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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 145 169 254
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.82% 9.77% 7.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.44% 33.67% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 106 136 212
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,875 £35,125
25th Percentile £50,313 £51,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +28.76% -5.59%
75th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +16.38% -6.00%

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 421 502 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.99% 29.03% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 356 409 983
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £85,500 £82,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +9 44 £65,000 +23.81% 14
Portsmouth -7 21 £70,000 +33.33% 14
Winchester +4 18 £45,000 -30.77% 7
Farnborough -12 7 £72,500 +107.14% 15
Alton - 7 £50,000 -
Basingstoke -21 6 £41,500 -51.18% 5
Fareham -23 6 £70,000 +12.00% 13
Romsey +7 5 £90,000 +38.46%
Eastleigh -10 2 £45,000 -42.86% 8
Hook - 2 - -
Aldershot - 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 16 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) Apache
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Qpid
3 2 (1.38%) Appian
3 2 (1.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (33.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.69%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 71 (48.97%) Azure
2 50 (34.48%) Power Platform
3 30 (20.69%) AWS
3 30 (20.69%) Azure AI
4 24 (16.55%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (11.03%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.14%) GCP
7 6 (4.14%) GitHub
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Stack
9 3 (2.07%) Serverless
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.28%) Firewall
2 9 (6.21%) Wireless
3 8 (5.52%) BGP
3 8 (5.52%) LAN
3 8 (5.52%) MPLS
3 8 (5.52%) OSPF
3 8 (5.52%) SD-WAN
3 8 (5.52%) VPN
3 8 (5.52%) VXLAN
3 8 (5.52%) WAN
4 6 (4.14%) Internet
5 4 (2.76%) MQTT
6 2 (1.38%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.69%) Broadband
7 1 (0.69%) DHCP
7 1 (0.69%) DNS
7 1 (0.69%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (33.10%) Power BI
2 33 (22.76%) Tableau
3 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database 10g
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.07%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.38%) Airbyte
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.38%) Redis
7 1 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.69%) Metadata
7 1 (0.69%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (16.55%) Git
2 12 (8.28%) GitLab
3 7 (4.83%) JIRA
4 5 (3.45%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.76%) Selenium
6 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.38%) Snyk
6 2 (1.38%) TestRail
6 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.69%) Toad
7 1 (0.69%) utPLSQL
General
1 63 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.14%) Finance
3 6 (4.14%) Multimedia
4 4 (2.76%) Aviation
5 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.38%) Electronics
6 2 (1.38%) Games
6 2 (1.38%) Legal
6 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.38%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 36 (24.83%) Analyst
2 31 (21.38%) Data Analyst
3 30 (20.69%) Junior
3 30 (20.69%) Junior Analyst
3 30 (20.69%) Junior Data Analyst
4 22 (15.17%) Consultant
4 22 (15.17%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.72%) Developer
6 16 (11.03%) Senior
7 13 (8.97%) Principal Consultant
8 11 (7.59%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.21%) Trainee
10 8 (5.52%) Cisco Consultant
10 8 (5.52%) Cisco Network Consultant
10 8 (5.52%) Network Consultant
10 8 (5.52%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) WAN Consultant
11 7 (4.83%) Python Software Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) REST
2 10 (6.90%) React
3 8 (5.52%) CSS
3 8 (5.52%) HTML
3 8 (5.52%) Kafka
4 7 (4.83%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.07%) JSON
6 2 (1.38%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.38%) Loki
6 2 (1.38%) Node.js
6 2 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.38%) SOAP
6 2 (1.38%) XML
6 2 (1.38%) YAML
7 1 (0.69%) Django
7 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.69%) Flask
7 1 (0.69%) PySpark
7 1 (0.69%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.21%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.76%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.76%) Replication
6 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.69%) FPGA
8 1 (0.69%) GNSS
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) PKI
8 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.97%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.07%) CentOS
4 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.79%) AI
2 45 (31.03%) Agile
3 34 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (22.07%) Software Engineering
5 28 (19.31%) Data Science
6 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (15.17%) CI/CD
8 19 (13.10%) Data Analysis
9 18 (12.41%) DevOps
9 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (11.72%) Decision-Making
11 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
12 15 (10.34%) Mentoring
12 15 (10.34%) Observability
12 15 (10.34%) Technical Architecture
13 14 (9.66%) Project Management
14 13 (8.97%) Digital Enablement
14 13 (8.97%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.10%) SQL
2 24 (16.55%) PowerShell
3 17 (11.72%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.03%) VBA
5 14 (9.66%) Rust
6 13 (8.97%) Bash
7 10 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.14%) C#
9 5 (3.45%) C++
10 4 (2.76%) Bicep
10 4 (2.76%) Java
10 4 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.76%) R
11 3 (2.07%) C
11 3 (2.07%) Go
12 2 (1.38%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 36 (24.83%) Azure Certification
4 30 (20.69%) Degree
5 21 (14.48%) Master's Degree
6 13 (8.97%) APMP
6 13 (8.97%) MBA
7 8 (5.52%) CCNP
7 8 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (4.14%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (4.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.38%) CEH
9 2 (1.38%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.38%) GCIH
9 2 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.14%) QA
2 4 (2.76%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 22 (15.17%) Docker
2 5 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Ceph
3 1 (0.69%) Firmware
3 1 (0.69%) Lustre
3 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (15.17%) Ansible
1 22 (15.17%) Terraform
2 17 (11.72%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.21%) Grafana
3 9 (6.21%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.52%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.14%) Nagios
6 2 (1.38%) Nessus
6 2 (1.38%) Scalr
7 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.69%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.69%) Podman
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 55 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.90%) Splunk
3 8 (5.52%) Cisco
3 8 (5.52%) Fortinet
3 8 (5.52%) Meraki
4 7 (4.83%) Oracle
5 4 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.76%) SAP
5 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.07%) VMware
7 2 (1.38%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.38%) Black Duck
7 2 (1.38%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.38%) Coverity
7 2 (1.38%) UiPath
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks
8 1 (0.69%) Google
8 1 (0.69%) IFS
8 1 (0.69%) Tenable