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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 194 131 346
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.48% 8.13% 8.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.52% 29.05% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 131 115 255
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £45,000 £42,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -12.00%

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 517 451 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.60% 27.98% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 408 374 1,079
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +11 65 £65,000 +23.81% 15
Winchester +7 30 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Portsmouth -12 22 £70,000 +33.33% 17
Romsey +4 16 £82,500 +120.00% 7
Farnborough -13 10 £72,500 +107.14% 17
Fareham -20 10 £70,000 +115.38% 17
Alton - 5 £50,000 -
Eastleigh -3 4 £65,000 +8.33%
Basingstoke -7 4 £58,750 -30.88% 6
Waterlooville - 3 £75,000 - 2
Aldershot - 1 - -
Havant - 1 £57,500 - 1
Hook - 1 - - 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 11 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Qpid
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (27.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Simulink
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 99 (51.03%) Azure
2 58 (29.90%) Power Platform
3 54 (27.84%) Azure AI
4 33 (17.01%) AWS
5 16 (8.25%) Serverless
6 15 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (7.22%) PowerApps
8 11 (5.67%) GCP
9 7 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.61%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.61%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.06%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.55%) Datadog
12 3 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) Wireless
2 10 (5.15%) Firewall
3 9 (4.64%) LAN
3 9 (4.64%) VPN
3 9 (4.64%) WAN
4 8 (4.12%) BGP
4 8 (4.12%) MPLS
4 8 (4.12%) OSPF
4 8 (4.12%) SD-WAN
4 8 (4.12%) VXLAN
5 6 (3.09%) MQTT
6 4 (2.06%) Internet
6 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.03%) Network Security
7 2 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.52%) DHCP
8 1 (0.52%) DNS
8 1 (0.52%) FTP
8 1 (0.52%) SMTP
8 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (29.90%) Power BI
2 43 (22.16%) Tableau
3 12 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.03%) Metadata
8 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.03%) Redis
8 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (23.20%) Git
2 24 (12.37%) GitLab
3 15 (7.73%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (4.64%) JIRA
5 4 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) Toad
7 1 (0.52%) utPLSQL
General
1 89 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.67%) Finance
3 8 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.58%) Electronics
5 4 (2.06%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.06%) Automotive
5 4 (2.06%) Aviation
5 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.55%) Legal
6 3 (1.55%) Marketing
6 3 (1.55%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.03%) Games
7 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.74%) Analyst
2 46 (23.71%) Software Engineer
3 44 (22.68%) Data Analyst
4 42 (21.65%) Junior
4 42 (21.65%) Junior Analyst
4 42 (21.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 24 (12.37%) Developer
6 23 (11.86%) Senior
7 19 (9.79%) Consultant
8 13 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (5.67%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.15%) Lead
11 10 (5.15%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.76%) REST
2 12 (6.19%) React
3 8 (4.12%) Kafka
4 7 (3.61%) .NET
4 7 (3.61%) ARM Templates
5 6 (3.09%) JSON
6 5 (2.58%) CSS
6 5 (2.58%) HTML
6 5 (2.58%) YAML
7 4 (2.06%) SOAP
8 3 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.55%) Loki
8 3 (1.55%) Node.js
8 3 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.55%) XML
9 2 (1.03%) gRPC
9 2 (1.03%) Keycloak
9 2 (1.03%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.86%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.64%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.58%) FPGA
7 4 (2.06%) ASIC
7 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.06%) Verilog
7 4 (2.06%) VHDL
8 3 (1.55%) ARM Cortex
8 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) IoT
8 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) PCIe
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.53%) Linux
2 10 (5.15%) Windows
3 7 (3.61%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.06%) CentOS
4 4 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.24%) AI
2 62 (31.96%) Software Engineering
3 52 (26.80%) Agile
4 50 (25.77%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (23.20%) CI/CD
6 33 (17.01%) DevOps
7 31 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.40%) Computer Science
9 22 (11.34%) Decision-Making
10 20 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (9.79%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.79%) Data Science
11 19 (9.79%) Observability
12 17 (8.76%) Scrum
12 17 (8.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (8.76%) Software Architecture
13 15 (7.73%) Kanban
14 14 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (7.22%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (36.08%) SQL
2 31 (15.98%) C++
3 26 (13.40%) C#
4 20 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.76%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.76%) Rust
6 13 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.19%) Bash
8 11 (5.67%) VBA
9 8 (4.12%) C
10 6 (3.09%) MATLAB
11 5 (2.58%) Java
12 4 (2.06%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.06%) Embedded C++
12 4 (2.06%) Go
13 3 (1.55%) Bicep
13 3 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.55%) PHP
13 3 (1.55%) R
14 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (32.47%) Azure Certification
2 59 (30.41%) Security Cleared
3 48 (24.74%) Degree
4 46 (23.71%) SC Cleared
5 24 (12.37%) Master's Degree
6 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.12%) APMP
7 8 (4.12%) CCNP
7 8 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.12%) MBA
8 7 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.52%) CCA
10 1 (0.52%) CEH
10 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.52%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) GDPR
2 6 (3.09%) QA
3 4 (2.06%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (19.07%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Firmware
3 3 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (12.37%) Ansible
2 22 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.34%) Terraform
3 12 (6.19%) Grafana
3 12 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.12%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.61%) Nagios
6 5 (2.58%) Puppet
7 4 (2.06%) Functional Safety
7 4 (2.06%) Podman
8 3 (1.55%) Scalr
9 2 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 64 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.67%) Oracle
2 11 (5.67%) Splunk
3 8 (4.12%) Cisco
3 8 (4.12%) Fortinet
3 8 (4.12%) Meraki
4 4 (2.06%) Tenable
5 3 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.03%) Google
6 2 (1.03%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.52%) Databricks
7 1 (0.52%) IFS
7 1 (0.52%) SAP