Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Data Center
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 79
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 40 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.53% 2.36% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.64% 8.17% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 10
10th Percentile £413 £383 £345
25th Percentile £454 £440 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.92% -22.92%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £569
90th Percentile £950 £639 £646
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.23 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -24.61% +0.75% -65.71%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 376 208 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 23.77% 28.89% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 152 206
10th Percentile £298 £313 £392
25th Percentile £469 £476 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £672
90th Percentile £745 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 44
10th Percentile £12.53 £26.75 £13.48
25th Percentile £15.72 £31.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £38.50 £33.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -41.15% +31.84%
75th Percentile £58.19 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.23 £71.63 £63.89
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +107.69% -10.96% -23.16%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
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 Data Centre within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke -4 16 £550 -8.33% 3
Farnborough -8 8 £475 -9.52% 10
Southampton -4 5 £127 -71.14% 3
Fareham - 4 £425 - 3
Eastleigh - 3 £550 -
Portsmouth - 2 £413 - 2
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
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:

Applications
1 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) AWS
1 3 (7.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) Firewall
1 14 (35.00%) VPN
2 11 (27.50%) WAN
3 10 (25.00%) LAN
4 9 (22.50%) Network Security
5 8 (20.00%) SAN
6 5 (12.50%) OSPF
6 5 (12.50%) VLAN
7 4 (10.00%) BGP
7 4 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (10.00%) IPv4
7 4 (10.00%) IPv6
7 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (7.50%) NAS
9 2 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.50%) NGFW
10 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Legal
4 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Senior
2 7 (17.50%) Data Centre Manager
2 7 (17.50%) Data Manager
2 7 (17.50%) Strategy Manager
3 6 (15.00%) IT Manager
3 6 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Field Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Field Service Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Network Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Designer
5 3 (7.50%) Field Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Support
5 3 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Designer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (7.50%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.50%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
2 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (17.50%) High Availability
4 6 (15.00%) ITIL
5 5 (12.50%) Break/Fix
5 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.50%) Requirements Management
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.00%) IT Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Network Design
6 4 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Service Design
6 4 (10.00%) SFIA
6 4 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (7.50%) Migration
7 3 (7.50%) PLM
7 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 23 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (22.50%) CCNA
4 9 (22.50%) CCNP
4 9 (22.50%) DV Cleared
5 5 (12.50%) A+ Certification
5 5 (12.50%) MCSE
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (10.00%) Degree
6 4 (10.00%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.50%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.50%) vSphere
4 1 (2.50%) KVM
4 1 (2.50%) RHEV
4 1 (2.50%) UAG
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Endace
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Nagios
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Cisco
2 9 (22.50%) Juniper
3 6 (15.00%) VMware
4 5 (12.50%) Dell
5 4 (10.00%) F5
5 4 (10.00%) Mellanox
5 4 (10.00%) NVIDIA
5 4 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (7.50%) Rackspace
6 3 (7.50%) Zerto
7 1 (2.50%) Becrypt