Python Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Python
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing Python 115 66 117
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.94% 6.85% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.86% 26.40% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 54 84
10th Percentile £434 £402 £399
25th Percentile £513 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £574 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +24.05% -15.91%
75th Percentile £650 £617 £606
90th Percentile £706 £650 £684
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £53.25 £22.18
25th Percentile - £54.38 £25.28
Median hourly rate £37.24 £57.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.23% +98.28% -51.67%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £31.00
90th Percentile £51.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year +17.34% +29.21% -17.21%

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 350 250 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.07% 25.96% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 204 237
10th Percentile £400 £405 £375
25th Percentile £475 £483 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £729 £650 £682
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 22
10th Percentile £25.05 - £27.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £50.00 £60.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.44 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -25.09% +19.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £56.88 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.73 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +24.87%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Hampshire over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Hampshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Hampshire over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

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 4 September 2026. 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 +11 29 £562 +7.98% 17
Farnborough -13 25 £525 +2.44% 19
Southampton +2 12 £550 +7.32% 40
Andover - 10 £475 - 2
Havant +2 9 £600 -7.69% 1
Basingstoke -20 7 £650 +12.96% 17
Romsey - 5 £690 - 5
Fareham - 3 £400 - 15
Aldershot - 1 £775 - 9
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 5
Hayling Island - 1 £375 -
Hook - 1 £510 -
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) IIS
3 3 (2.61%) Confluence
3 3 (2.61%) nginx
3 3 (2.61%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Remedy AR System
1 7 (6.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (3.48%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.48%) Sage X3
3 2 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) AWS
2 42 (36.52%) Azure
3 17 (14.78%) GCP
4 9 (7.83%) GitHub
4 9 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.96%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.96%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.09%) iPaaS
6 7 (6.09%) Serverless
7 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.22%) SaaS
8 4 (3.48%) Azure Batch
8 4 (3.48%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (3.48%) Cloudflare
8 4 (3.48%) Fivetran
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.61%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (2.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) DNS
2 4 (3.48%) Firewall
2 4 (3.48%) MQTT
2 4 (3.48%) Network Security
3 3 (2.61%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.74%) BIG-IP
4 2 (1.74%) DHCP
4 2 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.87%) BGP
5 1 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.87%) NAS
5 1 (0.87%) OSPF
5 1 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.87%) SAN
5 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.87%) VLAN
5 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.22%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.61%) MySQL
8 2 (1.74%) Big Data
8 2 (1.74%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.74%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.74%) Redis
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.87%) GIS
9 1 (0.87%) Metadata
9 1 (0.87%) Power BI
9 1 (0.87%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.87%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Git
2 17 (14.78%) GitLab
3 14 (12.17%) Selenium
4 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 6 (5.22%) MLflow
5 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.48%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.61%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.87%) MSI
8 1 (0.87%) NUnit
8 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.87%) TestNG
8 1 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 40 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.22%) Aerospace
4 6 (5.22%) Finance
5 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.48%) Billing
6 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.48%) Military
7 2 (1.74%) Automotive
7 2 (1.74%) Avionics
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
7 2 (1.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (13.04%) Senior
2 13 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (7.83%) Developer
5 8 (6.96%) Architect
5 8 (6.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.83%) Terraform
2 17 (14.78%) Kafka
3 11 (9.57%) SOAP
4 9 (7.83%) REST
4 9 (7.83%) YAML
5 7 (6.09%) JSON
5 7 (6.09%) RESTful
6 6 (5.22%) React
7 5 (4.35%) Keycloak
8 4 (3.48%) gRPC
8 4 (3.48%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.61%) LAMP
9 3 (2.61%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (2.61%) Playwright
10 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.74%) pytest
10 2 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.74%) Swagger
10 2 (1.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.57%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.09%) CMDB
4 4 (3.48%) PKI
5 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) CSOC
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (31.30%) Linux
2 18 (15.65%) Windows
3 7 (6.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.48%) CentOS
5 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.74%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (1.74%) Unix
7 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.87%) Android
8 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.30%) CI/CD
2 39 (33.91%) Containerisation
3 38 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (32.17%) Agile
5 31 (26.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (23.48%) DevSecOps
7 24 (20.87%) AI
8 22 (19.13%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (19.13%) Test Automation
9 21 (18.26%) DevOps
10 19 (16.52%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (16.52%) Vulnerability Management
11 18 (15.65%) Machine Learning
12 16 (13.91%) Migration
12 16 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.91%) Software Engineering
12 16 (13.91%) Software Testing
12 16 (13.91%) Validation
13 14 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (11.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.26%) PowerShell
2 38 (33.04%) Bash
3 21 (18.26%) SQL
4 10 (8.70%) Java
5 7 (6.09%) C
6 6 (5.22%) C#
6 6 (5.22%) C++
7 5 (4.35%) Bicep
8 4 (3.48%) Rust
8 4 (3.48%) Scala
8 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.61%) Ada
9 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.61%) Lua
10 1 (0.87%) Groovy
10 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.87%) Perl
10 1 (0.87%) R
10 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (64.35%) Security Cleared
2 52 (45.22%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.87%) DV Cleared
4 13 (11.30%) Degree
5 7 (6.09%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.87%) VCAP
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (32.17%) Docker
2 12 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.61%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.61%) Postfix
5 2 (1.74%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 23 (20.00%) Ansible
3 12 (10.43%) Puppet
4 8 (6.96%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.22%) Grafana
5 6 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.48%) Podman
6 4 (3.48%) WMI
7 3 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.61%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.61%) SCCM
8 2 (1.74%) Argo
9 1 (0.87%) Rancher
9 1 (0.87%) vRealize
9 1 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) VMware
3 10 (8.70%) Google
4 8 (6.96%) Databricks
5 7 (6.09%) BMC
5 7 (6.09%) Remedy
5 7 (6.09%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.48%) IBM
6 4 (3.48%) NVIDIA
6 4 (3.48%) PagerDuty
6 4 (3.48%) Qualys
6 4 (3.48%) Sage
6 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.48%) Tenable
7 3 (2.61%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.61%) Cisco
7 3 (2.61%) F5
7 3 (2.61%) Juniper
7 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.74%) Teradata