Technical Specialist Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Technical Specialist
Hampshire > Fleet

The median Technical Specialist daily rate in Fleet is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Fleet 12.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Fleet

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Fleet. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Fleet with a recognized job title 21 18 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.00% 100.00% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 2
10th Percentile £351 £480 £355
25th Percentile £386 £506 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +53.33% -41.18%
75th Percentile £471 £588 £388
90th Percentile £538 - £395
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Fleet

Job postings that featured Technical Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Fleet.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in Fleet

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Fleet

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Specialist job vacancies in Fleet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Specialist job vacancies in Fleet

Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Fleet

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Technical Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Fleet region featuring Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) KVM
3 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) RHCSA
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB

Technical Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Fleet by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
1 1 (33.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware