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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 253 109 370
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.52% 5.73% 9.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.58% 21.71% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 189 85 263
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 711 502 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.52% 26.38% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 577 357 919
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £78,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +13 68 £65,000 +44.44% 26
Fareham -8 32 £70,000 +115.38% 7
Winchester - 31 £57,500 - 4
Farnborough -14 30 £65,000 +71.05% 16
Romsey +4 21 £82,500 +120.00%
Portsmouth -7 18 £57,500 -4.17% 18
Andover - 8 £90,000 - 5
Eastleigh +5 7 £65,000 +33.33% 1
Basingstoke -3 5 £52,500 -38.24% 10
Waterlooville - 4 £75,000 -
Havant -6 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
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 11 (4.35%) Confluence
1 11 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.16%) Apache
3 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.79%) WordPress
4 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 47 (18.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.56%) Simulink
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.48%) Azure
2 48 (18.97%) Power Platform
3 44 (17.39%) AWS
4 40 (15.81%) Azure AI
5 23 (9.09%) Serverless
6 17 (6.72%) GCP
7 14 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.53%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.56%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.56%) GitHub
10 8 (3.16%) Azure Functions
10 8 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.77%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.98%) Datadog
12 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.74%) MQTT
1 12 (4.74%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.56%) Wireless
3 6 (2.37%) Firewall
3 6 (2.37%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.98%) 5G
5 4 (1.58%) VPN
5 4 (1.58%) WAN
6 3 (1.19%) FTP
6 3 (1.19%) HTTP
6 3 (1.19%) Internet
6 3 (1.19%) LAN
6 3 (1.19%) Network Security
6 3 (1.19%) SMTP
7 2 (0.79%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.79%) ATM
7 2 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.40%) Broadband
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.58%) Power BI
2 29 (11.46%) Tableau
3 12 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.79%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.79%) Looker
8 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.79%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.40%) Metadata
9 1 (0.40%) MySQL
9 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 66 (26.09%) Git
2 31 (12.25%) GitLab
3 16 (6.32%) Visual Studio Code
4 15 (5.93%) JIRA
5 11 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.98%) CMake
7 4 (1.58%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.40%) GDB
10 1 (0.40%) JMeter
10 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.40%) Selenium
10 1 (0.40%) Subversion
10 1 (0.40%) Toad
10 1 (0.40%) utPLSQL
General
1 90 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (6.32%) Finance
5 12 (4.74%) Electronics
6 10 (3.95%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.37%) Aviation
9 5 (1.98%) Automotive
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
11 2 (0.79%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 46 (18.18%) Analyst
3 35 (13.83%) Senior
4 31 (12.25%) Data Analyst
5 29 (11.46%) Junior
5 29 (11.46%) Lead
6 28 (11.07%) Junior Analyst
6 28 (11.07%) Junior Data Analyst
7 21 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (7.11%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (6.72%) Data Engineer
10 16 (6.32%) Developer
11 15 (5.93%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (5.53%) Consultant
12 14 (5.53%) Embedded Engineer
13 13 (5.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 11 (4.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 10 (3.95%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.11%) JSON
2 17 (6.72%) React
3 15 (5.93%) CSS
3 15 (5.93%) HTML
3 15 (5.93%) XML
4 14 (5.53%) Kafka
5 11 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.56%) .NET
6 9 (3.56%) REST
7 7 (2.77%) YAML
8 6 (2.37%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.37%) Django
8 6 (2.37%) Node.js
8 6 (2.37%) WebSockets
9 5 (1.98%) gRPC
9 5 (1.98%) Loki
9 5 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.98%) Yocto
10 4 (1.58%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.58%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.21%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.72%) Robotics
4 13 (5.14%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.35%) FPGA
6 9 (3.56%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.16%) Verilog
7 8 (3.16%) VHDL
8 7 (2.77%) PCIe
9 6 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.58%) ASIC
11 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.19%) IoT
11 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 75 (29.64%) Linux
2 33 (13.04%) Windows
3 11 (4.35%) Ubuntu
3 11 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.56%) Embedded Linux
4 9 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.77%) CentOS
6 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.79%) Debian
7 2 (0.79%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.90%) Software Engineering
2 86 (33.99%) AI
3 82 (32.41%) CI/CD
4 74 (29.25%) Agile
5 59 (23.32%) DevOps
6 47 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.02%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (15.02%) Computer Science
9 35 (13.83%) Software Architecture
10 25 (9.88%) Decision-Making
10 25 (9.88%) Test Automation
11 24 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.49%) Observability
11 24 (9.49%) Scrum
12 22 (8.70%) Data Analysis
12 22 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (7.91%) Data Science
13 20 (7.91%) DevSecOps
13 20 (7.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 79 (31.23%) C++
2 71 (28.06%) SQL
3 41 (16.21%) JavaScript
4 32 (12.65%) C
5 30 (11.86%) C#
6 29 (11.46%) Bash
7 22 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 21 (8.30%) Java
9 19 (7.51%) Rust
10 16 (6.32%) TypeScript
11 13 (5.14%) Go
12 12 (4.74%) Embedded C++
13 11 (4.35%) MATLAB
13 11 (4.35%) VBA
14 10 (3.95%) PHP
15 8 (3.16%) Embedded C
16 3 (1.19%) Ada
16 3 (1.19%) Perl
17 2 (0.79%) Ruby
17 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 80 (31.62%) Degree
3 55 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 50 (19.76%) Azure Certification
5 28 (11.07%) DV Cleared
6 24 (9.49%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.19%) APMP
9 3 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.19%) MBA
10 2 (0.79%) CEH
10 2 (0.79%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.79%) HNC
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) CCA
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.16%) GDPR
2 7 (2.77%) QA
3 4 (1.58%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (25.69%) Docker
2 16 (6.32%) Firmware
3 10 (3.95%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.79%) Xen
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (14.62%) Terraform
3 32 (12.65%) Ansible
4 15 (5.93%) Grafana
4 15 (5.93%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.95%) Podman
6 9 (3.56%) Nagios
7 7 (2.77%) Puppet
8 5 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.58%) Functional Safety
10 3 (1.19%) QRadar
10 3 (1.19%) Scalr
11 2 (0.79%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.79%) Rancher
11 2 (0.79%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.40%) Cilium
12 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.74%) Splunk
3 10 (3.95%) Oracle
4 4 (1.58%) NVIDIA
4 4 (1.58%) Tenable
5 3 (1.19%) Google
6 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.79%) Databricks
6 2 (0.79%) NetApp
6 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.79%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.40%) Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) IBM
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir