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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 54 119 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.14% 6.88% 7.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.00% 29.10% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 88 64
10th Percentile £402 - £251
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% +4.46%
75th Percentile £613 £595 £603
90th Percentile £650 £679 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 10
10th Percentile £45.50 £25.36 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £33.21 £19.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £47.62 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% +132.62% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.21 £48.75
90th Percentile - £71.79 £50.00
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £23.30
% change year-on-year -13.46% +178.97% -39.08%

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 225 409 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 29.76% 23.66% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 270 242
10th Percentile £419 £400 £306
25th Percentile £463 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £635 £612
90th Percentile £650 £738 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.15% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 50
10th Percentile £50.00 - £19.00
25th Percentile £50.53 £46.25 £47.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +10.87% +64.29%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

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 2 June 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
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 2 June 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
Basingstoke +4 13 £575 +27.78% 426
Portsmouth +21 10 £520 -17.98% 436
Farnborough +3 6 £413 -25.00% 12
Fleet - 5 £402 - 5
Havant -3 4 £600 +4.35% 2
Winchester +1 2 - - 9
Aldershot +9 1 £525 -10.06%
Southampton +2 1 £525 -19.23% 456
Fareham -3 1 £375 -31.82% 9
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 2 (3.70%) Apache
1 2 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Gunicorn
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (46.30%) AWS
2 22 (40.74%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) OpenShift
4 5 (9.26%) GCP
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.41%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub
7 2 (3.70%) IaaS
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) MinIO
8 1 (1.85%) npm
8 1 (1.85%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (12.96%) Cisco Firepower
2 7 (12.96%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (12.96%) Junos
2 7 (12.96%) LAN
3 5 (9.26%) VPN
4 4 (7.41%) MPLS
4 4 (7.41%) WAN
5 3 (5.56%) DNS
5 3 (5.56%) HTTP
5 3 (5.56%) SNMP
5 3 (5.56%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.85%) Firewall
7 1 (1.85%) Network Security
7 1 (1.85%) NX-OS
7 1 (1.85%) VoIP
7 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.56%) MySQL
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) ObjectStore
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.52%) Git
3 6 (11.11%) JIRA
4 5 (9.26%) Robot Framework
5 4 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.56%) GoogleTest
7 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (3.70%) MSI
7 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.85%) Poetry
General
1 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Architect
4 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Applications Packager
8 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared Application Packager
8 3 (5.56%) FPGA Developer
8 3 (5.56%) FPGA Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) .NET
1 5 (9.26%) React
2 4 (7.41%) Kafka
2 4 (7.41%) Middleware
3 3 (5.56%) CSS
3 3 (5.56%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.56%) Flask
3 3 (5.56%) HTML
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.70%) Celery
4 2 (3.70%) Django
4 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.70%) pytest
4 2 (3.70%) RESTful
4 2 (3.70%) Web Services
5 1 (1.85%) NumPy
5 1 (1.85%) Pandas
5 1 (1.85%) Spring
5 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
1 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (7.41%) Private Cloud
1 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) FPGA
2 3 (5.56%) PKI
2 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) Verilog
2 3 (5.56%) VHDL
3 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.85%) CUDA
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.78%) Linux
2 10 (18.52%) Windows
3 8 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.70%) CentOS
5 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Agile
2 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (27.78%) Test Automation
4 12 (22.22%) DevOps
5 11 (20.37%) Migration
6 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.81%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.96%) Load Balancing
9 7 (12.96%) Microservices
9 7 (12.96%) Preventative Maintenance
10 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (11.11%) Validation
11 5 (9.26%) Concurrent Programming
11 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.26%) Multithreading
11 5 (9.26%) OO
11 5 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) Java
1 13 (24.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
2 11 (20.37%) SQL
3 9 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (12.96%) VB
5 5 (9.26%) Bash
5 5 (9.26%) C++
6 4 (7.41%) PHP
7 3 (5.56%) Perl
7 3 (5.56%) Scala
7 3 (5.56%) VBScript
8 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.85%) Go
9 1 (1.85%) Ruby
9 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 15 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) CCIE
4 5 (9.26%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.41%) Degree
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) VCAP
7 2 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) SLA
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 8 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.26%) Firmware
5 3 (5.56%) vSphere
6 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (42.59%) Ansible
2 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.52%) Terraform
4 7 (12.96%) FortiGate
5 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.70%) Kibana
6 2 (3.70%) vRealize
6 2 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.70%) WMI
7 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Cisco
2 14 (25.93%) F5
3 11 (20.37%) Citrix
4 7 (12.96%) Red Hat
4 7 (12.96%) VMware
5 4 (7.41%) CheckPoint
5 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.41%) Google
5 4 (7.41%) Juniper
5 4 (7.41%) Zscaler
6 3 (5.56%) Algorithmics
6 3 (5.56%) Intel
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.70%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle
7 2 (3.70%) Splunk
8 1 (1.85%) Atlassian