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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 42 73
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 23 30 26
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.69% 3.93% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.12% 12.45% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 19
10th Percentile £288 £370 £322
25th Percentile £454 £429 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -24.44%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile - £600 £575
South East median daily rate £445 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -1.11% -2.70% -15.91%
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 - £24.18 £25.12
% change year-on-year - -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 323 241 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 23.68% 31.59% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 160 170
10th Percentile £291 £313 £250
25th Percentile £450 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.21% -6.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £633
90th Percentile £725 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £488 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 31
10th Percentile £13.21 £28.25 £15.71
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.25 £26.75
Median hourly rate £23.75 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -33.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile £33.13 - £60.00
90th Percentile £59.23 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +26.67%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -10 8 £525 +40.00% 5
Farnborough -17 6 £458 -12.86% 13
Portsmouth -3 2 £413 -2.94% 4
Southampton -6 1 £550 +25.00% 4
Eastleigh - 1 £550 -
Havant - 1 £220 -
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 (17.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) VPN
3 8 (34.78%) Network Security
3 8 (34.78%) WAN
4 7 (30.43%) LAN
5 4 (17.39%) IPv4
5 4 (17.39%) IPv6
5 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
5 4 (17.39%) VLAN
6 3 (13.04%) NAS
6 3 (13.04%) OSPF
6 3 (13.04%) SAN
7 2 (8.70%) BGP
7 2 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (8.70%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (4.35%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (4.35%) DMVPN
8 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (4.35%) VSAN
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Network Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Network Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Network Designer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.70%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.35%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Driving Licence
1 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) High Availability
2 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (17.39%) Network Design
2 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
2 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Requirements Management
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Project Management
5 1 (4.35%) Defect Management
5 1 (4.35%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (4.35%) Inventory Management
5 1 (4.35%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (4.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) CCNP
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
5 4 (17.39%) CCNA
5 4 (17.39%) JNCIS
6 1 (4.35%) JNCIA
6 1 (4.35%) VCAP
6 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) vSphere
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) Firmware
4 1 (4.35%) KVM
4 1 (4.35%) RHEV
4 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Nagios
2 3 (13.04%) Endace
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) vRealize
4 1 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Cisco
2 8 (34.78%) Juniper
3 5 (21.74%) F5
4 4 (17.39%) SolarWinds
4 4 (17.39%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) Mellanox
5 2 (8.70%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.35%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.35%) EMC
6 1 (4.35%) Rackspace
6 1 (4.35%) Zerto