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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 31 27
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 25 66 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.61% 4.84% 6.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 6.12% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 45
10th Percentile £506 £360 £425
25th Percentile £547 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £575
90th Percentile - £678 £615
South East median daily rate £483 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +3.43% -6.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 10
10th Percentile - £51.06 £35.00
25th Percentile - £52.84 £52.19
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £63.44
90th Percentile - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +21.74% +4.55%

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 826 1,078 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.31% 79.09% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 673 624
10th Percentile £313 £363 £270
25th Percentile £452 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £718 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 102 114
10th Percentile - £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £52.73 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +27.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £75.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £62.25 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.95% +9.24% +63.02%

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
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
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 17 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 +11 19 £575 - 11
Southampton +3 3 £550 - 6
Farnborough +5 2 £506 -2.17% 1
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 2
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 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.00%) Apache
3 4 (16.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
1 7 (28.00%) GCP
1 7 (28.00%) IaaS
1 7 (28.00%) OpenShift
1 7 (28.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) DNS
1 11 (44.00%) SMTP
2 8 (32.00%) Firewall
3 7 (28.00%) DHCP
3 7 (28.00%) VPN
4 2 (8.00%) VSAN
5 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (28.00%) Big Data
1 7 (28.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Support Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (28.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (28.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Wintel Support
5 4 (16.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) YAML
2 2 (8.00%) Swagger
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) PKI
2 7 (28.00%) Clustering
2 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Linux
3 11 (44.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.00%) CentOS
4 4 (16.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (28.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (28.00%) Software Deployment
4 5 (20.00%) ITSM
5 4 (16.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Observability
7 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.00%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (4.00%) Configuration Management
8 1 (4.00%) High Availability
8 1 (4.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (4.00%) Service Management
8 1 (4.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Go
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (36.00%) Docker
4 7 (28.00%) BitLocker
4 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (28.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (28.00%) Terminal Services
4 7 (28.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (12.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Ansible
2 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (32.00%) vCenter Server
4 7 (28.00%) Nagios
4 7 (28.00%) Puppet
4 7 (28.00%) vMotion
5 6 (24.00%) SCOM
6 5 (20.00%) SCCM
7 3 (12.00%) Terraform
8 2 (8.00%) Proxmox
8 2 (8.00%) Rundeck
8 2 (8.00%) Salt
8 2 (8.00%) VxRail
9 1 (4.00%) Rsyslog
9 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) VMware
2 7 (28.00%) Citrix
2 7 (28.00%) Google
2 7 (28.00%) HP
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Symantec
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) EMC
4 1 (4.00%) McAfee