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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 17 10
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +14
Permanent jobs citing Python 95 274 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.91% 8.62% 15.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.89% 28.87% 37.98%
Number of salaries quoted 72 190 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,063 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

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 434 949 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.86% 29.87% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 350 635 551
10th Percentile £28,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,800 £78,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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
Portsmouth -4 21 £70,000 +40.00% 17
Southampton -4 17 £45,000 -2.70% 16
Basingstoke -22 13 £64,000 -14.67% 11
Winchester +16 9 £52,500 - 6
Alton - 7 £50,000 - 1
Fareham -6 5 £47,500 -17.39% 4
Farnborough -13 3 £75,000 +108.33% 10
Eastleigh 0 1 £55,000 -30.16% 2
Petersfield - 1 £75,900 -
Hook - 1 - - 1
Fleet - 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 12 (12.63%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.32%) Appian
3 5 (5.26%) Apache
4 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (22.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.05%) Mathcad
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Simulink
2 1 (1.05%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) Azure
2 31 (32.63%) Power Platform
3 29 (30.53%) AWS
4 20 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (11.58%) PowerApps
6 10 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (6.32%) Azure AI
8 6 (6.32%) MinIO
9 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.26%) GCP
10 4 (4.21%) GitHub
11 3 (3.16%) SaaS
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.11%) Serverless
13 1 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) Firewall
2 4 (4.21%) Internet
2 4 (4.21%) LAN
2 4 (4.21%) VPN
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (3.16%) Junos
4 2 (2.11%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.11%) InfiniBand
4 2 (2.11%) Modbus
4 2 (2.11%) MQTT
4 2 (2.11%) Wireless
5 1 (1.05%) BGP
5 1 (1.05%) HTTP
5 1 (1.05%) MPLS
5 1 (1.05%) OSPF
5 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.05%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.32%) Power BI
2 12 (12.63%) Tableau
3 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.26%) Airbyte
4 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.21%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database 10g
5 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (3.16%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.11%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.11%) DB2
7 2 (2.11%) Metadata
7 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.11%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Git
2 8 (8.42%) Robot Framework
2 8 (8.42%) Selenium
3 6 (6.32%) Snyk
4 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.16%) GitLab
5 3 (3.16%) JIRA
6 2 (2.11%) MLflow
6 2 (2.11%) TestRail
7 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.05%) Gradle
7 1 (1.05%) LabVIEW
General
1 40 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Finance
4 6 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.21%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.21%) Multimedia
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.16%) Agriculture
7 3 (3.16%) Electronics
8 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.05%) Aviation
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Analyst
2 17 (17.89%) Senior
3 10 (10.53%) Consultant
3 10 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) Lead
5 8 (8.42%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Architect
6 7 (7.37%) Junior
7 6 (6.32%) Applications Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Junior Data Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Trainee
8 5 (5.26%) Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Principal Consultant
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.21%) DBA
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.42%) CSS
2 6 (6.32%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (6.32%) HTML
2 6 (6.32%) Kafka
3 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.16%) .NET
4 3 (3.16%) React
4 3 (3.16%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.16%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.11%) Keras
5 2 (2.11%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (2.11%) Metaflow
5 2 (2.11%) NumPy
5 2 (2.11%) Pandas
5 2 (2.11%) PySpark
5 2 (2.11%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.11%) REST
5 2 (2.11%) YAML
6 1 (1.05%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Low-Code
2 6 (6.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.21%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Replication
5 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.16%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.16%) SCADA
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.11%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (2.11%) IoT
6 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
1 2 (2.11%) Unix
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.42%) Agile
2 24 (25.26%) AI
2 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (24.21%) Data Science
4 15 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (14.74%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (14.74%) Data Analysis
5 14 (14.74%) Decision-Making
6 13 (13.68%) Analytics
6 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.68%) DevOps
6 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
7 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (12.63%) Visualisation
8 11 (11.58%) Mathematics
8 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
9 10 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.53%) SIEM
9 10 (10.53%) Use Case
10 9 (9.47%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.42%) SQL
2 19 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (16.84%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.58%) VBA
5 9 (9.47%) Bash
6 7 (7.37%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (7.37%) Rust
7 5 (5.26%) C#
7 5 (5.26%) MATLAB
7 5 (5.26%) VB
8 4 (4.21%) Bicep
8 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) Java
10 2 (2.11%) C++
10 2 (2.11%) Go
10 2 (2.11%) R
11 1 (1.05%) C
Qualifications
1 38 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (33.68%) Degree
3 28 (29.47%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.68%) DV Cleared
5 11 (11.58%) Azure Certification
5 11 (11.58%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.26%) APMP
6 5 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.26%) CEH
6 5 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (5.26%) MBA
7 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.16%) CISM
8 3 (3.16%) CISSP
8 3 (3.16%) HNC
8 3 (3.16%) OSCP
9 2 (2.11%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (9.47%) GDPR
3 5 (5.26%) NIST
4 3 (3.16%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.05%) Ceph
5 1 (1.05%) Lustre
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) Terraform
2 14 (14.74%) Ansible
3 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.21%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.16%) Grafana
5 3 (3.16%) QRadar
6 2 (2.11%) Functional Safety
6 2 (2.11%) Kubeflow
6 2 (2.11%) Nessus
7 1 (1.05%) WMI
Vendors
1 31 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.47%) VMware
3 7 (7.37%) Cisco
3 7 (7.37%) Splunk
4 6 (6.32%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (6.32%) Black Duck
4 6 (6.32%) Oracle
4 6 (6.32%) UiPath
5 5 (5.26%) Blue Prism
5 5 (5.26%) Coverity
5 5 (5.26%) SAP
6 4 (4.21%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.16%) Citrix
7 3 (3.16%) Databricks
7 3 (3.16%) F5
7 3 (3.16%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.16%) Rockwell
7 3 (3.16%) Siemens
8 2 (2.11%) AVEVA