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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +15
Permanent jobs citing Python 96 229 252
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.87% 8.69% 12.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.30% 30.01% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 73 158 174
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,125 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,500 £82,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £90,000
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 395 763 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.91% 28.96% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 334 516 618
10th Percentile £30,200 £38,162 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,438 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +8 23 £60,000 +71.43% 21
Portsmouth +2 21 £70,000 +40.00% 24
Winchester +9 11 £52,500 -16.00% 6
Basingstoke -25 8 £71,250 -5.00% 27
Alton - 7 £50,000 -
Farnborough -9 4 £73,750 +104.86% 10
Hook - 2 - - 2
Fareham -16 1 £55,000 -12.00% 6
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 13 (13.54%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.13%) Apache
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.13%) Appian
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (28.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.04%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) Azure
2 31 (32.29%) Power Platform
3 22 (22.92%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (19.79%) AWS
5 13 (13.54%) PowerApps
6 10 (10.42%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.21%) GitHub
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.13%) MinIO
8 3 (3.13%) SaaS
9 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.08%) GCP
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) Firewall
2 8 (8.33%) Wireless
3 7 (7.29%) BGP
3 7 (7.29%) LAN
3 7 (7.29%) MPLS
3 7 (7.29%) OSPF
3 7 (7.29%) SD-WAN
3 7 (7.29%) VPN
3 7 (7.29%) VXLAN
3 7 (7.29%) WAN
4 5 (5.21%) Internet
5 2 (2.08%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.04%) HTTP
6 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.17%) Power BI
2 13 (13.54%) Tableau
3 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database 10g
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.13%) Airbyte
6 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.08%) DB2
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.04%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.04%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.04%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.04%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) Robot Framework
2 5 (5.21%) Selenium
3 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.13%) GitLab
4 3 (3.13%) JIRA
4 3 (3.13%) Snyk
5 2 (2.08%) TestRail
6 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.04%) Gradle
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.21%) Finance
4 5 (5.21%) Multimedia
5 4 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.13%) Agriculture
6 3 (3.13%) Electronics
6 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Analyst
2 18 (18.75%) Consultant
3 16 (16.67%) Senior
4 11 (11.46%) Data Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Junior
5 10 (10.42%) Junior Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Junior Data Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Cisco Consultant
7 7 (7.29%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Network Consultant
7 7 (7.29%) Principal Consultant
7 7 (7.29%) Trainee
7 7 (7.29%) WAN Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Lead
9 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.21%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) React
2 8 (8.33%) REST
3 6 (6.25%) CSS
3 6 (6.25%) HTML
4 4 (4.17%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.13%) Kafka
6 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.08%) Node.js
7 1 (1.04%) Django
7 1 (1.04%) Drools
7 1 (1.04%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.04%) Flask
7 1 (1.04%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.04%) PySpark
7 1 (1.04%) RESTful
7 1 (1.04%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.04%) Spring
7 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.17%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.17%) Replication
4 3 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.04%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.04%) PKI
6 1 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.04%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.17%) AI
2 26 (27.08%) Agile
3 25 (26.04%) Data Science
4 20 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.63%) Data Analysis
7 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 11 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (10.42%) Analytics
9 10 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.38%) DevOps
10 9 (9.38%) Mathematics
10 9 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 9 (9.38%) Technical Architecture
11 8 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.33%) Machine Learning
11 8 (8.33%) Project Management
11 8 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) SQL
2 17 (17.71%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.54%) VBA
5 7 (7.29%) Bash
5 7 (7.29%) Rust
5 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.17%) Bicep
6 4 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (4.17%) MATLAB
7 3 (3.13%) Java
7 3 (3.13%) R
8 1 (1.04%) C++
8 1 (1.04%) Go
8 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (30.21%) SC Cleared
3 25 (26.04%) Degree
4 16 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 13 (13.54%) Master's Degree
6 9 (9.38%) DV Cleared
7 7 (7.29%) APMP
7 7 (7.29%) CCNP
7 7 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (7.29%) MBA
8 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.08%) CEH
10 2 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.08%) GCIH
10 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
10 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.04%) Ceph
3 1 (1.04%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 15 (15.63%) Ansible
2 13 (13.54%) Terraform
3 7 (7.29%) FortiGate
3 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.13%) Grafana
6 2 (2.08%) Nessus
7 1 (1.04%) Nagios
7 1 (1.04%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Cisco
2 7 (7.29%) Fortinet
2 7 (7.29%) Meraki
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 5 (5.21%) SAP
3 5 (5.21%) Splunk
4 4 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.17%) VMware
5 3 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (3.13%) Black Duck
5 3 (3.13%) Blue Prism
5 3 (3.13%) Coverity
5 3 (3.13%) UiPath
6 2 (2.08%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) ANSYS
7 1 (1.04%) Keysight