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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 30 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 250 108 368
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.52% 5.69% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.11% 21.69% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 187 86 264
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,875 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £79,375 £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 712 498 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.72% 26.25% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 578 356 922
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,625 £35,000
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 £71,563 £68,438
90th Percentile £86,500 £79,375 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,145 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.87% +2.08% -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 2 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 2 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 +14 67 £65,000 +44.44% 25
Fareham -5 32 £70,000 +115.38% 6
Winchester - 30 £57,500 - 5
Farnborough -13 28 £62,500 +64.47% 10
Romsey +4 20 £82,500 +120.00% 1
Portsmouth -4 20 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Andover - 8 £90,000 - 3
Eastleigh +6 7 £65,000 +33.33%
Basingstoke -5 4 £52,500 -38.24% 14
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 (4.40%) Confluence
2 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.20%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (18.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.20%) Simulink
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 110 (44.00%) Azure
2 47 (18.80%) Power Platform
3 43 (17.20%) AWS
4 40 (16.00%) Azure AI
5 24 (9.60%) Serverless
6 17 (6.80%) GCP
7 13 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (5.20%) PowerApps
8 10 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.60%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.20%) Azure Functions
10 8 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.20%) GitHub
11 7 (2.80%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.00%) Datadog
12 5 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) MQTT
1 12 (4.80%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.60%) Wireless
3 6 (2.40%) Firewall
3 6 (2.40%) Wireshark
4 5 (2.00%) 5G
5 4 (1.60%) VPN
5 4 (1.60%) WAN
6 3 (1.20%) FTP
6 3 (1.20%) HTTP
6 3 (1.20%) Internet
6 3 (1.20%) LAN
6 3 (1.20%) Network Security
6 3 (1.20%) SMTP
7 2 (0.80%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.80%) ATM
7 2 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.40%) Broadband
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (18.40%) Power BI
2 29 (11.60%) Tableau
3 12 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.80%) Looker
8 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.80%) 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 64 (25.60%) Git
2 32 (12.80%) GitLab
3 16 (6.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 15 (6.00%) JIRA
5 11 (4.40%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.00%) CMake
6 5 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.40%) Gatling
9 1 (0.40%) GDB
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.40%) Selenium
9 1 (0.40%) Subversion
9 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 89 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.40%) Finance
3 16 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (4.80%) Electronics
5 10 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.40%) Aviation
8 5 (2.00%) Automotive
9 3 (1.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.80%) Advertising
10 2 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 90 (36.00%) Software Engineer
2 45 (18.00%) Analyst
3 33 (13.20%) Senior
4 31 (12.40%) Data Analyst
5 29 (11.60%) Lead
6 28 (11.20%) Junior
6 28 (11.20%) Junior Analyst
6 28 (11.20%) Junior Data Analyst
7 21 (8.40%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (7.20%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.80%) Developer
10 15 (6.00%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (5.60%) Embedded Engineer
12 13 (5.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (5.20%) Consultant
13 12 (4.80%) Python Engineer
13 12 (4.80%) Python Software Engineer
14 11 (4.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.20%) JSON
2 17 (6.80%) React
3 15 (6.00%) CSS
3 15 (6.00%) HTML
3 15 (6.00%) XML
4 14 (5.60%) Kafka
5 11 (4.40%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.60%) .NET
6 9 (3.60%) REST
7 7 (2.80%) YAML
8 6 (2.40%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.40%) Django
8 6 (2.40%) Node.js
8 6 (2.40%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.00%) gRPC
9 5 (2.00%) Loki
9 5 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.00%) Yocto
10 4 (1.60%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.60%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.60%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.80%) Robotics
4 13 (5.20%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.00%) FPGA
6 9 (3.60%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.80%) Verilog
7 7 (2.80%) VHDL
8 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.40%) PCIe
9 4 (1.60%) ASIC
10 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.20%) IoT
10 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 76 (30.40%) Linux
2 33 (13.20%) Windows
3 11 (4.40%) Ubuntu
3 11 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.60%) Embedded Linux
4 9 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.80%) CentOS
6 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.80%) Debian
7 2 (0.80%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (42.00%) Software Engineering
2 85 (34.00%) AI
3 82 (32.80%) CI/CD
4 72 (28.80%) Agile
5 60 (24.00%) DevOps
6 46 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.60%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (14.80%) Computer Science
10 36 (14.40%) Software Architecture
11 25 (10.00%) Observability
12 24 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (9.60%) Decision-Making
12 24 (9.60%) Scrum
12 24 (9.60%) Test Automation
13 23 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (8.00%) Data Analysis
14 20 (8.00%) DevSecOps
14 20 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.80%) C++
2 69 (27.60%) SQL
3 40 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 31 (12.40%) C
5 30 (12.00%) C#
6 29 (11.60%) Bash
7 22 (8.80%) PowerShell
8 20 (8.00%) Java
9 19 (7.60%) Rust
10 17 (6.80%) TypeScript
11 12 (4.80%) Go
12 11 (4.40%) Embedded C++
12 11 (4.40%) PHP
13 10 (4.00%) MATLAB
13 10 (4.00%) VBA
14 7 (2.80%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.20%) Ada
15 3 (1.20%) Perl
16 2 (0.80%) Ruby
16 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 78 (31.20%) Degree
3 55 (22.00%) SC Cleared
4 50 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 27 (10.80%) DV Cleared
6 23 (9.20%) Master's Degree
7 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.20%) APMP
9 3 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.20%) MBA
10 2 (0.80%) CEH
10 2 (0.80%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.80%) 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 (3.20%) GDPR
2 6 (2.40%) QA
3 4 (1.60%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (26.00%) Docker
2 16 (6.40%) Firmware
3 10 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.80%) Xen
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (17.60%) Kubernetes
2 38 (15.20%) Terraform
3 33 (13.20%) Ansible
4 16 (6.40%) Grafana
4 16 (6.40%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.00%) Podman
6 9 (3.60%) Nagios
7 8 (3.20%) Puppet
8 5 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.60%) Functional Safety
10 3 (1.20%) QRadar
10 3 (1.20%) Scalr
11 2 (0.80%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.80%) Rancher
11 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.40%) Cilium
12 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.80%) Splunk
3 10 (4.00%) Oracle
4 5 (2.00%) Tenable
5 4 (1.60%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.80%) Databricks
6 2 (0.80%) Google
6 2 (0.80%) NetApp
6 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.80%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.40%) Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) IBM
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir