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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 76
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 28 20 21
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.95% 2.74% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.98% 8.81% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 13
10th Percentile £348 £395 £314
25th Percentile £422 £440 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -26.09%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £569
90th Percentile £550 £600 £632
South East median daily rate £445 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -1.11% -2.70% -11.90%
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 £57.02 £24.18 £25.12
% change year-on-year +135.80% -3.72% -64.12%

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 351 227 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 24.49% 31.05% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 156 180
10th Percentile £300 £323 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% -0.36% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 33
10th Percentile £14.24 £26.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -38.64% +31.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.45 £71.63 £77.40
South East median hourly rate £27.94 £33.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -17.21% -28.95% +4.40%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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
Farnborough -4 9 £466 -11.19% 9
Basingstoke -8 7 £500 - 4
Portsmouth 0 2 £413 -2.94% 1
Southampton -4 2 - - 4
Eastleigh - 2 £550 -
Fareham - 2 £425 - 5
Fleet - 1 £330 -
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 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) Firewall
2 13 (46.43%) VPN
3 10 (35.71%) Network Security
3 10 (35.71%) WAN
4 8 (28.57%) LAN
5 5 (17.86%) OSPF
6 4 (14.29%) BGP
6 4 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (14.29%) IPv4
6 4 (14.29%) IPv6
6 4 (14.29%) SAN
6 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 4 (14.29%) VLAN
7 2 (7.14%) NAS
7 2 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (3.57%) DMVPN
8 1 (3.57%) DNS
8 1 (3.57%) SSL
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Network Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Network Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Network Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Field Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Field Service Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Field Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.57%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Driving Licence
1 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (17.86%) High Availability
1 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.29%) ITIL
2 4 (14.29%) Network Design
2 4 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (10.71%) Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
3 3 (10.71%) Requirements Management
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
4 2 (7.14%) Break/Fix
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (7.14%) IT Strategy
4 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 2 (7.14%) Runbook
4 2 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (53.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (32.14%) CCNP
5 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (21.43%) CCNA
7 4 (14.29%) JNCIS
8 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
8 2 (7.14%) Degree
8 2 (7.14%) MCSE
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (3.57%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
1 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) vSphere
4 1 (3.57%) KVM
4 1 (3.57%) RHEV
4 1 (3.57%) UAG
4 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
1 4 (14.29%) Nagios
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Endace
3 1 (3.57%) Proxmox
3 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Cisco
2 8 (28.57%) Juniper
3 5 (17.86%) F5
3 5 (17.86%) VMware
4 4 (14.29%) Mellanox
4 4 (14.29%) NVIDIA
4 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (7.14%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) Rackspace
5 2 (7.14%) Zerto
6 1 (3.57%) Becrypt
6 1 (3.57%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint