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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 225 116 387
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.56% 6.80% 8.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.38% 24.89% 27.22%
Number of salaries quoted 163 94 283
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £37,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,125 £82,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -15.38%

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 602 466 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.88% 27.30% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 479 341 1,141
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £40,600 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +12 65 £65,000 +30.00% 17
Winchester - 28 £57,500 - 4
Fareham -13 27 £70,000 +115.38% 20
Farnborough -12 23 £61,250 +75.00% 24
Romsey +5 20 £82,500 +120.00% 2
Portsmouth -8 20 £62,500 +14.26% 17
Eastleigh +5 6 £65,000 +52.94% 2
Waterlooville - 4 £75,000 -
Basingstoke -8 2 £52,500 -38.24% 7
Havant -6 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Aldershot - 1 - - 1
Andover - 1 £90,000 - 3
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 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.44%) Confluence
3 4 (1.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Qpid
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (20.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.56%) Simulink
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.44%) Azure
2 48 (21.33%) Power Platform
3 44 (19.56%) Azure AI
4 40 (17.78%) AWS
5 22 (9.78%) Serverless
6 16 (7.11%) GCP
6 16 (7.11%) PowerApps
7 13 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.56%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.11%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.11%) Azure Stack
9 7 (3.11%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.22%) Datadog
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.89%) MQTT
2 8 (3.56%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.11%) Wireless
4 6 (2.67%) Firewall
4 6 (2.67%) VPN
4 6 (2.67%) WAN
5 5 (2.22%) LAN
6 4 (1.78%) BGP
6 4 (1.78%) MPLS
6 4 (1.78%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.33%) Internet
7 3 (1.33%) Network Security
7 3 (1.33%) OSPF
7 3 (1.33%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.33%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (1.33%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.89%) FTP
8 2 (0.89%) HTTP
8 2 (0.89%) SMTP
9 1 (0.44%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (21.33%) Power BI
2 33 (14.67%) Tableau
3 12 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.89%) Looker
7 2 (0.89%) Metadata
7 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.89%) Redis
7 2 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 61 (27.11%) Git
2 31 (13.78%) GitLab
3 16 (7.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 13 (5.78%) JIRA
5 5 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) CMake
8 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.44%) Gatling
8 1 (0.44%) JMeter
8 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.44%) Postman
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) Toad
8 1 (0.44%) utPLSQL
General
1 89 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.22%) Finance
3 12 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (3.11%) Aviation
5 7 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.11%) Electronics
6 6 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.78%) Automotive
8 3 (1.33%) Legal
9 2 (0.89%) Advertising
9 2 (0.89%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 78 (34.67%) Software Engineer
2 44 (19.56%) Analyst
3 35 (15.56%) Data Analyst
4 32 (14.22%) Junior
4 32 (14.22%) Junior Analyst
4 32 (14.22%) Junior Data Analyst
5 31 (13.78%) Senior
6 23 (10.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (8.89%) Developer
8 19 (8.44%) Lead
9 16 (7.11%) Consultant
10 13 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Principal Software Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Python Software Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Embedded Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 10 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.11%) JSON
1 16 (7.11%) React
2 13 (5.78%) CSS
2 13 (5.78%) HTML
2 13 (5.78%) Kafka
2 13 (5.78%) XML
3 12 (5.33%) REST
4 9 (4.00%) .NET
5 8 (3.56%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.11%) YAML
7 5 (2.22%) Loki
7 5 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.78%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.78%) Django
8 4 (1.78%) gRPC
8 4 (1.78%) Node.js
8 4 (1.78%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (1.78%) SOAP
8 4 (1.78%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.89%) Algorithms
2 18 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.22%) Robotics
4 12 (5.33%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.00%) FPGA
7 7 (3.11%) Verilog
7 7 (3.11%) VHDL
8 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.67%) PCIe
9 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.78%) ASIC
11 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.33%) IoT
11 3 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.89%) MISP
12 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.67%) Linux
2 26 (11.56%) Windows
3 10 (4.44%) Ubuntu
3 10 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.11%) CentOS
4 7 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.33%) Software Engineering
2 76 (33.78%) AI
3 71 (31.56%) Agile
4 68 (30.22%) CI/CD
5 53 (23.56%) DevOps
6 38 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (16.44%) Computer Science
7 37 (16.44%) Containerisation
8 36 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (13.33%) Software Architecture
10 25 (11.11%) Observability
11 24 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.22%) Decision-Making
12 23 (10.22%) Scrum
13 22 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (8.89%) Data Analysis
14 20 (8.89%) Kanban
14 20 (8.89%) Mentoring
15 18 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.56%) C++
1 62 (27.56%) SQL
2 35 (15.56%) JavaScript
3 30 (13.33%) C#
4 25 (11.11%) C
5 21 (9.33%) Bash
6 20 (8.89%) Rust
7 19 (8.44%) PowerShell
8 17 (7.56%) Java
8 17 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.78%) VBA
10 11 (4.89%) Go
10 11 (4.89%) MATLAB
11 7 (3.11%) Embedded C
11 7 (3.11%) Embedded C++
11 7 (3.11%) PHP
12 2 (0.89%) Perl
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (40.89%) Security Cleared
2 71 (31.56%) Degree
3 54 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 52 (23.11%) Azure Certification
5 28 (12.44%) Master's Degree
6 21 (9.33%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.11%) APMP
9 7 (3.11%) MBA
10 3 (1.33%) CCNP
10 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.89%) CEH
11 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.89%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.44%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.56%) GDPR
2 7 (3.11%) QA
3 4 (1.78%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (26.22%) Docker
2 17 (7.56%) Firmware
3 10 (4.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.78%) Terraform
3 29 (12.89%) Ansible
4 15 (6.67%) Grafana
4 15 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.44%) Nagios
6 9 (4.00%) Podman
7 7 (3.11%) Puppet
8 5 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.78%) Functional Safety
10 3 (1.33%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.33%) Scalr
11 2 (0.89%) QRadar
12 1 (0.44%) Cilium
12 1 (0.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.33%) Splunk
3 11 (4.89%) Oracle
4 5 (2.22%) Tenable
5 4 (1.78%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.33%) Cisco
6 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.33%) Google
6 3 (1.33%) Meraki
7 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.44%) IFS
7 1 (0.44%) Yahoo!