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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -41 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 62 74
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.83% 5.49% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 6.84% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 34
10th Percentile £451 £360 £450
25th Percentile £479 £409 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £659
South East median daily rate £450 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -3.90% -6.35% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 10
10th Percentile - £62.50 £35.00
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.67% +12.15%

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 943 907 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.36% 80.34% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 599 659
10th Percentile £310 £360 £280
25th Percentile £439 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +2.99% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £642 £638
90th Percentile £656 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 90
10th Percentile £16.17 £25.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £66.68 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -68.94% +28.32% +15.47%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.59
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 +4 10 £600 +4.35% 7
Farnborough +3 5 £465 -7.00% 2
Southampton -1 3 £550 +57.14% 10
Eastleigh - 1 £525 -
Fleet - 1 £447 -
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 5 (25.00%) Apache
2 4 (20.00%) IIS
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (20.00%) SMTP
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 2 (10.00%) VLAN
4 2 (10.00%) VSAN
4 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) DHCP
5 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Wintel Support
2 4 (20.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) CentOS
3 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) ITSM
3 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Change Control
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Observability
5 2 (10.00%) Operational Stability
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.00%) API Development
6 1 (5.00%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.00%) Secure Coding
6 1 (5.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) OCP
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.00%) vSphere
4 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) SCOM
3 4 (20.00%) SCCM
3 4 (20.00%) Terraform
4 3 (15.00%) vCenter Server
4 3 (15.00%) VxRail
5 2 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (10.00%) Proxmox
5 2 (10.00%) Rundeck
5 2 (10.00%) Salt
6 1 (5.00%) Avamar
6 1 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (5.00%) Rsyslog
6 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Dell
2 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) EMC
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam