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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 248 105 380
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.24% 5.43% 10.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.43% 21.00% 31.35%
Number of salaries quoted 188 81 271
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,063 £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 £72,500 £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 700 500 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.80% 25.87% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 569 356 915
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,200
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 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%

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 14 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 14 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 +11 68 £65,000 +44.44% 22
Fareham -8 32 £70,000 +115.38% 5
Farnborough -15 32 £65,000 +7.88% 18
Winchester - 29 £57,500 - 2
Romsey +3 20 £82,500 +120.00% 1
Portsmouth -3 18 £57,500 -4.17% 19
Andover - 8 £90,000 - 2
Eastleigh +6 7 £65,000 +33.33% 1
Basingstoke -5 5 £52,500 -35.38% 16
Waterlooville - 4 £75,000 -
Havant -5 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 10 (4.03%) Confluence
2 9 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.23%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.81%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (16.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.63%) Simulink
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 105 (42.34%) Azure
2 43 (17.34%) AWS
3 42 (16.94%) Power Platform
4 36 (14.52%) Azure AI
5 23 (9.27%) Serverless
6 16 (6.45%) GCP
7 12 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.84%) PowerApps
8 10 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.63%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.63%) GitHub
10 8 (3.23%) Azure Functions
10 8 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.42%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.02%) Datadog
12 5 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.84%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.44%) MQTT
2 11 (4.44%) Wireless
3 7 (2.82%) Firewall
4 6 (2.42%) 5G
4 6 (2.42%) Wireshark
5 5 (2.02%) VPN
5 5 (2.02%) WAN
6 4 (1.61%) LAN
6 4 (1.61%) Network Security
7 3 (1.21%) FTP
7 3 (1.21%) HTTP
7 3 (1.21%) Internet
7 3 (1.21%) SMTP
8 2 (0.81%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.81%) ATM
8 2 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.53%) Power BI
2 25 (10.08%) Tableau
3 12 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.81%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.81%) Looker
8 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.81%) 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 65 (26.21%) Git
2 29 (11.69%) GitLab
3 16 (6.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 14 (5.65%) JIRA
5 11 (4.44%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.02%) CMake
7 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.81%) 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 84 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (6.85%) Finance
2 17 (6.85%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (4.84%) Electronics
4 10 (4.03%) Aerospace
5 7 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.42%) Aviation
7 5 (2.02%) Automotive
8 3 (1.21%) Legal
8 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.81%) Advertising
9 2 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 94 (37.90%) Software Engineer
2 42 (16.94%) Analyst
3 35 (14.11%) Senior
4 29 (11.69%) Lead
5 27 (10.89%) Data Analyst
6 25 (10.08%) Junior
7 24 (9.68%) Junior Analyst
7 24 (9.68%) Junior Data Analyst
8 21 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (7.66%) Principal Engineer
10 17 (6.85%) Data Engineer
11 15 (6.05%) Developer
11 15 (6.05%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (5.65%) Embedded Engineer
13 13 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (4.84%) Consultant
14 12 (4.84%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.84%) Python Software Engineer
15 11 (4.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 10 (4.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.26%) React
2 17 (6.85%) JSON
3 15 (6.05%) CSS
3 15 (6.05%) HTML
4 14 (5.65%) XML
5 13 (5.24%) Kafka
6 10 (4.03%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.63%) .NET
8 8 (3.23%) REST
9 7 (2.82%) YAML
10 6 (2.42%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.42%) Django
10 6 (2.42%) Node.js
10 6 (2.42%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.02%) gRPC
11 5 (2.02%) Loki
11 5 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.02%) Yocto
12 4 (1.61%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.61%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.94%) Algorithms
2 18 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.85%) Robotics
4 13 (5.24%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (4.84%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.44%) FPGA
7 9 (3.63%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.23%) Verilog
8 8 (3.23%) VHDL
9 7 (2.82%) PCIe
10 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.61%) ASIC
12 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.21%) IoT
12 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 74 (29.84%) Linux
2 32 (12.90%) Windows
3 10 (4.03%) Ubuntu
3 10 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.63%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.42%) CentOS
7 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.81%) Debian
8 2 (0.81%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (43.55%) Software Engineering
2 82 (33.06%) AI
3 81 (32.66%) CI/CD
4 71 (28.63%) Agile
5 58 (23.39%) DevOps
6 45 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.74%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.32%) Computer Science
9 35 (14.11%) Software Architecture
10 34 (13.71%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (10.48%) Test Automation
12 24 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (9.27%) Decision-Making
13 23 (9.27%) Scrum
14 22 (8.87%) Observability
15 21 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (8.06%) Data Analysis
16 20 (8.06%) DevSecOps
16 20 (8.06%) Mentoring
16 20 (8.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (32.26%) C++
2 66 (26.61%) SQL
3 42 (16.94%) JavaScript
4 32 (12.90%) C
5 30 (12.10%) C#
6 28 (11.29%) Bash
7 22 (8.87%) Java
7 22 (8.87%) PowerShell
8 19 (7.66%) Rust
9 17 (6.85%) TypeScript
10 15 (6.05%) Go
11 12 (4.84%) Embedded C++
12 11 (4.44%) MATLAB
13 9 (3.63%) PHP
13 9 (3.63%) VBA
14 8 (3.23%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.21%) Ada
15 3 (1.21%) Perl
16 2 (0.81%) Ruby
16 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (39.52%) Security Cleared
2 77 (31.05%) Degree
3 51 (20.56%) SC Cleared
4 46 (18.55%) Azure Certification
5 28 (11.29%) DV Cleared
6 22 (8.87%) Master's Degree
7 10 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.81%) CEH
10 2 (0.81%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.81%) HNC
11 1 (0.40%) APMP
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) CCA
11 1 (0.40%) CCNA
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.23%) GDPR
2 6 (2.42%) QA
3 4 (1.61%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (25.81%) Docker
2 16 (6.45%) Firmware
3 10 (4.03%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.81%) Xen
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 35 (14.11%) Terraform
3 30 (12.10%) Ansible
4 14 (5.65%) Grafana
4 14 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.63%) Podman
6 8 (3.23%) Nagios
7 7 (2.82%) Puppet
8 4 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.61%) Functional Safety
9 3 (1.21%) QRadar
9 3 (1.21%) Scalr
10 2 (0.81%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.81%) Rancher
10 2 (0.81%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.40%) Cilium
11 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 47 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.44%) Splunk
3 10 (4.03%) Oracle
4 4 (1.61%) NVIDIA
4 4 (1.61%) Tenable
5 3 (1.21%) Google
6 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.81%) Databricks
6 2 (0.81%) NetApp
6 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.81%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.40%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco
7 1 (0.40%) F5
7 1 (0.40%) Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) IBM
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir