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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 194 131 348
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.44% 8.17% 8.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.57% 29.44% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 130 114 257
10th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £34,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,875 - £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -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 503 445 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.12% 27.74% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 395 370 1,082
10th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £31,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 63 £65,000 +23.81% 18
Winchester +6 31 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Portsmouth -8 24 £70,000 +33.33% 16
Romsey +4 15 £82,500 +120.00% 7
Fareham -19 10 £70,000 +115.38% 17
Farnborough -17 9 £72,500 +107.14% 14
Basingstoke -7 5 £58,750 -30.88% 8
Alton - 5 £50,000 -
Eastleigh -4 4 £65,000 -16.13% 1
Waterlooville - 2 £75,000 - 1
Havant - 1 £57,500 - 2
Aldershot - 1 - -
Hook - 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 13 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Qpid
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (28.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) Simulink
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 99 (51.03%) Azure
2 60 (30.93%) Power Platform
3 54 (27.84%) Azure AI
4 34 (17.53%) AWS
5 18 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (8.25%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.70%) Serverless
8 10 (5.15%) GCP
9 7 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.58%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.06%) Azure Stack
12 4 (2.06%) GitHub
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) Wireless
2 11 (5.67%) Firewall
3 8 (4.12%) BGP
3 8 (4.12%) LAN
3 8 (4.12%) MPLS
3 8 (4.12%) OSPF
3 8 (4.12%) SD-WAN
3 8 (4.12%) VPN
3 8 (4.12%) VXLAN
3 8 (4.12%) WAN
4 5 (2.58%) MQTT
5 4 (2.06%) Internet
6 2 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) Broadband
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DNS
7 1 (0.52%) Network Security
7 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.93%) Power BI
2 43 (22.16%) Tableau
3 10 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.03%) Metadata
8 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.03%) Redis
8 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 43 (22.16%) Git
2 24 (12.37%) GitLab
3 15 (7.73%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (5.15%) JIRA
5 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.03%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) TestRail
7 1 (0.52%) Toad
7 1 (0.52%) utPLSQL
General
1 91 (46.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.67%) Finance
3 9 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.58%) Electronics
4 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.06%) Automotive
5 4 (2.06%) Aviation
5 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.06%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.55%) Legal
6 3 (1.55%) Marketing
7 2 (1.03%) Games
7 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 50 (25.77%) Analyst
2 44 (22.68%) Data Analyst
2 44 (22.68%) Software Engineer
3 42 (21.65%) Junior
3 42 (21.65%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (21.65%) Junior Data Analyst
4 25 (12.89%) Senior
5 23 (11.86%) Developer
6 20 (10.31%) Consultant
7 12 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.67%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.15%) Python Engineer
9 10 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.64%) Lead
10 9 (4.64%) Principal Consultant
10 9 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) Principal Software Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.25%) REST
2 12 (6.19%) React
3 8 (4.12%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.61%) Kafka
5 6 (3.09%) CSS
5 6 (3.09%) HTML
5 6 (3.09%) JSON
6 5 (2.58%) .NET
6 5 (2.58%) YAML
7 4 (2.06%) SOAP
8 3 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.55%) Loki
8 3 (1.55%) Node.js
8 3 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.55%) XML
9 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.52%) gRPC
9 1 (0.52%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.34%) Algorithms
2 15 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.12%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.06%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (2.06%) ASIC
5 4 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.06%) FPGA
5 4 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.55%) Verilog
6 3 (1.55%) VHDL
7 2 (1.03%) IoT
7 2 (1.03%) PCIe
7 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.98%) Linux
2 10 (5.15%) Windows
3 7 (3.61%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.06%) CentOS
4 4 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.69%) AI
2 58 (29.90%) Software Engineering
3 55 (28.35%) Agile
4 50 (25.77%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (21.65%) CI/CD
6 32 (16.49%) DevOps
6 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (12.37%) Computer Science
8 23 (11.86%) Decision-Making
9 21 (10.82%) Data Science
10 20 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (9.79%) Observability
12 18 (9.28%) Containerisation
13 17 (8.76%) Scrum
13 17 (8.76%) Software Architecture
14 16 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.73%) Kanban
16 14 (7.22%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.05%) SQL
2 27 (13.92%) C++
3 24 (12.37%) C#
4 20 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.79%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.25%) Rust
7 14 (7.22%) Bash
8 13 (6.70%) VBA
9 12 (6.19%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.61%) C
11 5 (2.58%) Java
11 5 (2.58%) MATLAB
12 4 (2.06%) Bicep
12 4 (2.06%) Go
12 4 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.55%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.55%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.55%) PHP
13 3 (1.55%) R
14 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (31.96%) Azure Certification
2 58 (29.90%) Security Cleared
3 49 (25.26%) Degree
4 47 (24.23%) SC Cleared
5 26 (13.40%) Master's Degree
6 9 (4.64%) APMP
6 9 (4.64%) MBA
7 8 (4.12%) CCNP
7 8 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.03%) CEH
11 2 (1.03%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.03%) GCIH
12 1 (0.52%) CCA
12 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) GDPR
1 6 (3.09%) QA
2 4 (2.06%) ISO 26262
3 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (19.07%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Firmware
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (11.86%) Ansible
1 23 (11.86%) Terraform
2 21 (10.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.19%) Grafana
3 12 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.12%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.61%) Nagios
6 4 (2.06%) Functional Safety
6 4 (2.06%) Puppet
7 3 (1.55%) Podman
7 3 (1.55%) Scalr
8 2 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.52%) Nessus
Vendors
1 63 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.67%) Splunk
3 9 (4.64%) Oracle
4 8 (4.12%) Cisco
4 8 (4.12%) Fortinet
4 8 (4.12%) Meraki
5 4 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.55%) Tenable
7 2 (1.03%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) Databricks
8 1 (0.52%) IFS
8 1 (0.52%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.52%) SAP