Python Job Trends in Hampshire

Python
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +17
Permanent jobs citing Python 98 238 244
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.94% 8.71% 13.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.39% 29.86% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 75 167 166
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £47,500 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +20.83% -2.04%
75th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £75,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £89,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 419 797 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.85% 29.17% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 352 542 565
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £79,500
South East median annual salary £56,687 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.52% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Python job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Python
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Hampshire

Python
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton +7 21 £60,000 +71.43% 16
Portsmouth -6 20 £70,000 +40.00% 21
Basingstoke -20 12 £71,250 -5.00% 5
Winchester +11 11 £52,500 -16.00% 6
Alton - 7 £50,000 -
Farnborough -11 3 £75,000 +108.33% 6
Fareham -13 2 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Hook - 2 - - 2
Eastleigh +1 1 £55,000 -30.16% 1
Petersfield - 1 £75,900 - 1
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 12 (12.24%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.12%) Appian
3 5 (5.10%) Apache
4 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (26.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.02%) Mathcad
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Simulink
2 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.02%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Azure
2 33 (33.67%) Power Platform
3 24 (24.49%) AWS
4 21 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (12.24%) PowerApps
6 10 (10.20%) Azure AI
7 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.12%) MinIO
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.10%) GitHub
10 3 (3.06%) SaaS
11 2 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.04%) GCP
12 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) Firewall
2 6 (6.12%) LAN
2 6 (6.12%) Wireless
3 5 (5.10%) BGP
3 5 (5.10%) Internet
3 5 (5.10%) MPLS
3 5 (5.10%) OSPF
3 5 (5.10%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.10%) VPN
3 5 (5.10%) VXLAN
3 5 (5.10%) WAN
4 2 (2.04%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.02%) HTTP
5 1 (1.02%) Junos
5 1 (1.02%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.55%) Power BI
2 13 (13.27%) Tableau
3 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.10%) Airbyte
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database 10g
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.04%) DB2
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 8 (8.16%) Robot Framework
2 8 (8.16%) Selenium
3 6 (6.12%) Snyk
4 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.06%) GitLab
5 3 (3.06%) JIRA
6 2 (2.04%) TestRail
7 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.02%) Gradle
General
1 38 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Finance
4 5 (5.10%) Multimedia
5 4 (4.08%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.06%) Agriculture
6 3 (3.06%) Electronics
6 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) Analyst
2 17 (17.35%) Senior
3 15 (15.31%) Consultant
4 11 (11.22%) Data Analyst
4 11 (11.22%) Junior
5 10 (10.20%) Junior Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Trainee
8 6 (6.12%) Applications Architect
8 6 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Lead
8 6 (6.12%) Principal Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Cisco Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Cisco Network Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Security Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) React
2 7 (7.14%) CSS
2 7 (7.14%) HTML
3 6 (6.12%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (6.12%) Kafka
3 6 (6.12%) REST
4 4 (4.08%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.04%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (1.02%) Django
6 1 (1.02%) Drools
6 1 (1.02%) Flask
6 1 (1.02%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.02%) PySpark
6 1 (1.02%) RESTful
6 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.02%) Spring
6 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.12%) Low-Code
2 6 (6.12%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.08%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.08%) Replication
4 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.02%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) PKI
5 1 (1.02%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.04%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.57%) Agile
1 28 (28.57%) AI
2 24 (24.49%) Data Science
3 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (16.33%) Software Engineering
6 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
7 14 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (11.22%) DevOps
9 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
10 10 (10.20%) Analytics
10 10 (10.20%) CI/CD
10 10 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (10.20%) Mathematics
10 10 (10.20%) Use Case
11 9 (9.18%) Data Modelling
11 9 (9.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.57%) SQL
2 16 (16.33%) JavaScript
2 16 (16.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (12.24%) VBA
4 7 (7.14%) Rust
4 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.12%) Bash
6 5 (5.10%) MATLAB
7 4 (4.08%) Bicep
7 4 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.06%) Java
8 3 (3.06%) R
9 2 (2.04%) VB
10 1 (1.02%) C++
10 1 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.61%) SC Cleared
3 24 (24.49%) Degree
4 16 (16.33%) Azure Certification
5 12 (12.24%) Master's Degree
6 11 (11.22%) DV Cleared
7 6 (6.12%) APMP
7 6 (6.12%) MBA
8 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (5.10%) CCNP
8 5 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.04%) CEH
9 2 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.04%) GCIH
9 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
9 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.10%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.10%) Docker
3 2 (2.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.02%) Ceph
4 1 (1.02%) Lustre
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) Ansible
1 16 (16.33%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) FortiGate
2 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.04%) Nessus
6 1 (1.02%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Oracle
2 7 (7.14%) VMware
3 6 (6.12%) BiZZdesign
3 6 (6.12%) Black Duck
3 6 (6.12%) Cisco
3 6 (6.12%) UiPath
4 5 (5.10%) Blue Prism
4 5 (5.10%) Coverity
4 5 (5.10%) Fortinet
4 5 (5.10%) Meraki
4 5 (5.10%) SAP
5 4 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.08%) Splunk
6 2 (2.04%) Databricks
7 1 (1.02%) ANSYS
7 1 (1.02%) Citrix
7 1 (1.02%) F5
7 1 (1.02%) Keysight