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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 204 120 344
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.69% 7.66% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.35% 27.59% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 139 107 255
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £36,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,500 - £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,000 £63,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.36% +15.45% -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 532 435 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.83% 27.76% 31.96%
Number of salaries quoted 417 341 1,079
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -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 24 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 24 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 68 £65,000 +30.00% 14
Winchester +6 28 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Portsmouth -6 21 £63,750 +21.43% 11
Romsey +6 19 £82,500 +120.00% 9
Farnborough -10 17 £66,250 +89.29% 13
Fareham -14 15 £70,000 +115.38% 13
Eastleigh +2 4 £65,000 +52.94% 2
Waterlooville - 4 £75,000 -
Basingstoke -6 3 £52,500 -38.24% 4
Havant -5 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Aldershot - 1 - -
Hook - 1 - - 5
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 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.41%) Confluence
3 3 (1.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Qpid
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (24.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.94%) Simulink
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 104 (50.98%) Azure
2 54 (26.47%) Power Platform
3 50 (24.51%) Azure AI
4 39 (19.12%) AWS
5 21 (10.29%) Serverless
6 14 (6.86%) GCP
6 14 (6.86%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.92%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.94%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.96%) Datadog
13 3 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.39%) Wireless
2 10 (4.90%) Firewall
2 10 (4.90%) MQTT
3 9 (4.41%) LAN
3 9 (4.41%) VPN
3 9 (4.41%) WAN
4 7 (3.43%) BGP
4 7 (3.43%) MPLS
4 7 (3.43%) OSPF
4 7 (3.43%) SD-WAN
4 7 (3.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.43%) VXLAN
5 5 (2.45%) Internet
6 3 (1.47%) Network Security
6 3 (1.47%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (1.47%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.98%) FTP
7 2 (0.98%) HTTP
7 2 (0.98%) SMTP
8 1 (0.49%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (26.47%) Power BI
2 39 (19.12%) Tableau
3 13 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.98%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.98%) Metadata
8 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.98%) Redis
8 2 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.49%) Big Data
9 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.49%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 56 (27.45%) Git
2 28 (13.73%) GitLab
3 15 (7.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 11 (5.39%) JIRA
5 5 (2.45%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) Postman
7 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.49%) Toad
7 1 (0.49%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (44.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.88%) Finance
3 10 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.94%) Aerospace
4 6 (2.94%) Aviation
4 6 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.45%) Electronics
5 5 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.96%) Automotive
7 3 (1.47%) Legal
7 3 (1.47%) Marketing
7 3 (1.47%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.98%) Games
8 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (26.96%) Software Engineer
2 45 (22.06%) Analyst
3 40 (19.61%) Data Analyst
4 38 (18.63%) Junior
4 38 (18.63%) Junior Analyst
4 38 (18.63%) Junior Data Analyst
5 25 (12.25%) Developer
6 23 (11.27%) Senior
7 18 (8.82%) Consultant
8 16 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (5.88%) Lead
11 11 (5.39%) Python Developer
11 11 (5.39%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.82%) React
2 16 (7.84%) REST
3 12 (5.88%) Kafka
4 11 (5.39%) JSON
5 10 (4.90%) CSS
5 10 (4.90%) HTML
6 9 (4.41%) .NET
7 8 (3.92%) XML
8 7 (3.43%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.94%) YAML
10 5 (2.45%) Node.js
11 4 (1.96%) gRPC
11 4 (1.96%) Loki
11 4 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (1.96%) SOAP
12 3 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
12 3 (1.47%) Keycloak
12 3 (1.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.73%) Algorithms
2 17 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.90%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (3.92%) Robotics
5 7 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.43%) FPGA
6 6 (2.94%) Verilog
6 6 (2.94%) VHDL
7 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.45%) PCIe
8 4 (1.96%) ASIC
8 4 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.47%) IoT
9 3 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.98%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 46 (22.55%) Linux
2 17 (8.33%) Windows
3 9 (4.41%) Ubuntu
3 9 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.94%) CentOS
4 6 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.96%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.24%) AI
2 73 (35.78%) Software Engineering
3 62 (30.39%) Agile
4 57 (27.94%) CI/CD
5 46 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (21.57%) DevOps
7 36 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (15.69%) Computer Science
9 29 (14.22%) Containerisation
10 23 (11.27%) Observability
11 22 (10.78%) Decision-Making
11 22 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (10.29%) Software Architecture
13 20 (9.80%) Scrum
13 20 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (8.82%) Kanban
16 16 (7.84%) DevSecOps
16 16 (7.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.82%) SQL
2 41 (20.10%) C++
3 27 (13.24%) C#
3 27 (13.24%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.82%) Rust
5 17 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.84%) Bash
7 12 (5.88%) Java
8 11 (5.39%) C
8 11 (5.39%) VBA
9 9 (4.41%) MATLAB
10 8 (3.92%) Go
11 6 (2.94%) Embedded C
11 6 (2.94%) Embedded C++
12 5 (2.45%) PHP
13 3 (1.47%) R
14 2 (0.98%) Perl
15 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 60 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 60 (29.41%) Degree
3 45 (22.06%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.25%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.92%) APMP
6 8 (3.92%) MBA
7 7 (3.43%) CCNP
7 7 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.98%) CEH
9 2 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.98%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.49%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.41%) GDPR
2 6 (2.94%) QA
3 4 (1.96%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (24.51%) Docker
2 11 (5.39%) Firmware
3 4 (1.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.22%) Ansible
3 27 (13.24%) Terraform
4 14 (6.86%) Grafana
4 14 (6.86%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.41%) Nagios
6 8 (3.92%) Podman
7 7 (3.43%) FortiGate
7 7 (3.43%) Puppet
8 4 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.96%) Functional Safety
9 3 (1.47%) Scalr
10 2 (0.98%) QRadar
Vendors
1 60 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.88%) Oracle
2 12 (5.88%) Splunk
3 7 (3.43%) Cisco
3 7 (3.43%) Fortinet
3 7 (3.43%) Meraki
4 5 (2.45%) Tenable
5 4 (1.96%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.98%) Google
7 1 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.49%) Databricks
7 1 (0.49%) IFS
7 1 (0.49%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow