Benchmarking Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Benchmarking
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.076% 0.55% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.65% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £450 -
25th Percentile £663 £468 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -7.73% +44.74%
75th Percentile £688 £558 £575
90th Percentile - £598 -
South East median daily rate £423 £508 £675
% change year-on-year -16.65% -24.81% +4.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Benchmarking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 769 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.16% 84.14% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 534 618
10th Percentile £313 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £696 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 49 73
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.82 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Benchmarking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Benchmarking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Benchmarking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke -11 1 £675 +33.00% 2
Benchmarking
South East

Benchmarking
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware