Data Centre Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 63 36
Rank change year-on-year +20 -27 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 30 42 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.46% 2.37% 5.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.15% 8.52% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 46
10th Percentile £375 £350 £425
25th Percentile £388 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +12.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £588 £646 £618
90th Percentile £616 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -12.62% +3.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £12.08 -
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £12.08 -
% change year-on-year +104.14% - -

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 247 493 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.49% 27.77% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 272 238
10th Percentile £320 £400 £244
25th Percentile £440 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £612
90th Percentile £675 £738 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 70 50
10th Percentile £32.94 £12.08 £16.78
25th Percentile £33.05 £27.31 £20.64
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.24% +118.75%
75th Percentile £56.88 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £70.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +153.68%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Hampshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Hampshire

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 3 July 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 +21 8 £575 +92.95% 7
Farnborough +8 8 £445 -31.11% 11
Southampton +8 2 £440 +13.55% 8
Winchester +6 2 £603 +14.16% 2
Havant - 1 - -
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) IaaS
2 9 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 8 (26.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) Firewall
1 11 (36.67%) VPN
2 8 (26.67%) DHCP
2 8 (26.67%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) SMTP
3 3 (10.00%) BGP
3 3 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (10.00%) Network Security
3 3 (10.00%) OSPF
3 3 (10.00%) WAN
4 2 (6.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (6.67%) SAN
4 2 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (26.67%) Big Data
1 8 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Legal
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Junior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) RFC 2544
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Clustering
1 8 (26.67%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (26.67%) Machine Learning
2 8 (26.67%) Migration
2 8 (26.67%) Software Deployment
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Project Management
4 4 (13.33%) Project Planning
4 4 (13.33%) Resource Management
5 3 (10.00%) Agile
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
6 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
7 1 (3.33%) Case Management
7 1 (3.33%) Defect Management
7 1 (3.33%) Kanban
7 1 (3.33%) Microservices
7 1 (3.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (30.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (10.00%) CCNP
7 2 (6.67%) VCAP
7 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (26.67%) BitLocker
2 8 (26.67%) Docker
2 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (26.67%) Terminal Services
2 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.67%) KVM
3 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Ansible
2 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (26.67%) Nagios
3 8 (26.67%) Puppet
3 8 (26.67%) vCenter Server
3 8 (26.67%) vMotion
4 3 (10.00%) Terraform
5 2 (6.67%) vRealize
5 2 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) VMware
2 8 (26.67%) Citrix
2 8 (26.67%) Google
2 8 (26.67%) HP
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Symantec
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Mellanox
4 3 (10.00%) NVIDIA
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat