Python Jobs with Work from Home Options

Python
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,838 6,642 11,093
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.36% 15.67% 16.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.91% 31.89% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 4,041 5,712
10th Percentile £41,875 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £117,236 £107,375
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,749 20,831 39,905
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.69% 49.14% 58.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,389 15,324 24,010
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Python trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Python over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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
1 343 (8.94%) Apache
2 327 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.94%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.63%) GeoServer
5 124 (3.23%) Apache Spark
6 54 (1.41%) SAS
7 33 (0.86%) Confluence
8 27 (0.70%) nginx
9 20 (0.52%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.13%) CMS
11 5 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.13%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.13%) IIS
11 5 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.13%) WordPress
12 4 (0.10%) Drupal
12 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.078%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.052%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 70 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.33%) Simulink
3 11 (0.29%) SPSS
4 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.21%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.052%) CANalyzer
9 2 (0.052%) EViews
9 2 (0.052%) LaTeX
9 2 (0.052%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.052%) Stata
10 1 (0.026%) Blender
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) Odoo
4 4 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.078%) Shopify
6 2 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.052%) Primavera
6 2 (0.052%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.052%) Relativity
7 1 (0.026%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,735 (45.21%) AWS
2 1,124 (29.29%) Azure
3 647 (16.86%) GCP
4 330 (8.60%) Snowflake
5 316 (8.23%) dbt
6 298 (7.76%) Serverless
7 268 (6.98%) Power Platform
8 214 (5.58%) Amazon S3
9 173 (4.51%) SaaS
10 169 (4.40%) GitHub
11 161 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
12 155 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
13 94 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
15 69 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
16 66 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
17 62 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
18 59 (1.54%) PaaS
19 50 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 47 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.70%) Firewall
2 90 (2.34%) VPN
3 85 (2.21%) Internet
4 83 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 77 (2.01%) DNS
6 68 (1.77%) SNMP
7 59 (1.54%) IPsec
8 53 (1.38%) Network Security
9 48 (1.25%) WAN
10 37 (0.96%) LAN
11 28 (0.73%) Wireless
12 21 (0.55%) HTTP
13 20 (0.52%) DHCP
14 19 (0.50%) MQTT
15 15 (0.39%) 5G
16 14 (0.36%) Wireshark
17 13 (0.34%) VSAN
18 11 (0.29%) SSL
18 11 (0.29%) tcpdump
19 10 (0.26%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 450 (11.72%) PostgreSQL
2 341 (8.88%) Data Lake
3 289 (7.53%) Tableau
4 250 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
5 246 (6.41%) GIS
6 244 (6.36%) Power BI
7 237 (6.18%) Dremio
8 232 (6.04%) Apache Arrow
9 218 (5.68%) QGIS
10 216 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
11 198 (5.16%) SQL Server
12 197 (5.13%) Apache Ignite
13 176 (4.59%) Big Data
14 158 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
15 145 (3.78%) Relational Database
16 134 (3.49%) NoSQL
17 131 (3.41%) MongoDB
18 117 (3.05%) MySQL
19 90 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
20 88 (2.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 536 (13.97%) Git
2 235 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 143 (3.73%) GitLab
4 109 (2.84%) JIRA
5 36 (0.94%) JDeveloper
6 31 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 27 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 27 (0.70%) Maven
7 27 (0.70%) Subversion
8 24 (0.63%) Selenium
9 21 (0.55%) JUnit
9 21 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 19 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 19 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (0.44%) Appium
11 17 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
11 17 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
13 14 (0.36%) Vagrant
14 13 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,191 (31.03%) Finance
2 858 (22.36%) Social Skills
3 445 (11.59%) Banking
4 442 (11.52%) Front Office
5 426 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
6 253 (6.59%) Retail
7 220 (5.73%) Investment Banking
8 148 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 130 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
10 122 (3.18%) Marketing
11 117 (3.05%) Law
12 114 (2.97%) Public Sector
13 106 (2.76%) Back Office
14 93 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 82 (2.14%) Electronics
16 78 (2.03%) Telecoms
17 77 (2.01%) Games
18 71 (1.85%) Legal
19 63 (1.64%) Tech for Good
20 50 (1.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,115 (29.05%) Senior
2 971 (25.30%) Software Engineer
3 722 (18.81%) Developer
4 442 (11.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 411 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 380 (9.90%) Lead
7 349 (9.09%) Analyst
8 296 (7.71%) Python Engineer
9 269 (7.01%) Python Developer
10 258 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
11 188 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 178 (4.64%) Data Analyst
13 175 (4.56%) Senior Developer
14 156 (4.06%) Software Developer
15 153 (3.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 151 (3.93%) Python Software Engineer
17 132 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
18 121 (3.15%) Data Scientist
19 120 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
20 118 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (17.40%) React
2 378 (9.85%) .NET
3 296 (7.71%) Pandas
4 291 (7.58%) CSS
5 261 (6.80%) gRPC
6 254 (6.62%) Protocol Buffers
7 249 (6.49%) Node.js
8 223 (5.81%) NumPy
9 219 (5.71%) PostGIS
10 218 (5.68%) Django
11 216 (5.63%) OpenLayers
12 215 (5.60%) Leaflet
13 212 (5.52%) .NET Core
14 203 (5.29%) AngularJS
15 189 (4.92%) SciPy
16 165 (4.30%) HTML
17 136 (3.54%) Kafka
18 127 (3.31%) RESTful
19 117 (3.05%) Spring
20 112 (2.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 424 (11.05%) Hedge funds
2 374 (9.74%) Fixed Income
3 363 (9.46%) Derivative
4 319 (8.31%) Equities
5 281 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 219 (5.71%) Algorithms
7 191 (4.98%) Data Structures
8 127 (3.31%) IoT
9 111 (2.89%) Data Centre
10 108 (2.81%) Cloud Native
11 102 (2.66%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.19%) Client/Server
13 71 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
15 60 (1.56%) Clustering
16 56 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
17 52 (1.35%) Public Cloud
18 48 (1.25%) Onboarding
19 47 (1.22%) Management Information System
20 46 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 701 (18.26%) Linux
2 255 (6.64%) Windows
3 84 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 83 (2.16%) Unix
5 78 (2.03%) Embedded Linux
5 78 (2.03%) Ubuntu
6 55 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 54 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
8 50 (1.30%) CentOS
9 44 (1.15%) Android
10 26 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.39%) Debian
12 12 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.26%) AIX
13 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
14 9 (0.23%) Solaris
15 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
17 6 (0.16%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,479 (38.54%) Software Engineering
2 1,296 (33.77%) Agile
3 991 (25.82%) DevOps
4 907 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
5 658 (17.14%) Analytics
6 561 (14.62%) CI/CD
7 533 (13.89%) Actionable Insight
8 498 (12.98%) Asset Management
9 480 (12.51%) Machine Learning
10 436 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 434 (11.31%) Data Science
12 410 (10.68%) Investment Management
12 410 (10.68%) Mentoring
13 346 (9.02%) Computer Science
14 332 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
14 332 (8.65%) Full Stack Development
15 319 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
16 312 (8.13%) Visualisation
17 308 (8.03%) Data Engineering
18 295 (7.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,222 (31.84%) SQL
2 1,094 (28.50%) JavaScript
3 917 (23.89%) Java
4 550 (14.33%) C#
5 481 (12.53%) TypeScript
6 387 (10.08%) Bash
7 307 (8.00%) C
8 247 (6.44%) C++
9 240 (6.25%) Go
10 235 (6.12%) PowerShell
11 231 (6.02%) R
12 151 (3.93%) Ruby
13 128 (3.34%) Perl
14 88 (2.29%) Embedded C
15 82 (2.14%) Rust
15 82 (2.14%) Scala
16 61 (1.59%) T-SQL
17 56 (1.46%) PHP
18 54 (1.41%) Kotlin
19 41 (1.07%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 751 (19.57%) Degree
2 584 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 394 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 181 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 174 (4.53%) DBS Check
6 169 (4.40%) Master's Degree
7 77 (2.01%) PhD
8 62 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 49 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 45 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.57%) CISSP
13 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.44%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.42%) CEH
17 15 (0.39%) SANS
18 13 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 164 (4.27%) QA
3 37 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 28 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (0.73%) NIST
5 21 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 19 (0.50%) GDPR
7 9 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.23%) CRD IV
8 7 (0.18%) IFRS
8 7 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 7 (0.18%) PMO
9 6 (0.16%) SLA
10 5 (0.13%) NCSC
11 4 (0.10%) COBIT
11 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.078%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.052%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.052%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 531 (13.84%) Docker
2 101 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 40 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (0.99%) Firmware
6 37 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.50%) vSphere
9 16 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.36%) NFS
10 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.26%) pfSense
12 4 (0.10%) Ceph
12 4 (0.10%) KVM
13 3 (0.078%) Gluster
13 3 (0.078%) oVirt
14 1 (0.026%) HDFS
14 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.026%) OpenSIPS
14 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 533 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 455 (11.86%) Terraform
3 303 (7.89%) Ansible
4 134 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 103 (2.68%) Puppet
6 78 (2.03%) Grafana
6 78 (2.03%) vCenter Server
7 54 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 20 (0.52%) Nmap
9 18 (0.47%) Salt
10 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (0.42%) ZABBIX
11 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.39%) Packer
12 11 (0.29%) HAProxy
12 11 (0.29%) Kibana
12 11 (0.29%) Nagios
12 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (0.26%) Graphite
13 10 (0.26%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 306 (7.97%) Databricks
2 248 (6.46%) Microsoft
3 226 (5.89%) Google
4 219 (5.71%) ESRI
5 158 (4.12%) Oracle
6 136 (3.54%) VMware
7 101 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 57 (1.49%) SAP
9 54 (1.41%) NetApp
9 54 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.41%) SolidFire
10 38 (0.99%) Bloomberg
11 29 (0.76%) Micro Focus
12 28 (0.73%) Splunk
13 27 (0.70%) Xilinx
14 25 (0.65%) Dell
14 25 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 21 (0.55%) NVIDIA
16 17 (0.44%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.44%) Qualys