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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,884 6,431 11,653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.53% 15.70% 16.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.23% 31.96% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 3,898 5,711
10th Percentile £42,250 £44,428 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +1.79% +6.87%
75th Percentile £96,539 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £69,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.14% +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 13,756 20,121 41,253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.85% 49.11% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,373 14,804 23,956
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 14 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
1 396 (10.20%) Apache
2 395 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.87%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.56%) GeoServer
5 124 (3.19%) Apache Spark
6 55 (1.42%) SAS
7 33 (0.85%) Confluence
8 28 (0.72%) nginx
9 20 (0.51%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.18%) CMS
11 6 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.13%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.13%) IIS
12 5 (0.13%) Luigi
13 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.10%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.10%) WordPress
14 3 (0.077%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.077%) Drupal
Applications
1 66 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.44%) Simulink
3 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.28%) SPSS
4 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.21%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.051%) CANalyzer
8 2 (0.051%) EViews
8 2 (0.051%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.051%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.051%) 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 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) Odoo
4 4 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.077%) Shopify
6 2 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.051%) Primavera
6 2 (0.051%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.051%) Relativity
7 1 (0.026%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,798 (46.29%) AWS
2 1,120 (28.84%) Azure
3 659 (16.97%) GCP
4 382 (9.84%) Snowflake
5 377 (9.71%) dbt
6 273 (7.03%) Serverless
7 270 (6.95%) Power Platform
8 215 (5.54%) Amazon S3
9 169 (4.35%) SaaS
10 159 (4.09%) GitHub
11 157 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
12 150 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
13 99 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 68 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
16 65 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
17 64 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (1.47%) PaaS
19 52 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 49 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.58%) Firewall
2 90 (2.32%) VPN
3 84 (2.16%) Internet
4 83 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.91%) DNS
6 67 (1.73%) SNMP
7 59 (1.52%) IPsec
8 54 (1.39%) Network Security
9 45 (1.16%) WAN
10 35 (0.90%) LAN
11 27 (0.70%) Wireless
12 21 (0.54%) DHCP
13 20 (0.51%) HTTP
14 19 (0.49%) MQTT
15 14 (0.36%) 5G
15 14 (0.36%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.33%) VSAN
17 11 (0.28%) SSL
17 11 (0.28%) tcpdump
18 9 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 396 (10.20%) Data Lake
3 313 (8.06%) Tableau
4 309 (7.96%) Amazon Athena
5 297 (7.65%) Dremio
6 290 (7.47%) Apache Arrow
7 247 (6.36%) Apache Ignite
8 246 (6.33%) GIS
9 244 (6.28%) Power BI
10 218 (5.61%) QGIS
11 215 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
12 195 (5.02%) SQL Server
13 188 (4.84%) Big Data
14 158 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
15 151 (3.89%) Relational Database
16 137 (3.53%) NoSQL
17 133 (3.42%) MongoDB
18 117 (3.01%) MySQL
19 91 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
20 85 (2.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 545 (14.03%) Git
2 235 (6.05%) Jenkins
3 139 (3.58%) GitLab
4 108 (2.78%) JIRA
5 36 (0.93%) JDeveloper
6 31 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 27 (0.70%) Subversion
8 25 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 25 (0.64%) Maven
9 24 (0.62%) Selenium
10 21 (0.54%) JUnit
11 20 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.49%) Visual Studio
13 18 (0.46%) Appium
13 18 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
14 17 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
15 16 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
15 16 (0.41%) Vagrant
16 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
17 14 (0.36%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,244 (32.03%) Finance
2 887 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 487 (12.54%) Front Office
4 483 (12.44%) Banking
5 451 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
6 274 (7.05%) Retail
7 256 (6.59%) Investment Banking
8 152 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 151 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
10 122 (3.14%) Marketing
11 120 (3.09%) Law
12 108 (2.78%) Public Sector
13 106 (2.73%) Back Office
14 92 (2.37%) Manufacturing
15 83 (2.14%) Electronics
16 77 (1.98%) Games
16 77 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 73 (1.88%) Legal
18 64 (1.65%) Tech for Good
19 51 (1.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,162 (29.92%) Senior
2 990 (25.49%) Software Engineer
3 725 (18.67%) Developer
4 464 (11.95%) Senior Software Engineer
5 414 (10.66%) Data Engineer
6 393 (10.12%) Lead
7 374 (9.63%) Analyst
8 314 (8.08%) Python Engineer
9 283 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
10 270 (6.95%) Python Developer
11 202 (5.20%) Data Analyst
12 183 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 171 (4.40%) Senior Developer
14 169 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
15 167 (4.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 166 (4.27%) Software Developer
17 155 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
18 127 (3.27%) Data Scientist
19 123 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
20 116 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 650 (16.74%) React
2 374 (9.63%) .NET
3 351 (9.04%) Pandas
4 323 (8.32%) gRPC
5 316 (8.14%) Protocol Buffers
6 293 (7.54%) CSS
7 271 (6.98%) NumPy
8 259 (6.67%) Node.js
9 235 (6.05%) SciPy
10 219 (5.64%) PostGIS
11 217 (5.59%) Django
12 216 (5.56%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.54%) Leaflet
14 211 (5.43%) .NET Core
15 206 (5.30%) AngularJS
16 169 (4.35%) HTML
17 132 (3.40%) Kafka
18 126 (3.24%) RESTful
19 118 (3.04%) Vue
20 117 (3.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 477 (12.28%) Hedge funds
2 421 (10.84%) Fixed Income
3 405 (10.43%) Derivative
4 365 (9.40%) Equities
5 325 (8.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 222 (5.72%) Algorithms
7 190 (4.89%) Data Structures
8 123 (3.17%) IoT
9 111 (2.86%) Data Centre
10 106 (2.73%) Cloud Native
11 99 (2.55%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.16%) Client/Server
13 73 (1.88%) Clustering
14 67 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
15 66 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
16 55 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.31%) Public Cloud
18 49 (1.26%) Onboarding
19 48 (1.24%) Management Information System
20 44 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 686 (17.66%) Linux
2 245 (6.31%) Windows
3 81 (2.09%) Unix
4 80 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
4 80 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 79 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
7 53 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 49 (1.26%) CentOS
9 46 (1.18%) Android
10 26 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.39%) Debian
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.26%) AIX
13 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.26%) Solaris
14 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.15%) SUSE
16 5 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,508 (38.83%) Software Engineering
2 1,337 (34.42%) Agile
3 986 (25.39%) DevOps
4 904 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
5 685 (17.64%) Analytics
6 564 (14.52%) Asset Management
7 540 (13.90%) CI/CD
8 537 (13.83%) Actionable Insight
9 501 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 461 (11.87%) Investment Management
11 451 (11.61%) Artificial Intelligence
12 438 (11.28%) Data Science
13 393 (10.12%) Mentoring
14 357 (9.19%) Data Pipeline
15 349 (8.99%) Computer Science
16 340 (8.75%) Visualisation
17 330 (8.50%) Full Stack Development
18 321 (8.26%) Mathematics
19 316 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
20 309 (7.96%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,249 (32.16%) SQL
2 1,162 (29.92%) JavaScript
3 943 (24.28%) Java
4 534 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 529 (13.62%) C#
6 370 (9.53%) Bash
7 309 (7.96%) C
8 251 (6.46%) Go
9 246 (6.33%) C++
10 232 (5.97%) R
11 227 (5.84%) PowerShell
12 127 (3.27%) Ruby
13 118 (3.04%) Perl
14 89 (2.29%) Embedded C
15 80 (2.06%) Rust
15 80 (2.06%) Scala
16 58 (1.49%) T-SQL
17 54 (1.39%) Kotlin
18 53 (1.36%) PHP
19 43 (1.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 779 (20.06%) Degree
2 585 (15.06%) Security Cleared
3 395 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 203 (5.23%) DBS Check
5 189 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 171 (4.40%) Master's Degree
7 76 (1.96%) PhD
8 71 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.57%) CISSP
15 19 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 18 (0.46%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.41%) CEH
18 15 (0.39%) SANS
19 13 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.04%) QA
3 35 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.75%) NIST
5 27 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.46%) GDPR
8 9 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.23%) CRD IV
9 7 (0.18%) IFRS
9 7 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 6 (0.15%) PMO
10 6 (0.15%) 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 (0.077%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.051%) GRC
14 2 (0.051%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 518 (13.34%) Docker
2 98 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 38 (0.98%) Firmware
5 37 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.49%) vSphere
9 16 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (0.33%) NFS
12 10 (0.26%) pfSense
13 4 (0.10%) Ceph
13 4 (0.10%) KVM
14 3 (0.077%) Gluster
14 3 (0.077%) oVirt
15 1 (0.026%) HDFS
15 1 (0.026%) Lustre
15 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 538 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 457 (11.77%) Terraform
3 295 (7.60%) Ansible
4 148 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 96 (2.47%) Puppet
6 78 (2.01%) vCenter Server
7 77 (1.98%) Grafana
8 53 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.49%) Nmap
10 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.39%) Packer
11 15 (0.39%) Salt
11 15 (0.39%) ZABBIX
12 12 (0.31%) Nagios
13 11 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 11 (0.28%) Kibana
14 10 (0.26%) Graphite
14 10 (0.26%) SCDPM
15 8 (0.21%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 342 (8.81%) Databricks
2 246 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 222 (5.72%) Google
4 219 (5.64%) ESRI
5 156 (4.02%) Oracle
6 132 (3.40%) VMware
7 98 (2.52%) Red Hat
8 55 (1.42%) SAP
9 54 (1.39%) NetApp
9 54 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.39%) SolidFire
10 38 (0.98%) Bloomberg
11 32 (0.82%) Xilinx
12 29 (0.75%) Micro Focus
13 27 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 27 (0.70%) Splunk
14 26 (0.67%) Dell
15 21 (0.54%) NVIDIA
16 17 (0.44%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.44%) Qualys