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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -35 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 16 36 32
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.21% 3.92% 2.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.37% 13.48% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 25
10th Percentile £277 £363 £212
25th Percentile £381 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £569
90th Percentile £584 £600 £600
South East median daily rate £465 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -7.00% -3.61% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - £12.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -42.48% -
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £24.18 £69.77
% change year-on-year - -65.34% -

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 298 267 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 22.56% 29.05% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 176 182
10th Percentile £272 £323 £241
25th Percentile £446 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.20% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £621
90th Percentile £700 £694 £699
South East median daily rate £492 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% +4.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 26
10th Percentile £14.24 £22.78 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £29.38 £22.54
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -37.45% +18.79%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.20 £68.75 £62.50
South East median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -33.96% +60.61%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 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 -9 4 £525 +40.00% 4
Farnborough -14 4 £386 -26.43% 2
Southampton +3 1 £550 - 2
Winchester -3 1 £593 +12.27% 1
Portsmouth -9 1 £525 +23.53%
Romsey - 1 - -
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 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) IaaS
1 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security
3 4 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (18.75%) LAN
4 3 (18.75%) SAN
5 2 (12.50%) IPv4
5 2 (12.50%) IPv6
5 2 (12.50%) NAS
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (12.50%) VLAN
6 1 (6.25%) BGP
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
6 1 (6.25%) DNS
6 1 (6.25%) MPLS
6 1 (6.25%) OSPF
6 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Network Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Agile
2 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) Network Design
2 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
2 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.25%) Capacity Management
3 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (6.25%) Change Control
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Network Management
3 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (6.25%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (25.00%) CCNA
5 3 (18.75%) CCNP
6 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (12.50%) JNCIS
7 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
7 1 (6.25%) JNCIA
7 1 (6.25%) MCSE
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (6.25%) VCAP
7 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) KVM
3 1 (6.25%) RHEV
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Endace
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) vRealize
2 1 (6.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Juniper
3 4 (25.00%) F5
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
6 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (6.25%) EMC
6 1 (6.25%) Mellanox
6 1 (6.25%) NVIDIA
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat