Python Contracts in Hampshire

Python
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 22 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +15
Contract jobs citing Python 60 102 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 8.04% 6.34% 9.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.57% 29.74% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 74 88
10th Percentile £405 - £374
25th Percentile £488 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -4.32% +4.96%
75th Percentile £615 £605 £638
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 18
10th Percentile £43.75 £56.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £46.88 £59.38 £20.47
Median hourly rate £56.25 £67.50 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +52.54% +110.71%
75th Percentile £63.44 £74.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.13 £76.25 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -13.46% +49.43% +19.18%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 343 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.15% 21.30% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 299
10th Percentile £401 £388 £313
25th Percentile £460 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 58
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.78
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Hampshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Hampshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Hampshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Hampshire

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Hampshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth +26 15 £535 -15.01% 65
Basingstoke +13 12 £575 +27.78% 51
Fleet - 5 £376 - 2
Havant +4 4 £600 -16.08% 1
Farnborough -5 3 £481 -19.79% 6
Winchester -2 2 - - 5
Aldershot +9 1 £525 -10.06%
Southampton 0 1 £575 -11.54% 62
Fareham -2 1 £375 -31.82% 4
Eastleigh -4 1 £650 +44.44% 4
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) AWS
2 20 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) GCP
4 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub
7 2 (3.33%) IaaS
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) MinIO
8 1 (1.67%) npm
8 1 (1.67%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (10.00%) LTE
2 6 (10.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (8.33%) Junos
3 5 (8.33%) LAN
4 4 (6.67%) MPLS
4 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 4 (6.67%) WAN
5 3 (5.00%) 4G
5 3 (5.00%) 5G
5 3 (5.00%) 5G NR
5 3 (5.00%) DNS
5 3 (5.00%) HTTP
5 3 (5.00%) NAS
5 3 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (5.00%) SNMP
6 2 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.67%) ObjectStore
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Git
2 12 (20.00%) JIRA
3 10 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (15.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.00%) GitLab
5 3 (5.00%) GoogleTest
5 3 (5.00%) Robot Framework
5 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.33%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.67%) Poetry
General
1 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Applications Packager
3 6 (10.00%) DV Cleared Application Packager
4 5 (8.33%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Firmware Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) FPGA Developer
6 3 (5.00%) FPGA Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Subject Matter Expert
6 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) .NET
1 5 (8.33%) CSS
1 5 (8.33%) HTML
1 5 (8.33%) Node.js
2 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (5.00%) Flask
2 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.00%) XML
2 3 (5.00%) XML Schema
3 2 (3.33%) Angular 2
3 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.33%) Celery
3 2 (3.33%) Django
3 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.33%) HTML5
3 2 (3.33%) pytest
3 2 (3.33%) RESTful
3 2 (3.33%) Web Services
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 6 (10.00%) Verilog
2 6 (10.00%) VHDL
3 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) FPGA
4 3 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.67%) CUDA
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Linux
2 11 (18.33%) Windows
3 9 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) Agile
2 19 (31.67%) CI/CD
3 16 (26.67%) DevOps
4 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
5 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.67%) Microservices
9 7 (11.67%) Migration
10 6 (10.00%) Application Packaging
10 6 (10.00%) Application Virtualisation
10 6 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (10.00%) Scrum
10 6 (10.00%) SysML
10 6 (10.00%) UML
11 5 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
11 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (13.33%) C#
4 6 (10.00%) Bash
4 6 (10.00%) Java
4 6 (10.00%) VBScript
5 5 (8.33%) C++
5 5 (8.33%) VB
6 4 (6.67%) SQL
6 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.00%) Perl
7 3 (5.00%) SystemVerilog
7 3 (5.00%) Tcl
8 2 (3.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) Ruby
9 1 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) CCIE
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) VCAP
5 2 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.67%) CEH
6 1 (1.67%) CISM
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 8 (13.33%) Firmware
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.00%) vSphere
5 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (30.00%) Ansible
2 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.33%) Terraform
4 5 (8.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.33%) Kibana
6 2 (3.33%) vRealize
6 2 (3.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.67%) NSN NetAct
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Cisco
1 12 (20.00%) F5
2 9 (15.00%) Citrix
3 8 (13.33%) VMware
4 6 (10.00%) Google
5 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 4 (6.67%) Zscaler
6 3 (5.00%) Algorithmics
6 3 (5.00%) Intel
6 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.00%) Xilinx
7 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.33%) Ericsson
7 2 (3.33%) Juniper
7 2 (3.33%) Oracle
7 2 (3.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.67%) Nokia