Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 22 42 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.95% 2.61% 3.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 2.89% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 34
10th Percentile £495 £405 £416
25th Percentile £538 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £706 £588
90th Percentile £675 £713 £659
South East median daily rate £559 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +24.28% - +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
South East median hourly rate £24.18 - £54.38
% change year-on-year - - -18.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hampshire with a recognized job title 712 1,451 1,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 90.12% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 824 865
10th Percentile £280 £363 £232
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £620
90th Percentile £661 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 173 106
10th Percentile £20.03 £13.40 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £33.75 £22.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Infrastructure Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +24 8 £575 +27.78% 7
Southampton +1 5 £350 -48.15% 1
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (86.36%) Windows
3 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 18 (81.82%) VMware
4 17 (77.27%) Windows Server
5 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
6 15 (68.18%) Linux
6 15 (68.18%) vCenter Server
7 14 (63.64%) Ansible
7 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
7 14 (63.64%) OpenShift
7 14 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (63.64%) PowerShell
8 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
9 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
10 10 (45.45%) HP
11 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
11 8 (36.36%) Ubuntu
11 8 (36.36%) CentOS
11 8 (36.36%) vSphere
11 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (31.82%) DevSecOps
12 7 (31.82%) Terraform
12 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
12 7 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
12 7 (31.82%) BitLocker
12 7 (31.82%) Docker
12 7 (31.82%) DevOps

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) OpenShift
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
2 7 (31.82%) IaaS
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (31.82%) PaaS
2 7 (31.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DHCP
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
1 7 (31.82%) SMTP
1 7 (31.82%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (31.82%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Clustering
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
1 7 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (31.82%) PKI
1 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 17 (77.27%) Windows Server
3 15 (68.18%) Linux
4 8 (36.36%) CentOS
4 8 (36.36%) Ubuntu
4 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 2 (9.09%) Windows 7
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Application Packaging
2 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Change Control
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) DevSecOps
2 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
2 7 (31.82%) Software Deployment
3 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 2 (9.09%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.55%) ITSM
4 1 (4.55%) Patch Management
4 1 (4.55%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.55%) Service Management
4 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) Degree
4 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (36.36%) vSphere
4 7 (31.82%) BitLocker
4 7 (31.82%) Docker
4 7 (31.82%) Hyper-V
4 7 (31.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (31.82%) Terminal Services
4 7 (31.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) vCenter Server
2 14 (63.64%) Ansible
2 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (31.82%) Nagios
3 7 (31.82%) Nessus
3 7 (31.82%) Puppet
3 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 7 (31.82%) vMotion
4 2 (9.09%) Proxmox
4 2 (9.09%) SCCM
4 2 (9.09%) SCOM
5 1 (4.55%) SCSM
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
1 18 (81.82%) VMware
2 10 (45.45%) HP
3 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
4 7 (31.82%) Citrix
4 7 (31.82%) Google
4 7 (31.82%) Symantec
5 3 (13.64%) Commvault
5 3 (13.64%) Dell
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
7 1 (4.55%) McAfee
7 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds