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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 33 33 56
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.43% 4.34% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 5.05% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 28
10th Percentile £432 £360 £388
25th Percentile £501 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.34%
75th Percentile £567 £675 £703
90th Percentile £622 - £713
South East median daily rate £483 £488 £431
% change year-on-year -1.03% +13.06% -9.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 11
10th Percentile - £54.85 -
25th Percentile - £55.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £60.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £79.50 £57.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year +38.26% -16.22% +23.66%

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 1,127 654 1,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.05% 86.05% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 458 671
10th Percentile £312 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.56%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £668
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 37 115
10th Percentile £15.02 £19.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.00 £24.38
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £30.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £67.50 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%

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 February 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 February 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 +1 14 £505 -1.46% 8
Portsmouth -3 7 - - 1
Basingstoke - 4 £625 - 7
Fleet - 2 £403 -
Eastleigh - 1 £525 -
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 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (3.03%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) AWS
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
2 2 (6.06%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Apigee
3 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.03%) Kong
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Serverless
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) VLAN
2 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.03%) BGP
3 1 (3.03%) DHCP
3 1 (3.03%) IPsec
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) MPLS
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) OSPF
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
3 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
2 6 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Swagger
2 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Private Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) EMV
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) CentOS
4 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) Agile
3 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.15%) Observability
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) High Availability
6 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (6.06%) Change Control
7 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.06%) DevSecOps
7 2 (6.06%) Incident Response
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (6.06%) Microservices
7 2 (6.06%) Operational Stability
7 2 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) Bash
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Bicep
5 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (75.76%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) OCP
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Docker
3 2 (6.06%) vSphere
4 1 (3.03%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.06%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.06%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Proxmox
4 2 (6.06%) Rundeck
4 2 (6.06%) Salt
5 1 (3.03%) Avamar
5 1 (3.03%) Istio
5 1 (3.03%) linkerd
5 1 (3.03%) Nessus
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.03%) vRealize
5 1 (3.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) VMware
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.09%) Dell
4 2 (6.06%) Aruba
4 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (3.03%) Meraki
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.03%) Veeam