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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 149 154 273
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.92% 9.64% 7.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.89% 34.00% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 106 132 219
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -10.86%
75th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.40% +13.91% -6.81%

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 427 453 1,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.11% 28.37% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 357 392 997
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,938 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,250 £81,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 27 March 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 27 March 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 46 £65,000 +23.81% 16
Portsmouth -7 21 £70,000 +33.33% 8
Winchester +6 20 £45,000 -30.77% 5
Farnborough -10 7 £72,500 +107.14% 11
Alton - 7 £50,000 -
Fareham -26 6 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Romsey +8 5 £90,000 +38.46%
Basingstoke -20 5 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Eastleigh -9 3 £65,000 -17.46% 7
Hook - 2 - -
Aldershot - 1 - - 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 16 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Qpid
3 2 (1.34%) WordPress
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) Appian
Applications
1 51 (34.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 74 (49.66%) Azure
2 51 (34.23%) Power Platform
3 34 (22.82%) Azure AI
4 29 (19.46%) AWS
5 24 (16.11%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (10.74%) PowerApps
7 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (4.03%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.03%) GCP
7 6 (4.03%) GitHub
8 5 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.01%) Azure Stack
10 3 (2.01%) Serverless
11 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.34%) Datadog
11 2 (1.34%) SaaS
11 2 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.05%) Firewall
2 9 (6.04%) Wireless
3 8 (5.37%) BGP
3 8 (5.37%) LAN
3 8 (5.37%) MPLS
3 8 (5.37%) OSPF
3 8 (5.37%) SD-WAN
3 8 (5.37%) VPN
3 8 (5.37%) VXLAN
3 8 (5.37%) WAN
4 6 (4.03%) Internet
5 4 (2.68%) MQTT
6 2 (1.34%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.67%) Broadband
7 1 (0.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.67%) DNS
7 1 (0.67%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (33.56%) Power BI
2 35 (23.49%) Tableau
3 7 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle Database 10g
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.01%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.34%) Redis
7 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) Big Data
7 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (16.11%) Git
2 12 (8.05%) GitLab
3 7 (4.70%) JIRA
4 4 (2.68%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.01%) Selenium
6 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.34%) TestRail
6 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.67%) Snyk
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) Toad
7 1 (0.67%) utPLSQL
General
1 67 (44.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.03%) Finance
3 6 (4.03%) Multimedia
4 4 (2.68%) Aviation
5 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.34%) Electronics
6 2 (1.34%) Games
6 2 (1.34%) Legal
6 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.34%) Marketing
7 1 (0.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) Analyst
2 33 (22.15%) Data Analyst
3 32 (21.48%) Junior
3 32 (21.48%) Junior Analyst
3 32 (21.48%) Junior Data Analyst
4 23 (15.44%) Software Engineer
5 22 (14.77%) Consultant
6 17 (11.41%) Developer
7 16 (10.74%) Senior
8 13 (8.72%) Principal Consultant
9 11 (7.38%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Trainee
11 8 (5.37%) Cisco Consultant
11 8 (5.37%) Cisco Network Consultant
11 8 (5.37%) Network Consultant
11 8 (5.37%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) WAN Consultant
12 7 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.72%) REST
2 10 (6.71%) React
3 8 (5.37%) CSS
3 8 (5.37%) HTML
4 7 (4.70%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.70%) Kafka
5 3 (2.01%) JSON
6 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.34%) Loki
6 2 (1.34%) Node.js
6 2 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.34%) SOAP
6 2 (1.34%) XML
6 2 (1.34%) YAML
7 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.67%) Django
7 1 (0.67%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.67%) Flask
7 1 (0.67%) PySpark
7 1 (0.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.04%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.36%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.68%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.68%) Replication
6 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.34%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.67%) FPGA
7 1 (0.67%) GNSS
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.67%) PKI
7 1 (0.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.72%) Linux
2 8 (5.37%) Windows
3 6 (4.03%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.01%) CentOS
4 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) AI
2 44 (29.53%) Agile
3 36 (24.16%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (22.15%) Software Engineering
5 28 (18.79%) Data Science
6 25 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (14.09%) CI/CD
8 19 (12.75%) Data Analysis
9 17 (11.41%) Decision-Making
9 17 (11.41%) DevOps
9 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (10.07%) Containerisation
11 15 (10.07%) Mentoring
11 15 (10.07%) Observability
11 15 (10.07%) Technical Architecture
12 14 (9.40%) Project Management
13 13 (8.72%) Digital Enablement
13 13 (8.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (33.56%) SQL
2 24 (16.11%) PowerShell
3 17 (11.41%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.74%) VBA
5 14 (9.40%) Rust
6 13 (8.72%) Bash
7 10 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.03%) C#
9 5 (3.36%) C++
10 4 (2.68%) Bicep
10 4 (2.68%) Java
10 4 (2.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.68%) R
11 3 (2.01%) C
11 3 (2.01%) Go
12 2 (1.34%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.34%) PHP
13 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 40 (26.85%) Azure Certification
3 39 (26.17%) SC Cleared
4 30 (20.13%) Degree
5 21 (14.09%) Master's Degree
6 13 (8.72%) APMP
6 13 (8.72%) MBA
7 8 (5.37%) CCNP
7 8 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (4.03%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.34%) CEH
10 2 (1.34%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.34%) GCIH
10 2 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.03%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.34%) NIST
4 1 (0.67%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 22 (14.77%) Docker
2 5 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Ceph
3 1 (0.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.67%) Lustre
3 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (14.09%) Ansible
1 21 (14.09%) Terraform
2 17 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.04%) Grafana
3 9 (6.04%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.37%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.03%) Nagios
6 2 (1.34%) Nessus
6 2 (1.34%) Scalr
7 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.67%) Podman
7 1 (0.67%) Puppet
7 1 (0.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 57 (38.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.71%) Splunk
3 8 (5.37%) Cisco
3 8 (5.37%) Fortinet
3 8 (5.37%) Meraki
4 7 (4.70%) Oracle
5 4 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.68%) SAP
5 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.34%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.67%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.67%) Coverity
7 1 (0.67%) Databricks
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) IFS
7 1 (0.67%) Tenable
7 1 (0.67%) UiPath