pandas
3 209 (10.03%) Node.js
4 188 (9.03%) PySpark
5 166 (7.97%) HTML
6 156 (7.49%) Kafka
7 149 (7.15%) NumPy
8 138 (6.63%) .NET
9 125 (6.00%) SciPy
10 99 (4.75%) gRPC
11 94 (4.51%) Protocol Buffers
12 89 (4.27%) REST
13 87 (4.18%) AngularJS
14 85 (4.08%) Django
15 80 (3.84%) Vue
16 76 (3.65%) RESTful
17 71 (3.41%) J2EE
18 67 (3.22%) Redux
19 54 (2.59%) CSS
19 54 (2.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 240 (11.52%) Fixed Income
2 166 (7.97%) Hedge funds
3 162 (7.78%) Derivative
4 154 (7.39%) Algorithms
5 121 (5.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 117 (5.62%) Equities
7 85 (4.08%) Management Information System
8 72 (3.46%) Cyberattack
9 70 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (2.98%) Cloud Native
11 61 (2.93%) Product Ownership
12 56 (2.69%) Onboarding
13 45 (2.16%) Robotics
14 44 (2.11%) Mobile App
15 43 (2.06%) Credit Risk
16 39 (1.87%) Public Cloud
17 36 (1.73%) Pricing Data
18 34 (1.63%) Learning Management System
19 33 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
20 27 (1.30%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 320 (15.36%) Linux
2 119 (5.71%) Windows
3 86 (4.13%) Unix
4 55 (2.64%) Android
5 29 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.34%) VMS
9 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.29%) CentOS
9 6 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.14%) Solaris
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.096%) AIX
11 2 (0.096%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Rocky
11 2 (0.096%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (38.17%) Agile
2 748 (35.91%) Software Engineering
3 516 (24.77%) CI/CD
4 495 (23.76%) DevOps
5 418 (20.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 376 (18.05%) Analytics
7 354 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
8 349 (16.75%) Asset Management
9 325 (15.60%) Machine Learning
10 249 (11.95%) Data Science
11 247 (11.86%) Computer Science
11 247 (11.86%) Containerisation
12 239 (11.47%) Mentoring
13 234 (11.23%) Visualisation
14 220 (10.56%) Data Engineering
15 213 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
16 196 (9.41%) Investment Management
17 188 (9.03%) Fintech
18 185 (8.88%) Mathematics
19 181 (8.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 763 (36.63%) SQL
2 612 (29.38%) JavaScript
3 484 (23.24%) Java
4 316 (15.17%) TypeScript
5 301 (14.45%) C++
6 269 (12.91%) C#
7 210 (10.08%) Go
8 170 (8.16%) PowerShell
9 161 (7.73%) Bash
10 105 (5.04%) C
11 77 (3.70%) Rust
12 76 (3.65%) R
13 55 (2.64%) Scala
14 40 (1.92%) PHP
15 39 (1.87%) Perl
16 35 (1.68%) Ruby
17 31 (1.49%) MATLAB
18 23 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 22 (1.06%) Kotlin
20 19 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 525 (25.20%) Degree
2 176 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.43%) Master's Degree
4 114 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 93 (4.46%) DBS Check
7 88 (4.22%) PhD
8 69 (3.31%) SC Cleared
9 38 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 26 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.67%) CISSP
13 11 (0.53%) CEH
14 10 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (0.48%) OSCP
15 9 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (0.43%) GCIA
15 9 (0.43%) GCIH
15 9 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.37%) QA
2 88 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 46 (2.21%) GDPR
5 19 (0.91%) NIST
6 17 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.48%) SLA
11 9 (0.43%) IFRS
11 9 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.38%) Basel III
13 7 (0.34%) Basel II
13 7 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
14 6 (0.29%) CDISC
15 5 (0.24%) FINRA
15 5 (0.24%) NCSC
16 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 445 (21.36%) Docker
2 38 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.62%) Firmware
6 8 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.34%) HDFS
8 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.096%) KVM
9 2 (0.096%) Postfix
9 2 (0.096%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 468 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 403 (19.35%) Terraform
3 184 (8.83%) Ansible
4 47 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 40 (1.92%) Grafana
6 24 (1.15%) Istio
7 17 (0.82%) Puppet
8 15 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.62%) Nagios
10 11 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
10 11 (0.53%) SCCM
11 9 (0.43%) SCOM
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.34%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.29%) Kibana
14 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.24%) Argo
15 5 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
15 5 (0.24%) Packer
16 4 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 220 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.25%) Databricks
3 133 (6.39%) Google
4 116 (5.57%) PayPal
5 51 (2.45%) BISAM
6 40 (1.92%) VMware
7 39 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 36 (1.73%) Charles River
9 32 (1.54%) SAP
10 31 (1.49%) Oracle
11 30 (1.44%) Calypso
11 30 (1.44%) SimCorp
12 29 (1.39%) IBM
13 23 (1.10%) Apple
14 15 (0.72%) Adobe
15 14 (0.67%) Cisco
15 14 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.62%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.58%) Splunk
18 11 (0.53%) F5