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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,926 6,440 11,999
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.61% 15.87% 16.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.40% 32.26% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,903 3,893 5,706
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £96,539 £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 13,825 19,960 42,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.89% 49.19% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,368 14,681 24,008
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 £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 20 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
1 417 (10.62%) Apache Airflow
2 413 (10.52%) Apache
3 229 (5.83%) ArcGIS
4 216 (5.50%) GeoServer
5 119 (3.03%) Apache Spark
6 52 (1.32%) SAS
7 33 (0.84%) Confluence
8 28 (0.71%) 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%) WordPress
14 3 (0.076%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.076%) Drupal
14 3 (0.076%) SharePoint
Applications
1 67 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.55%) 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 (0.025%) Blender
10 1 (0.025%) CATIA
10 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 1,842 (46.92%) AWS
2 1,123 (28.60%) Azure
3 662 (16.86%) GCP
4 406 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 405 (10.32%) dbt
6 279 (7.11%) Power Platform
6 279 (7.11%) Serverless
7 211 (5.37%) Amazon S3
8 168 (4.28%) SaaS
9 164 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
10 156 (3.97%) GitHub
11 147 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 70 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
15 65 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
15 65 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
16 53 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 53 (1.35%) PaaS
17 49 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.54%) Firewall
2 90 (2.29%) VPN
3 82 (2.09%) Internet
3 82 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 73 (1.86%) DNS
5 66 (1.68%) SNMP
6 59 (1.50%) IPsec
7 55 (1.40%) Network Security
8 43 (1.10%) WAN
9 34 (0.87%) LAN
10 27 (0.69%) Wireless
11 21 (0.53%) DHCP
12 19 (0.48%) HTTP
12 19 (0.48%) MQTT
13 14 (0.36%) Wireshark
14 13 (0.33%) 5G
14 13 (0.33%) VSAN
15 11 (0.28%) SSL
16 10 (0.25%) tcpdump
17 9 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 451 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 424 (10.80%) Data Lake
3 334 (8.51%) Tableau
4 333 (8.48%) Amazon Athena
5 324 (8.25%) Dremio
6 318 (8.10%) Apache Arrow
7 265 (6.75%) Apache Ignite
8 253 (6.44%) Power BI
9 247 (6.29%) GIS
10 218 (5.55%) QGIS
11 217 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
12 198 (5.04%) SQL Server
13 193 (4.92%) Big Data
14 154 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
15 151 (3.85%) Relational Database
16 139 (3.54%) NoSQL
17 129 (3.29%) MongoDB
18 115 (2.93%) MySQL
19 101 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
20 82 (2.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 569 (14.49%) Git
2 234 (5.96%) Jenkins
3 148 (3.77%) GitLab
4 107 (2.73%) JIRA
5 36 (0.92%) JDeveloper
6 31 (0.79%) TeamCity
7 28 (0.71%) Subversion
8 25 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 25 (0.64%) Maven
8 25 (0.64%) Selenium
9 21 (0.53%) JUnit
10 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
11 18 (0.46%) Vagrant
11 18 (0.46%) Visual Studio
12 17 (0.43%) Appium
12 17 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
13 15 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,265 (32.22%) Finance
2 912 (23.23%) Social Skills
3 502 (12.79%) Front Office
4 496 (12.63%) Banking
5 455 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 285 (7.26%) Retail
7 271 (6.90%) Investment Banking
8 161 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
9 150 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 120 (3.06%) Marketing
11 119 (3.03%) Law
12 107 (2.73%) Back Office
12 107 (2.73%) Public Sector
13 93 (2.37%) Manufacturing
14 83 (2.11%) Electronics
15 76 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 75 (1.91%) Games
17 73 (1.86%) Legal
18 63 (1.60%) Tech for Good
19 51 (1.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,192 (30.36%) Senior
2 1,015 (25.85%) Software Engineer
3 722 (18.39%) Developer
4 477 (12.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 414 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 397 (10.11%) Lead
7 386 (9.83%) Analyst
8 329 (8.38%) Python Engineer
9 295 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
10 269 (6.85%) Python Developer
11 216 (5.50%) Data Analyst
12 182 (4.64%) Python Software Engineer
13 180 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 172 (4.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 172 (4.38%) Software Developer
15 171 (4.36%) Senior Developer
16 165 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
17 131 (3.34%) Data Scientist
18 125 (3.18%) Senior Data Analyst
19 124 (3.16%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 648 (16.51%) React
2 372 (9.48%) Pandas
3 370 (9.42%) .NET
4 347 (8.84%) gRPC
5 340 (8.66%) Protocol Buffers
6 295 (7.51%) CSS
7 287 (7.31%) NumPy
8 259 (6.60%) Node.js
9 253 (6.44%) SciPy
10 225 (5.73%) Django
11 217 (5.53%) PostGIS
12 216 (5.50%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.48%) Leaflet
14 209 (5.32%) .NET Core
15 205 (5.22%) AngularJS
16 171 (4.36%) HTML
17 137 (3.49%) RESTful
18 129 (3.29%) Kafka
19 117 (2.98%) Redux
19 117 (2.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 503 (12.81%) Hedge funds
2 440 (11.21%) Fixed Income
3 424 (10.80%) Derivative
4 386 (9.83%) Equities
5 347 (8.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 220 (5.60%) Algorithms
7 187 (4.76%) Data Structures
8 122 (3.11%) IoT
9 111 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 103 (2.62%) Cloud Native
11 101 (2.57%) Product Ownership
12 84 (2.14%) Client/Server
13 78 (1.99%) Clustering
14 66 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
14 66 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
15 54 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.27%) Public Cloud
17 49 (1.25%) Management Information System
18 48 (1.22%) Onboarding
19 43 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 683 (17.40%) Linux
2 241 (6.14%) Windows
3 82 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
3 82 (2.09%) Ubuntu
4 80 (2.04%) Unix
5 77 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.38%) Data ONTAP
7 51 (1.30%) Windows Server
8 49 (1.25%) CentOS
9 48 (1.22%) Android
10 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.41%) Debian
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.25%) AIX
13 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.25%) Solaris
14 7 (0.18%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.15%) SUSE
16 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,536 (39.12%) Software Engineering
2 1,356 (34.54%) Agile
3 991 (25.24%) DevOps
4 929 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
5 700 (17.83%) Analytics
6 588 (14.98%) Asset Management
7 557 (14.19%) Actionable Insight
8 541 (13.78%) CI/CD
9 514 (13.09%) Machine Learning
10 479 (12.20%) Investment Management
11 463 (11.79%) Artificial Intelligence
12 439 (11.18%) Data Science
13 390 (9.93%) Mentoring
14 371 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
15 360 (9.17%) Computer Science
15 360 (9.17%) Visualisation
16 345 (8.79%) Full Stack Development
17 335 (8.53%) Mathematics
18 321 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
19 313 (7.97%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,272 (32.40%) SQL
2 1,191 (30.34%) JavaScript
3 961 (24.48%) Java
4 553 (14.09%) TypeScript
5 523 (13.32%) C#
6 361 (9.20%) Bash
7 312 (7.95%) C
8 254 (6.47%) Go
9 247 (6.29%) C++
10 226 (5.76%) R
11 224 (5.71%) PowerShell
12 123 (3.13%) Ruby
13 114 (2.90%) Perl
14 89 (2.27%) Embedded C
15 78 (1.99%) Rust
16 77 (1.96%) Scala
17 59 (1.50%) T-SQL
18 55 (1.40%) Kotlin
19 53 (1.35%) PHP
20 45 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 803 (20.45%) Degree
2 596 (15.18%) Security Cleared
3 403 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 233 (5.93%) DBS Check
5 199 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 175 (4.46%) Master's Degree
7 81 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.91%) PhD
9 51 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 40 (1.02%) 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 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 156 (3.97%) QA
3 36 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 29 (0.74%) NIST
5 27 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.46%) GDPR
8 10 (0.25%) 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 (0.076%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.051%) GRC
System Software
1 513 (13.07%) Docker
2 100 (2.55%) 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 (0.48%) vSphere
9 15 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.31%) NFS
12 10 (0.25%) pfSense
13 4 (0.10%) Ceph
13 4 (0.10%) KVM
14 3 (0.076%) Gluster
14 3 (0.076%) oVirt
15 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.025%) OpenSIPS
15 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.025%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 542 (13.81%) Kubernetes
2 464 (11.82%) Terraform
3 297 (7.56%) Ansible
4 155 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 94 (2.39%) Puppet
6 77 (1.96%) Grafana
6 77 (1.96%) vCenter Server
7 54 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.48%) 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 (0.25%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.25%) SCDPM
15 9 (0.23%) Graphite
16 8 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 363 (9.25%) Databricks
2 246 (6.27%) Microsoft
3 220 (5.60%) ESRI
4 215 (5.48%) Google
5 155 (3.95%) Oracle
6 134 (3.41%) VMware
7 96 (2.45%) 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 (0.71%) Salesforce
14 25 (0.64%) Splunk
15 24 (0.61%) Dell
16 21 (0.53%) NVIDIA
17 17 (0.43%) Alteryx
17 17 (0.43%) Qualys