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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 188 134 341
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.35% 8.64% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.68% 30.25% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 125 116 254
10th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £34,475
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 - £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 499 443 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.20% 28.56% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 391 371 1,071
10th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,625 £69,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 3 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 3 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 +16 62 £65,000 +23.81% 17
Winchester +4 31 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Portsmouth -13 23 £70,000 +33.33% 12
Romsey +3 14 £82,500 +120.00% 6
Fareham -21 9 £70,000 +115.38% 16
Farnborough -18 7 £72,500 +107.14% 13
Alton - 6 £50,000 -
Basingstoke -7 5 £58,750 -30.88% 7
Eastleigh -4 4 £65,000 -16.13% 1
Waterlooville - 2 £75,000 - 2
Havant - 1 £57,500 - 2
Aldershot - 1 - - 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 13 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.19%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Qpid
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (29.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Simulink
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 95 (50.53%) Azure
2 60 (31.91%) Power Platform
3 54 (28.72%) Azure AI
4 31 (16.49%) AWS
5 19 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (8.51%) PowerApps
7 10 (5.32%) Serverless
8 8 (4.26%) GCP
9 7 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.19%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.13%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.13%) GitHub
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.60%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.38%) Wireless
2 11 (5.85%) Firewall
3 8 (4.26%) BGP
3 8 (4.26%) LAN
3 8 (4.26%) MPLS
3 8 (4.26%) OSPF
3 8 (4.26%) SD-WAN
3 8 (4.26%) VPN
3 8 (4.26%) VXLAN
3 8 (4.26%) WAN
4 4 (2.13%) Internet
4 4 (2.13%) MQTT
5 2 (1.06%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.53%) Broadband
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) DNS
6 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (31.91%) Power BI
2 43 (22.87%) Tableau
3 9 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.06%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.06%) Metadata
7 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.06%) Redis
7 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.53%) Big Data
8 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.53%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (21.28%) Git
2 21 (11.17%) GitLab
3 15 (7.98%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (4.79%) JIRA
5 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.06%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.53%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) TestRail
7 1 (0.53%) Toad
7 1 (0.53%) utPLSQL
General
1 88 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.85%) Finance
3 8 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.66%) Electronics
5 4 (2.13%) Automotive
5 4 (2.13%) Aviation
5 4 (2.13%) Multimedia
5 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Legal
6 3 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.06%) Games
7 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 50 (26.60%) Analyst
2 44 (23.40%) Data Analyst
3 42 (22.34%) Junior
3 42 (22.34%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (22.34%) Junior Data Analyst
4 41 (21.81%) Software Engineer
5 25 (13.30%) Senior
6 22 (11.70%) Developer
7 20 (10.64%) Consultant
8 12 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.85%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.79%) Principal Consultant
11 9 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (4.79%) Principal Software Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) Cisco Consultant
12 8 (4.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.98%) REST
2 10 (5.32%) React
3 7 (3.72%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.19%) Kafka
5 5 (2.66%) CSS
5 5 (2.66%) HTML
5 5 (2.66%) JSON
5 5 (2.66%) YAML
6 4 (2.13%) .NET
6 4 (2.13%) SOAP
7 3 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.60%) Loki
7 3 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.06%) Node.js
8 2 (1.06%) XML
9 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.53%) Flask
9 1 (0.53%) PySpark
9 1 (0.53%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.17%) Algorithms
2 15 (7.98%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.26%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.13%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.13%) ASIC
5 4 (2.13%) FPGA
5 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.60%) Verilog
6 3 (1.60%) VHDL
7 2 (1.06%) PCIe
7 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.53%) GNSS
8 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.30%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Windows
3 6 (3.19%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.60%) CentOS
4 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (40.43%) AI
2 54 (28.72%) Software Engineering
3 52 (27.66%) Agile
4 50 (26.60%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (19.68%) CI/CD
6 31 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (15.43%) DevOps
8 23 (12.23%) Decision-Making
9 22 (11.70%) Computer Science
9 22 (11.70%) Data Science
10 19 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (9.04%) Scrum
12 16 (8.51%) Observability
12 16 (8.51%) Software Architecture
13 15 (7.98%) Kanban
14 14 (7.45%) Containerisation
14 14 (7.45%) Data Analysis
14 14 (7.45%) Line Management
15 13 (6.91%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 66 (35.11%) SQL
2 24 (12.77%) C++
3 23 (12.23%) C#
4 19 (10.11%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.45%) Rust
7 13 (6.91%) Bash
7 13 (6.91%) VBA
8 10 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.19%) C
10 5 (2.66%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.13%) Bicep
11 4 (2.13%) Java
11 4 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.60%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.60%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.60%) Go
12 3 (1.60%) R
13 2 (1.06%) PHP
14 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (32.45%) Azure Certification
2 54 (28.72%) Security Cleared
3 47 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 46 (24.47%) Degree
5 26 (13.83%) Master's Degree
6 9 (4.79%) APMP
6 9 (4.79%) MBA
7 8 (4.26%) CCNP
7 8 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.06%) CEH
11 2 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.06%) GCIH
12 1 (0.53%) CCA
12 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) GDPR
1 6 (3.19%) QA
2 4 (2.13%) ISO 26262
2 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (17.02%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Firmware
3 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (10.64%) Ansible
1 20 (10.64%) Terraform
2 17 (9.04%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.32%) Grafana
3 10 (5.32%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.26%) FortiGate
5 6 (3.19%) Nagios
6 4 (2.13%) Functional Safety
7 3 (1.60%) Scalr
8 2 (1.06%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.53%) Nessus
9 1 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 63 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.32%) Splunk
3 8 (4.26%) Cisco
3 8 (4.26%) Fortinet
3 8 (4.26%) Meraki
3 8 (4.26%) Oracle
4 4 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.06%) Google
5 2 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.53%) IFS
6 1 (0.53%) Tenable