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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,825 6,777 10,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.31% 15.67% 16.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.79% 31.82% 27.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,853 4,109 5,649
10th Percentile £41,875 £43,657 £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 £132,500 £117,236 £105,000
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 13,764 21,297 39,199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.70% 49.25% 58.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,419 15,642 23,967
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 £103,797 £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 26 April 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
1 323 (8.44%) Apache
2 303 (7.92%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.96%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.65%) GeoServer
5 119 (3.11%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.36%) SAS
7 35 (0.92%) Confluence
8 27 (0.71%) nginx
9 20 (0.52%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.16%) WordPress
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
12 4 (0.10%) Drupal
12 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.078%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 69 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.23%) Simulink
3 12 (0.31%) SPSS
4 9 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.21%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.052%) CANalyzer
8 2 (0.052%) EViews
8 2 (0.052%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.052%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.052%) Stata
9 1 (0.026%) Blender
9 1 (0.026%) CATIA
9 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 1,717 (44.89%) AWS
2 1,122 (29.33%) Azure
3 650 (16.99%) GCP
4 304 (7.95%) Serverless
5 300 (7.84%) Snowflake
6 292 (7.63%) dbt
7 266 (6.95%) Power Platform
8 219 (5.73%) Amazon S3
9 178 (4.65%) SaaS
10 176 (4.60%) GitHub
11 170 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
12 153 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 93 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 74 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 73 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
16 68 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
17 65 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
18 60 (1.57%) PaaS
19 49 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 49 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.76%) Firewall
2 90 (2.35%) VPN
3 87 (2.27%) Internet
4 83 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 78 (2.04%) DNS
6 67 (1.75%) SNMP
7 59 (1.54%) IPsec
8 57 (1.49%) Network Security
9 49 (1.28%) WAN
10 37 (0.97%) LAN
11 29 (0.76%) Wireless
12 24 (0.63%) HTTP
13 20 (0.52%) DHCP
13 20 (0.52%) MQTT
14 17 (0.44%) 5G
15 14 (0.37%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.34%) VSAN
17 11 (0.29%) SSL
17 11 (0.29%) tcpdump
18 10 (0.26%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
2 309 (8.08%) Data Lake
3 264 (6.90%) Tableau
4 246 (6.43%) GIS
5 242 (6.33%) Power BI
6 225 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
7 218 (5.70%) QGIS
8 213 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
8 213 (5.57%) Dremio
9 207 (5.41%) Apache Arrow
10 196 (5.12%) SQL Server
11 178 (4.65%) Apache Ignite
12 168 (4.39%) Big Data
13 161 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
14 143 (3.74%) Relational Database
15 131 (3.42%) MongoDB
15 131 (3.42%) NoSQL
16 122 (3.19%) MySQL
17 99 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
18 89 (2.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 514 (13.44%) Git
2 242 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 144 (3.76%) GitLab
4 115 (3.01%) JIRA
5 36 (0.94%) JDeveloper
6 33 (0.86%) Maven
7 32 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 28 (0.73%) Subversion
9 25 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 25 (0.65%) Selenium
10 23 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 20 (0.52%) JUnit
12 19 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
13 18 (0.47%) Appium
14 17 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
14 17 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
16 14 (0.37%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,181 (30.88%) Finance
2 835 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 427 (11.16%) Banking
4 425 (11.11%) Front Office
5 413 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
6 238 (6.22%) Retail
7 204 (5.33%) Investment Banking
8 149 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 128 (3.35%) Marketing
10 117 (3.06%) Law
10 117 (3.06%) Public Sector
11 114 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
12 105 (2.75%) Back Office
13 95 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 83 (2.17%) Electronics
15 81 (2.12%) Telecoms
16 78 (2.04%) Games
17 70 (1.83%) Legal
18 63 (1.65%) Tech for Good
19 50 (1.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,088 (28.44%) Senior
2 973 (25.44%) Software Engineer
3 743 (19.42%) Developer
4 438 (11.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 403 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 370 (9.67%) Lead
7 328 (8.58%) Analyst
8 296 (7.74%) Python Engineer
9 273 (7.14%) Python Developer
10 253 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
11 201 (5.25%) DevOps Engineer
12 183 (4.78%) Senior Developer
13 160 (4.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 159 (4.16%) Data Analyst
15 155 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 147 (3.84%) Python Software Engineer
17 119 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
18 114 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
18 114 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
18 114 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 685 (17.91%) React
2 378 (9.88%) .NET
3 297 (7.76%) CSS
4 271 (7.08%) Pandas
5 253 (6.61%) Node.js
6 238 (6.22%) gRPC
7 231 (6.04%) Protocol Buffers
8 220 (5.75%) Django
9 219 (5.73%) PostGIS
10 216 (5.65%) AngularJS
10 216 (5.65%) OpenLayers
11 215 (5.62%) Leaflet
12 212 (5.54%) .NET Core
13 204 (5.33%) NumPy
14 170 (4.44%) SciPy
15 169 (4.42%) HTML
16 144 (3.76%) Kafka
17 127 (3.32%) RESTful
18 125 (3.27%) Spring
19 116 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 392 (10.25%) Hedge funds
2 351 (9.18%) Fixed Income
3 339 (8.86%) Derivative
4 293 (7.66%) Equities
5 253 (6.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 214 (5.59%) Algorithms
7 186 (4.86%) Data Structures
8 129 (3.37%) IoT
9 112 (2.93%) Cloud Native
10 111 (2.90%) Data Centre
11 103 (2.69%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.20%) Client/Server
13 73 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
14 69 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
15 57 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
16 55 (1.44%) Clustering
17 53 (1.39%) Public Cloud
18 50 (1.31%) Onboarding
19 48 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
20 47 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 718 (18.77%) Linux
2 261 (6.82%) Windows
3 88 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 84 (2.20%) Unix
5 76 (1.99%) Embedded Linux
6 75 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 58 (1.52%) Windows Server
8 54 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
9 51 (1.33%) CentOS
10 42 (1.10%) Android
11 27 (0.71%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.39%) Debian
13 11 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.26%) AIX
14 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
14 10 (0.26%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.24%) Solaris
16 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.18%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,470 (38.43%) Software Engineering
2 1,287 (33.65%) Agile
3 996 (26.04%) DevOps
4 896 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
5 650 (16.99%) Analytics
6 574 (15.01%) CI/CD
7 509 (13.31%) Actionable Insight
8 477 (12.47%) Asset Management
9 463 (12.10%) Machine Learning
10 429 (11.22%) Data Science
11 420 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 404 (10.56%) Mentoring
13 386 (10.09%) Investment Management
14 347 (9.07%) Computer Science
15 345 (9.02%) Full Stack Development
16 315 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
17 306 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
18 297 (7.76%) Data Engineering
19 286 (7.48%) Data Modelling
19 286 (7.48%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,196 (31.27%) SQL
2 1,084 (28.34%) JavaScript
3 903 (23.61%) Java
4 550 (14.38%) C#
5 478 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 402 (10.51%) Bash
7 303 (7.92%) C
8 251 (6.56%) C++
9 237 (6.20%) Go
10 231 (6.04%) PowerShell
10 231 (6.04%) R
11 155 (4.05%) Ruby
12 139 (3.63%) Perl
13 88 (2.30%) Embedded C
14 86 (2.25%) Scala
15 82 (2.14%) Rust
16 62 (1.62%) PHP
17 60 (1.57%) T-SQL
18 54 (1.41%) Kotlin
19 41 (1.07%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 726 (18.98%) Degree
2 576 (15.06%) Security Cleared
3 393 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 182 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 166 (4.34%) Master's Degree
6 145 (3.79%) DBS Check
7 77 (2.01%) PhD
8 57 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 45 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.58%) CISSP
15 20 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.42%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.42%) CEH
17 15 (0.39%) SANS
18 13 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.18%) Data Quality
2 170 (4.44%) QA
3 38 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (0.73%) NIST
6 21 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.50%) GDPR
8 9 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.24%) CRD IV
8 9 (0.24%) PMO
9 7 (0.18%) IFRS
9 7 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 6 (0.16%) SLA
11 5 (0.13%) NCSC
12 4 (0.10%) COBIT
12 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.078%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.052%) GRC
14 2 (0.052%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 546 (14.27%) Docker
2 102 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 40 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (1.02%) Firmware
6 37 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.50%) vSphere
9 16 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.39%) NFS
11 14 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.26%) pfSense
13 4 (0.10%) Ceph
13 4 (0.10%) KVM
14 3 (0.078%) Gluster
14 3 (0.078%) oVirt
15 2 (0.052%) HDFS
15 2 (0.052%) OpenSIPS
16 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 537 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 453 (11.84%) Terraform
3 312 (8.16%) Ansible
4 129 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 106 (2.77%) Puppet
6 79 (2.07%) Grafana
7 78 (2.04%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.55%) Nmap
10 18 (0.47%) Salt
11 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 16 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.39%) Packer
13 14 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (0.31%) Kibana
15 11 (0.29%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.29%) Nagios
16 10 (0.26%) Graphite
16 10 (0.26%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 275 (7.19%) Databricks
2 247 (6.46%) Microsoft
3 227 (5.93%) Google
4 219 (5.73%) ESRI
5 158 (4.13%) Oracle
6 138 (3.61%) VMware
7 106 (2.77%) Red Hat
8 58 (1.52%) 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%) Dell
11 29 (0.76%) Micro Focus
11 29 (0.76%) Splunk
12 25 (0.65%) Salesforce
13 23 (0.60%) Xilinx
14 21 (0.55%) NVIDIA
15 17 (0.44%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.44%) Qualys