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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 30 53 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.12% 3.87% 5.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.83% 13.87% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 45
10th Percentile £325 £363 £403
25th Percentile £375 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +3.90% +13.89%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £556
90th Percentile £608 £669 £600
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £12.08 -
South East median hourly rate - £12.08 £50.82
% change year-on-year - -76.23% -

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 277 382 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.76% 27.86% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 218 224
10th Percentile £325 £360 £258
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +9.05% -
75th Percentile £600 £672 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £663
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 47 47
10th Percentile £22.50 £14.58 £15.85
25th Percentile £32.94 £44.20 £21.15
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +19.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £70.00 £74.25
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +10 9 £575 +53.33% 10
Farnborough 0 6 £400 -35.87% 5
Winchester +7 2 £603 +14.16%
Havant - 2 £220 -
Southampton +1 1 £550 +57.14% 6
Romsey - 1 - -
Fleet - 1 £330 -
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%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) OpenShift
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 12 (40.00%) Firewall
2 11 (36.67%) VPN
3 8 (26.67%) DHCP
3 8 (26.67%) DNS
3 8 (26.67%) SMTP
4 3 (10.00%) BGP
4 3 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (10.00%) Network Security
4 3 (10.00%) OSPF
4 3 (10.00%) SAN
4 3 (10.00%) WAN
5 2 (6.67%) NAS
5 2 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.33%) MPLS
6 1 (3.33%) VSAN
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 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
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%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Junior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Field Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
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 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
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%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (13.33%) Project Planning
4 4 (13.33%) Resource Management
5 3 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.67%) Kanban
6 2 (6.67%) Scrum
7 1 (3.33%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.33%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (30.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (10.00%) CCNP
7 2 (6.67%) CCNA
7 2 (6.67%) VCAP
7 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
8 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.33%) MCSE
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (26.67%) BitLocker
3 8 (26.67%) Docker
3 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 8 (26.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (26.67%) Terminal Services
4 3 (10.00%) vSphere
5 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Ansible
2 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (30.00%) vCenter Server
3 8 (26.67%) Nagios
3 8 (26.67%) Puppet
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
6 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) 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
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) EMC
5 1 (3.33%) F5
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow