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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 43 29 76
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.87% 3.99% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 4.50% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 38
10th Percentile £385 £384 £396
25th Percentile £454 £496 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +4.55% +0.23%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £700
90th Percentile £620 - £713
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £52.36 £51.23
25th Percentile - £54.30 £56.56
Median hourly rate - £60.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.80% +19.62%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £79.50 £56.31 £67.27
% change year-on-year +41.18% -16.28% +28.12%

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 1,217 645 1,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.30% 88.84% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 464 730
10th Percentile £329 £325 £371
25th Percentile £458 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.93% +9.05%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £739 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 37 118
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.06 £12.19
25th Percentile £16.38 £30.00 £18.32
Median hourly rate £21.36 £57.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.02% +21.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £40.00 £71.25 £63.44
90th Percentile £54.13 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +2 16 £505 -1.46% 5
Portsmouth +7 9 £400 -5.88% 4
Basingstoke - 6 £613 - 3
Eastleigh - 3 £450 -
Fleet - 3 £358 -
Southampton -8 1 - - 2
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 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
3 3 (6.98%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Apigee
4 2 (4.65%) AWS KMS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure API Management
4 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (4.65%) Kong
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) OCI
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) VLAN
3 2 (4.65%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.33%) BGP
4 1 (2.33%) IPsec
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) MPLS
4 1 (2.33%) Network Security
4 1 (2.33%) OSPF
4 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.33%) MySQL
1 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Git
1 1 (2.33%) GitLab
1 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Legal
2 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (55.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Kafka
1 2 (4.65%) OAuth
1 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
1 2 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Private Cloud
2 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) EMV
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
1 10 (23.26%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.65%) CentOS
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (20.93%) Agile
3 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
4 5 (11.63%) DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) High Availability
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (9.30%) Observability
6 3 (6.98%) Containerisation
6 3 (6.98%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.98%) Microservices
6 3 (6.98%) Migration
6 3 (6.98%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (6.98%) Operational Stability
6 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (6.98%) Zero Trust
7 2 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.98%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Bash
3 2 (4.65%) Bicep
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (67.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (23.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) OCP
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (41.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.65%) vSphere
4 1 (2.33%) Docker
4 1 (2.33%) Sendmail
4 1 (2.33%) UAG
4 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Terraform
2 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.65%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (4.65%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.65%) Istio
4 2 (4.65%) linkerd
5 1 (2.33%) Avamar
5 1 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.33%) Nessus
5 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) VMware
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.98%) Dell
4 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
4 3 (6.98%) Splunk
5 2 (4.65%) Aruba
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) Veeam
6 1 (2.33%) Becrypt
6 1 (2.33%) Juniper
6 1 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.33%) Meraki
6 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto