Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 52 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 -22 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 78 26 91
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.04% 2.73% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 3.17% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 19 46
10th Percentile £486 £520 £388
25th Percentile £508 £550 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £536
Median % change year-on-year - +7.23% +7.25%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 - £688
South East median daily rate £541 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -1.59% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate - £54.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.61% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £58.69 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £77.50 £65.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +17.54% -5.80% +45.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,532 819 1,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.42% 85.85% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 573 764
10th Percentile £383 £325 £363
25th Percentile £481 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £660
90th Percentile £730 £665 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 62 133
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.71 £25.15 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.75 £37.44 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.53% -34.71% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £57.35
% change year-on-year +150.17% -61.67% +14.70%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Farnborough - 32 £575 - 15
Portsmouth - 12 £543 - 4
Basingstoke -25 10 £563 -2.17% 7
Southampton 0 7 - - 5
Fareham - 4 - - 2
Eastleigh -8 3 £450 -10.00% 1
Gosport - 1 £545 -
Winchester - 1 - - 2
Hook - 1 £510 -
Fleet - 1 £350 -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.36%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) Entra ID
3 9 (11.54%) AWS
4 7 (8.97%) IaaS
5 5 (6.41%) GCP
6 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.56%) GitHub
7 2 (2.56%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.56%) SaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.28%) Apigee
8 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.28%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.28%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.28%) Kong
8 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) DNS
2 9 (11.54%) VLAN
3 6 (7.69%) DHCP
3 6 (7.69%) Firewall
4 3 (3.85%) SAN
4 3 (3.85%) VSAN
5 2 (2.56%) NAS
5 2 (2.56%) VPN
5 2 (2.56%) Wireless
6 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
1 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) MLflow
2 1 (1.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.97%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Legal
4 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.28%) Advertising
5 1 (1.28%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Lead
5 6 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Analyst
9 2 (2.56%) Architect
9 2 (2.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 2 (2.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.28%) Kafka
2 1 (1.28%) OAuth
2 1 (1.28%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) PKI
2 6 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.28%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.05%) Windows
2 19 (24.36%) Windows Server
3 16 (20.51%) Linux
4 4 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.28%) CentOS
6 1 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.10%) Agile
2 10 (12.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (10.26%) DevOps
3 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (8.97%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (8.97%) RBAC
4 7 (8.97%) Service Delivery
5 5 (6.41%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (6.41%) Migration
5 5 (6.41%) Performance Testing
5 5 (6.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (6.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (6.41%) Validation
6 4 (5.13%) Defect Management
6 4 (5.13%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (5.13%) Project Delivery
6 4 (5.13%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (1.28%) Bicep
4 1 (1.28%) Java
Qualifications
1 53 (67.95%) Security Cleared
2 32 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 28 (35.90%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) Degree
5 4 (5.13%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.56%) PMP
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.28%) CISSP
7 1 (1.28%) MCSA
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) NCSC
2 2 (2.56%) NIST
2 2 (2.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.28%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 28 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (14.10%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (12.82%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (12.82%) vSphere
5 6 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (6.41%) Hyper-V
7 4 (5.13%) KVM
7 4 (5.13%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.56%) Docker
8 2 (2.56%) UAG
Systems Management
1 10 (12.82%) vCenter Server
2 9 (11.54%) Terraform
3 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.85%) Ansible
5 3 (3.85%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.56%) SCCM
6 2 (2.56%) SCOM
6 2 (2.56%) SCSM
7 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.28%) Argo
7 1 (1.28%) Avamar
7 1 (1.28%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.28%) Grafana
7 1 (1.28%) Istio
7 1 (1.28%) linkerd
7 1 (1.28%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (39.74%) VMware
2 16 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.69%) Veeam
4 5 (6.41%) Oracle
5 4 (5.13%) Google
5 4 (5.13%) Zerto
6 2 (2.56%) Becrypt
6 2 (2.56%) Cisco
6 2 (2.56%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.28%) Dell
7 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.28%) McAfee
7 1 (1.28%) NetApp
7 1 (1.28%) Remedy
7 1 (1.28%) Splunk