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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,975 5,745 12,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.44% 14.94% 17.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.27% 31.04% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,965 3,745 5,683
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,137 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £120,000 £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 14,059 18,511 44,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.47% 48.13% 59.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,501 14,065 23,940
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,161 £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 £80,000 £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 1 June 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
1 476 (11.97%) Apache Airflow
2 471 (11.85%) Apache
3 229 (5.76%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.43%) GeoServer
5 106 (2.67%) Apache Spark
6 43 (1.08%) SAS
7 33 (0.83%) Confluence
8 28 (0.70%) nginx
9 19 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.18%) CMS
10 7 (0.18%) Luigi
11 6 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.13%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.10%) WordPress
14 3 (0.075%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.075%) Drupal
15 2 (0.050%) SharePoint
Applications
1 64 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 64 (1.61%) Simulink
2 11 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.23%) SPSS
4 8 (0.20%) GNU Octave
5 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.050%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.050%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.050%) Stata
8 1 (0.025%) Blender
8 1 (0.025%) CATIA
8 1 (0.025%) 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 (0.075%) Shopify
6 2 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.050%) Primavera
6 2 (0.050%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.050%) Relativity
7 1 (0.025%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.025%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,916 (48.20%) AWS
2 1,153 (29.01%) Azure
3 654 (16.45%) GCP
4 472 (11.87%) dbt
5 450 (11.32%) Snowflake
6 292 (7.35%) Power Platform
7 242 (6.09%) Serverless
8 200 (5.03%) Amazon S3
9 162 (4.08%) SaaS
10 160 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
11 147 (3.70%) GitHub
12 143 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
13 103 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 71 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
15 70 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 66 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
17 54 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 49 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 48 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.62%) Firewall
2 89 (2.24%) VPN
3 82 (2.06%) Internet
4 80 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 71 (1.79%) DNS
6 67 (1.69%) SNMP
7 61 (1.53%) Network Security
8 59 (1.48%) IPsec
9 44 (1.11%) WAN
10 35 (0.88%) LAN
11 26 (0.65%) Wireless
12 21 (0.53%) DHCP
13 19 (0.48%) HTTP
14 18 (0.45%) MQTT
15 15 (0.38%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.33%) VSAN
17 12 (0.30%) 5G
18 11 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
18 11 (0.28%) SSL
19 9 (0.23%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (12.10%) Data Lake
2 459 (11.55%) PostgreSQL
3 386 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
4 385 (9.69%) Dremio
5 373 (9.38%) Apache Arrow
6 345 (8.68%) Tableau
7 316 (7.95%) Apache Ignite
8 266 (6.69%) Power BI
9 248 (6.24%) GIS
10 218 (5.48%) QGIS
11 214 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
12 198 (4.98%) SQL Server
13 190 (4.78%) Big Data
14 147 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
15 143 (3.60%) NoSQL
16 132 (3.32%) MongoDB
17 123 (3.09%) Relational Database
18 112 (2.82%) MySQL
19 100 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
20 78 (1.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 542 (13.64%) Git
2 227 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 155 (3.90%) GitLab
4 110 (2.77%) JIRA
5 31 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 26 (0.65%) Subversion
7 25 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.60%) Selenium
9 23 (0.58%) Maven
10 22 (0.55%) JUnit
11 20 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 18 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
13 17 (0.43%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.43%) Visual Studio
14 15 (0.38%) Appium
14 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
15 14 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
17 11 (0.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,282 (32.25%) Finance
2 922 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 552 (13.89%) Front Office
4 520 (13.08%) Banking
5 442 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
6 320 (8.05%) Investment Banking
7 276 (6.94%) Retail
8 162 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 158 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
10 117 (2.94%) Marketing
11 115 (2.89%) Law
12 105 (2.64%) Public Sector
13 99 (2.49%) Back Office
14 92 (2.31%) Manufacturing
15 79 (1.99%) Electronics
16 75 (1.89%) Legal
17 72 (1.81%) Games
17 72 (1.81%) Telecoms
18 61 (1.53%) Tech for Good
19 50 (1.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,221 (30.72%) Senior
2 1,032 (25.96%) Software Engineer
3 744 (18.72%) Developer
4 510 (12.83%) Senior Software Engineer
5 432 (10.87%) Lead
6 419 (10.54%) Data Engineer
7 385 (9.69%) Analyst
8 359 (9.03%) Python Engineer
9 317 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
10 279 (7.02%) Python Developer
11 218 (5.48%) Data Analyst
12 210 (5.28%) Python Software Engineer
13 178 (4.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 178 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 177 (4.45%) Software Developer
15 172 (4.33%) Senior Developer
16 158 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
17 153 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
18 137 (3.45%) Java Engineer
19 136 (3.42%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (15.87%) React
2 429 (10.79%) Pandas
3 398 (10.01%) gRPC
4 391 (9.84%) Protocol Buffers
5 372 (9.36%) .NET
6 339 (8.53%) NumPy
7 306 (7.70%) SciPy
8 304 (7.65%) CSS
9 243 (6.11%) Django
9 243 (6.11%) Node.js
10 217 (5.46%) PostGIS
11 216 (5.43%) OpenLayers
12 215 (5.41%) Leaflet
13 214 (5.38%) AngularJS
14 210 (5.28%) .NET Core
15 178 (4.48%) HTML
16 143 (3.60%) RESTful
17 128 (3.22%) PySpark
18 126 (3.17%) Vue
19 121 (3.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 544 (13.69%) Hedge funds
2 491 (12.35%) Fixed Income
3 465 (11.70%) Derivative
4 434 (10.92%) Equities
5 400 (10.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 214 (5.38%) Algorithms
7 181 (4.55%) Data Structures
8 119 (2.99%) IoT
9 114 (2.87%) Data Centre
10 101 (2.54%) Cloud Native
11 100 (2.52%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.11%) Client/Server
13 78 (1.96%) Clustering
14 67 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 66 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
16 54 (1.36%) Management Information System
17 52 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
18 48 (1.21%) Onboarding
18 48 (1.21%) Pricing Data
19 42 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 681 (17.13%) Linux
2 234 (5.89%) Windows
3 85 (2.14%) Embedded Linux
4 84 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 81 (2.04%) Unix
6 75 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 54 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
8 52 (1.31%) Windows Server
9 50 (1.26%) CentOS
10 47 (1.18%) Android
11 23 (0.58%) Apple iOS
12 17 (0.43%) Debian
13 16 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
15 10 (0.25%) AIX
15 10 (0.25%) Solaris
16 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.15%) SUSE
18 4 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,576 (39.65%) Software Engineering
2 1,409 (35.45%) Agile
3 967 (24.33%) DevOps
4 901 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
5 706 (17.76%) Analytics
6 643 (16.18%) Asset Management
7 546 (13.74%) CI/CD
8 541 (13.61%) Machine Learning
9 524 (13.18%) Investment Management
10 521 (13.11%) Actionable Insight
11 486 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 437 (10.99%) Data Science
13 399 (10.04%) Mentoring
14 387 (9.74%) Computer Science
15 378 (9.51%) Data Pipeline
16 363 (9.13%) Visualisation
17 359 (9.03%) Full Stack Development
18 327 (8.23%) Mathematics
19 323 (8.13%) Data Analysis
20 317 (7.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,286 (32.35%) SQL
2 1,225 (30.82%) JavaScript
3 960 (24.15%) Java
4 613 (15.42%) TypeScript
5 518 (13.03%) C#
6 313 (7.87%) C
7 311 (7.82%) Bash
8 249 (6.26%) C++
9 230 (5.79%) PowerShell
10 219 (5.51%) R
11 214 (5.38%) Go
12 91 (2.29%) Embedded C
13 84 (2.11%) Ruby
14 75 (1.89%) Rust
15 72 (1.81%) Perl
16 69 (1.74%) Scala
17 59 (1.48%) T-SQL
18 51 (1.28%) Kotlin
18 51 (1.28%) PHP
19 48 (1.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 820 (20.63%) Degree
2 622 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 424 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 234 (5.89%) DBS Check
5 225 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 179 (4.50%) Master's Degree
7 98 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 77 (1.94%) PhD
9 52 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
12 26 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (0.65%) CISSP
13 25 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 19 (0.48%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.40%) CEH
17 15 (0.38%) SANS
18 13 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 118 (2.97%) QA
3 37 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 31 (0.78%) NIST
5 27 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 19 (0.48%) GDPR
8 8 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.15%) SLA
10 5 (0.13%) NCSC
11 4 (0.10%) COBIT
11 4 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.10%) PMO
11 4 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.10%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.075%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.050%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.050%) GRC
14 1 (0.025%) SEPA
System Software
1 511 (12.86%) Docker
2 101 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 39 (0.98%) Firmware
5 36 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.48%) vSphere
9 15 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.30%) NFS
12 10 (0.25%) pfSense
13 5 (0.13%) KVM
14 4 (0.10%) Ceph
15 3 (0.075%) Gluster
15 3 (0.075%) oVirt
16 1 (0.025%) HDFS
16 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.025%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 536 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 458 (11.52%) Terraform
3 299 (7.52%) Ansible
4 157 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 86 (2.16%) Puppet
6 76 (1.91%) Grafana
6 76 (1.91%) vCenter Server
7 48 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.45%) Nmap
9 16 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 15 (0.38%) ZABBIX
11 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.30%) Nagios
12 12 (0.30%) Packer
13 11 (0.28%) Kibana
14 10 (0.25%) SCDPM
15 9 (0.23%) HAProxy
16 8 (0.20%) Graphite
16 8 (0.20%) Rundeck
16 8 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 369 (9.28%) Databricks
2 243 (6.11%) Microsoft
3 220 (5.53%) ESRI
4 190 (4.78%) Google
5 136 (3.42%) VMware
6 119 (2.99%) Oracle
7 97 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 54 (1.36%) NetApp
8 54 (1.36%) Palo Alto
8 54 (1.36%) SolidFire
9 51 (1.28%) SAP
10 43 (1.08%) Xilinx
11 34 (0.86%) Bloomberg
12 31 (0.78%) Salesforce
13 30 (0.75%) Splunk
14 29 (0.73%) Micro Focus
15 21 (0.53%) NVIDIA
16 20 (0.50%) F5
17 17 (0.43%) Alteryx
17 17 (0.43%) Qualys