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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,873 6,472 11,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.46% 15.69% 16.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.08% 31.88% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,882 3,941 5,663
10th Percentile £42,250 £44,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,375 £117,500 £107,500
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 13,794 20,304 40,453
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.80% 49.23% 58.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 14,960 23,798
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,047 £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

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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 10 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
1 376 (9.71%) Apache
2 369 (9.53%) Apache Airflow
3 228 (5.89%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.58%) GeoServer
5 124 (3.20%) Apache Spark
6 55 (1.42%) SAS
7 33 (0.85%) Confluence
8 28 (0.72%) nginx
9 20 (0.52%) 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 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.45%) 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 (0.052%) 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 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) Odoo
4 4 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.077%) 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 ERP
7 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,783 (46.04%) AWS
2 1,124 (29.02%) Azure
3 654 (16.89%) GCP
4 362 (9.35%) Snowflake
5 354 (9.14%) dbt
6 278 (7.18%) Serverless
7 271 (7.00%) Power Platform
8 219 (5.65%) Amazon S3
9 171 (4.42%) SaaS
10 163 (4.21%) GitHub
11 161 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
12 150 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
13 99 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
17 57 (1.47%) PaaS
18 52 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 50 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.61%) Firewall
2 90 (2.32%) VPN
3 84 (2.17%) Internet
4 83 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 75 (1.94%) 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 (0.52%) HTTP
14 19 (0.49%) MQTT
15 14 (0.36%) 5G
15 14 (0.36%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.34%) VSAN
17 11 (0.28%) SSL
17 11 (0.28%) tcpdump
18 9 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (11.75%) PostgreSQL
2 374 (9.66%) Data Lake
3 306 (7.90%) Tableau
4 286 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
5 273 (7.05%) Dremio
6 266 (6.87%) Apache Arrow
7 246 (6.35%) GIS
7 246 (6.35%) Power BI
8 227 (5.86%) Apache Ignite
9 218 (5.63%) QGIS
10 217 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
11 197 (5.09%) SQL Server
12 184 (4.75%) Big Data
13 158 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
14 149 (3.85%) Relational Database
15 137 (3.54%) NoSQL
16 133 (3.43%) MongoDB
17 117 (3.02%) MySQL
18 92 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
19 85 (2.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 541 (13.97%) Git
2 236 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 140 (3.61%) GitLab
4 110 (2.84%) JIRA
5 36 (0.93%) JDeveloper
6 31 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 27 (0.70%) Subversion
8 26 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 26 (0.67%) Maven
9 25 (0.65%) Selenium
10 22 (0.57%) JUnit
11 20 (0.52%) 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 1,227 (31.68%) Finance
2 879 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 472 (12.19%) Front Office
4 468 (12.08%) Banking
5 444 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
6 267 (6.89%) Retail
7 242 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 154 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 143 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
10 123 (3.18%) Law
11 121 (3.12%) Marketing
12 108 (2.79%) Public Sector
13 106 (2.74%) Back Office
14 91 (2.35%) Manufacturing
15 83 (2.14%) Electronics
16 77 (1.99%) Games
16 77 (1.99%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.86%) Legal
18 64 (1.65%) Tech for Good
19 50 (1.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,154 (29.80%) Senior
2 982 (25.36%) Software Engineer
3 721 (18.62%) Developer
4 461 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 420 (10.84%) Data Engineer
6 386 (9.97%) Lead
7 366 (9.45%) Analyst
8 312 (8.06%) Python Engineer
9 276 (7.13%) AWS Engineer
10 269 (6.95%) Python Developer
11 194 (5.01%) Data Analyst
12 186 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 171 (4.42%) Senior Developer
14 164 (4.23%) Python Software Engineer
15 161 (4.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 161 (4.16%) Software Developer
16 147 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
17 128 (3.30%) Data Scientist
18 125 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
19 118 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 653 (16.86%) React
2 373 (9.63%) .NET
3 334 (8.62%) Pandas
4 297 (7.67%) gRPC
5 292 (7.54%) CSS
6 290 (7.49%) Protocol Buffers
7 255 (6.58%) Node.js
8 254 (6.56%) NumPy
9 219 (5.65%) PostGIS
10 217 (5.60%) SciPy
11 216 (5.58%) Django
11 216 (5.58%) OpenLayers
12 215 (5.55%) Leaflet
13 211 (5.45%) .NET Core
14 205 (5.29%) AngularJS
15 169 (4.36%) HTML
16 134 (3.46%) Kafka
17 124 (3.20%) RESTful
18 115 (2.97%) Redux
18 115 (2.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 457 (11.80%) Hedge funds
2 405 (10.46%) Fixed Income
3 391 (10.10%) Derivative
4 349 (9.01%) Equities
5 309 (7.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 224 (5.78%) Algorithms
7 190 (4.91%) Data Structures
8 124 (3.20%) IoT
9 110 (2.84%) Data Centre
10 106 (2.74%) Cloud Native
11 100 (2.58%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.17%) Client/Server
13 71 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
14 67 (1.73%) Clustering
15 66 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
16 55 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.32%) Public Cloud
18 48 (1.24%) Management Information System
18 48 (1.24%) Onboarding
19 45 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 694 (17.92%) Linux
2 248 (6.40%) Windows
3 82 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 81 (2.09%) Unix
5 80 (2.07%) Embedded Linux
5 80 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 54 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
6 54 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 50 (1.29%) CentOS
8 46 (1.19%) Android
9 26 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.39%) Debian
11 14 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.26%) AIX
12 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
12 10 (0.26%) Solaris
13 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
13 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.15%) SUSE
15 5 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,495 (38.60%) Software Engineering
2 1,327 (34.26%) Agile
3 986 (25.46%) DevOps
4 899 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
5 681 (17.58%) Analytics
6 545 (14.07%) CI/CD
7 542 (13.99%) Asset Management
8 531 (13.71%) Actionable Insight
9 502 (12.96%) Machine Learning
10 451 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 446 (11.52%) Investment Management
12 439 (11.33%) Data Science
13 395 (10.20%) Mentoring
14 352 (9.09%) Computer Science
15 350 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
16 333 (8.60%) Full Stack Development
17 332 (8.57%) Visualisation
18 318 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
19 314 (8.11%) Mathematics
20 313 (8.08%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,248 (32.22%) SQL
2 1,139 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 929 (23.99%) Java
4 527 (13.61%) C#
5 516 (13.32%) TypeScript
6 374 (9.66%) Bash
7 309 (7.98%) C
8 248 (6.40%) C++
9 244 (6.30%) Go
10 234 (6.04%) R
11 228 (5.89%) PowerShell
12 128 (3.30%) Ruby
13 121 (3.12%) Perl
14 89 (2.30%) Embedded C
15 81 (2.09%) Scala
16 80 (2.07%) Rust
17 58 (1.50%) T-SQL
18 56 (1.45%) Kotlin
19 53 (1.37%) PHP
20 42 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 775 (20.01%) Degree
2 586 (15.13%) Security Cleared
3 396 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 195 (5.03%) DBS Check
5 189 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 173 (4.47%) Master's Degree
7 78 (2.01%) PhD
8 71 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 50 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 40 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.65%) 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 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.08%) QA
3 34 (0.88%) 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 (0.052%) GRC
14 2 (0.052%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 524 (13.53%) Docker
2 98 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 38 (0.98%) Firmware
5 37 (0.96%) 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 (0.34%) 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
1 537 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 454 (11.72%) Terraform
3 300 (7.75%) Ansible
4 142 (3.67%) Prometheus
5 99 (2.56%) Puppet
6 78 (2.01%) Grafana
6 78 (2.01%) vCenter Server
7 54 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.49%) Nmap
9 17 (0.44%) Salt
10 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.39%) Packer
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 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 336 (8.68%) Databricks
2 247 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 225 (5.81%) Google
4 219 (5.65%) ESRI
5 158 (4.08%) Oracle
6 133 (3.43%) VMware
7 99 (2.56%) 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 (0.83%) Xilinx
12 29 (0.75%) Micro Focus
13 27 (0.70%) Splunk
14 26 (0.67%) Dell
14 26 (0.67%) Salesforce
15 21 (0.54%) NVIDIA
16 17 (0.44%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.44%) Qualys