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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,953 6,380 12,257
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.58% 15.94% 16.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.46% 32.46% 28.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 3,826 5,678
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +3.21% +7.69%
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 13,889 19,657 42,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.69% 49.12% 59.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,426 14,416 23,825
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,094 £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 £79,600 £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 26 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
1 444 (11.23%) Apache Airflow
2 438 (11.08%) Apache
3 229 (5.79%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.46%) GeoServer
5 112 (2.83%) Apache Spark
6 48 (1.21%) SAS
7 33 (0.83%) Confluence
8 28 (0.71%) nginx
9 20 (0.51%) 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 (0.076%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.076%) Drupal
14 3 (0.076%) SharePoint
Applications
1 65 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 65 (1.64%) Simulink
2 12 (0.30%) 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 (0.051%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.051%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.051%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.051%) 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 (0.076%) 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 (0.025%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.025%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,877 (47.48%) AWS
2 1,143 (28.91%) Azure
3 664 (16.80%) GCP
4 432 (10.93%) dbt
5 424 (10.73%) Snowflake
6 286 (7.24%) Power Platform
7 267 (6.75%) Serverless
8 207 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 165 (4.17%) SaaS
10 163 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 151 (3.82%) GitHub
12 146 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
13 101 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 69 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 68 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
15 68 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
16 65 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
17 54 (1.37%) PaaS
18 53 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 48 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.62%) Firewall
2 90 (2.28%) VPN
3 82 (2.07%) Internet
3 82 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 73 (1.85%) DNS
5 68 (1.72%) SNMP
6 59 (1.49%) IPsec
6 59 (1.49%) Network Security
7 44 (1.11%) WAN
8 36 (0.91%) LAN
9 27 (0.68%) Wireless
10 21 (0.53%) DHCP
11 19 (0.48%) HTTP
12 18 (0.46%) MQTT
13 15 (0.38%) Wireshark
14 13 (0.33%) VSAN
15 12 (0.30%) 5G
16 11 (0.28%) SSL
17 10 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
17 10 (0.25%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
2 447 (11.31%) Data Lake
3 356 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
4 351 (8.88%) Dremio
5 342 (8.65%) Apache Arrow
6 340 (8.60%) Tableau
7 287 (7.26%) Apache Ignite
8 260 (6.58%) Power BI
9 247 (6.25%) GIS
10 218 (5.51%) QGIS
11 214 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
12 197 (4.98%) SQL Server
13 190 (4.81%) Big Data
14 152 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
15 145 (3.67%) NoSQL
16 141 (3.57%) Relational Database
17 130 (3.29%) MongoDB
18 115 (2.91%) MySQL
19 100 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
20 79 (2.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 564 (14.27%) Git
2 234 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 153 (3.87%) GitLab
4 108 (2.73%) JIRA
5 31 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 25 (0.63%) Subversion
7 24 (0.61%) JDeveloper
7 24 (0.61%) Selenium
8 23 (0.58%) Maven
9 21 (0.53%) JUnit
10 20 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
12 17 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 16 (0.40%) Appium
14 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,271 (32.15%) Finance
2 912 (23.07%) Social Skills
3 522 (13.21%) Front Office
4 509 (12.88%) Banking
5 449 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
6 293 (7.41%) Investment Banking
7 280 (7.08%) Retail
8 159 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
9 152 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 118 (2.99%) Law
11 116 (2.93%) Marketing
12 104 (2.63%) Public Sector
13 103 (2.61%) Back Office
14 92 (2.33%) Manufacturing
15 79 (2.00%) Electronics
16 74 (1.87%) Legal
17 73 (1.85%) Games
18 72 (1.82%) Telecoms
19 62 (1.57%) Tech for Good
20 52 (1.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,215 (30.74%) Senior
2 1,024 (25.90%) Software Engineer
3 727 (18.39%) Developer
4 495 (12.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 418 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 405 (10.25%) Lead
7 385 (9.74%) Analyst
8 339 (8.58%) Python Engineer
9 306 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
10 271 (6.86%) Python Developer
11 218 (5.51%) Data Analyst
12 191 (4.83%) Python Software Engineer
13 181 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 173 (4.38%) Software Developer
15 172 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 169 (4.28%) Senior Developer
17 163 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
18 138 (3.49%) AWS Software Engineer
19 134 (3.39%) Data Scientist
20 126 (3.19%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 638 (16.14%) React
2 398 (10.07%) Pandas
3 369 (9.33%) .NET
3 369 (9.33%) gRPC
4 362 (9.16%) Protocol Buffers
5 311 (7.87%) NumPy
6 297 (7.51%) CSS
7 276 (6.98%) SciPy
8 251 (6.35%) Node.js
9 229 (5.79%) Django
10 217 (5.49%) PostGIS
11 216 (5.46%) OpenLayers
12 215 (5.44%) Leaflet
13 209 (5.29%) .NET Core
13 209 (5.29%) AngularJS
14 171 (4.33%) HTML
15 138 (3.49%) RESTful
16 124 (3.14%) Kafka
17 121 (3.06%) Vue
18 119 (3.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 519 (13.13%) Hedge funds
2 461 (11.66%) Fixed Income
3 440 (11.13%) Derivative
4 406 (10.27%) Equities
5 368 (9.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 215 (5.44%) Algorithms
7 183 (4.63%) Data Structures
8 120 (3.04%) IoT
9 112 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 104 (2.63%) Cloud Native
11 101 (2.56%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.12%) Client/Server
13 79 (2.00%) Clustering
14 67 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 65 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
16 54 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
17 52 (1.32%) Management Information System
18 47 (1.19%) Onboarding
19 46 (1.16%) Public Cloud
20 43 (1.09%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 685 (17.33%) Linux
2 239 (6.05%) Windows
3 85 (2.15%) Ubuntu
4 84 (2.12%) Embedded Linux
5 82 (2.07%) Unix
6 78 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 54 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
8 52 (1.32%) Windows Server
9 51 (1.29%) CentOS
10 48 (1.21%) Android
11 24 (0.61%) Apple iOS
12 17 (0.43%) Debian
13 16 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.25%) AIX
14 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
14 10 (0.25%) Solaris
15 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
15 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.15%) SUSE
17 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,551 (39.24%) Software Engineering
2 1,379 (34.88%) Agile
3 987 (24.97%) DevOps
4 923 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
5 705 (17.83%) Analytics
6 612 (15.48%) Asset Management
7 545 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 544 (13.76%) Actionable Insight
9 530 (13.41%) Machine Learning
10 500 (12.65%) Investment Management
11 476 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence
12 439 (11.11%) Data Science
13 394 (9.97%) Mentoring
14 375 (9.49%) Computer Science
14 375 (9.49%) Data Pipeline
15 359 (9.08%) Visualisation
16 352 (8.90%) Full Stack Development
17 328 (8.30%) Mathematics
18 317 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
19 312 (7.89%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,280 (32.38%) SQL
2 1,209 (30.58%) JavaScript
3 968 (24.49%) Java
4 579 (14.65%) TypeScript
5 516 (13.05%) C#
6 342 (8.65%) Bash
7 311 (7.87%) C
8 243 (6.15%) C++
9 242 (6.12%) Go
10 234 (5.92%) PowerShell
11 218 (5.51%) R
12 113 (2.86%) Ruby
13 101 (2.56%) Perl
14 90 (2.28%) Embedded C
15 77 (1.95%) Rust
16 74 (1.87%) Scala
17 59 (1.49%) T-SQL
18 53 (1.34%) Kotlin
19 50 (1.26%) PHP
20 46 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 813 (20.57%) Degree
2 607 (15.36%) Security Cleared
3 409 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 234 (5.92%) DBS Check
5 214 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 177 (4.48%) Master's Degree
7 92 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.90%) PhD
9 52 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 40 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
12 26 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.63%) CISSP
13 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.46%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.40%) CEH
17 15 (0.38%) SANS
18 13 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.69%) QA
3 36 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 31 (0.78%) NIST
5 27 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.46%) 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%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.076%) CRD IV
12 3 (0.076%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.051%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.051%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 516 (13.05%) Docker
2 102 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 38 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.94%) Firmware
6 36 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 19 (0.48%) vSphere
9 16 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.30%) NFS
12 10 (0.25%) pfSense
13 5 (0.13%) KVM
14 4 (0.10%) Ceph
15 3 (0.076%) Gluster
15 3 (0.076%) 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
1 548 (13.86%) Kubernetes
2 471 (11.92%) Terraform
3 306 (7.74%) Ansible
4 157 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 92 (2.33%) Puppet
6 78 (1.97%) Grafana
7 77 (1.95%) vCenter Server
8 52 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.48%) Nmap
10 16 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 13 (0.33%) Nagios
12 13 (0.33%) Packer
13 11 (0.28%) Kibana
13 11 (0.28%) Salt
14 10 (0.25%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.25%) SCDPM
15 9 (0.23%) Graphite
16 8 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 366 (9.26%) Databricks
2 245 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 220 (5.57%) ESRI
4 208 (5.26%) Google
5 143 (3.62%) Oracle
6 136 (3.44%) VMware
7 99 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 54 (1.37%) NetApp
8 54 (1.37%) Palo Alto
8 54 (1.37%) SolidFire
9 52 (1.32%) SAP
10 42 (1.06%) Xilinx
11 36 (0.91%) Bloomberg
12 29 (0.73%) Micro Focus
12 29 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 28 (0.71%) Splunk
14 21 (0.53%) NVIDIA
15 20 (0.51%) Dell
16 19 (0.48%) F5
17 17 (0.43%) Qualys