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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 28 19
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 245 115 375
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 5.72% 6.27% 9.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.30% 23.14% 28.69%
Number of salaries quoted 182 93 271
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £78,438 £75,900 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -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 675 497 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.77% 27.10% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 549 359 1,033
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £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 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £82,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -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 21 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 21 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 +14 70 £65,000 +30.00% 18
Fareham -5 33 £70,000 +115.38% 9
Winchester - 29 £57,500 - 6
Romsey +4 22 £82,500 +120.00% 2
Farnborough -10 22 £61,250 +67.81% 18
Portsmouth -6 21 £66,250 +15.22% 8
Eastleigh +7 7 £65,000 +33.33%
Andover - 4 £90,000 - 5
Waterlooville - 4 £75,000 -
Basingstoke -7 3 £52,500 -38.24% 9
Havant -6 1 £57,500 +4.55% 3
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 11 (4.49%) Confluence
1 11 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (19.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.27%) Simulink
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 108 (44.08%) Azure
2 48 (19.59%) Power Platform
3 42 (17.14%) AWS
3 42 (17.14%) Azure AI
4 23 (9.39%) Serverless
5 17 (6.94%) GCP
6 14 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.71%) PowerApps
7 10 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.67%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.27%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.86%) Azure Stack
11 6 (2.45%) GitHub
12 5 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.04%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.04%) Datadog
13 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) MQTT
2 9 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.86%) Wireless
4 6 (2.45%) Firewall
5 5 (2.04%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.63%) VPN
6 4 (1.63%) WAN
7 3 (1.22%) Internet
7 3 (1.22%) LAN
7 3 (1.22%) Network Security
7 3 (1.22%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.82%) 5G
8 2 (0.82%) ATM
8 2 (0.82%) BGP
8 2 (0.82%) FTP
8 2 (0.82%) HTTP
8 2 (0.82%) MPLS
8 2 (0.82%) SMTP
9 1 (0.41%) Broadband
9 1 (0.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.59%) Power BI
2 31 (12.65%) Tableau
3 12 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.82%) Looker
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.82%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.41%) Metadata
9 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 64 (26.12%) Git
2 33 (13.47%) GitLab
3 17 (6.94%) Visual Studio Code
4 15 (6.12%) JIRA
5 8 (3.27%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.82%) CMake
8 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.41%) Gatling
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.41%) Selenium
9 1 (0.41%) Toad
9 1 (0.41%) utPLSQL
General
1 89 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (6.12%) Finance
4 13 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (3.67%) Electronics
6 8 (3.27%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.27%) Aviation
6 8 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.04%) Automotive
8 3 (1.22%) Legal
9 2 (0.82%) Advertising
9 2 (0.82%) Games
9 2 (0.82%) Law
9 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 89 (36.33%) Software Engineer
2 44 (17.96%) Analyst
3 33 (13.47%) Data Analyst
3 33 (13.47%) Senior
4 30 (12.24%) Junior
4 30 (12.24%) Junior Analyst
4 30 (12.24%) Junior Data Analyst
5 24 (9.80%) Lead
5 24 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (7.76%) Developer
7 16 (6.53%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) Principal Software Engineer
9 14 (5.71%) Consultant
10 13 (5.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (4.90%) Embedded Engineer
12 11 (4.49%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.35%) JSON
2 16 (6.53%) React
3 15 (6.12%) CSS
3 15 (6.12%) HTML
3 15 (6.12%) XML
4 14 (5.71%) Kafka
5 10 (4.08%) ARM Templates
5 10 (4.08%) REST
6 9 (3.67%) .NET
7 7 (2.86%) YAML
8 5 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.04%) Django
8 5 (2.04%) Loki
8 5 (2.04%) Node.js
8 5 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.04%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.63%) gRPC
9 4 (1.63%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (1.63%) SOAP
9 4 (1.63%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.33%) Algorithms
2 20 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.35%) Robotics
4 13 (5.31%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (4.49%) FPGA
6 10 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.67%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.86%) Verilog
8 7 (2.86%) VHDL
9 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.45%) PCIe
10 5 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.63%) ASIC
12 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.22%) IoT
12 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.82%) MISP
13 2 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (28.57%) Linux
2 31 (12.65%) Windows
3 11 (4.49%) Ubuntu
3 11 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.86%) CentOS
6 6 (2.45%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.82%) Debian
8 2 (0.82%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (42.04%) Software Engineering
2 82 (33.47%) AI
3 77 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 73 (29.80%) Agile
5 61 (24.90%) DevOps
6 43 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (16.73%) Containerisation
8 39 (15.92%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (15.92%) Computer Science
9 34 (13.88%) Software Architecture
10 26 (10.61%) Observability
11 25 (10.20%) Scrum
12 24 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (9.80%) Decision-Making
13 22 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (8.57%) Kanban
14 21 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (8.16%) Data Analysis
15 20 (8.16%) Test Automation
16 19 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.20%) C++
2 66 (26.94%) SQL
3 38 (15.51%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.88%) C#
5 30 (12.24%) C
6 26 (10.61%) Bash
7 20 (8.16%) PowerShell
8 19 (7.76%) Java
8 19 (7.76%) Rust
9 16 (6.53%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.49%) Go
10 11 (4.49%) MATLAB
10 11 (4.49%) VBA
11 9 (3.67%) PHP
12 8 (3.27%) Embedded C++
13 7 (2.86%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.22%) Ada
15 2 (0.82%) Perl
15 2 (0.82%) Ruby
16 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (41.22%) Security Cleared
2 79 (32.24%) Degree
3 58 (23.67%) SC Cleared
4 52 (21.22%) Azure Certification
5 26 (10.61%) Master's Degree
6 25 (10.20%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.04%) APMP
9 5 (2.04%) MBA
10 2 (0.82%) CEH
10 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.82%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.41%) CCA
11 1 (0.41%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.27%) GDPR
2 7 (2.86%) QA
3 4 (1.63%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (25.31%) Docker
2 17 (6.94%) Firmware
3 10 (4.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.82%) Xen
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 37 (15.10%) Terraform
3 33 (13.47%) Ansible
4 17 (6.94%) Grafana
4 17 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.67%) Nagios
5 9 (3.67%) Podman
6 7 (2.86%) Puppet
7 5 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.63%) Functional Safety
9 3 (1.22%) Scalr
10 2 (0.82%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.82%) QRadar
10 2 (0.82%) Rancher
10 2 (0.82%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.41%) Cilium
11 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.49%) Oracle
2 11 (4.49%) Splunk
3 5 (2.04%) Tenable
4 4 (1.63%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.82%) Databricks
5 2 (0.82%) Google
5 2 (0.82%) NetApp
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.82%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco
6 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.41%) IBM
6 1 (0.41%) IFS
6 1 (0.41%) Meraki