Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 30 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 29 80 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.89% 4.97% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 5.93% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 39
10th Percentile £484 £420 £410
25th Percentile £500 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £588
90th Percentile £675 £713 £668
South East median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £51.93 - £47.50
25th Percentile £53.22 £51.06 £51.44
Median hourly rate £57.75 £57.44 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +6.37% -17.56%
75th Percentile £61.31 £64.06 £58.63
90th Percentile £62.03 £69.50 £58.75
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £57.44 £55.50
% change year-on-year -4.46% +3.49% -16.87%

All Process and 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 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

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 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 +17 8 £575 +27.78% 10
Southampton -2 5 £350 -48.15% 3
Winchester +5 3 £500 -
Portsmouth -5 2 - - 8
Farnborough -3 1 £450 -26.53% 2
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) OpenShift
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) GCP
2 7 (24.14%) IaaS
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (24.14%) PaaS
2 7 (24.14%) SaaS
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) DHCP
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) SMTP
2 7 (24.14%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (6.90%) SNMP
4 2 (6.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (24.14%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Robot Framework
2 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) Eclipse
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) GoogleTest
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (24.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (24.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) CSS
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
2 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Clustering
1 7 (24.14%) Data Centre
1 7 (24.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (24.14%) PKI
1 7 (24.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 18 (62.07%) Linux
2 18 (62.07%) Windows Server
3 8 (27.59%) CentOS
3 8 (27.59%) Ubuntu
3 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.90%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) DevSecOps
3 7 (24.14%) Application Packaging
3 7 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (24.14%) Change Control
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
3 7 (24.14%) Software Deployment
4 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
4 4 (13.79%) Test Scripting
5 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Cash Management
6 2 (6.90%) Data Collection
6 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Prototyping
6 2 (6.90%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 2 (6.90%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (6.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) C++
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) DV Cleared
3 9 (31.03%) Degree
4 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (3.45%) JSP 440
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (27.59%) Docker
3 8 (27.59%) Hyper-V
3 8 (27.59%) vSphere
4 7 (24.14%) BitLocker
4 7 (24.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (24.14%) Terminal Services
4 7 (24.14%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (10.34%) Firmware
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
1 15 (51.72%) vCenter Server
2 14 (48.28%) Ansible
3 7 (24.14%) Nagios
3 7 (24.14%) Nessus
3 7 (24.14%) Puppet
3 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 7 (24.14%) vMotion
4 2 (6.90%) Proxmox
4 2 (6.90%) SCCM
4 2 (6.90%) SCOM
5 1 (3.45%) SCSM
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) VMware
2 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
3 10 (34.48%) HP
4 9 (31.03%) Google
5 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
6 7 (24.14%) Citrix
6 7 (24.14%) Symantec
7 3 (10.34%) Commvault
7 3 (10.34%) Dell
8 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco
8 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.45%) Juniper
9 1 (3.45%) McAfee
9 1 (3.45%) NETGEAR
9 1 (3.45%) TP-LINK