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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 20 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +18
Permanent jobs citing Python 102 240 250
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.04% 8.59% 15.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.72% 29.16% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 78 170 169
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,563 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £68,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,250 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,550
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 449 823 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.78% 29.45% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 371 570 535
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,063 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,375 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,875 £81,500
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 18 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 18 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
Southampton +1 22 £60,000 +50.00% 15
Portsmouth -1 22 £70,000 +40.00% 20
Basingstoke -22 13 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Winchester +12 11 £52,500 -16.00% 8
Alton - 7 £50,000 -
Farnborough -13 3 £75,000 +108.33% 4
Fareham -10 2 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Hook - 2 - -
Eastleigh -5 1 £55,000 -30.16% 4
Petersfield - 1 £75,900 - 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 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.88%) Appian
3 5 (4.90%) Apache
4 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (25.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.98%) Mathcad
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Simulink
2 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.98%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (44.12%) Azure
2 35 (34.31%) Power Platform
3 29 (28.43%) AWS
4 21 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (11.76%) PowerApps
6 10 (9.80%) Azure AI
7 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.84%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (5.88%) MinIO
10 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.90%) GCP
10 5 (4.90%) GitHub
11 3 (2.94%) SaaS
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) Firewall
2 7 (6.86%) VPN
3 6 (5.88%) LAN
4 5 (4.90%) Internet
4 5 (4.90%) Wireless
5 4 (3.92%) BGP
5 4 (3.92%) MPLS
5 4 (3.92%) OSPF
5 4 (3.92%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.92%) VXLAN
5 4 (3.92%) WAN
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.96%) InfiniBand
6 2 (1.96%) Junos
7 1 (0.98%) HTTP
7 1 (0.98%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.43%) Power BI
2 15 (14.71%) Tableau
3 7 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.90%) Airbyte
5 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database 10g
5 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.96%) DB2
7 2 (1.96%) Metadata
7 2 (1.96%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Git
2 8 (7.84%) Robot Framework
2 8 (7.84%) Selenium
3 6 (5.88%) Snyk
4 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.94%) GitLab
5 3 (2.94%) JIRA
6 2 (1.96%) MLflow
6 2 (1.96%) TestRail
7 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.98%) Gradle
General
1 45 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.88%) Finance
3 6 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Multimedia
5 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.94%) Agriculture
6 3 (2.94%) Electronics
6 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (23.53%) Analyst
2 17 (16.67%) Senior
3 14 (13.73%) Consultant
4 13 (12.75%) Data Analyst
5 11 (10.78%) Junior
5 11 (10.78%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Junior Analyst
6 10 (9.80%) Junior Data Analyst
7 8 (7.84%) Security Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Architect
8 7 (6.86%) Trainee
9 6 (5.88%) Applications Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Lead
9 6 (5.88%) Principal Consultant
10 5 (4.90%) Administrator
10 5 (4.90%) Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Senior Security Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.92%) Network Consultant
11 4 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) CSS
1 7 (6.86%) HTML
2 6 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (5.88%) Kafka
3 5 (4.90%) React
3 5 (4.90%) REST
4 4 (3.92%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.94%) PySpark
5 3 (2.94%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.94%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.96%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.96%) Keras
6 2 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.96%) Metaflow
6 2 (1.96%) NumPy
6 2 (1.96%) Pandas
6 2 (1.96%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.96%) YAML
7 1 (0.98%) Drools
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 6 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (4.90%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.92%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.92%) Replication
5 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.98%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Linux
1 2 (1.96%) Unix
2 1 (0.98%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.45%) AI
2 27 (26.47%) Agile
3 24 (23.53%) Data Science
3 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (14.71%) Data Analysis
5 15 (14.71%) Decision-Making
5 15 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 14 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
8 12 (11.76%) Analytics
8 12 (11.76%) DevOps
8 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (10.78%) Mathematics
9 11 (10.78%) Test Automation
9 11 (10.78%) Visualisation
10 10 (9.80%) SIEM
10 10 (9.80%) Use Case
11 9 (8.82%) Mentoring
11 9 (8.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.41%) SQL
2 19 (18.63%) PowerShell
3 16 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.76%) VBA
5 9 (8.82%) Bash
6 7 (6.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (6.86%) Rust
7 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.90%) MATLAB
9 4 (3.92%) Bicep
10 3 (2.94%) Java
10 3 (2.94%) R
10 3 (2.94%) VB
11 2 (1.96%) Go
12 1 (0.98%) C#
12 1 (0.98%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 30 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 29 (28.43%) Degree
4 16 (15.69%) Azure Certification
5 12 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 12 (11.76%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.88%) APMP
6 6 (5.88%) MBA
7 5 (4.90%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.90%) CEH
7 5 (4.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.92%) CCNP
8 4 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.94%) CISM
9 3 (2.94%) CISSP
9 3 (2.94%) OSCP
10 2 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.84%) GDPR
3 5 (4.90%) NIST
4 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.98%) Ceph
4 1 (0.98%) Lustre
4 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (19.61%) Terraform
2 16 (15.69%) Ansible
3 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.94%) Grafana
6 3 (2.94%) QRadar
7 2 (1.96%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.96%) Nessus
8 1 (0.98%) WMI
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.82%) Cisco
3 7 (6.86%) Oracle
3 7 (6.86%) Splunk
3 7 (6.86%) VMware
4 6 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (5.88%) Black Duck
4 6 (5.88%) UiPath
5 5 (4.90%) Blue Prism
5 5 (4.90%) Coverity
5 5 (4.90%) SAP
6 4 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.92%) Databricks
6 4 (3.92%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.92%) Meraki
6 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.96%) Citrix
8 2 (1.96%) F5
9 1 (0.98%) MathWorks