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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,916 6,390 11,745
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.58% 15.80% 16.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.36% 32.11% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,897 3,864 5,652
10th Percentile £42,250 £44,825 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,539 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 13,808 19,903 41,450
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.82% 49.21% 59.05%
Number of salaries quoted 11,388 14,641 23,824
10th Percentile £38,694 £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 £79,313 £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 17 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
1 406 (10.37%) Apache
2 404 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.82%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.52%) GeoServer
5 120 (3.06%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.33%) SAS
7 33 (0.84%) 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 68 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.56%) Simulink
3 12 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.28%) SPSS
5 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) GNU Octave
7 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.051%) CANalyzer
9 2 (0.051%) EViews
9 2 (0.051%) LaTeX
9 2 (0.051%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.051%) Stata
10 1 (0.026%) Blender
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.20%) 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 1,828 (46.68%) AWS
2 1,126 (28.75%) Azure
3 659 (16.83%) GCP
4 392 (10.01%) Snowflake
5 391 (9.98%) dbt
6 283 (7.23%) Serverless
7 280 (7.15%) Power Platform
8 212 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 169 (4.32%) SaaS
10 166 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (4.03%) GitHub
12 148 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
13 103 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 68 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
16 65 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
17 54 (1.38%) PaaS
18 53 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 49 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.52%) Firewall
2 90 (2.30%) VPN
3 82 (2.09%) Internet
3 82 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 72 (1.84%) DNS
5 66 (1.69%) SNMP
6 59 (1.51%) IPsec
7 55 (1.40%) Network Security
8 43 (1.10%) WAN
9 34 (0.87%) LAN
10 27 (0.69%) Wireless
11 21 (0.54%) DHCP
12 19 (0.49%) HTTP
12 19 (0.49%) MQTT
13 14 (0.36%) Wireshark
14 13 (0.33%) 5G
14 13 (0.33%) VSAN
15 11 (0.28%) SSL
16 10 (0.26%) tcpdump
17 9 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 411 (10.50%) Data Lake
3 329 (8.40%) Tableau
4 319 (8.15%) Amazon Athena
5 311 (7.94%) Dremio
6 304 (7.76%) Apache Arrow
7 257 (6.56%) Apache Ignite
8 254 (6.49%) Power BI
9 246 (6.28%) GIS
10 218 (5.57%) QGIS
11 217 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
12 196 (5.01%) SQL Server
13 189 (4.83%) Big Data
14 155 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
15 151 (3.86%) Relational Database
16 140 (3.58%) NoSQL
17 131 (3.35%) MongoDB
18 116 (2.96%) MySQL
19 101 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
20 84 (2.15%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 569 (14.53%) Git
2 235 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 151 (3.86%) GitLab
4 108 (2.76%) JIRA
5 36 (0.92%) JDeveloper
6 32 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 27 (0.69%) Subversion
8 25 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 25 (0.64%) Maven
9 24 (0.61%) Selenium
10 21 (0.54%) JUnit
11 19 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
12 18 (0.46%) Vagrant
12 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 17 (0.43%) Appium
13 17 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,256 (32.07%) Finance
2 910 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 497 (12.69%) Front Office
4 491 (12.54%) Banking
5 454 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 278 (7.10%) Retail
7 266 (6.79%) Investment Banking
8 154 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 154 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
9 120 (3.06%) Law
9 120 (3.06%) Marketing
10 108 (2.76%) Public Sector
11 107 (2.73%) Back Office
12 93 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 83 (2.12%) Electronics
14 76 (1.94%) Games
14 76 (1.94%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.86%) Legal
16 63 (1.61%) Tech for Good
17 51 (1.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,182 (30.18%) Senior
2 1,011 (25.82%) Software Engineer
3 721 (18.41%) Developer
4 477 (12.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 417 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 392 (10.01%) Lead
7 380 (9.70%) Analyst
8 326 (8.32%) Python Engineer
9 292 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
10 269 (6.87%) Python Developer
11 208 (5.31%) Data Analyst
12 183 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
13 179 (4.57%) Python Software Engineer
14 171 (4.37%) Senior Developer
15 167 (4.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 167 (4.26%) Software Developer
16 158 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
17 132 (3.37%) Data Scientist
18 124 (3.17%) AWS Software Engineer
18 124 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 650 (16.60%) React
2 371 (9.47%) .NET
3 366 (9.35%) Pandas
4 333 (8.50%) gRPC
5 326 (8.32%) Protocol Buffers
6 295 (7.53%) CSS
7 280 (7.15%) NumPy
8 260 (6.64%) Node.js
9 245 (6.26%) SciPy
10 225 (5.75%) Django
11 217 (5.54%) PostGIS
12 216 (5.52%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.49%) Leaflet
14 209 (5.34%) .NET Core
15 205 (5.23%) AngularJS
16 171 (4.37%) HTML
17 137 (3.50%) RESTful
18 130 (3.32%) Kafka
19 117 (2.99%) Redux
19 117 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 491 (12.54%) Hedge funds
2 435 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 418 (10.67%) Derivative
4 379 (9.68%) Equities
5 339 (8.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 222 (5.67%) Algorithms
7 187 (4.78%) Data Structures
8 122 (3.12%) IoT
9 111 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 105 (2.68%) Cloud Native
11 102 (2.60%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.15%) Client/Server
13 72 (1.84%) Clustering
14 68 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
15 66 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
16 54 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
17 50 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 49 (1.25%) Management Information System
19 48 (1.23%) Onboarding
20 43 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 686 (17.52%) Linux
2 243 (6.21%) Windows
3 82 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
3 82 (2.09%) Ubuntu
4 81 (2.07%) Unix
5 78 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.38%) Data ONTAP
7 52 (1.33%) Windows Server
8 49 (1.25%) CentOS
9 48 (1.23%) Android
10 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.41%) 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 1,531 (39.10%) Software Engineering
2 1,351 (34.50%) Agile
3 989 (25.26%) DevOps
4 925 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
5 694 (17.72%) Analytics
6 577 (14.73%) Asset Management
7 550 (14.04%) Actionable Insight
8 545 (13.92%) CI/CD
9 515 (13.15%) Machine Learning
10 474 (12.10%) Investment Management
11 465 (11.87%) Artificial Intelligence
12 441 (11.26%) Data Science
13 390 (9.96%) Mentoring
14 366 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
15 360 (9.19%) Computer Science
16 353 (9.01%) Visualisation
17 345 (8.81%) Full Stack Development
18 328 (8.38%) Mathematics
19 321 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
20 306 (7.81%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,270 (32.43%) SQL
2 1,179 (30.11%) JavaScript
3 949 (24.23%) Java
4 545 (13.92%) TypeScript
5 524 (13.38%) C#
6 365 (9.32%) Bash
7 312 (7.97%) C
8 250 (6.38%) Go
9 247 (6.31%) C++
10 228 (5.82%) R
11 227 (5.80%) PowerShell
12 125 (3.19%) Ruby
13 114 (2.91%) Perl
14 89 (2.27%) Embedded C
15 78 (1.99%) Rust
15 78 (1.99%) Scala
16 59 (1.51%) T-SQL
17 55 (1.40%) Kotlin
18 54 (1.38%) PHP
19 45 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 797 (20.35%) Degree
2 597 (15.25%) Security Cleared
3 403 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 226 (5.77%) DBS Check
5 199 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 176 (4.49%) Master's Degree
7 81 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.92%) PhD
9 51 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.56%) CISSP
14 20 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.46%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.41%) CEH
17 15 (0.38%) SANS
18 13 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 157 (4.01%) QA
3 36 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.74%) NIST
5 27 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.46%) GDPR
8 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.15%) CRD IV
9 6 (0.15%) SLA
10 5 (0.13%) NCSC
10 5 (0.13%) PMO
11 4 (0.10%) COBIT
11 4 (0.10%) IFRS
11 4 (0.10%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.077%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.077%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.051%) GRC
System Software
1 515 (13.15%) Docker
2 99 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 38 (0.97%) Firmware
5 37 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.49%) vSphere
9 15 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.31%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.026%) OpenSIPS
15 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 540 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 461 (11.77%) Terraform
3 298 (7.61%) Ansible
4 149 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 95 (2.43%) Puppet
6 77 (1.97%) Grafana
6 77 (1.97%) vCenter Server
7 54 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.49%) Nmap
9 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.38%) Packer
10 15 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 14 (0.36%) Salt
12 12 (0.31%) Nagios
13 11 (0.28%) Kibana
14 10 (0.26%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.26%) SCDPM
15 9 (0.23%) Graphite
16 8 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 356 (9.09%) Databricks
2 249 (6.36%) Microsoft
3 219 (5.59%) ESRI
4 218 (5.57%) Google
5 155 (3.96%) Oracle
6 133 (3.40%) VMware
7 97 (2.48%) Red Hat
8 55 (1.40%) SAP
9 54 (1.38%) NetApp
9 54 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 54 (1.38%) SolidFire
10 38 (0.97%) Bloomberg
11 37 (0.94%) Xilinx
12 29 (0.74%) Micro Focus
13 28 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 26 (0.66%) Splunk
15 25 (0.64%) Dell
16 21 (0.54%) NVIDIA
17 17 (0.43%) Alteryx
17 17 (0.43%) Qualys