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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 165 145 282
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.11% 9.15% 7.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.87% 32.01% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 115 126 229
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £78,000 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -6.81%

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 460 453 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.25% 28.58% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 382 388 1,016
10th Percentile £37,600 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +4.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £81,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +15 53 £65,000 +23.81% 16
Winchester +8 26 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Portsmouth -6 21 £70,000 +33.33% 8
Fareham -20 8 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Farnborough -13 7 £72,500 +107.14% 11
Alton - 7 £50,000 -
Romsey +7 5 £90,000 +80.00%
Basingstoke -18 5 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Eastleigh -6 4 £65,000 -17.46% 7
Aldershot - 1 - - 1
Hook - 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 18 (10.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Qpid
3 2 (1.21%) WordPress
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) Appian
Applications
1 57 (34.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.61%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 83 (50.30%) Azure
2 58 (35.15%) Power Platform
3 42 (25.45%) Azure AI
4 30 (18.18%) AWS
5 26 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (11.52%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.64%) GCP
8 6 (3.64%) GitHub
9 5 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.42%) Serverless
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.82%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.82%) Datadog
11 3 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.67%) Firewall
1 11 (6.67%) Wireless
2 8 (4.85%) BGP
2 8 (4.85%) LAN
2 8 (4.85%) MPLS
2 8 (4.85%) OSPF
2 8 (4.85%) SD-WAN
2 8 (4.85%) VPN
2 8 (4.85%) VXLAN
2 8 (4.85%) WAN
3 6 (3.64%) Internet
4 4 (2.42%) MQTT
5 2 (1.21%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.61%) Broadband
6 1 (0.61%) DHCP
6 1 (0.61%) DNS
6 1 (0.61%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (34.55%) Power BI
2 39 (23.64%) Tableau
3 7 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle Database 10g
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.82%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.21%) Redis
7 1 (0.61%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.61%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (14.55%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) GitLab
3 9 (5.45%) JIRA
4 4 (2.42%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.82%) Selenium
6 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.21%) TestRail
6 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) Postman
7 1 (0.61%) Snyk
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) Toad
7 1 (0.61%) utPLSQL
General
1 77 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.45%) Finance
4 6 (3.64%) Multimedia
5 5 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.42%) Aviation
6 4 (2.42%) Electronics
7 3 (1.82%) Automotive
7 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Legal
8 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.21%) Games
8 2 (1.21%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (26.67%) Analyst
2 37 (22.42%) Data Analyst
3 36 (21.82%) Junior
3 36 (21.82%) Junior Analyst
3 36 (21.82%) Junior Data Analyst
4 25 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 24 (14.55%) Consultant
6 18 (10.91%) Developer
6 18 (10.91%) Senior
7 13 (7.88%) Principal Consultant
8 11 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 11 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 10 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Principal Software Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Trainee
11 8 (4.85%) Cisco Consultant
11 8 (4.85%) Network Consultant
11 8 (4.85%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.88%) REST
2 10 (6.06%) React
3 8 (4.85%) CSS
3 8 (4.85%) HTML
4 7 (4.24%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.24%) Kafka
5 3 (1.82%) JSON
5 3 (1.82%) Loki
5 3 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.82%) YAML
6 2 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.21%) Node.js
6 2 (1.21%) SOAP
6 2 (1.21%) XML
7 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.61%) Django
7 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.61%) Flask
7 1 (0.61%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.42%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.42%) Replication
6 3 (1.82%) ASIC
6 3 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.88%) Linux
2 7 (4.24%) Windows
3 6 (3.64%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.82%) CentOS
4 3 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.18%) AI
2 46 (27.88%) Agile
3 41 (24.85%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (21.21%) Software Engineering
5 30 (18.18%) Data Science
6 27 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 21 (12.73%) Data Analysis
9 19 (11.52%) Decision-Making
10 18 (10.91%) DevOps
10 18 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (9.70%) Observability
12 15 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 15 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 15 (9.09%) Project Management
12 15 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
13 14 (8.48%) Visualisation
14 13 (7.88%) Digital Enablement
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.94%) SQL
2 25 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 18 (10.91%) JavaScript
3 18 (10.91%) VBA
4 14 (8.48%) Bash
4 14 (8.48%) Rust
5 10 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.64%) C#
7 5 (3.03%) C++
8 4 (2.42%) Bicep
8 4 (2.42%) Java
8 4 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.42%) R
9 3 (1.82%) C
9 3 (1.82%) Go
10 2 (1.21%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.21%) PHP
11 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (29.09%) Azure Certification
2 46 (27.88%) Security Cleared
3 41 (24.85%) SC Cleared
4 34 (20.61%) Degree
5 25 (15.15%) Master's Degree
6 13 (7.88%) APMP
6 13 (7.88%) MBA
7 8 (4.85%) CCNP
7 8 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.21%) CEH
10 2 (1.21%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.21%) GCIH
10 2 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (3.64%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.82%) ISO 26262
4 2 (1.21%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (13.94%) Docker
2 4 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.61%) Ceph
4 1 (0.61%) Lustre
4 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (13.33%) Terraform
2 21 (12.73%) Ansible
3 17 (10.30%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.06%) Grafana
4 10 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.85%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.64%) Nagios
7 3 (1.82%) Functional Safety
7 3 (1.82%) Scalr
8 2 (1.21%) Nessus
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) Podman
9 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (36.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.06%) Splunk
3 8 (4.85%) Cisco
3 8 (4.85%) Fortinet
3 8 (4.85%) Meraki
4 7 (4.24%) Oracle
5 4 (2.42%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.42%) SAP
5 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.61%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.61%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.61%) Coverity
6 1 (0.61%) Databricks
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) IFS
6 1 (0.61%) Tenable
6 1 (0.61%) UiPath
6 1 (0.61%) VMware